#20.2.18

examine it with a precise eye

and pick out its flaws and weaknesses,

cracking edges and leaking ceilings,

everything decaying in the corners,

but do nothing to change it.

simply calmly stand in my own mess,

watching the world i have created

burn itself to the ground,

knowing this would happen.

- The Aincrad Arc should be fun and the first episode is pretty fun but there’s far too little good to outweigh the overwhelming “meh”. The final fight has some dumb asspulls and having Kayaba forget his motivation was lazy. While the art style and most of the animation looks pretty nice, a majority of the fight scenes suck. A fight consisting of sword slash effects over a temporary black screen is lazy and uninteresting. Kirito’s a boring character, but I kinda like him anyway. Asuna is best girl.

- The ALfheim Arc is straight up fucking offensive, mostly in its treatment of Asuna, you know, the lead female character. Being reduced to a damsel in distress is one thing, but the two scenes in which everything short of rape happens to her are disgusting, especially given that they’re actually framed in such a way as to be erotic. You could honestly hurl the tentacle monster scene in an actual tentacle hentai OVA and it wouldn’t be out of place. Sugou’s motivation of taking over the world is honestly worse than Kayaba’s lack of, and Sugou himself is otherwise detestable (not even in the good way like Dio Brando or Frieza) and forgettable. Animation improves though, specifically by having more actual fight scenes. The little snippets of character they try to add to Kirito don’t mean a lot, but I like them. Having Kirito waste his time with the Sylph-Cait Sith alliance meeting kinda kills the whole “save Asuna in this time limit” thing, which is shitty, but Alicia Rue makes up for it by being really cute. The incest subplot is one of the best parts of the arc, because it’s not framed in a positive way. Sugu deserves more character than “Kirito’s sister who romantically loves him” though.

- GGO isn’t bad actually. There are numerous questions one can raise about the game itself, and they’re pretty difficult to ignore, but it’s still got good stuff. Sinon’s actually a decent and interesting character, and her backstory and current status, as well as her status at the end of the arc are actually pretty good. Kirito’s added PTSD is also decent enough in the bubble that is GGO, but it becomes kinda iffy when you include the Aincrad arc as part of judging his character. Retroactive backstories can be done well. This part wasn’t really. The general aesthetic of GGO works very well for the story too. Death Gun isn’t a great villain. Having him be Shinkawa (ignoring the other two Death Guns) could have worked with more foreshadowing in the story by having him appear more or something, because the infodump in the last episode explaining his situation wasn’t very good. Not that bad an arc though, and again, Sinon’s actually pretty great.

- The filler arc is so boring and uninteresting that I don’t even remember its name. I like Sinon’s cat design though. Otherwise, it’s boring, does nothing interesting with the characters, and is hilariously forgettable.

- Mother’s Rosario, I haven’t actually finished the rewatch with @meme-emperor yet, but we got like 2.5 episodes deep and I already remember that it’s easily the best arc. @meme-emperor reads all my posts I think, so I won’t say much about this arc, but it’s the best by far and Yuuki is easily best SAO girl. Whether it’s the best of a bad lot or actually pretty good, I’ll wait till we’ve finished to say for sure.

I first watched SAO early 2014, I think, and I watched SAO II as it aired. Since Kirito’s character is that he’s the best and coolest gamer that gets all the girls, the main demographic was gullible 13 year olds. Being 13 at the time, I completely fucking fell for it, and I loved SAO, and didn’t acknowledge any of its flaws. I never did rewatch it though, and gradually became aware of its flaws from internet word of mouth. At whatever point, I realised it was shitty. As I stated, I’ve been rewatching it with @meme-emperor (it’s actually his first watch of everything past Aincrad) and I’m able to experience first hand the garbage that is SAO (except Mother’s Rosario).

2 0 – 0 2 – 1 8, Dienstag:

75,8 kg

Und aufgeweichter Hintern, der Bauch noch groß.

Meine Beine schmerzen

Da bahnt sich vielleicht ein Muskelkater an.

Viel gelatscht

Beim Finanzamt war, Versorgungsamt.

Und was noch?

Weiß ich nicht, was anderes.

Puuh

Durchatmen.

Back, Jack, do it again

Kam mir irgendwie in den Sinn.

Die wilden Zwei

Einer ist schon da: ich und ich.

DÖF

Doof: Codo; sie düsen, düsen im Sauseschritt.

Mädchen von Capri

Auf den Schreck bist du weg.

Lachflash beim Finanzamt

Die Sachbearbeiterin kam sich wohl verarscht vor.

Konnte ich wenig dafür

Eine Frau, die ich fragte, wo das Versorgungsamt sei, flüchtete vor mir, rannte vor mir weg, am Edeka in der Nähe. Da liefen auch einige Subjekte rum.

Und die Hinweis-Schilder waren mehr als fragwürdig.

Wenn sie doof handeln

Viele setzen doch Sprachschwierigkeiten mit mangelnder Intelligenz gleich, obwohl sie sich lächerlich machen.