QUOTE (Norren @ Sep 01 2012, 10:49 PM) Is Laughing Coffin even that good? They're on top as PKs go, but that's because they're basically part of the Clearing Group as far as levels go. Our only tangible information about their battle strength from the Laughing Coffin Crusade is that Kirito was able to fend off Johnny Black and XaXa by himself with just one sword; and building to the unknown, during the Murder Case arc, PoH considered Kirito and a bluff enough of a threat that he withdrew.
(Edit: I'd actually forgotten about the XaXa vs Kirito fight's conclusion in the BoB. That one was such a confusing result since there were so many "external" factors, like Kirito's emotional state, etc.)
Yes I think they must have certein skill or else they couldnt survive like that. In my eyes surviving as an PKer is far harder than beeing a normal player, defenitely on the same level as a frontliner because you have even more and more powerful enemys than everyone else.
QUOTE To me, omitted details aren't as bad as completely changed details. I can live with omissions, it's when you spit in the face of the original content by doing things like "Hey, let's add this filler arc that completely undoes the entire pretense of the story!" that it truly gets bad. They made the decision to tell the story in chronological order, and have adapted things ever so slightly here and there to add context to the side stories where they could.
I think I've said it before, but the omitted details aren't "gone", either. They're just omitted. As with Fate/Zero's first half, we saw that the "extended blurays" added quite a few omitted details from the books, so I really don't think it's time yet to raise a stink. You can raise a stink when the SAO extended blurays are out and the series is over. We don't even know how far into SAO they're going to get at current pace, they might stretch the end out, or we might get to see the whole ALO arc.
So... again... Omissions aren't bad. New original (aka filler) plot arcs are.
Well lets think about if, are the BDs interesting to me? Yes if I can see breasts and panties because of it. Will I see them in the SAO BDs? Defenitely not. So are they interesting to me? No.
If they are not shown in the TV version they are not omitted they are gone because I never got to see them. And I dont believe they will extend the story about Griselda and Co to an exclusive BD-episode or extend the others to 45-60 minutes they would need to keep in what had to be in. Never watched the Fate/Zero BDs so I dont know how much they added.
I hope they will go only until the end of SAO and leave ALO for a second season.
QUOTE "One of them is my little sister!" just to name a bad conversion from this season?
I still think SAO is turning out amazing and Fate/Zero turned out amazing. I have my own personal disappointments with each, but they aren't killing my enjoyment. You're not going to get a true, 1:1, literal conversion of a novel into an anime that works. Something has to give, period.
Never read the Light Novel of that show, for me its just an Average anime. Fate/Zero was really great but I never read the LN either but intend to do when the animes a bit more back in time so that the story gets almost new again.
Like I said I can understand it and I know it has to be with the current animeindustry but that doesnt mean I have to like it. If somethings bad then its bad and flowertalking it wont make it better.