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So, where is my adaption for my Kirito/Selka scene and Eugeos duel now? :/

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The long-awaited Episode 4 has arrived, and I gotta say...

I'll be brutally honest, (even if it means me getting downvoted to death) that was a tad-bit disappointing.

The goblin fight scene was handled beautifully, (even though some inner dialogue and things were cut out) the fighting and sword animations were beaaaaaaaaaaaaautiful and perfect. Absolutely stunning!

Alice making that cameo was heartwarming and sweet by the way, definitely one of my favorite parts of the episode.

I really wanted to see them get scolded by the village elders about why the hell they ran away, and Kirito bringing back goblin boyo's head, but that was cut out which is :/ I guess that's fine?

The awakening part where Kirito and Eugeo test out the Blue Rose Sword after their OCA went up was fabulous. I really did like that a lot, and even more so when you see Eugeo's character development really start to take effect when he asks Kirito to train him to become a swordsman so he isn't weak and helpless anymore.

I'm kinda pissed off that they re-did the LN scene of where Eugeo cries on Kirito's shoulder when he tells Kirito "I've been waiting for you for six years to come." but that's kind of nitpicking so not too bothered by it.

The party scene :( that was my biggest gripe with this episode man. I wanted to see Kirito get drunk and intoxicated, I wanted to see Eugeo's duel with Jink when he cries like a bitch that Eugeo gets to be a swordsman but he can't, I wanted to see Selka drag Kirito back to the church and scolds him for drinking too much. And most importantly, I wanted to see that cute forehead kiss scene :(

But honestly, I'm not too bothered by that forehead kiss scene because of the anime original scene of Eugeo talking to Selka. That was heartwarming and a surprise, really well done by A-1 :D

By the way, on a side note, Selka saying that line "Make sure all three of you come back." ...Fuck man that is just too heart jerking, because we know a certain blonde haired boy won't ever come back to Rulid ever again :'(

Cutting out the part where Kirito gets the tree branch from the Gigas Cedar was a bummer. When they explain what that is on Kirito's back in future episodes, it will most likely be a flashback, but I still wanted them to show it in this episode, but it wasn't that bad that they cut it out.

The very last part when they are leaving for the village, I was screaming for them to do their handshake, but of course, I never get what I want :(

Overall, I'd rate this episode an 8/10. That's just me setting aside my fan bias for SAO and being honest here. I'm not saying the episode was garbage, it was amazing, but I really really wish they didn't cut out too many things. I get that they had too for time's sake, but I honestly wouldn't mind them breaking the last part of Vol 9 off into two episodes. Idk, they maybe could have ended Episode 4 with Eugeo declaring he wanted to be a swordsman and Jink running up to the stage and yelling "Hell no dude that's unfair." then Ep 5 would be the continuation. Idc how they did it, I just honestly wanted to see more things from the LN animated but oh well.

Selka: ...make sure all three of you come back!

I'm crying so much T_T

I have some mixed feelings about this episode. The animation in the goblin cave was amazing

But they didn't show kirito getting the tree branch.

like why. There's going to be a lot of people anime only people who aren't going to know what it is.

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I'm a bit disappointed they cut the Kirito/Selka scene. But I get they had a lot of material to cram here. Also, I wonder how they're going to deal with the stick later on since they skipped that too? Will Kirito just have it on him and we'll see it explained in a flashback, or is someone going to show up in the capital to deliver it? Also a little disappointed they cut out Eugeo totally owning Jink.

I wanted to see Kirito kissing Selka so badly, it's a shame they didn't adapted that :( But overall I love how A-1 Pictures is doing Alicization, such a great job

Seeing Eugeo's abdomen injury gave me volume 14 flashbacks...or is it flashforwards in this case?

The quality of animation on those fights is god tier, having the particle effects leave a trail behind each slash of a sword skill is so satisfying compared to the sword just glowing in the Aincrad arc.

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I also like that they've included the seed of moral struggle by saying the goblins may be artificial fluctlights too, bringing those concepts in now will make the "second" arc so much more impactful for anime onlies.

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With next episode being titled "Ocean Turtle", that should mean it will be an episode centred fully around the real world, hopefully with the extended scenes following Kirito's injection and some backstory for Rath!

