TheTrueArceus Reacts! | Sword Art Online | Episode 1-4

Awesome can’t wait

Hashiman666

Most likely, yes. I've been very busy with commissions lately, so I haven't had much spare time to react to more SAO on my own accord. But, after the positive reception of the first video, I'd say the series has certainly earned some more reactions being made.

Are you going to upload more SAO

Hashiman666

Episode 4, Adaption Notes ( left out or Changed Things compared to the Light Novel) ---In the light novel, three Drunk Apes appear, however Silica was dealing with two of them before a third one appeared. In the anime, the three apes simply surround her, with no surprise attacks. ---When Pina was killed in the light novel, Silica became enraged and defeated the ape responsible for Pina's death. She was also about to engage the other two apes in a suicidal charge when Kirito appeared and swiftly killed the two apes. In the anime, Pina's death sent Silica into a state of shock, which almost resulted in her being killed by the apes, but Kirito was able to save her. ---Though the light novel depicts Kirito in his Blackwyrm Coat, the anime showed him in a different, unnamed coat. ---The scene involving Silica in the Inn room is altered in the anime. In the novel, Silica visits Kirito's room and falls asleep on his bed, resulting in Kirito sleeping on the floor. This happens again to him at the beginning of the Fairy Dance story arc, when Suguha falls asleep in his bed, reinforcing Kirito's impression that Silica reminds him of her. ---Due to this alteration, Silica and Kirito sleep in separate rooms in the anime, as opposed to sleeping in the same room in the novel. ---In the light novel, ten Titan's Hand members revealed themselves, but only nine attacked Kirito, as one member was the guild's eavesdropper and thus needed a green cursor. In the anime, only seven players reveal themselves and attack him, including the eavesdropper. ---In the light novel, after the orange players stopped attacking Kirito, they made confused faces until Rosalia ordered them to continue their attack, which they did. In the anime, the orange players were exhausted after attacking Kirito and did not continue attacking him even when Rosalia told them to. ---In the light novel, Kirito warned the orange players that if they did not go through the portal, he would paralyze all of them with a knife coated with level 5 poison. The conversation nor the dagger is not mentioned in the anime. The scene where Kirito opens a portal and jails the Titan's Hand guild members is omitted in the anime. ---In the anime, Rosalia did not carry a teleport crystal. ---In the light novel, while Kirito throws Rosalia into the portal, she attempted to plead to him for mercy and even attempted to persuade him to join forces with her.

Mathias

Another " Dark" Detail about Kirito due to the Events that happen in Episode 3, after he got the Event Item in Hopes to Reviev Sachi, he planned a Suicide Attack against a Floor Boss ( yeah he actually wanted to Die at that Point) Having returned to his room, Kirito decided to undertake a suicide attack against the 49th Floor Boss in the morning, and any Floor Bosses after that if he survived. After several hours of mindless waiting, Kirito began moving from his seat when he was alerted by an item in his inventory. Finding a time activated message recording crystal in his shared inventory page with Sachi, he materialised it from the inventory and activated it. Sachi's message greeted Merry Christmas to Kirito and informed him that if he was listening to the recording, it meant that she had not survived till that day, as she would have removed it from their shared inventory on Christmas Eve and given her message to him in person otherwise. Sachi told him of her similarly shy friend from another guild who had died despite taking precautions, and how she concluded death was inevitable in this world for people who lacked the willpower or determination to survive, regardless of the strength of their companions. She sensed that Kirito would blame himself in the event of her death, thus she asked him not to do so, as she would not consider her death his fault. Sachi also revealed that she had learned his true level when she saw his status window after awaking one night. Although she had never been able to understand the reasons for his secrecy, she believed he would disclose his real abilities and the reasons for his silence to the guild someday, and was glad someone like him was by her side and that there might be meaning in someone like her advancing as far as she did.

