Audience reviews
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lazerman368
I cannot describe how utterly disappointing this shit is. I had this hyped up by my friends as GGO but actually written well and was super excited bc i love all the worlds in the SAO series just hate the plots. I want to clarify to anyone looking to watch this, and with a similar mindset i had, this is 1000 times worse than anything written in SAO. It starts of with a great concept as any of the other stories and characters you could see being interesting, but dont worry, this series does just as much to throw it all away. My first point is the sheer amount of pedophile/loli shit represented in this, its literally 75% of the humor of the entire show. There are very questionably aged relationships and idolization of childlike partners. My next point is the characters. There is not a SINGLE…
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I know, many people do not like this title due to it being a "SAO Copycat" but I really enjoyed watching it. I will explain my ratings below:
Story 6/10: The story feels often predictable but you get to form your own opinions of characters and it is binge-worthy for action in my mind.
Art 9/10: I love the animation style of the weapons and fights. Seeing a pink loli character with a P90 obliterating her enemies is the best experience of all.
Sound 9/10: The guns seem realistic enough and the microphone quality is good.
The soundtrack is great too.
Character 8/10: I know that this is a contradiction to my rating for story is but there is almost an absence of story and it is just a videogame. The characters however, have personalities and things that cause them to do what they do.
Enjo…
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Apparently this show is a spinoff of something called "Swordo Artto Onrainu"... Never heard of it myself, but apparently it's a big deal in some circles. That attachment seems to be, as a person who has never gone near it, a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it's certainly brought a ton of eyes on something that clearly would not get much attention otherwise, being a budget-ish anime about not-lolis, guns and video games. On the other hand, it is a curse because the show effectively doesn't spend time selling this world to the audience at all. It is explained... but not sold. You are clearly meant to already care because it's SAO, and that is a great opportunity lost to make a setting that fits the story.
Technically, the show is competently enough made. Usually it's straight up good lo…
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“ GGO: Alternative has a lot of potentials, specifically near the mid-end of the series, but it ultimately leaves the viewer unsatisfied. “
GGO: Alternative begins a bit slowly - to the point where I almost dropped it - but the first few episodes are effective in establishing characters, real-world settings, and virtual game mechanics. The action scenes in the Space Jam competition (revealed at the beginning of episode one) are lacklustre, mainly because there isn’t much purpose behind the battles aside from the basic “I’ll beat them all and become the winner!” idea behind all contests. I stuck with the anime because of the protagonist’s reasons for playing GGO, and because I saw potential in what the show was doing with the escapism motif.
The anime picks up its pace, and by episode six…
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I want to assault the person who wrote this for their awful, tiny-brained contrivances that continue to make this series insufferable. That is essentially all you need to know about this review if you don't feel like reading the rest because that was originally all I wanted to write, but I'm afraid MAL's character requirement forced me to elaborate.
The main character's entire personal conflict centers around her being "too tall," apparently to such a disgustingly monstrous degree that she can't fit in anywhere. She's 183 cm by the way, 6 feet, and is otherwise a completely conventionally attractive person. What a fucking joke. I don't care about this person or her exaggerated problem. Fortunately for her the game decides to make her character model a loli, which is simple pandering to a…
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Repost 3rd Time in a row
Has some spoilers in it.
WTF were Studio 3Hz thinking when they come up with shit like this? the story plot was basically this was a drker version of Net Juu where prople were finding an escape from reality and enter to a a level of excitement away from the mediocre in the virtual world. So pretty much, the plot is cliche and pretty much lack any excitement since the characters were safe behind their console. anyway the fact is this anime's story plot was as boring as Isekai wa Smartphone. The art was no concern of mine, since I don't give any shit in it and seeing the main character wore pink as oppose to black, grey or green was just soooooooooo pathetic. Sound, geeezzzz, no comment on that, but it was kinda odd that Seiyuu Hikasa Yoko's voice were cast diffe…
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While I found the other SAO anime series and movie to be relatively fun albeit flawed romps through a fairly basic setting with some cool ideas, Alternative distancing itself from its family so strongly by dropping ALL connecting characters and most connecting events was an interesting move. Does it pay off? Well... let's see.
