It made me laugh when Kirito size shamed Alice's tree

Holy Tree vs Demon Tree.

If you rub two sticks together, you get fire EXPLOSION!

Explosion

There's gotta be some gravity or anti force element right? If there are luminous elements, burst elements, and aerial elements, then there has to be some self control element as well.

WHY DO WE HAVE TO WAIT?!

IIRC her swordsmanship is very "formal" and "stiff" (as in "by the books" and not as in "she is a bad swordswomen"), especially in contrast to Kirito, but each and every blow is loaded with the strength of rigorous training and the ridiculous weight of her own sword which was created from the first "indestructible" object in underworld. (Remember how easily she carried both Kirito and Eugeo's swords at once while Ronye and Tize had to drag them along the ground ? No wonder she can do that if her own sword is that heavy)

As strong as kirito in, " normal form"

Her sword much heavier than Kirito's, and level higher too

For sure, but be happy you only have to wait a week. The end of this episode is also the very end of Volume 12, so someone reading as the books were coming out would have had to wait four months.

good thing kirito took some plot armor from the armory

To be fair, this is even more of a cliffhanger in novel form. We just watched the very end of Volume 12, and the next one didn't come out for four months.

I too watched the episode. Lol

Literally was my first thought when I saw the petals lmao

Also sōten ni zase Hyōrinmaru. Eugeo's shiaki form lmao.

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Ha! good thing Eugeo doesn't know about Kirito's past on how he makes girls feel about him :P

I don't think it was...

Where did you get ‘Alice is stronger than Fanatio’?

Older mean more experience, yes but not always = stronger. Factor like talented, gifted, prodigy also play role.

iirc, Alice was called genius back in Rulid wasnt she? Perhaps under some guidance, she can bring her talents out and shine like golden star, no doubt that even later synthesized knight can out shine the older one.

It's a difference in weapons. Fanatio's weapon is designed for ranged combat, where Alice's is very strong in comparison. Kirito's sword is thrown back even when she blocks.

Also Alice is considered a prodigy

28/29 girls got knocked down easily, and 31 was first down vs a pair of boys with chains. 30 is an exception

Just a friendly reminder that their number represents the order in which integrity knights were "created"

Not always. It always comes between 1 to 1.5 hours after it ends airing in Japan. So sometimes exactly after 1 hour sometimes late,etc.

Crunchyroll has it up. I just finished watching as I'm typing this

I’m really hoping they transfer her to Alfheim in the end.. it’d be so fitting for her

He has, and part of this has been Eugeo's change as a character and of situation giving him more chance to do more emotionally-charged stuff.

Eugeo has a lot in common (broadly) with Samwise from LotR as a character, in his innocent and naive ways, but that also tends to lead to having a fairly black-and-white view on some things, meaning he's often one to get angry fairly quickly.

This results in Eugeo having a pretty wide range of tones and lines to say, from his very soft-spoken and calm normal voice, to the frantically-enraged moments at the other end of the spectrum. And he's been nailing all of this for sure.

Well this episode was always going to be a cliffhanger given it's an end of novel event. But yeah they do make them too often, even breaking the pace of fights to do so.

Nah, you're right. I'm finding it all underwhelming. I'm not particularly into the bromance, as Eugeo is uninteresting and seems quite dumb-lots of staring blankly when he should be doing something. He has no agency, just a follower being dragged along by Kirito. I miss Asuna! Additionally as you say, Kirito is not really showing much personality either. I also wish he'd, well, kill a few people/monsters occasionally! Every villain is basically the same: secretly noble, deceived/brainwashed, with a tragic backstory. Are there not any genuine nasty opponents for him to cut up?!

Also, I'm finding the music a let down - too much reliance on the epic gleam eyes type battle music, it seems to be playing almost constantly with little variation. Animation also feels lower quality, lots of static shots of the fighting in the wide, with still backgrounds... compare that to the fight scenes in season 1, with swooping camera movements around sword strokes and the like.

Even in the novel Reki only dropped the occasional reference to let us know Kirito was scared and missed his friends and family from the outside world. Given that he kept his real reasons for going to the capital from Eugeo it was a little difficult to get screen time talking about it.

It was addressed in depth in the novel. Anime probably doesn’t have enough airtime for those monologues.

That's the second time we've seen kirito lose to a girl this season.

The yui shot was her breaking through a firewall.

Kirito and Alice's sword abilities were so powerful they blew open the supposedly indestructible walls of the Cathedral, and got sucked outside. :P

Osmanthus Sword is the official translation, but they mean the same thing.

Personally, I feel Fragrant Olive sounds more fitting to the other named swords, though Osmanthus definitely sounds knightly and badass.

Oh wow totally not a MAJOR spoiler on that they clearly are going to be in the dark territory (as seen by where they fall off around)

Erm... what? The Central Cathedral is in the very centre of the capital Centoria, which itself is in the very centre of the Human Empire (map of Norlangarth North Empire), which is a giant circle 1500 km in diameter (that's Los Angeles to Seattle, for a tangible reference), with impassable mountains on all sides; it's basically reverse-Mordor.

To "fall into the Dark Territory" they would have to get blown 750 kilometres away, and then go up enough to clear the mountains...

The Cathedral is in the center of the capital. They could see it from the sword academy. They are a very long ways from the dark territory.

To be fair a lot of what makes her Alice has been erased with the memory wipe. At the same time, the most compelling part is seeing if they succeed in bringing her back, and how she copes with understanding everything that’s happened to her.