Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld - Episode 9 (Anime Only)

Episode 9: Sword and Fist

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War of Underworld

Episode 8 - Blood and Life

Episode 7 - Brand of a Failure

Episode 6 - Battle of the Knights

Episode 5 - Night Before Battle

Episode 4 - Dark Territory

Episode 3 - Final Load Test

Episode 2 - Raids

Episode 1 - In the Northern Lands

Alicization

Episode 24.5 - Reflection

Episode 24 - My Hero

Episode 23 - Administrator

Episode 22 - Titan of the Sword

Episode 21 - The 32nd Knight

Episode 20 - Synthesis

Episode 19 - Seal of the Right Eye

Episode 18.5 - Recollection

Episode 18 - The Legendary Hero

Episode 17 - Truce

Episode 16 - The Osmanthus Knight

Episode 15 - The Relentless Knight

Episode 14 - The Crimson Knight

Episode 13 - Ruler and Mediator

Episode 12 – The Sage of the Library

Episode 11 – Central Cathedral

Episode 10 – Taboo Index

Episode 9 – Nobleman's Responsibilities

Episode 8 – Swordsman's Pride

Episode 7 – Swordcraft Academy

Episode 6 – Project Alicization

Episode 5 – Ocean Turtle

Episode 4 – Departure

Episode 3 – The End Mountains

Episode 2 – The Demon Tree

Episode 1 – Underworld

Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld - Episode 9 (Anime Only)

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JeremyDaBanana

"Should I call you grandma instead?"

"I'll allow it. Because you're remarkably hard."

hol' up

CrimsonKingXIII

Yup the "you're remarkably hard" line got me laughing a bit. It's right up there with "hold your fire, this man isn't black" from Dragon Ball Super

Assailantz

Waifu just arrived overpowered as fuck and beautiful as ever.

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Rothuith

Did she log in as Stacia?

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yess

RockisLife

From the looks of the last scene, I would say yes

diesal3

And only minutes after Gabriel and Vassago

Simusar

It's only been hinted since early on in the last season, and promised 3-4 episodes ago, and FINALLY she enters the game.

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NitroZeus225

[Spoilers] Holy shit she's arrived!!!!

MaladyLuna

OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! FINALLY 👏👏👏

NitroZeus225

Im so happy now even tho I've been patient on the matter I knew my girl would arrive soon!

NotAMoron2

"Alice: So you are saying that you, Goddess Stacia, is married to Kirito"

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MaladyLuna

Actually, coming from Ordinal Scale, they're not married yet, just engaged... but they might add will be. 😉

RoachIsCrying

She finally arrived, lads. You can finally stop posting the same question when is Asuna gonna show up

Battkd93

New question. When is Asuna gonna fight someone? Lol. Jk I can't even joke about it now lol 😂

Mystic_Arts

Nah £100 says the next over posted question is gonna be about asuna, kirito and Alice and how they react to each other.

Battkd93

So when are Alice and Asuna gonna fight each other? cause i could defiantly see that as an over asked question

Mystic_Arts

Honestly every single answer to every over asked question will probably be "next episode"

When will Alice and Asuna fight: next episode

When will Asuna see Kirito: next episode

How will Alice react to a Goddess getting cosy with her boy Kirito: you'll see NEXT EPISODE. Damnit people would you be patient!

CrimsonKingXIII

Patience.exe has broken... initiating subroutines where is Sinon.exe and Leafa.exe

Anathy

i need my fix of underworld

MaladyLuna

Actually... new question. When is she going to wake Kirito up? He neeeeds her!

maybeanaveragesize

Now it’s gonna be “wHeN iS KiRiTo CoMinG bAcK?!” Although they did an amazing job with Asuna’s arrival.

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KimiIsAware

waifu didn't even fight them, just straight voided them.

what an entrance.

holy shit.

BleedingUranium

Fun fact: Asuna Yuuki just went from SAO's "has never killed anyone" list, to a killcount of several dozen people before her feet even touched the ground in Underworld.

I tried to count the Dark Knights that fell in the hole, and it was about 50, plus or minus a few because counting a mass of people is hard.

