We hardly knew thee.

  This is the last time I'm going to write about SAO on this blog, since I think that I've made myself really clear about why I di...

That's it. I'm done.

SAO 's main plot returns with a bang by...spending half the episode cooking with Asuna. What.

It's a two-for-one this week as Crunchyroll catches up with their stream. Unfortunately, SAO is walking a fine line with my patience. ...

Can we please stop adapting side stories? They have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

"Hey, we introduce a loli in the episode! That means we can have tentacle monsters too, right?"

I'm pretty amazed that the whole "you lose, you die" thing doesn't seem to have sunk in with some people playing SAO .

While the world of SAO and its implications are fascinating, I'm even more interested by how it handles its characters.

Regardless of where Sword Art Online goes from here, that was a fantastic first episode.