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MeatBag Member Joined Dec 2011 Posts 7465 EE 100% (1) USA	Posted: 3/9/2017 11:12:16 PM EDT [#1] I've had a tab open for a month for "Terror in Resonance" and I haven't started it yet >.>

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Just got back from the SAO movie.

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8:00 hits. LiSA comes up on screen and starts talking at the camera about the theme song she did and how good the movie is. That's about two minutes. Ok, fine. Whatever, kind of awkward. Movie time.

No. Screen goes black, then Haruka Tomatsu comes on. She talks for another two minutes about working on the series, and some of what we're going to see in the film. Also kind of awkward. Whole audience is looking at each other wondering what's going on, just show the movie already instead of talking about how awesome it is.

Screen goes black. Yay, movie time, everyone thinks.

NOPE. Yoshitsugo Matsuoka's turn to talk for three minutes. Whole theater groans. He starts flirting with spoiler territory and we all start to go WTFNO!!! This finally ends after he awkwardly tries three times to lead the audience in a cheer, and the movie finally starts.

OK, the movie.

The first half of the movie was pretty decent. I really like what they did with Kirito's character; he's out of his element in AR and it shows.

There is a little bit of attention paid to Kirito and Asunas relationship, which was nice. At the very least, way better than the nothing we got in season 2.

The end of the movie is where things go off the rails. I can't remember how many times I thought, "ok but why though?" The final fight is beautifully animated and directed, but it's the very definition of schlock.

Everyone goes into VR for some reason, to fight the floor 100 boss from Aincrad (which it's not, actually. That's supposed to be Kayaba, in this fight its a 50-foot tall mummy-skeleton thing). Yui magics everyone their outfits and gear from Aincrad arc, and Sinon gets her shit from GGO for some reason too, even though Yui never had a reason to save it. At the same time, Leafa, the factions from ALO, and a bunch of random GGO guys show up to help, even though none of them had any way of knowing this fight was happening. Then Yuuki from the Mothers Rosario arc shows up in spirit to help Asuna, for litterally no other reason than she needed to be there to complete the ensemble. Everything is sacrificed in the name of fan service, and it's a damn shame.

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I love the Aincrad arc. Hell I love the whole first season. It's got great characters and an infectious, adventurous quality to it that draws you in and makes you wish you were there.

However, I think the narrative connections to Aincrad have been stretched beyond breaking at this point. I hope that Alicization either breaks new ground or finds some traction with it's Aincrad/SAO tie-in.

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TaskForce Member Joined Feb 2010 Posts 20905 EE 100% (10) USA	Posted: 3/10/2017 2:05:39 AM EDT [Last Edit: TaskForce] [#3] We gonna be able to stream the SAO movie english dub any time soon? Shit, I'm still waiting to see SAO II. Specifically on an app that is available on xbox.

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Posted: 3/12/2017 4:18:57 PM EDT

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If people are eagerly anticipating SAO - the movie, is that a strong recommendation for watching SAO the anime episodes first?

I've been binge watching Log Horizon season 1 (after having started by watching most of Log Horizon season 2 - I think that Crunchyroll had season 2 up before season 1, which is why I started on season 2, but yeah, it's very confusing to do it in that order).

Log Horizon is one of those 'game players get sucked into the game world' stories, as I gather so is SAO. It's just OK, but not great. If someone gave me a quarter for every scene where one of the players pushed his/her glasses back into place, I'd be rich - WTF is that all about? And the gaming references and strategy (HP and MP and whatnot) goes a bit overboard - like I'm really gonna be glued to the screen analyzing each player's skillz and stats and proficiency levels.

GreenBastard Karate Farmer Joined Nov 2014 Posts 30435 EE 0% (0) CO, USA	Posted: 3/12/2017 4:20:05 PM EDT [#5] Because they did so many of them, the only shows about being sucked into a fantasy world that are worth watching nowadays are the funny ones.
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Silverbulletz06 Member Joined Jan 2009 Posts 11597 EE 100% (4) NY, USA	Posted: 3/12/2017 5:41:56 PM EDT [#6] Quote History Originally Posted By GreenBastard: Because they did so many of them, the only shows about being sucked into a fantasy world that are worth watching nowadays are the funny ones. View Quote Grimgar did it in a way that the people don't know they are in a game.
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Posted: 3/12/2017 6:17:55 PM EDT

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The Sword Art Online anime is good.

The Sword Art Online novels are better, though the author has a problem with not being able to write the story in chronological order.