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Okay...they cut A LOT from the episode. I'm especially disappointed with the lack of the 'kiss' scene because that was an important moment, both to show Kirito's own self-reflection about the Underworld's and his own nature regarding it. Or the bit with Eugeo showing off his swordsmanship to everyone, which was something I especially looked forward to seeing...

That aside, though, the bits we GOT to see were truly amazing. BLOOD! WOUNDS! With no Censor! Truly, the depth, epicness and seriousness of that fight scene was amazing...Kirito and Eugeo, great job, you made Goblin Slayer-san proud! Also, the bit where he and Selka save him and we get the brief glimpse of Alice Zuberg's soul was even more touching than I imagined, if slightly censored compared to the novel :P (Funny, they show blood and beheading but they feel the need to give Alice's ghostly form a ghostly 'dress' XD)

And they're off now! Towards the series' greatest adventure now...go on, young swordsmen! A world of opportunity awaits you...

Also, seems next episode will exclusively be the Interlude (Asuna's voice and the title gave it away, yeah). Let's hope they don't cut out too much there at least...hopefully we get to see the scenes before that when Kazuto had just been brought to the hospital, with Asuna crying on Sugu's arms, and the meeting of the 3 Main Heroines in ALO. Before this episode I wouldn't have feared such parts to be cut off, but after seeing it I fear they may just skip straight to the Ocean Turtle...

PS: That short scene showing little Selka as she was back when Alice was taken was a treat, though. She was even more adorable <3

By the Goddess Stacia, that was a beautiful episode.

I imagined the scene with the brief exchange between Kirito and Eugeo to be quite different when I was reading the novel. Mostly Eugeo, seeing that I didn't realise how scared he would be by facing goblins. How he expressed his fear through his voice was done well, as well as being hesitant.

Throwing a Sword like that is dangerous, Kiritard. The battle between Kirito and Ugachi was fantastically animated. Kirito managing to subdue the adds almost effortlessly, being able to keep up with Ugachi as if a day hasn't passed since he last swung a Sword in battle and this brand new, grander «Swordland» in the background. It was nice to actually hear him shout out the names of the Sword Skills for once, Today's Skills being the three hit Sword Skill «Sharp Nail» and one-hit «Sonic Leap». I almost cried due to the sheer beauty of everything.

How they displayed Kirito's dread after he was cut by Ugachi was also well done, it managed to quickly dampen the mood. As well as Eugeo's determination in not wanting to repeat his mistakes. Seeing the 4th Episode LN illustration with Eugeo's final lines really brought a tear to my eye. Glad to hear Kirito shout: "I AM THE SWORDSMAN KIRITO!" was my wish granted.

Everything afterwards was alright. I never imagined the effect Sword Skills had on the Gigas Cedar would be massive, but I'm sad that they had to cut out some things from the novel. Such as Eugeo's duel with Jink and Kirito's "Oath of a Swordsman" Not to say that the training sequence with Eugeo or Eugeo proclaiming to Selka that he will bring Alice home was bad. But I was so looking forward to Kii-bou and Euge-bou dancing. Time constraints are time constraints.

To conclude: damn it A1! I want people to see why Eugeo deserves the Best Boy crown. Next episode: words and more words but animated.

Future fights are going to be jaw-dropping.

I’m kinda glad they didn’t show Kirito kissing Selka on the forehead.

It was a sweet moment, but it would have riled up a LOT of fans everywhere!

We can’t even get Kirito taking the top of the tree?! Love the adaptation but we’re losing a ton of little moments.

Mixed bag of feelings on this episode.

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On one hand, it was more emotionally charged for Eugeo than his LN form. He is more determined in the heart in the anime. His duel with Jink being cut seems to hurt Eugeo's character arc going forward though. Hopefully we'll get to see more confidence boosters coming Eugeo's way in the anime.

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As for Kirito doing Kirito things, it's soooo good with Swordland playing. As many others have said about cutting the scene of getting the Gigas Cedar branch being cut literally in the UW and literally (heh) from the anime, I'm okay with it as long as we get the same origin story being told later. Cutting out Old Man Garitta is no good though because he is an important link to flow the story reasonably for Kirito, Eugeo, and Alice in their respective moments. Hopefully he gets properly acknowledged for his advice, otherwise we're running into "Kirito knows everything" territory.

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Oh well, Best Girl next episode!

Asuna is back finally next week!

Unpopular opinion but I'm more sad they skipped the Zink fight instead the Selka kiss (I didn't care for this moment at all so whatever...). Next week they will finally show Asuna's Pov 🤔

I can't stand this! I don't know what to say right know so probably will edit this out next morning but for sure this has been an emotional ride for me personally! Keep shouting, keep smiling, my tears falling, it's not raining but it's paid off after the 3 episodes build up to this point. Sure there's lots of stuff cut off from the LNs but they did a pretty decent job with this episode!

Alicization finally taking off :')

They skipped a lot of things but overall the episode was still great :-) And damn I got the chills when my girl Alice Schuberg showed up. Also Rip Klein xD

This chapter was too beautiful, full of mixed emotions. They knew how to adapt it so well that it is so good like the light novel, although there were slightly unnecessary parts that were not showed but beyond that I greatly enjoyed the adaptation of the first volume, too much quality in the animation and they even knew how to portray violent scenes well. If that is how they did it I expect very good results from the other volumes because this fight against the goblins was the tip of the iceberg. The characterization of Eugeo going from being a wimp to a brave one was very well worked out as well, that moment when he saves Kirito had a greater impact in the anime (Kondo koso, boku ga mamoru da!) and it was perfect.

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The truth is that I wasn't that excited about the adaptation since Kirito used his Dual Blades for the first time, they even added a remastered version of Swordland. That scene where Eugeo speaks with Selka promising to save Alice was totally original, which would come to replace the same moment in the novel where Kirito kisses Selka promising to go to the Central Cathedral to rescue Alice, it was a subtle but clever change, since in that way it makes Alicization a bit more serious.

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But beyond all these minimal changes I really enjoyed being able to see it animated, it was also so cool to see the reaction of all people on this new arc that I'm already eager to see the other great moments of this story; it has only been four chapters and A-1 Pictures has been totally overcome. My expectations about Alicization grew with this last chapter. This adaptation is in good hands.

I don't want to be negative. I liked the animation and I didn't know if they would actually show the blood effects (it was awesome that they did). I wish it was a bit more graphic but I understand that's not the tone of SAO's anime. Wished we were able to see Eugo's guts when he gets hurt lol and Kirito cutting the other globin's head.

The problem for me doesn't lay there. I don't like Kirito very much in the anime. Don't know why, but I've come to realize Kirito is a bit cringy when he acts like a big knowitall. For example, don't like how he just unsheathes Blue Rose and says "I'll use this instead". I mean I get that it isn't the same as the novels because you can't know what he thinks all the time and the dialogue has to change accordingly, but I dunno... I feel Kirito is more likeable and less of an egocentric in the novels. Alas, I wouldn't know how to make anime Kirito better. I know adapting someone else's work most be a difficult task. Enjoyable episode, as well as the other three. Waited for years but I guess I'll keep reading the novels to get the complete experience (I'm in vol. 11).

I'll keep watching anyway lol want to know the vision they have for the arc as a whole in the art department.

Between being lazy and saving people skimming my profile, I'll leave in the spoiler tags.

Anyway... so I already know they skipped the kiss, and sped through the rest of it so we can get to Spoiler So I'm a little disappointed. Some of the skipped inner dialogue / scenes kind of meant some things... Like the kiss showed that he wasn't just another cloned soul bound by rules, but him self(though he was already kind of this).

• Watching the OP, how are people going to react when Spoiler
• But earlier you said a Sword is nothing like an Ax!
• I want to say he had more of a struggle in the novel... Then again, they are speeding things up. Not to mention his "level"err "authority", how is he able to hold up to a goblin king? I mean I guess if you have enough forward momentum... anyway, the fight looked very pretty :p *During the goblin king rant, they could of totally over-layered is monologue about how if they felt pain like this in Aincrad he would of never left the first floor and about how he was wrong to this of this world as just a game. As a reminder, it may be a spoiler(I think it'll be explained next week) Spoiler
• Back to the strength thing... Eugo is able to One-hand em'... I mean, he was an Axe wielder... but still! :p
• He's remembering!!
• Damn it... the lowering the brightness kills the scene :x
• Ah right, this is the part where Alice shows up or what not and is like "I'm waiting for you in the tower".
• Yep, there it is! I feel it's a little off place compared pared to the novel... but I might just be my memory... Like it was done better or something... like something was missing. Like Alice helped out or something...
• He got them EXP gains!
• Woah there... that is way more then in the novel. I swear, it took them like a week or so with the sword. Are they going to two shot this bitch?
• Okay, getting a wider angle, it's less deep then it looked.
• New sword type hype!
• > Eugeo misses and slices Kirito in half
• I swear they still sped up the tree cutting, but you know... oh well. Got to move on.
• Are they at least going to do the "woah I can actually get drunk" thing? Even if they skip the kiss...
• Yes dad! I'll become an awesome "side-cock"... though I'm actually pretty badass my self.
• I see they skipped the scene where going to see the falled tree, Eugo's dad suggests taking a part of the tree to be made into a sword or something. Spoiler
• A lot was cut... to move on to the next arc, especially in the town, not to mention I recall there being a battle between the swordsmen job people on who was to become the head and represent them in the tournament in the bigger town near by
• Next Episode
• Later
• Spoiler

So they cut out pretty much the length of half an episode from this one. I don't mind really, since I don't think those things were important enough to justify possibly shortening some of the more important scenes later on.

And HOLY SHIT there was a lot of blood this time around! This bodes well for the rest of Alicization, since it's a really bloody arc and the censoring would've killed it.

LN Readers this is bugging me but i got to know , how is authority determined like how did kitro get like 40 authority even though he did nothing when he was a kid in the world or is it due to choping that the tree each day , because it clear now that kitro was actually born into this world yet he has like 40 authority when he goes back into the underworld

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Watching Eugeo in action is like watching him being reborn. Such a nice episode.

Finally had a chance to watch today's episode and I still can't get over on how good the animation is. Like others have said I too was a little dissapointed with the removal of a couple scenes particularly with the cutting down the top of tree and the significance of it, also I don't think there are any images of old man Garitta that I remember and was hoping to see him animated.

Despite what I said last week, I now enjoy the fact that the Kirito and Selka scenes are being cut out, to me, it's as if they're saying to us: "Kirito is someone who is just passing through that made a change in Selka's life, but not in a romantic way." I really appreciate this (even though I would LOVE some best imouto scenes), as it makes the viewer realize that Kirito can infact, make a change in a girl's life WITHOUT making them fall in love with him.

Also, HOT DAMN, the fight scene is done SOOOOO WELL. I genuinely gagged when I saw Eugeo get cut.

To all LN readers could you spare some time to link or tell me some of your favorite sights to read on. I wish to continue my journey fearless of spoilers (and the story is amazing).

Note: I've never read any light novels before.

Well this episode was pretty good, I will resist the urge to parrot the complaint of cut content as I realized that given the slight changes in the anime adaption, they might make less sense... Still a bit of a shame nonetheless!

The animation during the goblin fight was pretty good though I'll admit!

Anyway hopefully the next episode might bring about some interesting changes or two to what happened in the LN as well! Otherwise I have half a mind to just skip it personally ;p But each to their own! ^-^

HUGE missed opportunity, they should have added a scene with Charlotte (the spider) jumping on Kirito's back when they leave rulid. IK it was not in volume 9 but it WAS in volume 11-12 and they are gonna have to do a flashback to here anywyas

They did cut out a lot of stuff from this episode with zink being jealous and trying to refuse Eugeo's right to be a swordsman, Eugeo possibly regretting that he isn't helping his family, Garitta explaining the cedar wood can be used later on. It is not the end of the world as none of these really progress the story all that much but they are nice little moments that im sure the novel readers wanted to see, but I understand that adapting has to cut sometimes. The actions scenes were a little disappointing to me they seemed really zoomed in and I had a hard time even understanding what was going on or maybe I am just dumb IDK. Either way can't wait to see some real world exposition next week.