Some additional info regarding the 'I'm Eugeo the swordman. No family name'

In Underworld, only nobles and community leaders are given last names, everybody else basically only have first names. In Rulid village, only Alice's family, which is the village head's family, have the last name Zuberg. Last names are like the most powerful barrier that set commoners and nobles apart.

Eugeo was very conscious of this fact back at the academy. And those filthy rapists Humbert and Raios often brought it up to make fun of him as well. Like in every interaction with most characters we'd hear at least one 'I'm just a farmer's kid with no name' monologue from him.

To make it even more depressed, being the third son of a farmer, by the village's law Eugeo aren't even allowed to get married, since Rulid doesn't have lots of resource so population must be strictly managed. (Of course later we learn that this is also one of Administration's shitty 'rule' to control the population).

If Kirito didn't show up and both figuratively and literally released him from his duty, Eugeo would spend all of his life chirping away Gigas Cedar's life, alone, forever.

The anime, of course, ruled this detail 'unnecessary' to the plot and omitted it.

Spectacular animation by A1, Deusolbert Synthesis Seven with his Armament Full Control Art: Conflagrant Flame Bow vs Kirito’s Five Cryogenic element shields + Aincrad Style Spinning Shield.

Finally Eugeo did something ice solid since they arrive at the Central Cathedral.

I wish more crashing, slashing, fighting though. A little step up from acedamy fight, but not that mind blowing fight.

That ending appearance of the Duo girls, they gonna rekt Duo boys so bad.

Man Kirito really is the worst party member ever. "We have to come up with a plan, but I have a secret weapon that I'm not going to tell you about" smh.

That new ED was amazing. The OP wasn't as good as the 1st but it's a tough act to follow.

I really like the art style of the new OP and ED, the OP isn't as hype as Amadas, but it's still really good, it doesn't seem to include Asuna/Sinon/Suguha etc so I'm thinking that we'll be in the Underworld for pretty much the remainder of the season, even though I really really want to know what's going on IRL,

That was an awesome fight, it had some of the great elements about the fighting in the rest of SAO with it being a lot more fluid, but it also had a similar style to the rest of Alcization so far with Eugeo's desire to rescue Alice giving him the extra power that he needed, a really good mix of showing that both the skill and the emotion counts in these battles.

Kirito's defensive move was a bit surprising too, since we never saw a skill like that in Aincrad in the anime as far as I can remember (similar skill seen in S1E7), but it was definitely very cool to see, I was pretty ready to shout at my screen about Eugeo and Kirito not thinking to bring a shield (of which there were plenty in the armoury) to fight against an archer.

Also yet another Fate reference I think with the "You're not getting away" at the end of the battle, I really like Fate and I really like SAO so it's exciting to see one reference the other, for reference: Fate Stay Night UBW Spoiler

As for not killing the integrity knight, I wonder if Cardinal's warning about having to kill them will come into play at any point, it didn't exactly seem like a throwaway line, and they've already left 2 of them alive now, and they believed all the information that was given to them, which makes sense for them to do, but it'll be intriguing to see if it's true. I like that Kirito stopped Eugeo though, Kirito knows what it's like to have that on your conscience and would rather Eugeo doesn't go through that if he doesn't have to.

Next episode looks interesting too with it ending on the two young girls, who I don't think we've seen before, they definitely have daggers, so I'm wondering if they're Integrity Knights in training, they look to be a similar age to Alice when she was taken away, and they have to learn how to fight somehow, so it would make sense to me that there is some kind of training. If my theory is true though I wonder how Kirito and Eugeo will manage it, it's definitely not in Kirito's nature to fight little girls, nor is it in Eugeo's, but it definitely looks to me like it's some kind of trap.

(Also I think Kirito found his lunch from Ronie, I guess it actually was lunch after all)

Best ED in anime I have ever seen in my life. Pretty visuals and fucking fantastic music. Oh and the OP was pretty good too, just not as good as Adamas.

Edit: After listening to the new op multiple times, I can say that Resister and Adamas are equal. It gets better everytime you listen to it again

All of the cute and precious Alice shots has my heart RACING.

Also, the animations in both the new opening and ending are absolutely stellar, and I cannot wait for what's in store in the next episode.

Why does Desoulbert Synthesis Seven look like Eugene?

I like the new opening, it’s really great! Gonna be missing ADAMAS for a while though.

Nice to see that they ended the fight with Deusolbert by helping him see the truth. Hopefully that pays off later because we didn’t see what Kirito said to him as an alternative option before walking off.

Also, I’m curious as to who those little girls are. We know little kids get abducted to become Integrity Knights (hence, Alice), so I wouldn’t be surprised to find out they are in training or something. Especially seeing that one of them was smiling and both had swords. It’s more than likely a trap set up by Quinella to make them think about Ronie and Tiese and prevent them from fighting, if I had to guess.

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System call, Enhance Armament, Caladbolg.

Awesome episode but I’m still waiting for one to live up to the hype of Kirito vs Goblins fight. To me that scene had everything from awesome animation, struggle, fear, pain, willpower to survive and save Eugeo, etc. So far no other fight scene has come close and they usually end too fast but am still enjoying the season thus far 👍🏻

Absolutely love the new opening and ending. The episode itself was amazing. Great fight scene and music. Cant wait to see the rest of this season. Seems very promising <3

Nice new OP and ED for the show. I noticed in the OP they are still doing that handshake thing, but now with an extra step at the end, maybe one day they will show that off in an actual episode. The fight was good, I really like it when they have to weave the magic in with the melee combat, I'm a big Elder Scrolls fan and most of the time my characters pick up magic along with melee fighting, so seeing that in shows is cool. Also the mixing of magic and melee is like ALO, which as far as fighting goes is one of my favorite parts about SAO. It will be interesting to see what those girls are up to; will they help our heroes or are they there to hinder them?

didn't like RESISTER(new op) as much as ADAMAS, but forget-me-not can have my babies, it's perfect

old man Knight, that badass boi

Just started watching season 3 and just caught up. Do new episodes normally come out Saturday morning?

OP was nice but I think I need time to get used to it unlike ADAMAS which stuck in my head instantly. ED on the other hand... speechless. It is SO GOOD. Eugeo looks absolutely beautiful and the song is so nice. I would think it’s on par or even better than Iris. Fight scene was epic as we’ve come to expect at this point. What a great way to start the new cour.

Very nice episode and the new OP is very good but there is juste one thing that scare me... If every fight will finish like in this episode, it will be boring at a moment

I bet Kirito's special secret move is gonna be Starburst Stream.

I mean altough everything seems fine, I think they should make the fights a bit longer. Like just when it turns out to get great the fight is already over lol

am i the only one getting bored of this season already? like what the fuck even happened in this episode?

and why in gods name do they focus so much on the characters doing the screaming power up bit, its literally half the fucking episode. it seems like every episode has been either 20 minutes of the characters powering up or lore being dumped on us

I’ve just finished watching the episode on Crunchyroll, and noticed the animation (most kirito and eugeo) was kinda bad. Like, some moments it looked a little like it was poorly animated (like it was made on paint lol). I don’t know if I was the only one to notice but I hope this isn’t just me.

Improvement afoot on the OP, but the ED definitely is a step backwards. Either way, if the rumors are correct, we've another two of each coming up.

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Did anyone else catch the extreme amount of pain on Kirito’s face as he screamed towards the end of the opening theme song? Bracing myself now. Here we go...

I need more Asuna x Kirito in S3.