Lauren Reacts! Sword Art Online Abridged ep9 'The Murder and Mayhem Increases!'
Added 2025-02-03 18:00:14 +0000 UTCOriginal Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWozHt9wbO4&list=PLuAOJfsMefuej06Q3n4QrSSC7qYjQ-FlU&index=9
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Avenue 5 has a scene where a bunch of people, who are trapped, get into a group think mindset and convince each other that it’s all an elaborate joke/contest and start doing some really dumb things so they could “leave”. (If your curious look up the airlock scene). Same thing could be with Sao. Some players might think it’s a contest they need to “win”. Some might think the death threats aren’t real. All they have is one guy telling them that (and you know, feeling real pain). But how does one know what really happens when you “die”? There are people who just go “welp I’m here forever, let’s join the Mafia with the cat so at least I’m not struggling like the rest” Finally some are actually bad people in real life who have their own agenda and manipulate people around them.(Although, it's been a long while since I saw the original, so that last one might be a retcon from later arcs. Or maybe it was in the novels and didn’t make the anime cut (like a lot of things) ) To be fair, these are all just excuses on why some might kill. When I first watched this way (way) back then, the player killing always bugged me too. (In the anime death was described to the players (and I think maybe by Kirito himself) in the first episode as their brains being microwaved( if I recall correctly). Abridged is more the scanners clip.)
MikeyM
2025-02-11 12:36:47 +0000 UTCI didn't watch Avenue 5. But I read this book called Heir Apparent (I think) where the MC went to this Video Game world where she had to win to escape, because some protestors like, broke the machine. If she ran out of lives in the game she'd die IRL because of how her brain was hooked up to the machine. I think. I was like, thirteen when I read that book, lol. But that's just what my baseline is for 'die in the game, die IRL. Like, your brain thinks its real, so it just shuts off. So, as someone just watching the abridged, I definitely assumed they were dying in real life
Chicago Reacts Movies & TV
2025-02-09 18:23:59 +0000 UTC1) Good call, it was a Dr. strange love reference. 2)The strategy was part of the actual anime fight. (Meaning the anime didn't have him internally strategizing. That was all part of the actual anime fight) 3) in the anime the protagonist do a lot less killing (here he actually still died although, another way). As for why everyone else is more open to it… There are a few reasons that are explored in the actual anime. To play devil’s advocate though, with one non specific example (in case you ever want to watch the anime). Ever watch ‘Avenue 5’? If not, imagine your playing a video game, and an event happens that says if you die in the game, you die for real. But are you REALLY actually dying? How would that even work? Why would killing players be allowed? As someone who is just watching the abridged, do you know if people who die in the game are actually dying in real life? 4)Near the end the "Suck it Rosalia" line. If you can recall, Rosalia was the lady in episode 4 who told Kirito that his stab was the “Deepest he would ever be in a woman”
MikeyM
2025-02-03 19:02:15 +0000 UTC
