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EP. REVIEW: Sword Art Online: Alicization

The pacing of this season is definitely slower than some of the previou I remember but important.

Honestly I think a 4 cour is necessary to draw out the light novel as the arc is fairly long.

It's funny how people were already complaining about the number of episodes before it was announced to be 48, telling that if it was 24 the adaptation would be butchered. And now that we know it'll be 48 episodes, people complain it was be too long.

while this episode covers chapters 1 and 2 and part of 3,

Um, no, some of us were saying before the 48 announcement that four cours seemed too long. Unless the last four novels are beefier than what I've read so far, we're going to see some padding along the way to get this series out to 48-50 eps.

Kazuto/Kirito has mostly been surrounded by girls, so he hasn't had a close male friend prior to Eugeo – and no, Klein doesn't count.

Episode 1 laid enough groundwork about what Kazuto has been doing lately to come to a reasonable conclusion about what probably happened to him after his real-world encounter with Johnny Black. For whatever reason, he was plugged into the STL system, presumably because it's functioning as some sort of life support. Assuming that's the case, it remains unclear why he's not able to contact Kikuoka or whoever else is directly controlling the system from the outside.

In all his adventures up to this point, Kazuto/Kirito has mostly been surrounded by girls, so he hasn't had a close male friend prior to Eugeo – and no, Klein doesn't count.

unless he and euego were childhood friends prior to the aincrad incident, i'd say klein do indeed count as a close male friend!!!

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Episode 1 laid enough groundwork about what Kazuto has been doing lately to come to a reasonable conclusion about what probably happened to him after his real-world encounter with Johnny Black. For whatever reason, he was plugged into the STL system, presumably because it's functioning as some sort of life support. Assuming that's the case, it remains unclear why he's not able to contact Kikuoka or whoever else is directly controlling the system from the outside.

My guess is that the interface he was implanted with has malfunctioned after being stabbed and shorted out with poison (a la GGO's stabbing on his ecg patch). Perhaps rather than being a simple monitoring system, it's the mechanism for initiating the dive, and since it's broken they can't monitor or control the dive now.

The part in the OP where they're practising with their swords side by side and when they share a 'secret' bro handshake got me pretty psyched.