"the fact you haven't gotten yourself into trouble in a year until now is a miracle by itself." Classic Kirito and Eugeo at their best.

Liena sempai is very pretty

The Night sky sword is even prettier though😁

Those two, how I hate those two, even as much as Sugou.

Liena senpai is so gorgiousssss, at least A1 gave us flash back abt Gigar cedas, zekkaria and Sadore shop ( Where is Charlotte!!!!) - So Volo is really saw Kirito’s multiple hit skill ( im not quite sure reading LN) - Also Sword of the Night Sky, really beautiful! - hopefully we got to see Tiese and Ronye next episode

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Well, that's another episode to enjoy once again :3

At this point, we all already knew how they were essentially gonna skip Zakkaria, so we can leave that aside. We should be grateful we got those mini-shots of their tournament fights at least, I guess...and one of the farmer-twins, which I remember someone around was complaining we wouldn't get to see XD!

On the episode itself, I truly loved once again how the ambient of the Underworld keeps being shown so much more, but, of course, the main focus goes to Liena-sempai. The anime managed to make her even more beautiful <3 And that scene of her with her hair down was just a treat :D

And we can't forget the reveal of the Night Sky Sword. My Gods, that blade is just so...beautiful isn't the word, it surpasses it in a much more deeper and amazing way. Looking forward to its most epic scenes...for good and bad OxO

Kirito being Kirito was just something else to enjoy, as always, be it during sparring, in his touching talk with Eugeo or during his part with Uolo. Especially there at the end, of course, seeing Liena's worried face while Eugeo's own went just "Goddammit, Kirito..." was just the fucking best XD

Next time, one epic fight! Let's make sure to enjoy it, everyone!

MUST PROTECT THIS SMILE

Wow, this episode felt incredibly short.

Sortiliena looks cute and all but I remember she was described as more of a mature, stern beauty than she was portrayed, I think it's her eyes that make her look sweet. Uolo looks crappier and seems less serious than in the novel imo. Azurika had nothing special to her character like in the novel, she was treated as total filler.

I don't like them skipping things but honestly that was the most skippable bit of this section of the story. I also don't like how they cut things like Azurika telling Kirito he has the sword's memories or Kirito's thoughts about her, and Kirito's thought of how Liena might feel insulted that he gets to fight Uolo this easily but then finding out she's only worried about him. Sadly, that's what anime adaptations do.

The translation I watched felt off, like the words used were acceptable but they're different from how I've read the novels so it bugged me.

They'll reach Cardinal by the end of the season (not my favourite thought but it's reasonable, considering how much stuff happens in volumes 12-14 and they probably want to adapt those 3 volumes in season 2), which would require Kirito and Eugeo to go through the Uolo fight, Kirito's garden scene, Liena's graduation (next ep probably ends around here), Eugeo's duel with Humbert, meeting Ronye and Tieze, the whole Frenica situation and commiting their crimes, be taken to prison, break out and then fight Eldrie and that's not counting the interlude in volume 11, it feels like a lot for 5 episodes. They'll surely skip more stuff and I don't like that, but I hope it's not too much.

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Aw fuck, it’s Humbert and Raios.

Hopefully the skipped scenes translate into more Tieze/Ronye screentime.

I just love how Eugeo is always the voice of reason but knows how useless this is because Kirito is still going to always do what he wants xD

I wanted to see the fight so bad ;-;

Ahh

And why it's not change into Running already in the OP ?

Running is almost over.

Surprised to see so many positive comments. When this new season started I had my hopes high since there was so much material to work with. I would imagine they would be able to pace the show quite well. The first few episodes were done great but then I started noticing the typical SAO pacing issues.

This last episode demonstrates exactly what went wrong in previous seasons.

- They skipped Zakkaria. I kind of expected it and appreciated the flashback but why not explore it? We waited years for this and will appreciate every detail. Even the time they spent on the farm, those types of mini stories really connect the viewers with the characters.

- They should have spent 5-7 episodes on the Sword Academy alone. So much promise here with such good material. I feel like the Sword academy will be maybe 3 episodes max which will be rushed

- The return of Alice won't have that much of a impact on viewers. Looks like she is going to appear in episode 9 or 10 and I feel like this should have been paced at a speed in which Alice would return around 25-30.

