Marwile watches SAO Part 15: "That episode..." · 10:01pm Jun 29th, 2018
I had an interesting week. I finished Kingdom Heart 1, though the story why it's so special to me is a bit too long. The DK Adventure for Mario&Rabbids Kingdom Battle randomly dropped. The DLC problem with BBTAG has been fixed, unfortunately I couldn't play much since then, because I had an exam today and, funny story, right before the exam–
YES, I know I'm stalling. I mean, who wants to talk about this episode.
Sigh
Just let us get this over with. For years people argued when SAO became truly terrible. Some point to Kayaba, some point to Yui, some say it was unsalvagable since the start, but most people point to this episode. So let's quickly go over Asuna's half of the episode.
Asuna escapes the birdcage and, thanks to a convenient floormap (who puts these in an evil lair in an MMO, lands in the evil lab, where they are making experiments on the brains of the other trapped players (no idea why this ep is called "The Truth" because we already knew that). Asuna gets caught by two scientists using tentacle monsters as their avatars (just why...) and one of them tries to rape her with his tentacles. I don't even want to comment on how dumb and out-of-place this is, I just want to get this over with.
She also steals an apparently important keycard and gets imprisoned again.
Alright, just one more thing: in-universe someone must have consciously programmed these things into the game. Think about it.
And sadly Kirito's half isn't really interesting... like at all.
Because of server maintenance Kazuto and Suguha spend the day in the real world aka Suguha has an obvious crush and he doesn't get it. She also decides to accompany him during his visit in Asuna's hospital.
They even lampshade how Asuna used her real name in the game. Suguha must know her brother's online name, I mean really? Even my sister knows my online name (or rather she accidentally found out this week)
Back in the game Leafa is sad because of her lovesickness and cries herself out on Kirito's shoulders. Do you get the irony?!
Then they reach the area of the world tree and Yui finally senses Asuna's presence.
Typing this has already gone on long enough (thanks to my sister). Let's just finish this for today.
Nope it's completely understandable she wouldn't know it, I personally never share any of my online names with my family since we don't interact much online outside of Facebook.
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Alright, yes that's true. But you also have to consider that Kirito's name is also made out of his real name Kirigaya Kazuto.
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Yeah but I guess that depends on how common it is for people to have similar names in japan.