SAO season 3 just had his world premiere! So how was it? So what's up guys Foxen
here! Being a huge SAO fan I was super lucky that the SAO season 3 world
premiere was close enough. Let me go ahead and give you my quick thoughts on
the first episode then go into a spoiler breakdown. So far I've seen so much
confusion from the trailer dropped. What the hell happened to Kirito? Why are
they all kids? Alice? Eugeo? Who are these people? Am I supposed to
know them? And where are the oldfavorites like Asuna, Sinon, Silica Klein but
really I'm just joking about that last one. The good news is that you don't have
to worry. You're actually left to continue with that confusion for the
first half of this first season 3 episode. The start of this introduces young
Alice, Eugeo and Kirito. You get a good chunk of time just to see this groups
dynamics. Young Eugeo actually reminds me of a young Armin a bit. Kirito is
the one that always has to encourage him just pushing him so Kirito is
definitely more of a risk-taker. From the trio you slowly get to learn about how
this new VR world works and they do do a pretty good job with this introduction.
There's a lot here just to get you curious about how things work. There's a
lot of lore to this VR world that's slowly gonna gets introduced. For the
second half you spent it in real time with Kirito Asuna, and the rest of their friends.
You even get this very excellent anime original GGO scene. This definitely was
top quality it was similar to one of the battle scenes from the ordinal scale
movie and to be honest it reminded me of that excitement from the final battle
movie scene especially from Asuna and Kirito. And talking about the movie this sao
season 3 first episode takes place only a couple of months after ordinal scale.
While watching you do feel like season 3 is a natural progression from the events
of the ordinal scale movie and part of this comes from the simply beautiful
animation. When I mentioned from the trailer reviews how this is comparable
all! Due to all the editing I do I do to the SAO movie that wasn't a joke at
notice when things look a little off in animation when it does happen. For the
first SAO season 3 episode I didn't catch or notice any frame shot that was
done lazily or looked off. Fingers crossed right now that they're going to
be able to continue this high-quality animation for 50 episodes. Please
definitely take a break of it helps! As for the length of this episode they were
promoting this as an hour special but really it was more like 50
or so. Technically there was no ending shown instead at the opening song played
over the credits of the ending. Unfortunately there was no actual
opening visuals or ending visuals. It was just a black screen. This was Lisa's new
song from the opening. By the way Eri is also confirmed to be coming back to
do one of the endings for SAO season 3! As for the music Yuki Kajiura
returns as a serious composer! If you're at all familiar with the SAO soundtrack
which I'm sure you might be you'll be hearing a lot of familiar songs in the
background of hers as well as some new ones freshly made for season three. All
right so the spoiler talk ahead so let me go ahead and get my overall thoughts.
SAO season 3 looks freaking gorgeous and draws you in from the very beginning.
You're allowed to be left alone and be confused for a bit then slowly you start
piecing together. What is going on with this new VR world? By the end of this
episode you're gonna be enjoying so much what just took place until suddenly
you're left on a shocking cliffhanger. If you're a huge SAO fan you're in for a
year-long treat! Definitely look forward to this. I
will be covering SAO season three weekly. All right next up the spoiler talk. I'm
really just gonna go down the key events with some detail in this spoiler
breakdown. Feel free to ask me any questions for SAO season 3 episode 1. It
starts off with Eugeo chopping away at that giant tree. Young Kirito is
on the ground laying next to him just giving out some encouraging motivation.
Both of them mention how their apprentices right now. On the title card
you see the year 370 or so on it. Both Eugeo and Kirito hope to cut down this
tree one day. Unfortunately they can't even make it as 50 swings per day. Right
here you have Kirito going up to the giant tree and checking it stat on
the UI prompt. After calculating Kirito realized that to finish off this
trees HP it would take about 900 years. A little bit later young Alice shows up
with their lunch. Despite Alice being super young she made
a mountain of delicious looking food. From this you find out that Alice is a
daughter of the village leader. Alice right now is studying the sacred magic
arts. Eugeo and Kirito start to worry that they might not see Alice for a
while when she gets deeper into her magical studies. Some time later on Kirito
changes the topic to Alice's food. Kirito was disappointed that any food
that Alice made expired in only day or two. Why couldn't their food last
for like a week? Kirito wondered. This is where the trio started this
discussion about ice. Ice would be a way to preserve food much longer so in the
end they decided it's best to go find some ice. The issue for this is that the
only place with ice might be the End Mountain. The End Mountain was this
nearby mountain area which was a forbidden area. Alice argued that it's
going over the end mountain that's forbidden
so going inside should be totally fine. Oh yeah and they're supposedly supposed
to be a dragon in the mountain. Their bright idea is just to run if they do see
it. There's always two that shot from the trailer of the three climbing up and
then outside of this cave. As all three of them go inside the cave one of
them points out how the weather setting inside the cave is winter while it's
summer outside so weather in this world has simply changed based on changing
rooms. Anyway the trio continued inside they eventually find this ice cave from
the trailer shot. Here not only do they find a bunch of ice there's also a bunch
of gold coins and some other loot. Among this Eugeo finds the blue sword.
