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_Bubassotto_
NOT AGAIN... WHO THOUGHT THIS NEEDED A SEQUEL?
Sword Art Offline II continues with the exact same formula as the previous specials: chibi versions of the Sword Art Online characters commenting on the events of the main season in a format that mixes talk show, podcast, and variety show. In theory, it could be a fun way to expand the series' universe, but in practice, the result remains extremely weak.
The biggest problem with these specials is that they seem to have no purpose whatsoever. While some anime extras take advantage of the short format to present trivia, new jokes, or small side stories, Sword Art Offline is almost exclusively limited to recapping events that the viewer has just watched. It's basically a commentary session on the episodes, but without bringing any truly relevan…
Read at the sourceShirogari
Sword art offline II follows the same format as the two previous iterations as Sword art offline, it is a chibi newsshow that reviews scenes from the main anime and is mainly about the romance aspect of the anime.
The story is a newsshow about the entire second season in which scenes are reviewed and talked about. It conists of the same 5 elements as before namely: news headline, trivia, playback corner, viewers questions and slot talk.
Trivia is still interesting and there are two segments of it now which is neat. The other sections are all not interesting and focus on the romance which isn't the anime's strongest point. The humor is supposed to be a big part of this special but overall it's plain bad.
The characters are the relevant characters from season 2 of SAO.
The animation is…
Read at the sourceEoussama
Would you look at that, more opportunities to mental, and physically abuse Kirito.
I guess the trope has gotten old already with the first Sword Art Offline shorts, this one is nothing special; aside from the season 2 related content.
More than the first one, they tried to capitalize on the feminine Kirito joke for almost all of re shorts, the jokes got old but remained present throughout, that Is to say, they were funny at first, but really dude? Huh, who am I kidding, a series milking a dead cow would go to such lows.
I wish they included more characters like Klein and Agil, the reoccurring girls came to grow old, I guess, except for Asuna, the hostess, but damn, Sinon was just unbearable in this one.
Read at the sourceCabernetRose
Just like the original Sword Art Offline, I found the specials to be incredibly boring and hard to sit through.
The humour is so forced it isn't funny, and the same predictable things happen - they show some clip of Kirito getting harassed by girls, then they harass him more.
Movements of the characters are few and very repetitive, and it doesn't feel like they're actually adding much content at all, except for some technical trivia (eg. Kirito talking about the types of guns and how they work). I found that the general atmosphere was very awkward and scripted, not natural at all.
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