Marwile watches SAO II Part 6 "Kirito wins by doing nothing" · 10:09pm Sep 7th, 2018

I'm still suffering from hype backlash because of the Nintendo Direct delay. I can completely their reason and I'm hoping and praying the best for the victims, but that can't stop the disappointment... And then add SAO...

We continue right where the last episode ended with Kirito finding out Deathgun is a former Laughing Coffin member. I already explained last time who these guys were. Anyways (I'm using this word way too often) Kirito suddenly has PTSD again and has a flashback from his group raiding the Guilts hideout back in the original SAO. It's interesting to see an assassin down to red health but nobody wants to finish him so the guys around him let themselves be murdered. Kirito's kill count rises by two and it's implied Asuna and Klein also have one.

Back in not-reality, Sinon is back and sees the sad Kirito, but when she finally decides to comfort him he gets teleported to his next match.

Now you would think that all of this would affect Kirito's perfomance in the next games, but nope. Quite the contrary, it seems to make his opponents worse. Kirito's just standing there while the enemy sniper misses at least twenty shots. What kind of casuals are playing this so-called pro game? Both Kirito and Sinon breeze through their matches and meet in the final match. Because of this both are already qualified for the actual tournament, so there are exactly zero stakes in this battle.

Kirito just stands there again and that makes Sinon so angry she misses every shot. Furious she runs up to and confronts him and because Kirito knows there are no stakes he doesn't care for the outcome of this battle. To still make it interesting he offers a duel: From a ten meter distance she'll try to shoot him while he runs up to her with his sword. Who do you thin– Of course Kirito wins. And wow, there's so much wrong with it.

First, they managed to make his beam sword inconsistent in just two episodes. In the last episode his sword simply blocked the bullets, which means it has mass and its diameter (it's very obviously round) is bigger than a bullet. The OP reinforces that by showing in slo-mo a bullet flattening against his sword. But this time he clearly cut the bullet in half meaning the sword is either very thin or is an actual laser with no mass. Add to that that Kirito claims he saw where Sinon would shoot by following her eye movement through her scope... from a 10 m distance... I can't test that one but I feel safe in calling everything about this victory bullshit.

Kirito has a short monologue about killing people and then offers Sinon to forfeit, because he doesn't want to cut down a girl. She does that and everyone watches, including Deathgun and Spiegel, the latter with a disapproving glare... totally not evil.

I also want to note that I'm pretty sure we saw at least three different Kirito's in this episode. At least all of them dropped the girl voice.

So about Deathgun being a SAO player, will this or Kirito's PTSD play any signifi– No? Figured as much. To go off on a seemingly random tangent, do you guys know Rambling Writer? They recently (read: at least a month ago) finished a series where they read through all of the "Twilight" books and made blogs with their reaction to every chapter. I can only recommend this series and I'd be lying if I said these didn't at least partially inspire my blogs. Something they brought up very often was that the Twilight books often introduced interesting and unique concepts, just to never follow up to them or flesh them out. And this is a recurring theme here as well. I mean the whole "die in the game, die in real" idea made it popular in the first place.
A former SAO assassin that wants to bring back the thrill of killing by finding a way to kill people in the game again, vowing revenge to Kirito for killing his comrades and forcing him to come to terms with his past and facing his PTSD. But nope. SAO Alternative GGO at least managed to creatively include most of the first one.

By the way, I just compared SAO to Twilight... should I feel proud or ashamed?

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