SAO Alicization episode 2 what got cut from best buddy Eugeo? So what's up
guys Foxen here! First off let me give you a huge thank you
there's actually a lot of interest for the first changes video for episode 1!
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do read everything you post! Anyway let's dive into the Underworld!
Oh that cliffhanger ending. What exactly happened to Kirito? You're actually
still left in the dark about this in the light novel however you do get a little
bit more about what happened with Asuna afterwards and I have a strong
feeling they're gonna flashback to this later.
S3o yeah Kirito stabbed by Johnny Black. Kirito was slowly dying . Asuna ran
to him telling him to hang in there. She quickly called the police on her
phone. Kirito's last words to Asuna were
"Asuna sorry". Kirito just laid there unconscious while the medical team checked
his breathing. Kirito/s respiratory system had failed him. Unfortunately
Asuna could only watch nearby resisting the urge to scream. She
informed the paramedics of what she thought the chemical was. Meanwhile
Kirito's heart rate was drastically dropping. "His heart stopped" Asuna heard them
say. Unsurprisingly Asuna was in deep shock. Asuna then saw the moment his
heart rate stopped pulsing on her phone then it skips into the underworld. In
case do you really want to know what happened to Kirito here is an
obvious spoiler. Kirito's heart did indeed stop. This unfortunately meant he
suffered some brain damage due to the lack of oxygen for a time period and let
me just oversimplify it but Kirito is hooked up to the soul
translator to heal him. Anyway let's enter the Underworld. At the start of
the episode you see Kirito awakening in this strange fantasy world. You saw him
trying to recall some of the past events novel Kirito actually gave himself a
little bit of a refresher he thought to himself full name Kirigaya
Kazuto. 17 years old and eight months. He lives in the Saitama area with
his mother and younger sister. A key part to this is that Kirito couldn't recall
getting assaulted by Johnny Black or laughing coffin at all. Kirito's final
memory was of him asking Asuna to come with him to the US and yes unfortunately
Kirito now recall her answer only her smile.
As for Kirito trying to figure out whether this was reality or not
before checking out his new clothing novel Kirito notice how this body
still had this past scar on the left middle finger and is marking on his
right thumb. It must be real life! During this you saw Kirito considering
whether this was a abort dream. This included this yellow
butterfly landing on his hand. This butterfly scene was anime original.
In the novel the closest thing you saw to this was Kirito pulling out this
small earthworm. This green little thing kept making the soft cry. Kirito
didn't know this type of creature existing in Japan or anywhere else in
the world. Novel Kirito then notice extreme detail of this mystery world. VR
worlds like SAO or any world used by the SEED use something called detail
focusing. This allowed whatever spot you were looking at to be fully detailed but not
the stuff around it. This was currently a limitation of the VR hardware. This meant
that sudden movements would create this slight lag in your vision before you saw
the details clearly however this wasn't the case here so it must be reality. The
technology for VR worlds to mimic this shouldn't be possible. Anime Kirito
almost immediately thought that this place must be the Underworld created by
the soul translator. On the other hand novel Kirito thought about three
possibilities. The first was this advanced VR place not necessarily the
Underworld. The second option was that he became part of this illegal experiment
he must have been placed in some remote region and the third option was the best.
Kirito might have died have been transported into this fantasy world.
It was now Kirito's job to defeat the demon king. Hey Kirito Kazuma says hi!
Novel Kirito then thought that at least Kayaba was kind enough to give this
introduction explanation before taking off. For this world there was nothing at
all. Anyway as for a good chunk of us another
I wish they kept in. Novel Kirito continued to question is mystery world. He
thought about how Asuna would have surely found a way to identify this
place unlike himself. At the very least she would have been quick to take action.
Kirito now felt he was super lost without her. During the past two years he
did I discussed almost everything he did with her. Suddenly now without Asuna he
felt like half of his brain was missing. Next up Kirito at the watering hole.
