Because a lot of anime back in the 80s and 90s were produced insanely fast. So they would blow through the material available and then have to stall to wait for the manga to get further.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. The initial world building was quite good if very derivative. The problem I had with Reki is that he always struggled to make characters that actually mattered. From what I hear he's been trying his best to rectify a lot of the problems with the series, and for that I can commend him. But I'd actually have to watch it to see how that went, which I just don't have the energy to sit through Alicization and it's follow ups. I'm on my Shoujo Arc, gonna be ugly crying when Sayonara Lara ends
One of the few complaints that Mothers Basement I think, or maybe Gigguk i forget which faggot it was that said this, made about SAO that I agree with is the show was clearly made by someone who had never played an MMO much or cared about games all that much at all. It's one of the reasons I and my fiance enjoyed our watch of Yugioh, because as you watch the show you can tell that Kazuki Takahashi really loved games and gave a shit about the game he was making out of Duel Monsters.
So what are they going to do when they catch up to the current anime/manga? This still seems ill-advised.
I get that. It wasn't my favorite anime of all time, I just thought it was definitely worth a watch. Let us know what you think when you finish, please. Hopefully you enjoyed it. I don't usually recommend anime, just because tastes can vary wildly, so I hope it's at least not a waste of time for you.
So far the show is only adapting the first season, which is 50 chapters of the manga. Even if they kept that pace, One Piece has 1,170 chapters. It's been in production since at least 2023, and it will release in 2027, so it's taken them 4 years to make 7 episodes, each 42 minutes long. If they keep animating at that pace, they won't be catching up to the manga anytime soon. If they did 7 episodes each season, it'd take them 167 episodes to catch up to where the manga is currently at (Keep in mind I got this number by dividing 1,170 by 7, so I very well could be wrong), and that's assuming they keep the slow production pace up and it takes them 4 years for each season.
Now that I'm binging on season two, I get what you mean about Mira
Given the bones of the web novel (which itself was okayish) that they had to work with I can agree that it felt very awkward as a "game". From my own viewpoint Reki doesn't really care about video games either, he just really likes building fantasy worlds. Something I'll never forgive him for is introducing magic in Alfheim (along with the weird incest shit) when SAO itself was at the time kind of unique for not having magic at all. Sure you had magical materials, but nobody was flinging spells and other nonsense. The idea of player factions as well going by your kill history was neat, but those players never really amounted to anything. Laughing Coffin was used what? Once in Gun Gale for the Incel BBEG?
He's basically like George Lucas, who needed people to tell him to pump the brakes a bit or to help refine ideas as he brainstormed them
All good, don't worry about it. I gladly take recommendations even if it's for something I normally might not watch at all. You never know if you are going to like it or not and best case you will discover maybe a hidden gem or something you enjoy that you wouldn't have watched otherwise. And especially nowadays with how most animes are produced and distributed, 12 episodes are not that much of a time commitment.
Griffith did nothing wrong.
Objectively true. Not yet anyway.
Probably time slots and having access to cheap Korean/Chinese animators. Back in the ye olde days if you had a prime time tv slot it was more financially sound to hang to it for your dear life than risk taking a break and then getting replaced, especially as access to old episodes was hard, so it was easy to lose momentum. In the age of streaming and rising labour costs, taking years break between seasons is more viable.
MMOs by design are very bad for power fantasies. Lots of issues with SAO is that it ignored the fact that other people exist in the world rather than be a playground for Kirito.
Your mistake for being in 4chan. It's now compromised by Jeets and has been exposed as a government honeypot with ties to Epstein.
SAO tried to be an edgier Dot Hack but had no idea how MMOs worked. I've said my piece about Dot Hack already and think at least the anime adaptations are mid at best (when you ignore the simping strewn throughout) but it at least understood the MMO community and the greedy, criminal lengths corporations go to. The friend I was watching it with never did complain about the mechanics and it became an in-joke about how people just don't read the message boards.
All these anitubers blend together these days that it's hard to tell who's who anymore.
Same with Overlord, which I thought would get more interesting when it hinted that other players were in the world besides Momonga. Only for it to be revealed that wasn't the case at all and he was still alone. Again they never make anything actually matter- be it the other characters, the world building, even the fights are just nothing burgers because there are no stakes. Dragon Ball Z with all its faults still gets you invested into the belief that things could go wrong and the stakes are this high. We know Goku will win, but even as early as the Saiyan Saga he was getting his ass beat before earning a win. Momonga just stops time and kills the bravest champion of a kingdom but not before saying "Heh I guess you're alright"
A lot of Isekai anime suffer from this problem. So does the weird "litrpg" genre that the Koreans popularized, like Solo Leveling. They're all flash no substance about 99 percent of the time
Overlord tried to course correct when Ainz gets into a slap fight with a dragon who has shit taken from old/dead MMO folks and they both walk away limping... but it was all a cunning ruse (dragon was using a shadow clone or something, and Ainz was actually his 70% of strength doppleganger using fake world itiems)