The anime is in chronological order, but some of the story material is missing. With the novels, you can either read the original Aincrad arc out of order, but in the order that it was published, or you can sit down with a list showing everything in chronological order and jump back and forth between a few volumes until you have completed the Aincrad arc. The later story arcs were published mostly in chronological order.

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MeatBag Member Joined Dec 2011 Posts 7479 EE 100% (1) USA	Posted: 3/12/2017 6:25:47 PM EDT [Last Edit: MeatBag] [#9] I'm a few episodes into "Terror in Resonance" and it's really good. It kind of reminds me of a better Death Note where the police force is actually competent It's made by Shinichiro Watanabe, so everyone is obligated to watch it.

1Andy2 Member Joined Jul 2004 Posts 75170 EE 100% (71) TX, USA	Posted: 3/12/2017 6:27:33 PM EDT [Last Edit: 1Andy2] [#10] I just watched my first Anime series. One Punch Man. Fucking fantastic. I can't wait for season 2 to come out. 100 pushups! 100 situps! And a 10km run! Every single day!
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Posted: 3/12/2017 6:34:44 PM EDT

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The Sword Art Online anime is good.

The Sword Art Online novels are better

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Originally Posted By radia:
If people are eagerly anticipating SAO - the movie, is that a strong recommendation for watching SAO the anime episodes first?

The Sword Art Online anime is good.

The Sword Art Online novels are better

The Sword Art Online - Abridged anime is best!!

SAO Abridged Parody: Episode 01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kJKxvbgZ0

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GreenBastard Karate Farmer Joined Nov 2014 Posts 30451 EE 0% (0) CO, USA	Posted: 3/12/2017 6:38:43 PM EDT [#13] Quote History Originally Posted By XeroSygnal: The Sword Art Online - Abridged anime is best!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kJKxvbgZ0 View Quote well, if you're going to go down that route... Hellsing abridged episode 3 - Allucard letter to the pope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HVvgfFsU4k
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Hesperus Aspiring to be better than my former self Joined Jan 2014 Posts 4044 EE 100% (6) NV, USA	Posted: 3/12/2017 6:44:02 PM EDT [Last Edit: Hesperus] [#14] Almost finished with Aria. The most relaxing TV show I have ever watched. ARIA The ANIMATION Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NraaWUZxWZw There is one other anime with that name, Aria the Scarlet Ammo. Completely different show in every way possible.
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Hesperus Aspiring to be better than my former self Joined Jan 2014 Posts 4045 EE 100% (6) NV, USA	Posted: 3/12/2017 6:47:52 PM EDT [#15] Quote History Originally Posted By GreenBastard: well, if you're going to go down that route... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HVvgfFsU4k View Quote "I'm going to Fuck the Fear Turkey!"
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dog-meat Member Joined Jul 2007 Posts 22456 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 3/12/2017 7:36:30 PM EDT [Last Edit: dog-meat] [#17] Quote History Originally Posted By 1Andy2: I just watched my first Anime series. One Punch Man. Fucking fantastic. I can't wait for season 2 to come out. 100 pushups! 100 situps! And a 10km run! Every single day! View Quote ok. you might like mob psycho 100 too, made by the same guy as opm
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Posted: 3/19/2017 1:08:58 AM EDT

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I'm enjoying Konosuba more than I expected.

Does the fact that I laugh out loud every time one of the giant toads tries to swallow Aqua (or one of the other female adventurers) with her legs flailing in the air make me a bad person?

And the whole storyline with the explosion magic practice day after day after day against the 'unoccupied' castle that really pisses off the evil Devil's Army dude is borderline genius.

Then again, I do have a juvenile streak to my sense of humor...

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Originally Posted By radia:
I'm enjoying Konosuba more than I expected.

Does the fact that I laugh out loud every time one of the giant toads tries to swallow Aqua (or one of the other female adventurers) with her legs flailing in the air make me a bad person?

And the whole storyline with the explosion magic practice day after day after day against the 'unoccupied' castle that really pisses off the evil Devil's Army dude is borderline genius.

Then again, I do have a juvenile streak to my sense of humor...

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I was disappointed. Watched the first season but decided not to continue to the second. Not exactly sure why but it just didn't pull me in. Maybe because I'm over the "stuck in a game/fantasy world" trend?