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I'd imagine they climb the whole damn tower in like 3 episodes and face the Admin.

After Episode 6, I'm convinced myself to let my expectations away and this really nice to follow.

I really enjoying myself for this episode, pace wise and storytelling wise it is very nice though the 2 years skip bothered me in a funny way. I'm screaming when Sortiliena-senpai first appeared, she is just as gorgeous as I imagined! Her and Kirito spar scene animation is smoothly executed and the hope of its quality will sustain until the end of cours 4 is very much alive.

To the annoying part of Raious and Humbert, although their screentime was short but still gives me annoyed feeling. I suppose it is naturally understandable XD

My biggest smile dropped when The Black One sword finally made its appearance and Liz should've talked to Sadore next time she's forging a sword! But yeah, have to wait for next week for the duel with Volo-senpai.

This episode so far nicely done, and I'm looking forward to Episode 8!

Did I expect them to skip Zakkaria? Yes.

Am I bothered? Not too much. At least not enough to raise a hoo-ha. At least they gave it a flashback.

I'm not a fan of Liena senpai, but she with casual outfit and long hair is extreamly cute :D

Such a shame that so much was skipped over, hopefully it'll work out for the best overall but these early parts of Alicization were all about the Kirito and Eugeo moments!

Not a fan of this episode at all. Cutting Zakkaria aside, I honestly feel that Eugeo is a non character in this adaption so far.

I'm starting to regret having read the LN again. You'll feel dissatisfied by their adaptation because the memories are still fresh and you hoping to have a 1:1 adaptation dissipates the entire enjoyment of the show

Anime viewers only will certainly enjoy it more than LN readers

I can't wait to see how they adapt this fight next week, especially if they do the sword growing bit well.

Man, i'm bummed that they cut this bit down, but at the very least i'm happy with the amount of foreshadowing that Raios and Humbert got. Still a pretty good episode, the action looked beautiful again. Can't wait to see the duel next week!

Anime only here, but got ln related questions.

This arc is as long as everything else before, but s1-2 were 50eps, and so is this, so why do they skip stuff like the tourney when they didnt skip anything like that in the first two arcs?

How long was the tourney in the LNs? One chap? Or more? And was it anything important?

So they totally glossed over Zakkaria Tournament and showed a flashback which hardly showed anything that shows the importance of Zakkaria chapter. Then they showed a flashback of Garitta-jii san and wow not even 2 mins there. Except for Rina-sempai and some scenes I didn't really like this episode's adaptation much :( I really didn't expect flashback for both the scenes and now that they showed, it felt like just a formality to show it there for the ln readers that were complaining

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Not a fan of this adaption now. don’t get me wrong it’s a good show that is absolutely gorgeous to look at and what is adapted is really good and I’ll still watch it. But I feel they are skipping or glossing over too much now.

can i ask where can i start reading light novel after episode 7 ??

Loved the visual with Kirito where he's extending his hand toward Eugeo with the starry sky as the backdrop.

This adaptation is skipping over some scenes in favor of saying what happens outright, but these scenes full of foreshadowing are so good.

It's a bit of a minor detail, but I really wonder why they changed Sadore's Calling from Craftsman to Metalsmith. It doesn't quite make sense why he went to Rulid now.

......Unless of course, he went there for a more practical reason(looking for metal to forge then came upon the Gigas Cedar, which for some reason is harder than the average sword).

Liena-senpai's great. Next episode would definitely be awesome.

Also, I hate Humbert and Raios. Scumbags.

I feel like that "Even if i get my memories back, Im not going home" line could also meen that Kirito wont leave Underworld until he has helped Eugeu in his quest, and shows that Kirito also sees the Artificial Fluctlights as real people (as Eugeu most likely is one/is definetly one)

First time I haven't watched the timeframe of the episode properly.

A very loud expletive came out at random when the end started to play. F***ing cliffhangers!

it was good ep, despite the fact that zakkaria was quite totally glossed over, they couldnt really totally skip it

as gsi pointed out, the date when kirito got his sword was fumbled, it was day later lol

also kirito was supposed to destroy a piece of armor at sadore's shop, this didnt happen

also some other minor details, if we forget what i mentioned, a very good ep