They actually cut this shorter in the anime after Kirito heard that sound in
the distance. Novel Kirito couldn't believe the purity or taste of this
water. This alone removed the thought of this being a virtual world. Even the
AmuSphere wasn't capable producing flowing water with this texture. As for
Kirito getting a glimpse of Young Eugeo and Alice definitely loved the scene more
in the anime especially with the rich animation. This scene was actually only
three sentences in the novel although to be fair they did have this visual for it.
Cut from this was Kirito thinking about what he saw this memory shouldn't be
possible. There weren't any forests or rivers like
that where he lives and he's never had friends with those hair colors before
either. The children he saw also looked like they were wearing fantasy clothing.
The fluctlight acceleration meant he should have been inside the VR world for
ten days at most which is why he shouldn't be feeling
nostalgic about some random memory. Next up key Kirito meeting the Gigas tree and
best bunny Eugeo. Novel Kirito noticed how that Gigas tree absorbing all
nutrients around it which is why the area looked cleared of. A change for
meeting Eugeo. Originally Eugeo was watching Kirito from behind the
massive tree the entire time. Anime Eugeo only seem to notice Kirito died after
getting close enough. As for novel Kirito's thoughts on Eugeo. To him he
looked like Eugeo was either 17 or 18 and he known as the same style clothing as
himself. Something more interesting was how Kirito thought that Eugeo
couldn't be considered a westerner but also not an Easterner either. Then the
moment when Kirito saw Eugeo's face he felt like it was soul was in deep pain
although only for a brief moment. As for Eugeo's greeting. Novel Kirito was
super surprised at Eugeo speaking perfect Japanese. This place definitely
didn't exist anywhere in Japan. Anyway a lot of these two intro conversation was
kept the same. Eugeo did make a note about how Kirito's black hair was unusual in
this area. It was possible he was born in the south. After you two agree to take
Kirito to talk to the guards Novel Kirito had further thought so far he
concluded that Eugeo was not an npc. Eugeo's replies were way too natural for
this artificial personality program. Hs actions also didn't every some of those
of NPCs. To him the owner of this floodlight had a really kind personality
he would have to thank him in real life personally. In the anime this differed
anime Kirito still continued to question whether Eugeo was an NPC or not. During
their little self introduction Kirito was trying to find Eugeo's name in
its memory although no luck. Next up Eugeo talking about his
childhood friend Alice. Slight difference with the term they used. Eugeo's sacred
test is now referred to as a "CALLING" in the anime. The rest of the Alice
discussion also got abridged. Anime Eugeo left out the part about young Alice
being chained in front of the village. Eugeo of further mention how Eugeo wanted to use
the axe to attack the integrity knight but his body wouldn't move at all. I'm
actually a really surprised at the anime left out that Alice was
about to get executed at the Central City perhaps it's a little too obvious
to Alice is still around. Novel Kirito here was in deep thought
after hearing the name Alice. Kirito felt this mixture of loneliness and nostalgia
shaking his soul. He thought it was strange that the name was similar to
Alice from Alice in the Wonderland novel which also connected back to Rath and
the soul translator. All of those being a coincidence would be way too surprising.
Kirito then shifted his thoughts to Eugeo standing in front of him. Eugeo spoke
about this memory from ten years ago however the soul translator experiment
began only three months ago. The three times acceleration wouldn't matchup with
it. Perhaps this whole place was sped up even more. Now for a good chunk cut out
for the anime Eugeo brought up how Kirito looked the same age as himself.
Wasn't Kirito also sign the sacred task to? Ditching your sacred tasks then
travelling should be something that's impossible.
Novel Kirito then came up with further thoughts about this. It was
obviously Eugeo wasn't a simple NPC from what he witnessed but at the same
time Eugeo's actions seemed to be bound by
absolute rules. It seems similar to how NPCs couldn't deviate from set
boundaries. Novel Kirito then asked if there
was anyone else who ever broke the Taboo Index and got taken to the capital.