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Posted: 3/20/2017 11:40:11 PM EDT

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I was disappointed. Watched the first season but decided not to continue to the second. Not exactly sure why but it just didn't pull me in. Maybe because I'm over the "stuck in a game/fantasy world" trend?

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I know what you mean - I'm about overdosed with players transported into the game world shows (although I really enjoyed Re:Zero, and Log Horizon was OK, and there were a few others that I liked).

But I found the combination of slapstick physical comedy and the frequent use of tongue-in-cheek dialog in Konosuba season one set it apart.

Unfortunately, season two mostly sucked. So you didn't miss much.

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Originally Posted By radia:

I know what you mean - I'm about overdosed with players transported into the game world shows (although I really enjoyed Re:Zero, and Log Horizon was OK, and there were a few others that I liked).

But I found the combination of slapstick physical comedy and the frequent use of tongue-in-cheek dialog in Konosuba season one set it apart.

Unfortunately, season two mostly sucked. So you didn't miss much.

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Log Horizon is up next in my Crunchyroll queue after I get done with Little Busters. Re:Zero is coming up too.

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At 5 dollars you are probably safe.

I just rewatched Ghost in a Shell again in preparation for the LA movie. It had been 17 years since I last watched it. The 1995 movie focuses on the potential of consciousness and self-awareness of humans, cyborgs and AI while attempting to integrate action into the plot. My takeaway is that many transitions and parts of scenes were solely for the art, i.e. lingering camera shots on stills. Don't get me wrong, it was done pretty well, but at times it was distracting.

Perspective on the above commentor. I finished Stand Alone Complex, only because of the Laughing Man plot continuity. The individual episodes I found frequently anticlimactic. I normally found that the episode was a speed bump in between the Tachikoma humor at the end.

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Originally Posted By 03RN:
So this thread is a little intimidating at 170 pages.

Local Walmart has ghost in the shell for 5 dollars.

I think my only experience with anime is exmachina, the Animatrix, and the resident evil cartoons. I liked them. Is ghost in the shell any good?

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It's a pretty good sci-fi movie.

You should check out the Cowboy Bebop series. It's the one show that virtually everyone likes or loves

Cowboy Bebop Adult Swim Promos

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Originally Posted By GilenusX207:
Just got back from the SAO movie.

Click To View Spoiler

8:00 hits. LiSA comes up on screen and starts talking at the camera about the theme song she did and how good the movie is. That's about two minutes. Ok, fine. Whatever, kind of awkward. Movie time.

No. Screen goes black, then Haruka Tomatsu comes on. She talks for another two minutes about working on the series, and some of what we're going to see in the film. Also kind of awkward. Whole audience is looking at each other wondering what's going on, just show the movie already instead of talking about how awesome it is.

Screen goes black. Yay, movie time, everyone thinks.

NOPE. Yoshitsugo Matsuoka's turn to talk for three minutes. Whole theater groans. He starts flirting with spoiler territory and we all start to go WTFNO!!! This finally ends after he awkwardly tries three times to lead the audience in a cheer, and the movie finally starts.

OK, the movie.

The first half of the movie was pretty decent. I really like what they did with Kirito's character; he's out of his element in AR and it shows.

There is a little bit of attention paid to Kirito and Asunas relationship, which was nice. At the very least, way better than the nothing we got in season 2.

The end of the movie is where things go off the rails. I can't remember how many times I thought, "ok but why though?" The final fight is beautifully animated and directed, but it's the very definition of schlock.

Everyone goes into VR for some reason, to fight the floor 100 boss from Aincrad (which it's not, actually. That's supposed to be Kayaba, in this fight its a 50-foot tall mummy-skeleton thing). Yui magics everyone their outfits and gear from Aincrad arc, and Sinon gets her shit from GGO for some reason too, even though Yui never had a reason to save it. At the same time, Leafa, the factions from ALO, and a bunch of random GGO guys show up to help, even though none of them had any way of knowing this fight was happening. Then Yuuki from the Mothers Rosario arc shows up in spirit to help Asuna, for litterally no other reason than she needed to be there to complete the ensemble. Everything is sacrificed in the name of fan service, and it's a damn shame.

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I love the Aincrad arc. Hell I love the whole first season. It's got great characters and an infectious, adventurous quality to it that draws you in and makes you wish you were there.

However, I think the narrative connections to Aincrad have been stretched beyond breaking at this point. I hope that Alicization either breaks new ground or finds some traction with it's Aincrad/SAO tie-in.

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Originally Posted By GilenusX207:
Just got back from the SAO movie.

