There were definitely a couple of head-scratchers in that episode for this viewer… Kawahara Reki is revealing himself to bit a bit of a frustrating writer for me.  There are definite strengths there – a certain likeable sincerity, a deft touch in creating interesting alternative settings and a keen attention […] Read more

At last the main relationship in Sword Art Online takes center stage. SAO has a funny sort of narrative style to it – the anime anyway – where it seems as if things keep happening whether we’re watching or not, and we just happen to check in on them from […] Read more

There were a few surprises for me in this week’s SAO. That was another pretty solid ep of Sword Art Online, though it had an odd sort of stand-alone quality.  I also find it interesting that the series so far doesn’t have an especially linear feel to it.  Maybe this is a […] Read more

Oh – was there a new ep of Sword Art Online today? Before I move on to the current episode of SAO, I just want to vent for a minute about how depressing and tiresome I found the entire online debate about the series after the second ep.  People seemed […] Read more

One of the hardest things to do as an anime blogger is to separate preconception from genuine criticism. There are definitely times when I’m glad I don’t know the source material for an anime, and SAO is one of them.  Just to reiterate, I’m watching this series completely unencumbered – […] Read more