The story, such as it is, is tripe - without going heavy into spoilers, they tried to recycle the OMG IT'S A DEATH GAME OOOOO vibe from every other SAO so far, and like most of them, it falls flat - and unlike even Ordinal Scale or GGO the paper thin explanation for it here is so utterly trite and idiotic that it breaks all suspension of disbelief. The tournament structure is equally meaningless; you CAN tell a decent story within the structure of a tournament sure,…
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Much like SAO, the big shame is that the setting the show is set in COULD have been super interesting. Instead, we just get pure Mary-Sue wankery that turns the entire world of GGO into a lazily written dumpster fire.
I can't tell if the show is trying to be serious or silly. On one hand it's all "Ohhh suicide, and teenage edge" and on the other we have a sentient P90... sorry make that TWO sentient P90s that -BLOCK BULLETS- when story convenient.
God, the antagonist is like an edgy rp character written by a 14 year old. The way she's presented its like she has some serious real life psychological issues... Oh... what's that show... Nevermind, let's all just laugh it off like it's the end of a Scooby Doo episode. Ho Ho Ho let's all be friends now.
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SAO Alternative GGO: A fun series that served as the opening act
SAO Alternative GGO had only one function: to warm up the public for the arrival of the main dish of the franchise, Alicization, which is coming in October. And the series fulfilled.
The novel written by Keiichi Sigsawa (known for novels like Allison and its sequels "Lillia and Treize" and "Meg and Seron", which resulted in the anime Allison & Lillia) and supervised by Reki Kawahara (creator of SAO) was never ambitious nor did it seek to overshadow the original story
Therefore, it was foreseeable that after the announcement of the start of Alicization for next October, the GGO anime will be released before; this in order to prepare the stage. Doing it later or during would not have made sense because all the attention wo…
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GGO Alternative is basically SAO with all the things that made SAO great without all the things that, in the long run, ruined SAO so bad.
We have the possibility to explore the gaming experience, a realistic future gaming experience. Stakes are really high, but without the plot-holes we found in SAO.
No harems, no imoutos, no fanservice, no forced romances (even if I think KiritoxAsuna is one of the most solid anime couples). Only a good game.
Characters are really really good, the protagonist but even the "normal" gamers. And the "antagonist" is really a good and solid character, with real motivations and I think real motifs to act like she acts.
Another nice thing is some "adult content", some grown-up jokes that remind us that the main characters are not high schoolers but college s…
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Story: The story takes place a few years after the release of Sword Art Online. It centers around our main heroine Karen Kohiruimaki. She enters the world of Gun Gale online to get away from the issue she has being a very tall woman. She tries many different games but each one gives her a tall default character. That is until she enters Gun Gale online and becomes the Pink Devil LLENN.
I actually liked the idea of why Karen wanted to play games. Because honestly thats what we do. When we are sick of dealing with situations we don't want to deal with we turn to Anime, Video games or whatever else to distract us from our problems.
She then meets a fun amount of people including Pito, M, the Amazons. With this the Gun Gale story builds into something stronger.
Art: The art and animation we…
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This show is a spin-off in Sword Art Online franchise and features a completely new cast in next “death game lite” scenario. Do these major changes mean improvement over the original? No. SAO:GGO tanks story and characters as spectacular as its predecessor, minus those action sequences, that made SAO at least serviceable.
RATING: 3 – bad.
STORY: We did not forget the obligatory café info dump & rape scene.
I do not research upcoming shows, or the names behind a project, often I don’t even read the synopsis; the only entries I may recognize are the title and the studio. After several weeks I learned, that apparently some big shot was working on the script, thus GGO is already a much better anime. Nope, I do not see any improvements. You don’t believe me? Let’s play SAO-Bingo.
I am asking…
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Honestly this anime is insanely enjoyable. This review is spoiler free by the way.
After finishing this show I went to write a review immediately because of how much I loved the ending and how it wrapped up.
First the ending. This is the most complete, wrapped up, and satisfying endings I have seen in a while. I felt so complete after watching it. The characters ALL grew and developed and it fit so perfectly that I wouldn't have ended it another way. In the trend of seasonal, 12 episode anime; this is definitely one of the most complete anime I have seen.
The story progressed very well, from the beginning to end the motivations were clear. LLENN/Karen wanted to play a video game to kind of escape here height anxiety. Probably one of the most realistic motives I have seen for a VRMMORPG…
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First things first, if you disliked original SAO you can safely test this series for yourself, it's nothing like it. Just to be clear here I did enjoy the original SAO immensly (almost all of it) even though it had quite a number glaring faults.