Click To View Spoiler

8:00 hits. LiSA comes up on screen and starts talking at the camera about the theme song she did and how good the movie is. That's about two minutes. Ok, fine. Whatever, kind of awkward. Movie time.

No. Screen goes black, then Haruka Tomatsu comes on. She talks for another two minutes about working on the series, and some of what we're going to see in the film. Also kind of awkward. Whole audience is looking at each other wondering what's going on, just show the movie already instead of talking about how awesome it is.

Screen goes black. Yay, movie time, everyone thinks.

NOPE. Yoshitsugo Matsuoka's turn to talk for three minutes. Whole theater groans. He starts flirting with spoiler territory and we all start to go WTFNO!!! This finally ends after he awkwardly tries three times to lead the audience in a cheer, and the movie finally starts.

OK, the movie.

The first half of the movie was pretty decent. I really like what they did with Kirito's character; he's out of his element in AR and it shows.

There is a little bit of attention paid to Kirito and Asunas relationship, which was nice. At the very least, way better than the nothing we got in season 2.

The end of the movie is where things go off the rails. I can't remember how many times I thought, "ok but why though?" The final fight is beautifully animated and directed, but it's the very definition of schlock.

Everyone goes into VR for some reason, to fight the floor 100 boss from Aincrad (which it's not, actually. That's supposed to be Kayaba, in this fight its a 50-foot tall mummy-skeleton thing). Yui magics everyone their outfits and gear from Aincrad arc, and Sinon gets her shit from GGO for some reason too, even though Yui never had a reason to save it. At the same time, Leafa, the factions from ALO, and a bunch of random GGO guys show up to help, even though none of them had any way of knowing this fight was happening. Then Yuuki from the Mothers Rosario arc shows up in spirit to help Asuna, for litterally no other reason than she needed to be there to complete the ensemble. Everything is sacrificed in the name of fan service, and it's a damn shame.

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I love the Aincrad arc. Hell I love the whole first season. It's got great characters and an infectious, adventurous quality to it that draws you in and makes you wish you were there.

However, I think the narrative connections to Aincrad have been stretched beyond breaking at this point. I hope that Alicization either breaks new ground or finds some traction with it's Aincrad/SAO tie-in.

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Originally Posted By Blacktide:
We gonna be able to stream the SAO movie english dub any time soon? Shit, I'm still waiting to see SAO II.

Specifically on an app that is available on xbox.

Animeland has all of the current SAO seasons online and dubbed. Hell, you can even download the episodes.

I'm really wanting to lay hands on the light novels, though.

SAO seems to be one of those animes that you either adore or loathe. I love the hell out of it, while my youngest daughter will loudly proclaim at the least provocation that it's the worst anime that's ever been made or ever could be made.

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Originally Posted By TheOTHERmaninblack:

Animeland has all of the current SAO seasons online and dubbed. Hell, you can even download the episodes.

I'm really wanting to lay hands on the light novels, though.

SAO seems to be one of those animes that you either adore or loathe. I love the hell out of it, while my youngest daughter will loudly proclaim at the least provocation that it's the worst anime that's ever been made or ever could be made.

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Thanks.

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I thought it was... OK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XTSdlCvUOE

I can't begin to express my disappointment over Akira.

Love me some Jack Burton though.

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Originally Posted By TheOTHERmaninblack:

Animeland has all of the current SAO seasons online and dubbed. Hell, you can even download the episodes.

I'm really wanting to lay hands on the light novels, though.

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Amazon has the Yen Press licensed translations of the light novels, up to volume 9 (start of the Alicization arc) of the original series of novels and up to volume 4 of the SAO: Progressive light novels (going back to the Aincrad arc and filling in the floors that were skipped over in the original series). You have to be careful when ordering them, though, as Amazon also has the translations of the Manga, and it is possible to get them confused.

There are also a series of doujinshi ('Material Edition', as I recall), and short stories that were released as web novels by the author, but I've only seen those available as fan translations, and most of the fan sites took them down after Yen Press licensed the light novels. They might still be floating around in torrent form. ETA: Volume 1 of the SAO: Progressive light novels is essentially a collection of three of those stories. The first chapter of SAO: Progressive volume 2 was also originally released as a doujinshi.

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Posted: 3/22/2017 8:25:39 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By JPN:

Amazon has the Yen Press licensed translations of the light novels, up to volume 9 (start of the Alicization arc) of the original series of novels and up to volume 4 of the SAO: Progressive light novels (going back to the Aincrad arc and filling in the floors that were skipped over in the original series). You have to be careful when ordering them, though, as Amazon also has the translations of the Manga, and it is possible to get them confused.