Eugeo explained that in their three hundred year history of their village
the only case of this ever happening was for Alice. Here Kirito was shocked at
that 300 years mentioned. That shouldn't be possible. Perhaps actual
acceleration was several hundred or a thousand times. Anyway after Kirito
heard about Eugeo making minimal progress on the Gigas tree he wondered
about something. In this artificial world someone must have intentionally placed
this here although Kirito had no idea why. Oh and novel Kirito notice how
Eugeo's swinging the axe so fluently was as if sword skills existed in this world.
Next up Kirito's chopping attempts a change here with Kirito calling the
sword skill smash instead of the sword skill horizontal in a novel. As for Eugeo
examine the biggest trees remaining life novel Kirito actually thought about how
it's strange that the name was a combo of English and Latin.
Seems that English words made up the world so-called sacred arts. It was
likely the Eugeo didn't know he was speaking the language called "Japanese"
either. Next up Eugeo putting the axe away the novel actually mentioned some
other weapons in the shed including this long leather item. Further
cut was to talk about not stealing. Right here Kirito asked why the village
even needed guards if stealing was forbidden. Eugeo explained
that the guards protected the village from the dark forces. On the other side
of the mountain was the land of darkness or the light of Solus couldn't reach. In
that dark land lived demi humans like goblins, orcs and other horrible monsters.
It was a duty of integrity Knights to protect the mountain range and then for
a major important piece cut out. Eugeo mentioned how every 1000 years or so the
light of Solus would weaken. At that time the dark forces led by the dark
knights would try to invade. In that great war the guards, sentinels, and
imperial army led by the integrity knights would fight back.
Eugeo was super surprised that Kirito didn't know any of this. It was supposed to be a
tale that even young children were taught. Next up the two meeting the town
guard Jink. In the novel both of these did meet this guy but the rest of this
is anime original. I'm talking about their little sword test and you might be
wondering why. I see there being two very good reasons. The first would be to make
Jink more of a character early on. From this you could surely tell it he's gonna
show up later and the second reason. Kirito just demonstrated that some sort
of sword skills do exist in the Underworld.
Next up the two arriving at the church. The anime added Kirito mentioning how
it was weird that no one doubted at all that he was a lost child of Vecta. As for
Selka here here's some skipped details. She's supposed to be the apparentince sister
studying at the church to learn the sacred arts. Then you got Kirito's
conclusion at night time. Novel Kirito thought about how the Rath company only
had one soul translator. Three more were supposed to be rolled out soon. Still
that wouldn't be enough for 300 villagers and it should have also been
impossible to secretly gathered thousands of test players as well.
Anime Kirito then quickly jumped to the conclusion that these people must be
copies of newborns born and raised in VR in other words artificial fluctlights.
Kirito in the novel took a good while to reach a conclusion. He did the first one
about the possibility of them being AI although current AI didn't have real
intelligence. Eugeo for example showed very natural human
expressions. The highest top level AI that Kirito was familiar with was Yui.
It was after only monitoring thousands of players that Yui was able to build up
this amazingly enlarged database to reply from. Yui might be considered
real intelligence however Yui was not perfect. Yui would sometimes expressed
mild confusion when her database didn't have the information.
The villagers were vastly different. Now getting into the talk about the
artificial fluctlights assuming Kirito is right
Rath could be reaching into the realm of the gods. And next up and that
mysterious ending technically all of this is anime original. You might have
guess what this white tower is. It's actually the so-called Axiom Church in
the central city. As for who this naked lady is on top she goes by many names.
For now just know that she's a highest-ranking leader of the Axiom
Church. She's known as the admin. It's actually interesting how they're showing
you her this early on in episode 2. In the novel you might have found a
slight reference to the leader but you don't find out or get any concrete
details until way later. I actually do like how they're giving you a taste at
this early on. Right now I am planning to do a video explaining this Underworld.
That's coming up later! I'm trying to figure out how exactly to split up the
information. It might be several videos. Either way that wraps up this in-depth
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