Mathias

Informations and other Details that they left out for Episode 3 ( also especially some Infos about Sachi) ---In the light novel, Sachi and Kirito had a shared inventory page separate from their individual inventory, which either one could access at anytime, mainly used to put common items such as potions and crystals for their convenience. The creation of this slot was requested by Sachi under the guise of being able to share potions between them, even though the guild inventory could be used for this purpose. The real reason why she wanted this slot was to be able to leave a comforting goodbye message to Kirito, in case she died before Christmas. ---In the web novel (which is some Sort of a Prototype before an Author officially release it as an Light Novel, there got a lot of Things changed in the Official Release then), Sachi was Kirito's first love. In addition to this, Kirito's and Sachi's relationship was depicted as being more intimate, and close in the web novel version of the story. However, subtle changes in the text of the published version imply that Kirito and Sachi were not as close as in the web novel. ---In the real world, Sachi, along with all the other original members of the Moonlit Black Cats, were in a computer club at their school. She also happened to live fairly close to the leader of the guild, Keita. ---The initial story of how Kirito met up with the Black Cats is not portrayed in the anime. ---In the novel, Sachi was using a cloak that granted invisibility when Kirito found her. ---There was no mention of the shared inventory window between Kirito and Sachi in the anime. ---In the light novel, it was stated that Klein negotiated with the Divine Dragon Alliance to have a 1-on-1 duel between him and a member of the Alliance to decide their next course of action. Because of this, only Klein was tired after the match, but in the anime it looks as if everyone in the Fuurinkazan guild fought against the DDA guild. ---In the anime, it was not revealed how Kirito got out of the trap alive. In the light novel, Kirito destroyed the treasure chest, thus disabling the trap. ---In the light novel, Sachi left the message record crystal in a shared inventory tab between her and Kirito with the timer-activation mode active, instead of a time-triggered mail. ---In the light novel, Sachi actually sang the "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", instead of humming it. ---Sachi did not mention a friend of hers that died on the way back to town in her message to Kirito in the anime.

Mathias

Informations and other Details that they left out for Episode 2: ---The First Day side story was skipped entirely. ---Kirito originally met Asuna at the 18th level of the 1st Floor Labyrinth. ---Asuna’s past life before borrowing her brother’s console to play the game was omitted, as well as her one month character development from a kidnapped damsel in distress to a near-suicidal player who constantly ground her levels. ---«Argo the Rat» was not introduced and the fact that she was the second player on Kirito’s friend list and the publisher of the SAO guide books was omitted. ---The meeting for the boss raid took place after Kirito had lunch with Asuna in the light novel. ---The anime did not include Kirito's monologues about the danger of being known as a Beta Player; their life will be targeted as the one who helps release the death game. ------Also hurting other players is possible outside the safe boundary of the town and city. ---Asuna actually regained her desire for life after speaking to Kirito; who frequently taught her the beauty of the virtual world. ---The anime omitted Asuna's request to Kirito to use the bathroom in Kirito's rented farmhouse lodgings and subsequent bath and reflection, as well as Argo's visit to update Kirito on her client's offer on his Anneal Blade, which ended in her discovery of Asuna in the bath. ---Although the description in the novel states that Illfang the Kobold Lord was supposed to be covered in blue fur, both the light novel illustrations and the anime portrayed him with red fur. ---In the novel, Diavel did not aim for the Last Attack bonus by himself. His whole group was greatly damaged by one of Illfang's Sword Skills, before the boss started singling Diavel out. ---Several Sword Skills were omitted from the anime, including Kirito's Slant and Horizontal. Additionally, it was not shown that the boss used Hiōgi to kill Diavel, but it is shown when Illfang attempts to use the skill on Asuna and Kirito. «Tsumujiguruma» use against Diavel's party was also not shown, though the skill is shown later in battle, just before Kirito activates «Sonic Leap». ---In the novel, Kirito was one meter away from Diavel when he died and Kirito's conversation with Diavel was actually Kirito's inner-monologue. Diavel only managed to say an incomplete sentence to Kirito about defeating the boss before he shattered into polygons. ---Kirito trying to give a potion to Diavel was not part of the original story, as Kirito was too far away from Diavel to offer him a potion. ---In the anime, Kirito was shown to deflect several of Illfang's strikes with regular sword slashes, while in the novel, he used «Vertical» and «Horizontal» Sword Skills to do so and even then he had to boost the system assist for the skills to successfully deflect the powerful blows. ---In the novel, Kirito was sent flying through the room when he got hit with «Gengetsu» and was barely able to stand on his knees, while Asuna charged for the boss in his place. In the anime, he landed on Asuna and they both fell to the ground. ---In the novel, Kirito took five minutes to recover, until the boss's health reached below 30% and one of the tanks tripped, to register his state as "being surrounded", causing the boss to initiate «Tsumujiguruma». In the anime, the tanks were shortly overpowered by Illfang, who then activated the skill without a tank stumbling behind him. ---In the novel, Kibaou reacted to Diavel's fate only after the latter had died. ---In the anime Diavel was portrayed as a selfless «Beta Tester» who looked out for everyone, while in the novel, he tried to buy off Kirito's sword, so that the latter would have a harder time in getting a Last Attack on the boss. ---In the light novel, Asuna voluntarily removed her hooded cloak herself, helping to recapture everyone's morale after their leader's death, before charging at the boss, instead of the cloak being removed by Illfang's attack. ---There was no mention of Kirito's habit of Last Attacking the boss. ---There was no mention of Diavel and Kibaou being cohorts. Kibaou had tried to purchase Kirito’s «Anneal Blade +6» at an outrageous price in the novel. ---There was no demonstration of Kirito’s leadership as he directs the seven raiding parties against the boss’s actions. ---It was originally a player of Diavel’s group, named Lind, who accused Kirito of allowing Diavel's death by withholding information in the novel, rather than Kibaou. ---In the novel, the "Beater" term was derived from the overlapping voices crying "Beta Tester" and "Cheater." In the anime, a single voice created the portmanteau. ---There was no display of the in-game messaging feature, which players can use to send and receive messages to their known acquaintances. ---The opening scenery of the 2nd Floor was not shown, thus the event where Asuna asks Kirito how he knew her name was shown while they were still on the stairs.