There are also a series of doujinshi ('Material Edition', as I recall), and short stories that were released as web novels by the author, but I've only seen those available as fan translations, and most of the fan sites took them down after Yen Press licensed the light novels. They might still be floating around in torrent form. ETA: Volume 1 of the SAO: Progressive light novels is essentially a collection of three of those stories. The first chapter of SAO: Progressive volume 2 was also originally released as a doujinshi.

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Thanks. I'll check that out. Now all I need is the spreadsheet telling me which order to read them in.

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Posted: 3/22/2017 9:00:17 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By TheOTHERmaninblack:

Thanks. I'll check that out. Now all I need is the spreadsheet telling me which order to read them in.

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This should be close.

- Sword Art Online Volume 1, prologue, chapters 1,2, and 3

- Sword Art Online Volume 8, "First Day"

- Sword Art Online Volume 1, chapter 4

- SAO: Progressive Volume 1

- SAO: Progressive Volume 2

- SAO: Progressive Volume 3

- SAO: Progressive Volume 4

- Sword Art Online Volume 2, "Red-nosed Reindeer"

- Sword Art Online Volume 2, "The Black Swordsman"

- Sword Art Online Volume 8, "A Murder Case in the Area"

- Sword Art Online Volume 2, "Warmth of the Heart"

- Sword Art Online Volume 1, chapters 5 through 16

- Sword Art Online Volume 2, "Morning Dew Girl"

- Sword Art Online Volume 1, chapters 17 through 25

- Sword Art Online Volume 3

- Sword Art Online Volume 4

- Sword Art Online Volume 5

- Sword Art Online Volume 6

- Sword Art Online Volume 8, "Caliber"

- Sword Art Online Volume 7

- Sword Art Online Volume 9

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Posted: 3/22/2017 9:56:04 PM EDT

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I just watched my first Anime series.

One Punch Man. Fucking fantastic. I can't wait for season 2 to come out.

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One Punch Man is now on Netflix!

Quite a surpise, after it popped up on Hulu I doubted it would make it to Netflix. Worth a watch if you're looking for something different.

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Posted: 3/23/2017 3:29:30 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By JPN:

This should be close.

- Sword Art Online Volume 1, prologue, chapters 1,2, and 3

- Sword Art Online Volume 8, "First Day"

- Sword Art Online Volume 1, chapter 4

- SAO: Progressive Volume 1

- SAO: Progressive Volume 2

- SAO: Progressive Volume 3

- SAO: Progressive Volume 4

- Sword Art Online Volume 2, "Red-nosed Reindeer"

- Sword Art Online Volume 2, "The Black Swordsman"

- Sword Art Online Volume 8, "A Murder Case in the Area"

- Sword Art Online Volume 2, "Warmth of the Heart"

- Sword Art Online Volume 1, chapters 5 through 16

- Sword Art Online Volume 2, "Morning Dew Girl"

- Sword Art Online Volume 1, chapters 17 through 25

- Sword Art Online Volume 3

- Sword Art Online Volume 4

- Sword Art Online Volume 5

- Sword Art Online Volume 6

- Sword Art Online Volume 8, "Caliber"

- Sword Art Online Volume 7

- Sword Art Online Volume 9

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Thanks again.

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Posted: 3/23/2017 4:56:07 AM EDT

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Animeland has all of the current SAO seasons online and dubbed. Hell, you can even download the episodes.

I'm really wanting to lay hands on the light novels, though.

SAO seems to be one of those animes that you either adore or loathe. I love the hell out of it, while my youngest daughter will loudly proclaim at the least provocation that it's the worst anime that's ever been made or ever could be made.

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Wow, animeland is an awful website. Shitty quality, prone to freeze ups, and lots of ads. I would rather just pay for good versions of these shows.

TheOTHERmaninblack Member Joined Jul 2009 Posts 7068 EE 100% (15) WY, USA	Posted: 3/23/2017 6:02:52 AM EDT [#49] Quote History Originally Posted By Blacktide: Wow, animeland is an awful website. Shitty quality, prone to freeze ups, and lots of ads. I would rather just pay for good versions of these shows. View Quote I run an adblocker, so I don't see any ads. Quality is spotty, but you can find dubs there you can't find anyplace else.
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