 

Current SAO main hero killcount (so far):

  • Alice - Somewhere around 8,000 IIRC? I'll need to check the novel again for the more precise approximations.
  • Asuna - Roughly 50. The group of Dark Knights here.
  • Kazuto - Seven. Two Laughing Coffin members, Kuradeel, Kayaba (debatable, he only died because he allowed it), Ugachi (goblin leader in the cave) and his second-in-command (not shown in anime), Raios, and Quinella. The last two did die to other factors, but Kazuto still mortally wounded both, and is responsible for their deaths.
  • Shino - One. The bank robber.
KimiIsAware

Alice over here just shredding thousands

Chikumori

Quinella wise, she probably would have survived if she ascended to the real world. Kirito just inadvertently made her defenseless against an unforeseen death by ugly bastard sexual harassment.

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Battkd93

Anyone else catch the subtle change in the intro with Asuna in it?

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me too. I thought on instant: "SHE'S THERE! YEEES"

Battkd93

I smacked my desk watching the intro going "FINALLY!!!"

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Noticed it instantly.

KrkrkrkrHere

and then i knew she would appear at the end of the ep for like 30 seconds

Battkd93

I can sleep easy now after watching this episode lol

deangsana

Gave me goosebumps

Nanfrostcrystal

There's also 2 others behind as well.......I can't wait honestly....

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Remediesxx

Synthesis 12's blade is ruthless but she killed no one, just straight flexing. Asuna's debut, she comes in as an omnipotent being and even drops dark knight in a hole lmao. The fear on his face when he realized who she really was, priceless.

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Kirito got to be the OP elf knight in ALO. Now, it is Asuna's turn to save him as the OP goddess of the Underworld.

furosuto81

It’s looked more like excitement than fear to me...

Siglius

Definitely wasn't fear. It wasn't a "FUCK. IT'S ASUNA". More like "FUCK YES. IT'S ASUNA".

Spyer2k

It was definitely Fuck. at first

diesal3

That reference to "The Flash" tho. It's almost as if the SAO incident is back on.

CrimsonKingXIII

In a way the SAO incident is back on with the way that the fluctlights die out if their avatar character is killed.

DudeCalledTom

Is the guy a laughing coffin member? That’s what I’m suspecting. Could be something else but that’s the most likely

Ryuuji_Gremory

You have seen him before, if you remember where the face tattoo should be a dead give away to his identity It's PoH, the leader of Laughing coffin, he appears in ep.06 of S1

DudeCalledTom

Correction: season 1 episode 6, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it. I’ll probably rewatch it to see if I catch something that I didn’t catch before

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LoafingPenguin

Sinon's blue armor looks bad-ass!!

diesal3

Sheyta vs Iskahn action scene gotta be one of the best in Alicization

It's giving me the Kirito vs Fanatio chills. And that was a good one.

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I like how since she's the goddess of creation, she created holes leading to their doom instead of outright deleting them. Nice touch

BleedingUranium

This isn't really a spoiler since we just saw it, but yeah, the Stacia super-account's main special ability is terrain manipulation.

You can see her use it in the OP too, creating a wall of earth between her/Alice and Vector.

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Oh, that's pretty cool! I wonder how it'll look.

TheThunderOfYourLife

And she finally appears.

Fuck yeah. What an epic entrance.

Not to mention that bastard knew her from Aincrad? Was he part of the Laughing Coffin guild?

I’ve never been so hyped for more in my life.

rshunter99

Spoiler:

Yes, Vassago was the leader of the Laughing Coffin Guild. If you go back and watch episodes 6 and 8 from season 1, it's the guy with the tattoo on his face.

TheThunderOfYourLife

I love that connection, holy shit. No wonder he’s ruthless.

BleedingUranium

Yep. And if you've read Progressive or played Hollow Fragment you'd know him even better than his small appearances in S1 (and brief mentions in S2). Laughing Coffin is bad enough, but PoH is even worse than the rest of them.

As a fun fact, it was always possible to figure out who he was even just watching the anime, all the way back to the very first Alicization episode, thanks to his blue scar thing on his face (and Death Gun style line / red eyes under his hood).

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xVibrancy

I didn’t realise this! Epic!

ContagiousZ

Dude! That entrance was awesome!! “KoBs Lightning Flash!”

Ghistriam

KoBs is the guild she was in Aincrad right ?