What makes or breaks animes and mangas for me these days are mostly characters and their interactions, then cpmes the story and then the rest, and SAO:GGO unfortunately seems to have it all the wrong way round.
The GOOD things first:
- Sound design is on point, there is not a single moment in this anime where sound would take me away from the action or I would be disappointed with it, on the other hand, when it shines you do notice it (songs made for this anime are really good)
- The Art doesn't feel out of place, it's not soaring among the star…
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For years, Sword Art Online franchise told us a story about being inside a VRMMO game (or ARMMO in Ordinal Scale case) and while the setting or the world building is very good enough, they never have given us any good story or protagonist characterization (I'm looking at you, Kirito). Suddenly an adaptation of a light novel spin-off based on Sword Art Online franchise came to us and exceeded its original story it based on. Using the game setting of Sword Art Online : Phantom Bullet arc, the VRMMO game called Gun Gale Online, I will tell you why this spin-off is far more better than its original story.
The most important thing is of course, characterization. They used one important theme around building LLENN as a character and that is insecurity. It is very shown that LLENN or Karen have…
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Sword Art Online or SAO for short is the most polarising anime series of all time. It is the definition a series that you will either love or hate. Like with many people on net I have a very low option of Sword Art Online because it was a terrible series. While I don’t completely despise the series anymore mainly because I have seen anime that are in my opinion worse than Sword Art Online it is still a series that I really dislike with a passion
When I first heard about this series being announced a couple moths back after I watched the painfully subpar Sword Art Online movie I was really excited to check it out. The main reason why I really excited for this is because that they are completely removing three of the nasty SAO elements that made the franchise such a piece of shit.
The firs…
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Please note this review is intended to be read by those that have finished watching SAO AGGO and while care has been taken to minimise story related spoilers there may still be spoilers within character analysis. You have been warned.
The Rise of Llenn a university student’s journey to gain confidence and overcome a personal complex by fighting and facing down fierce opponents as a cute and speedy girl on the bullet-ridden battlefields of GGO Online.
Based off a popular light novel of the same name Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online is a spin off of the popular Sword Art Online media franchise that took the world with storm back in 2009 with the release of its first novel and again in 2012 with the release of the first of its hit anime. Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale O…
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Video games have been part of our everday life. Either from anime and to our real world, this type of entertainment have grown massive for years and it is still growing until now. Back in Summer 2012, the whole anime community was stunned as the first season of Sword Art Online came.
With its mixed reviews saying it was either the worst or the best series, the whole community is divided until now even a season 2 came, along with the movie Ordinal Scale. Looking back to the past recent season which was Spring 2018, we were given a ton of new shows and sequels. Along came a spin-off that will judge anime fans, who have watched Sword Art Online. That is the spin-off 'Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online', which I am going to review on now.
The setting of the story is alternative to…
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In 2012, we are introduced to the world of Sword Art Online, where it features the most hated over-the-top OP character Kirito, the main MC along with his shenanigans of fantasy-drama with the cast of SAO, and his foundation brings him over to 2014 where we have SAO Season 2: the world of Gun Gale Online (or GGO), with an entirely new cast (but not without the original cast (since it’s a cross-over)) that manages to do well but garner less attention from the original series, but in all essence, Kirito stood still: He saw, he came, and he conquered…ALL, with much hate from the anime consensus.
This year, we have an entirely different GGO, not written by the original creator Reki Kawahara (thank goodness!), but by the author of Kino’s Journey, Keiichi Sigsawa. Knowing the gun-crazy novelist…
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6 years ago when Sword Art Online first aired, that piece of work caused controversy that still generates discussion to this very day. Then Summer 2014 came and we got the sequel known as Sword Art Online II. While being an improvement of the original series, it didn’t really amplify itself as a big improvement. Four years later, here we are again. Except this time, it’s not an actual continuation of the main series. Instead, we got this spinoff known as Sword Art Online: Alternative Online.
To be clear, you don’t need to watch any of the previous series in the franchise. In fact, it doesn’t even matter if it’s the first time you found out this show exists. SAO: Alternative Online is the title as it suggests, an alternative story that takes place based on the SAO franchise. The original l…
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