Sunday, December 2, 2012
Ok, finally we have the long awaited review of Sword Art
Online, ALFheim arc, brought to you by May.
It wouldn’t have taken this long, except for a few episodes
so little interesting things happened that I felt it was hardly review worthy.
Luckily, the last two episodes I have a lot to say about!
Episode 18 – To the World Tree
Most interesting part: Kiritos hip thrusts. (16:19-16:30. Thrust, thrust,thrust,thrust.) And Leafa is
very abusive to her friends. Also fanservice of her in nothing but a bra and
panties.
Basically this episode is about Leafa and her connections,
both in game and out. She leaves her party and is more or less threatened for
doing so, and then she and Kirito begin their journey to the World Tree. And
KIRITO! Don’t just shove Yui into your pocket when shes embarrassing you! Be
nice!
Theres more with Asuna in here too, with Sugou trying to
convince Asuna to lighten up, because apparently he isn’t having fun sexually harassing
her when she is just trying to ignore him. He says that since her body isn’t real,
she should lighten up and enjoy herself. Asuna just replies that to her, it doesn’t
matter if the body is real or virtual, and that he wouldn’t understand. Sugou
brings up Kirito, saying he met him in the real world, obviously trying to
break her spirit, or her faith in him. However, it has the opposite effect, for
now she knows for sure he is alive. Sugou leaves, but Asuna manages to see the
code he enters in the mirror by her bedside! GO ASUNA!
Episode 19 – The Lugru Corridor
This episode furthers Kirito and Leafas journey to the world
tree, through a cave system. However, they are ambushed by players of the
Salamander race. Kirito uses some of his Spriggan magic to turn into a badass
demon monster, and slaughters all but one, and that survivor he bribes to tell
him why they were hunted down. The survivor doesn’t know much, but Kirito
sticks to his word and gives him the items and lets him leave. Then, when Leafa
asks him if the monster was really him, Kirito states that sometimes he snaps
in battles and forgets things. (scary!) After a bit of elaboration on what he
remembers from this battle (in which Yui happily points out that he was
chomping on people), Leafa asks him what players taste like. Kirito turns
around, grabs her hand, and in jest, chomps on her, causing her to freak out
and slap him. Afterwards, Leafa logs out to check with Recon, since he had messaged
her right before they had been attacked. It turns out, Leafas old party leader, Sigurd,
is working with the Salamanders, and they are planning on attacking a treaty
signing between the Sylphs and the Cait Sith. Leafa feels it’s her duty to run
and warn the two race leaders with her knowledge, and Kirito tags along, of
course, because hes a hero like that.
Episode 20 – General of the Blazing Flame
This episode is about Leafa and Kirito saving the leaders of
the Sylphs and Cait Sith from the Salamanders, and we finally get to see some
twin blade action from Kirito battling off the commander of the Salamander
attack unit. The leader of the Sylphs is informed of Sigurds betrayal of their
race, and banishes him from their realm. Afterwards, both leaders and Leafa all
sort of fight over Kirto/try to seduce him into their service. Well less so
seducing from Leafa, but the others try to smother him in breasts. Poor Kirito.
Yui isn’t too happy about
Kirito getting all dokidoki being
smothered in breasts either, since he is supposed to be loyal to Asuna. Kirito
rejects the leaders requests, however, and instead just gives all his money to
the leader of the Cait Sith so they can prepare for clearing the World Tree.
Now we finally get to Asuna. With her learned knowledge of
the code to the door, she finally makes her escape!
Episode 21 – The Truth of ALFheim
Kirito and Leafa just manage to get to the city of Arun,
however there is an alert that there is a scheduled maintenance and all players
have to log off. So both of them log off for the night at Super Cheap (Yuis words) inn. Meanwhile, Asuna slowly makes her way
through the World Tree, looking for a console to log herself out from. (How she
knows this exists at all, I have no idea) She stumbles upon the room where all
the other comatose SAO players are being held, and vows to save them. Right at
that moment however, two…weird blob tentacle creatures appear. They start
examining the SAO test subjects, so they are apparently scientists. Asuna
hides, but spots a console nearby. Abandoning the more reasonable plan of
hiding until they leave, she dashes for the console, and almost has her finger
on the logout button, but is captured by the tentacle scientists. We all should
have seen enough Hentai to know where this is going…
Asuna tries to bluff
saying Sugou gave her permission to explore, but one of them logs out to check
with him, while the other wants to have a little fun with Asuna. Asuna of course retaliates in the only way she is
able. Biting tentacles. With her mouth. Eww, I wouldn’t touch those, but if the
only other option is having them violate you…. Brave girl, Asuna. Brave girl.
Who knows where he has put those tentacles… The other scienctist comes back,
saying Sugou is pissed and Asuna is to be put back into her cage and the
passcode changed. But tricksy Asuna, she grabbed the GM access card in the
console when she bit the tentacle, and now has at least something to work with!
Meanwhile, in the real world, Kazuto and Suguha (Kirito and
Leafa) go to the hospital to see Asuna. This is the first time Suguha is going,
and she is devastated to see how much Kazuto really cares for Asuna. (We also
learn that they are making a special school for the SAO players, though Kazuto isn’t
sure he wants to go, since he is sure they really just want to monitor the
players to see how the game has changed their minds.)
After the hospital, Leafa and Kirito log back in, and Leafa
starts crying on Kirito, saying her heart is broken. After she is done, they go
back out, and suddenly Yui says she can sense Mama’s player ID right above
them. Kirito, having so many feels that I probably can’t accurately describe
them, takes off into the skies.
Episode 22 – Grand Quest
Kazuto goes to her room to ask her if she is alright,
and doesn’t seem as fazed as her about the weird coincidence, thinking she is
acting weird because she is mad at him for using the NervGear again. Suguha
finally lets everything out, telling Kazuto that she was in love with him, and
thought he hated her because he was avoiding her before SAO. She said she was
so happy that he was being nice to her again, and wishes he was still mean so
she wouldn’t realize she liked him. She says she was trying to give up on him
and fall in love with Kirito, and now they end up to be the same person, and
her heart has betrayed her. Poor Kazuto can’t really say anything but ‘Sorry’,
and she closes the door in his face, and both of them are like “Fuck my life.”
AND THAT IS THAT! Next week comes Episode 23, and according
to my sources, is going to rip our hearts out! Stay tuned!
-May Hotaru
