Sword Art Online: Alicization – War Of Underworld

Sword Art Online (2012)

What is it?

The 2019 Japanese anime (animated) TV show Sword Art Online: Alicization – War Of Underworld.

Toonami – Sword Art Online Alicization: War of Underworld Promo (HD 1080p)

What is it about?

This is how MyAnimeList describes this anime (animated) TV show:

Despite the defeat of Quinella—the pontifex of the Axiom Church—things have not seemed to calm down yet.

Upon contacting the real world, Kazuto “Kirito” Kirigaya finds out that the Ocean Turtle—a mega-float controlled by Rath—was raided.

Due to a sudden short-circuit caused by the raiders, Kirito’s fluctlight is damaged, leaving him comatose.

Feeling insecure about the people at the Axiom Church, Alice brings the unconscious Kirito back to their hometown—Rulid Village, disregarding her banishment due to an unabsolved crime.

Now, Alice is living an ordinary and peaceful life close by the village, wishing for Kirito to wake up.

However, tragedy strikes when Alice notices that the Dark Territory has already started to invade the Human Empire.

Reassuming her previous alias, Alice Synthesis Thirty, she promises to defeat the Dark Territory in order to defend the world that Kirito and Eugeo worked so hard to protect.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

This is how Wikipedia describes this anime (animated) TV show:

The second part of the anime, titled Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld, adapts from the novel’s fifteenth volume, Alicization Invading, to the eighteenth volume, Alicization Lasting.

While not covered in the light novels, Alicization takes place after Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale, as it incorporates elements from the film not in the novels.[a]

Sword Art Online: Alicization

Source: IMDb

What is it?

The 2018 anime television show Sword Art Online: Alicization.

What is it about?

This is how Wikipedia describes this anime television show:

The third season of Sword Art Online, titled Sword Art Online: Alicization, is an anime series adapted from the light novel series of the same title written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec.

It is produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Manabu Ono.

It covers the “Alicization” arc and adapts from the novel’s ninth volume, Alicization Beginning, to the eighteenth volume, Alicization Lasting.[1]

The series premiered on October 7, 2018,[2] with a one-hour world premiere airing in Japan, the United States, Australia, France, Germany, Russia and South Korea on September 15, 2018.[3]

Aniplex of America announced that the English dubbed version will begin airing on Adult Swim’s Toonami block from February 9, 2019.[4]

It will air for four cours (around one year).[1]

The first opening theme is “Adamas” by LiSA and the first ending theme is “Iris” (アイリス) by Eir Aoi.[5]

The second opening theme is “Resister” by Asca and the second ending theme is “Forget-me-not” by ReoNa.[6]

The music is composed by Yuki Kajiura.[4]

Final Thoughts

This was the worst season of Sword Art Online yet, it was a waste of pretty good animation, and only a few moments and fight scenes like the early goblin fight stood out as some of the better scenes of the season.

My brother GC and I could not wait for this season to end, it became pretty empty, and we wish that they would have focused on the real world more instead of the virtual world this time because the virtual world in this season was not as good as the virtual video game worlds of previous seasons.

If you already hate Sword Art Online, you will likely hate this season even more, and even someone like myself who did not hate the previous seasons did not like this season.

In my opinion this season was a disappointment and a waste of resources that could have went toward a better anime.

The end,

-John Jr

Sword Art Online: Alternative Gun Gale Online

Source: IMDb

What is it?

The 2018 anime television show Sword Art Online: Alternative Gun Gale Online.

What is it about?

This is how MyAnimeList describes this anime television show:

Clad in desert pink and the size of a mere child, the infamous “Pink Devil” mercilessly hunts down other players in the firearm-centered world of the virtual reality game Gun Gale Online.

But in real life, this feared player killer is not quite who anyone would expect.

A shy university student in Tokyo, Karen Kohiruimaki stands in stark contrast to her in-game avatar—in fact, she happens to stand above everyone else too, much to her dismay.

Towering above all the people around her, Karen’s insecurities over her height reach the point where she turns to the virtual world for an escape.

Starting game after game in hopes of manifesting as a cute, short character, she finally obtains her ideal self in the world of Gun Gale Online.

Overjoyed by her new persona, she pours her time into the game as LLENN, garnering her reputation as the legendary player killer.

However, when one of LLENN’s targets gets the best of her, she ends up meeting Pitohui, a skilled yet eccentric woman.

Quickly becoming friends with Karen, Pitohui insists that LLENN participates in Squad Jam, a battle royale that pits teams against one another, fighting until only one remains.

Thrust into the heated competition, LLENN must fight with all her wit and will if she hopes to shoot her way to the top.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Final Thoughts

This anime television show was over before I knew it, unfortunately it ended on a bad note, it was better than the main Sword Art Online series in some ways but overall I still like the main Sword Art Online series better than this.

This show was simpler and easier to follow than the main series, but not enough information about the video game and the video game world was given; and too much time was spent in tournaments.

I did like some of the action, and I definitely liked the parts where strategy was the main focus.

The end,

-John Jr

Overlord (Season 1)

Source: IMDb

What is it?

The 2015 anime television show Overlord (Season 1).

What is it about?

This is how MyAnimeList describes this anime television show:

The final hour of the popular virtual reality game Yggdrasil has come.

However, Momonga, a powerful wizard and master of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, decides to spend his last few moments in the game as the servers begin to shut down.

To his surprise, despite the clock having struck midnight, Momonga is still fully conscious as his character and, moreover, the non-player characters appear to have developed personalities of their own!

Confronted with this abnormal situation, Momonga commands his loyal servants to help him investigate and take control of this new world, with the hopes of figuring out what has caused this development and if there may be others in the same predicament.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Final Thoughts

I would not have known about this anime television show if it were not for one or two YouTubers on YouTube who briefly mentioned it in passing in one or more of their videos.

I decided to watch the first episode of season 1 to see if I wanted to watch it or not, to my surprise that episode was not bad so I told my brother GC about it, and we both watched season 1 together.

To our surprise we not only liked it, but we probably liked it better than Sword Art Online.

This show does a good job continuing to move forward with each episode instead of wasting time like some popular anime out there, though it did start slowing down at the end, but it still wasted less time than most anime that I have seen.

There are some goofy moments that I do not like in this show, but fortunately those moments are limited.

I want to watch all the seasons for this show now, and it would be amazing if someone was / were to take this approach and maybe make an anime television show for The Elder Scrolls.

The end,

-John Jr

Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale

Source: Amazon

What is it?

The 2017 Japanese anime (animated) fantasy adventure movie Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale.