Kirito takes half a season to find Asuna

Asuna: hold my beer fam!!

"Asunas Pissed" - This episode in two words.

The episode otherwise was EXACTLY what I was looking for and more, some expose on what everyone but Kirito was doing while he was stuck, some further revealance of key plot points and Asuna being a complete BAMF. I was not expecting that reveal and it was an AWESOME way to end the episode.

About the only thing I didn't like is we really didn't get to see what EXACT TYPE of car it was that Klein was driving. But that's just me being a hyper Klein fanboy :P.

In technical terms the animation of the building and the helicopter really shows how much this series has improved in animation quality, I'd even hazard to say where now better than Ordinal Scale on the quality meter, perhaps.

I love... LOVE... how badass Asuna was in this episode. She was so so cool!

And her English was so good too!

I really like this new art style

Well done Asuna! Give that jerk your best death stare! He deserves it! >:-)

Seeing the UW on the monitor while they're looking at it with ease made me sick.... Imagine finding out your world is nothing more than a computer program made by mortal humans who can delete it with just the push of a button and they can see what you do... Gross, that's why I hate it when people play God and Sao is perfect at demonstrating this

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Are we going back to Underworld next episode? Just curious.

Ok, I never really took much notice (or at least cared about) the new art style much, until the SAO scene, it looks great

The title should be "Asuna's Death Stare"

I will try to summarize as much as I possibly can.

Without a doubt, the best episode of Alicization (all were excellent, but this one exceeded the limits). SAO was able to bring four brilliant flashbacks, so brilliant and enlightening that they reinforced my conception of how excellent this work is in the matter of linking concepts and ideas.

The first flashback, in which we started the episode, is not only a great pick-up of the second season (Yes, 2nd season ... final battle with Raffin Coffin's Players), but is also used symbolically to introduce two things central to the plot: Asuna's change of feelings, from melancholy to determination (further developing romance between her and Kirito), that motivated all the disguise and arrival to Ocean Turtle; and the introduction of an innovative concept, the reversal of the dynamics of Fairy Dance, breaking not only the wrong criticism that "Asuna is a character that does not have strong personality", but also contributing to the strong bond between her and Kirito (and Yui , for sure).

The second, even more brilliant, is a subject that I always point out in SAO: How excellent antagonist is Kayaba Akihiko. A villain who not only influences the world during his life, but also after death, not only in a negative way, but also positive deaths, idealizing applications such as Medicuboid. In the episode, besides addressing the more subjective aspect of Kayaba (making him more human) and his social relation, we were still rewarded with a re-explanation of the purpose for which he created Aincrad: A genius, lost in his own world, sees himself in a position to give life to the dream he possesses, materializing his dream in the virtual and being his creator, becoming "God", as he watches the various SAO players live their dream and experience what they have experienced. Without doubt, poetic and very symbolic.

The third and fourth flashbacks also refer to Kayaba (note how this character has impacted so much and is always present in the various anime relationships). The reinstatement of Medicuboid and also the distribution of the World Seed were very pertinent recapitulations here. It is necessary to applaud not only the revival of concepts such as Augma, taking advantage of even the film Ordinal Scale, but also the rationality on which SAO was based, inasmuch as the search for Asuna rests on the extremely plausible and rational concept of Yui, an AI, to be able to access and modify systems, rather than in script conveniences.

In summary, phenomenal episode. Note 10. For those who have been able to read this far, without abandoning the text, this is it. Alicization is sensational.

I have a feeling Asuna has never lost a game of hide and go seek just by seeing how fast she found Kirito

It's perfect!

Literally just last episode I was asking what was happening irl and boy did they deliver!

Glad they didn't waste time with Asuna's reveal since it was pretty obvious, but that's one more scene in the OP that we understand now!

As always Klein deserves more screen time

Also, Lieutenant Colonel Kiuoka?

I want more of Kirito's story now but I also want more of Asuna's, hopefully they can both keep up being awesome storylines

Onto the stuff that I didn't like, and, I mean, super minor gripes, but I don't like how Yui can just hack into security cameras, the fact that Kirito left on a helicopter could easily have been figured out by the distance between different responses from the heart rate monitor (which apparently only sent data once every 10 minutes?)

And Asuna needing a pep talk from Yui was a little bit weird, that dialogue could have been made better imo like this:

Asuna: looks upset

Yui: Same line about Kirito not giving up looking for her in Alfheim

Asuna: looking determined "That's right Yui, now it's my turn to find Kirito"

That tease at the end. God Asuna is awesome... don't fuck with the 2iC of the Knights of the Blood Oath!

Really enjoyed the Akihiko flashback where he discussed his dream.

My only qualm isn't with the show itself, but rather Crunchyroll's subtitles.

1. I'm more used to Oriental order (Yuuki Asuna instead of Asuna Yuuki).

2. They got the year wrong. It's supposed to be 2026 already.

Why thumbnail is SSSS.Gridman though?

So glad they changed from the absurd National Treasure levels of leaps in logic to a more straight forward method of finding where kirito was.

Alright now I feel like the story is going somewhere

It was good to see what was going on outside of Underworld this episode. I knew right away though when they didn't show the face of Rinko's assistant that it was Asuna. I do like how they had to swap out the photos though because they realized that if they didn't the disguise probably wouldn't have worked. I hope there's more episodes like this that shows what the characters outside of Underworld are going through.

Yokuzo Rasu.

Also, Yui is an Ignis confirmed.

Anyone get a SAW vibe from that song inside the Ocean Turtle, for a second I thought Jigsaw was going to show up

I ha e been waiting all week to see this episode and I’m serious, I LOVED IT, SO MUCH THAT IM REWATCHING IT. Hands down though episode 4 was still my favorite. They also got the Subtitles wrong when Yui was talking about where they got a signal back from Kirito, she says 2026, but the subtitles say 2016

Up to this point, I love everything about this new season. I love that they’ve included GGO, ALO & even SAO AND Ordinal Scale AI devices. This is a series that I can watch over and over and be completely satisfied.

I can’t wait to get back to Kirito to continue his journey! The action fighting in ‘Departure’ was AWESOME.

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Next week Asuna’s time in jail for infiltrating a highly secretive military facility, collaboration in computer misuse and espionage.

Good times.

But in all seriousness good episode. Hated some of the medical stuff because of a few inaccuracies. But loved the portrayal of all the feeling and emotions that Asuna is feeling and going through.

Loved it! It's amazing! Great job A1 Pictures! Thank you for the great work!

Asuna shoulda been a blonde.

To be honest, I was pondering how will the writers explain Kirito body in the real world after the altercation. It was pleasing to know where Kirito's body was being taken to, and the efforts of Asuna traking him down. But, this episode was pretty slow in pace. I just hope Ausua's arc will not bog down the series.

Sigh 6 more days for episode 6 ;_;

Asuna’s face looked uncharacteristically different after the reveal, her face (cheeks) looked much more wider than usual. Threw me off for a bit, but she looks great all episode and was a total bamf.

Were they listening to kalafina in the car?

UGHHH I just want to binge the shit out of this!!! but I have to wait :( So good.

That amazing Fate zero insert song we got this episode!

This is the episode I was really hoping to see, where we came back out of the "game" to see what happened after the attack in the first episode.

Damm, can't wait for the next episode! A part of me wants to read the LN to suppress the suspense...