What was the least interesting/"worst" anime you saw?SAO. it .... angered me to no extent. the characters, the plot, the entire world had so much useable potential, but they let it all go to waste over a stupid, cliche, damsel in distress situation. I mean???? Asuna was supposed to be this kick butt character and they reduced her to nothing when the main conflict came into play. I hate, no i abhor that. With all the extremities that they had at their fingertips, all these tropes and unique ideals and it was wiped. in 13 episodes.
I cant be the only one who thought Sword Art Online's game world was completely mesmerizing. A huge, exploitable world with a dark shadow looming over those who were stuck inside. They could have wrung that world dry it was that big. It was so rushed that SAO's world was gone in a blink of an eye and cast away for a fairy world.
what. why. I c a n t
I can't even begin to explain how interested i was in the mechanics. Buying property? Love it. Tell me more. Oh, no? Just going to destroy the entire thing instead. Kay.
I even had the mistake of watching the second season. and it basically repeated itself. Again. Gun Gale, I think it was called, had a very nice ring to it. Really cool shoot em up game, but it was gone. in 13 episodes. I don't understand who is coming up with these worlds and is taking them for granted because hoo boy, i can tell you just about any writer would kill for that kind of idea to just come to them to the point where it would be disposable. I didn't even bother with the rest of the anime, i dropped it right when Gun Gale was abandoned.
I think SAO was really the only anime I've ever watched that I've had such issues and complaints with. Sure, I'll run into others, but jeez! who does that??
I'm sort of apologetic to those who are fans of SAO, because there are plenty of 'person in a strange world' animes that could curb stomp SAO into oblivion. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