LogFAQs > #957695419

I know this doesn't really need saying, but my god is the writing in the recent parts of SAO atrocious. The writing has never been good in SAO outside of that one side story but the war in underworld is just plot hole after plot hole. In fact, saying plot hole makes it sound like theres some amount of plot that does stand up that has a hole in it, but this is just entirely hole. I feel like I usually fall on the defending side of SAO. It's not great, but the majority of it isn't that bad either. Like this season has spirit chronicles that is somewhat similar but easily worse and it's sitting above a 7 (somehow). SAO is solidly average with good production values but that does not extend to this arc, holy shit.

The production side of stuff is actually pretty good. The fights look cool visually and the OST is still pretty good but I just feel sorry for the poor animators that put in this amount of good work on something so utterly garbage. It's gone beyond being merely bad and at this point I'm just rage watching it which is not something I've done in quite some time.

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