GoldRedBlue

Yeh, "Knights of the Blood"

ContagiousZ

Yep! Knights of the Bloodoath

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frs-1122

If you wanna know what happens to Iskahn and Scheta, they get married and have a baby on post war, I find them to be pretty fucking adorable

likith101

Ok so the subtle changes in the op also suggest Sinon and Suguha joining Asuna. Also remember when Alice said that there were three gods in the underworld, so I am assuming they will have the accounts of the three gods.

Man I've never felt so much hype in my life.

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The third god is Akihiko Kayaba ;)

likith101

No the three gods Suguha, Asuna and Sinon.

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likith101

In the scene where Asuna stretches her hand mid op, watch closely, they all transform into underworld characters. Yui is also there but she doesn't transform.

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Aceblast135

In fairness, he was merely playing with her in that scene.

lolKura

ASSSUNNNAAAAAA

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I'm ready for a love scene between Asuna and Kirito in the next episode. Then, she can use her god powers to make both Kirito and herself OP.

Mystic_Arts

Yes! Fucking yes! Need I say more. Now I just want next weeks episode 😭

MrCoolblestone

Asuna's entrance into Underworld after waiting so long for it, and the fact that the last thing we see before the ED plays is her face finally being revealed, makes me all the more impressed by how well they can craft such a compelling character and make you hate the creators for not giving you more. Such is one of the reasons why I love this show so much

Nashetania

“WHERE IS ASUNA??” Jokes lmaoo

God that Sheyta Knight was such a badass can’t wait too see more from her.

And what an absolutely iconic entrance Goddess Stacia Asuna did not come to play hunny she came for her hubby!

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xdamm777

I loved how they added Stacia Asuna to Rising Steel the same day she appeared in the anime, that's nice! Now to farm some crystals for a pull.

mosenco

When kirito starts the game at level 1, but asuna and the others two prefer to hack the game and login first time with overpowered characters.. lol

_johnning

Can we just appreciate Reki Kawahara? Man wrote SAO as a hobby, finished the Alicization arc before even writing AccelWorld back in 2009. His growth as a writer during SAO is wonderful. If he took writing seriously and as a full time job, Aincard would have been even better than it already is.

egolds01

I'm so confused was that Asuna or Stacia?

Chikumori

Yes.

Jokes aside, it's Asuna logged in as Stacia.

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Would now be a good time to mention, that Bandai Namco is planning to make a game based on the first half of Alicization (till Quinella arc)? And it seems that they plan to insert Asuna as early as then.

Davtek

They're going to adapt both Alicization and War of Underworld, so Volume 9 to 18.

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SaintNeos

You know how Gabriel Logged In as Vector/Vecta? Same thing.

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Renz-Miranda

I'm ready for the swordfight: Asuna vs. Alice..!

Anathy

legit i was about to cry, her enterance was badass. As soon as i saw ronie scared and about to die i called it.

ishallleavethisblank

Asuna is here!! After waiting whole of alicization and 8 eps of war of underworld. Finally we are graced by Stacia-sama. The wait this week is going to be a torture. And damnnnn sheyta is badass. And after that fight im lowkey shipping her with that pugilist chief guy lol

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I now the most people can't hear it anymore but i'm so happy of asuna's apperance

_V1T4L_

O man, that ep. FINALLY Asuna is here to wake up Kirito. I just wish the next ep was out already! this may have been the tipping point to get me to read the LNs, I NEED MORE NOW!

The way Vassago reacted to seeing Asuna, Im looking forward to when he sees Kirito.

Next ep should be pretty epic, im looking forward to Asuna & Alice meeting.

delcanine

Seems like the Pugilist leader will become Integrity Knight one day.

IheartShaneDawson

Every bit of War of Underworld is such a masterpiece. I don't even know anymore if I'm this hyped because I've always been an SAO fan or because season 2 really raised the bar even higher than the masterpiece that Alicization season 1 was. Whatever people say about SAO, they really have to know Alice and see Asuna as Stacia so they can shut their mouths.

ma103

DAT OPENING CHANGE

Knight #12 and that duelist are fucking awesome!

PinkLoser12

Asuna finally showed up! Can’t wait for her first interaction with Alice

ScuderiaEnzo

Me gusta this anime. Graphics, storyline & overall arc. Easily one of the best I’ve ever seen.

ABQORL

Asuna stole the end of the episode, but Sheyta stole the whole damn thing!

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