Anime 16099 Sword Art Online Sword Art Offline Reviews Filter Check 3

"Tell me, what do you think is the ultimate fear? I really thought I'd already reached the darkest of the dark, but then, ahead of me, I beheld a darkness even greater still." - Johan Liebert, Monster

As a masochist, I've watched many things that hurt me. Some anime damaged my brain with how absurdly bad they are. Some anime made my heart ache because of how painful they were.
But never before has an anime reached out and stabbed my soul, leaving terror and desolation in its wake.

With its appalling humor, dreadful set of chibis, and its abysmal story of absolute nothingness, this recap is ... dreadful in every manner possible. Not even fans of the SAO series will enjoy this. You know something is wrong when the whole series isn't even subbed yet -since the subbers are probably already dead. I would not recommend this to anyone, not even my worst enemy that I want dead. Because some things are worse than death.

I am scared. I am scared of what lies ahead of me, scared to pick this anime back up and finish it. Never before has something been so frightening as continuing this. God help my soul...

Sword Art Offline didn't seem to add anything; I felt that if you watched it or didn't watch it, you're not missing out on anything (action-wise or information-wise).

For animated chibis, they displayed a very limited range of emotions (most of the time it's just blushing); they're chibis, they're supposed to be over the top in my opinion.

Plus, too much useless fanservice and tsundereness that I find plain annoying.

The attempted humour falls flat, and everything that happens is extremely predictable.

The segment that I did enjoy was the trivia corner because it wasn' something that was necessarily repeated information - usually it was something new ... that you wouldn't get from just watching the series lightly.

Sword art offline is a chibi animation styled in the format of a newsshow. It consists of 5 elements that repeat every episode namely the news headline, trivia, playback corner, life counseling and slot talk.

The news headline and slot talk are generally boring. The playback corner and life counseling involve Asuna, Kirito and Klein talking with a character that was invited to the newsshow on that day with a very heavy focus on romance. Trivia is the only good part of the animation but even that isn't great in some episodes.

The animation is a bit about recap but mostly about comedy. The humor ... however is almost completely based around romance and the harem aspect of the anime and simply not funny.

The main characters are Kirito, Asuna and Klein supported by other SAO characters voiced by their original voice actors. The animation is chibi and bad overall with the scenes they watch in the playback corner in the original anime.

Overall this is a bad animation and not worth your time. The news format gets boring real quick and the humor is stale and based on the harem aspect of SAO.