Mathias

Adaption Notes ( things that they left out or changed in EP1, more of those are in the Comments below of this) ---The anime did not mention that the release of the SAO game was still limited to Japan, and not yet allowed global. ---Kirito's explanation to Klein on how the players' inability to log out would not reflect well on Argus and the VRMMORPG genre was omitted. ---In the anime, the players were just wondering what happened when they were teleported back to the city. In the novel, a few were angry when they were teleported back. ---In the novel, Kayaba Akihiko announced to the players that the NerveGear would fry the player's brain, killing them in the real world, if any of the following occurred: being disconnected from a source of electricity for ten minutes, cut from the system for more than two hours, or dying in-game. He also informed the players that his crime was being broadcast all over the world, with the location of each player disclosed, thus the authorities would be moving them into hospitals to put them in better care during the two hours he had allowed the players to be disconnected from the system. In the anime, he only informed the players that upon reaching zero hit points, the player would die. Akihiko does not mention anything about moving the players into hospitals during his "tutorial", although it is shown later on that he did spread the word to put the players into better care. ---In the novel, there was no invisible barrier preventing the players from leaving the plaza until the end of the tutorial. Kirito, in the novel, had reached the 10th Floor during the beta testing period rather than the 8th Floor as mentioned in the anime. However, originally the number of floors passed was six, and the number was later retconned to ten in the Progressive novel, thus this is more of a change in continuity, than an error in the anime. ---In the novel, the players' mass panic occurred immediately after Akihiko's disappearance. In the anime, their hysteria was delayed until triggered by Silica's frightened reaction, who was not shown in the novel. ---The design of the Monument of Life had been simplified in the anime. Unlike the novel version, the anime version did not include descriptions of each player's death.

Mathias

sure time jump sucks.. but i think its better than stretching.. :D imagine them being on one place for few episodes like Re Zero :DD i mean.. they done it good.. but.. i hate streching.. :/

Dethrox

Having seen these episodes again as part of these reactions, I conclude that these episodes are not as good as I remember (as stated during the stream I loved the early episodes), but they are several infinities better than what the general public says about the show in general. Fully agree with you, pacing is extremely out there, one episode of Kirito leveling as well as one of him mucking around with the black cats would have put the show (up to this point) at at least a solid 8/10.

Herman

Or maybe some people just found the show to be trashy, didn't play off any of the tropes it hit very well, or build any compelling characters (other than Klein).

thanks for anwering ! :) already watched those 4 episodes :D (was kinda bored and had nothing else to do) and i enjoy it :D would welcome the continuation :)

Dethrox

well.. first season was actually the best i think and lots of people like it.. second season and next it went kinda downhill.. for some people and until you realize there is this hatred around this anime lol :D but i actually liked it.. and would watch the whole thing with you :) maybe it end in a poll someday ? but i doubt it would win :(( .. yeah the pacing is wierd but.. there is more to it than you think about the ''game'' sword art online but i dont want to spoil you :D

Dethrox

There’s a chance it will continue on it’s own, even if they don’t commission for more, if people show enough interest in me reacting to more of it.

wait.. so.. only 4 episodes ?? :D whats even the point then :/ i would acutally rewatched it again if Arceus react to it all and heck.. i would probably watch even after i droped it cause it was kinda boring :D (first season of Alicization cough cough..) :D but not like this i think :/

Dethrox

20 dollar patreon tier you can have him react to 4 episodes of your choice of any show.

Baal Phaoton

Hating on this anime is another example of herd mentality , like sure , it's not the best one out there it has many flaws , but it's definitely not that bad as people like to say it is .... It's mediocre , it's full of clichés but hey that description perfectly fits one of the most popular shows currently out there My Hero Academia .... and while I can forgive SAO because it's so old and these clichés were not really "clichés" back then MHA is recent and they praise it to heaven with the same herd mentality as they drag SAO down to hell :)

Touch Me

Nani ?! Sao ?? :D thats a suprise i guess :o are you planning to watch everything from sao ?? All seasons and spin-off ? :D or is this just a filler between the vote :)

Dethrox