Why is everyone
in anime-Japan a complete sociopath? Even the bullies hounding Sinon are waving guns around and doing the most dickish things imaginable and laughing like maniacs all the while. The conformist message has to be starting to wear thin here even for the most unperceptive of viewers. ‘Tis entirely possible, anime writers, for people to fall outside typical behavioral norms without departing the sunny shores of sanity. One can not conform without wanting to rape everything. Well, except meme-Spiderman. That guy’s hopeless.
So blah blah, Sinon’s fine, and Kirito doesn’t get injected with the evil drug because Shinkawa just happens to stab the syringe in the one place where a metal diode for a heart-monitor remains, turning the whole scene into something more resembling a gay porno than anything else. (Oh come on, you know I’m right.) Then Sinon goes through a typical sequence of happy-resolutions while Kirito talks us to death for another half-episode. Blah blah. Then Sinon finally, finally, FINALLY realizes that defending herself from the crazy killer and saving everyone’s lives at that bank was a GOOD THING. My question is why does Sinon seem to mentally cast off the personality of Sinon? As if that’s a good thing? What’s wrong with being Sinon? Said personality has done nothing but help her be a better person. Why does she stop being a badass? In real life (or at least somewhere that is not Japan), Sinon might go on to be one of the top hardcore players in GGO, maybe making her living off competitive gaming and stuff. That would be a nice, strong, female character that would break some stereotypes. She might even become a gun aficionado and relish her knowledge and capabilities. Instead, her experience in GGO is subtly treated as if it were some strange aberration not worth repeating, so as soon as the GGO scenario is resolved, Sinon gets shuffled off into Kirito’s stupid harem, right next to Asuna’s worn-out vibrator. Kawahara Reki, I have some bad news: you suck at writing and are a misogynist pig, even though you might not realize it.
Tune in next week, when Part II of SAO2 starts going and we start this whole fucking cycle of death and despair over again. Better get your drink on.
om, slightly isolated admirer of Sinon’s we haven’t seen in forever, is actually one of Death Gun’s cronies. Shocking. I will refer back to yon post here, 
s of talk. It’s been three goddamn weeks. I nearly had a heart attack when something actually happened in this episode towards the end. Kind of. Did their animation budget run out and they decided to skimp on three episodes so they could animate the bullet-time stuff? Geez.
as worse than last week’s. I don’t know how, but it succeeded. There was even more Talk no Jutsu, followed by Kirito and Sinon making even more hilarious assumptions about who Death Gun is. By the way, some of the stuff Kirito finally surmised was pretty obvious, the first part being the fact that their Space Game Helmets can’t stop their hearts, given they’re not even connected to one’s heart in the first place. That doesn’t rule out brain damage and such from electrical shock, but again, a safer assumption is that manufacturers made sure these things were pretty damn safe. So if Death Gun can’t magically kill people from afar via computer code, then he’s somehow arranging their deaths in the real world. Makes sense.
non somehow has enough psychological composure in the face of utter panic to spout cliche philosophical ramblings on the meaning of fighting that every Shounen Anime has regurgitated a billion times before.
e entire status of Kirito and Asuna’s relationship. It’s been seven episodes and I still don’t know why these two attractive young teenagers aren’t fucking like rabbits in a meadow. It probably has something to do with Japanese culture and its severe, crippling allergy to all things mildly related to realistic physical and emotional intimacy between people, opting instead to harp on the same three or four tired lines we’ve all heard before. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away: Sinon, you might want to kinda give the guy who obviously really cares about you a mature answer. No, you don’t have to like him back, but you could at least address the elephant in the room head on instead of doing what every other female anime protagonist has ever done, i.e., brush it off with an embarrassed chuckle. You don’t have many friends; it’s probably not a good idea to treat your most dedicated one like crap. Can’t you hear the red alert sirens going off? This is going to come back and bite you in the ass. The anime you’re in isn’t exactly pushing the bounds of creativity here. Jilted companion + mysterious group of villains = bad mojo.
Well, this episode entertained me much more than I expected. We’re only three episodes into the season and I find myself enjoying this one far more than the previous iteration of SAO. In fact, I had to eat some of my own words on character development. This week the writers took a break from all online vidya game action and plunged headlong into the mind of Sinon, our new heroine, an surprising and successful attempt, I might add. Although the pace of that character development was too quick for my tastes–they could have drawn it out into the rest of her character arc had they played their cards right–it was nice to see Sinon possess depth to her character, as opposed to just being a token member of Kirito’s Harem. This girl is playing this game for a very good reason that resonates with her psychology and experiences as a human being? Lies! Someone must have gotten drunk in the writer’s room one night.
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