Just so...so bad

Excellent, a Must See

Am I Missing Something?

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This show starts of decently with an compelling main plot but quickly devolves into unwatchable crap. The characters are hollow and without backstory and yet the writers focus way too much on them. All female characters are overly sexualized and it feels like the plot often is only there to be able to show them of. Lots of plot holes and bad writing. It's just unwatchable, I forced myself to watch until ep 10 but then I couldn't take it any longer.

I was swept away in the game, it was so cool. I'm new to anime, but I just it!

Don't believe with bad rating. You must watch it first before you know how excellent this anime. I really really love this love story, adventures, and much more. i just warn you again to watch it first. Kirito and Asuna's story so beautiful to loss it. sword art online is the best!

I finally watched SAO after delaying it... and well shouldn't have wasted my time.I'm giving this a 3 just because of the beautiful art and the one episode where a group he was with got killed because of him (I felt for him then) but besides that I'm never going to get the hype for this.I don't mind the cliché plot since I've watched plenty cliché anime that I still love. Don't believe people who rave that SAO has unique plot that's like saying Disney's Frozen was the first movie to present strong independent women (*cough* Brave *cough* Mulan *cough* Pocahontas). What was dreadful about this was how it was presented. You start off strong getting the feeling like it's going to be a good action anime with the loner MC but nooooo it's actually secretly just a harem anime...if I wanted that I'll watch harem anime.You never see MC training or struggling... he's just -boom- OP. The anime's main plot is "getting out of the game" so you'd thought you'd see the people there actually try hard to beat the game (haha). I mean yeah sure plot armor happens (ie Naruto, One Piece, etc where MC never really dies) but at least you can see them struggle and you can feel for them and root for them. Nope, not in SAO. MC's just OP at the beginning and until the end. By the time I got into the final boss fight I was desensitized by his overpoweredness that at his supposed death (since you know getting stabbed with little to no life should've killed him but it takes minutes before he actually disappears so he can deliver a final blow to kill the boss) I felt nothing. No tension. Nothing. Not even happy for him that it's the end.Another is where everything jumps. In Episode A you're in level 50 and then for Episode B you're in another setting...Episode C you're back to the start... huh. I got so confused I had to check the wiki episode descriptions just to check if I was still on the right track or was simply watching the wrong episode.The most waste was the FMC. She was presented early on as this strong mysterious loner type but then after some episode jumps she just becomes this useless harem girl *sigh* (they even got married in- game. LOL). It's kinda laughable how some of the episodes we're shown one girl get rescued by MC and they immediately fall in love with MC..at least give us something more to root for.Probably going to get hate for this since plenty love it but I just don't get it. I tried reading positive reviews but most just say "It's the best anime" "Sword Art Online is ridiculously well made with great character development" "Deep and moving story" ...none of which I saw so I'm questioning if we watched the same series.