Kirito tried pick up this blue rose sword but he couldn't even left it up. In
the middle they find a couple of claw bones then some tail bones and so on. The
trio had just found the remains of a dragon that they brought up earlier.
Alice wondered the only one capable of killing a white dragon should be an
integrity knight but oh well back to the ice collecting. After the trio had their
fill none of them could remember which way they came in from. All of them
recommended going down a different pathway. Eventually the true made their
way to the outside except they got out the other end of the mountain. They were
literally looking into the forbidden dark land area. Just then they saw
two dragons up above flying each of them carrying a warrior. One of them being a
knight and the other a demon soldier. Both of these guys were battling and the
battling quickly became one-sided. The knight managed to knock the demon
soldier off the dragon so this demon soldier crash on the
ground below. Here the one that demon spotted the trio. It almost seemed like
this thing pulled off some demon Jedi forced moved towards Alice. Alice was
pulled oh so lightly. The soldier died but Alice
tripped over and barely her fingertip touched the forbidden zone.
All of a sudden you have this digital AI face that appeared right next to them. It
mentioned something about a forbidden taboo being broken then disappeared away.
Alice, Eugeo, and Kirito then run back to the village as fast as possible.
The next day comes around there's a bunch of people gathered in the town
square notably it included an integrity knight.
The knight said he came to pick up Alice she had broken a taboo so it was time
for her execution so time to chain up Alice on their dragon which honestly
seemed like way too much! Kirito and Eugeo tried to help her
out by arguing that they were there too but they only got ignored. At this point
young Kirito had the axe with him. He told Eugeo his bright idea to
attack the knight with his axe while Eugeo grabs Alice from him.
Kirito just run in swinging away however this blue energy shield
prevented his assault. The villagers then grab Kirito's crazy ass and pin him
down. As Eugeo tries to do something the taboo index thing appears on his eye and
he's totally stopped. Somewhere through this first part they mention how the
Axion Church has control over the taboo index then that the first half or so
comes to an end. You see Kirito waking up in this hospital
bed. Kirito later explains to the others that he's been working on his
part-time job sometimes for 10 days in a row.
Kirito has been helping this company rat to test their soul translator. This
involves Kirito going into this new VR world called Underworld.
Anyway this cuts into a new GGO scene with Sinon. I'm pretty sure that GGO
scene was anime original and my god that I loved it!
You see GGO Klein and Liz come down in an armored vehicle meanwhile little Silica
is on top with the machine gun. Eventually you got GGO Kirito coming
in with this light saber action! Oh yes and it's a Kiri-KO version
also known as a one with long hair. Oh and I can't forget about Asuna. Badass
Asuna showed up with their own lightsaber. I don't know why I didn't
think about this before! Asuna was just swinging away that bad
boy like her own SAO weapon. It makes total sense! Honestly seeing this combo
of GGO Kirito and GGO Asuna was worth the
ticket price alone! Eventually the scene comes to an end after the team they were
facing retreated. Sinon later mentioned that the team they were fighting on
doesn't have any losses. That's why Sinon thought that they
could win it but she didn't expect them to retreat. During their time in GGO these
guys to are see at this GGO bar. Right here you can see
some GGO game characters in the background for a few seconds. It was one
of the redheads and one of the white-haired girls from the fatal bullet
game. Oh I know at one point they do show the fatal bullet logo in the background too.
Unfortunately I'm always making videos so no time for games!
Next up later in the day Kirito meets up with Sinon at Agil's bar. Sinon
mentions how the fifth bullet of bullet tournament is coming up. She also brings
about the winner the fourth one won the first bullet of bullets too. This is
why Sinon wants Kirito to join her team. Oh and by the way Asuna is already
on her team so Kirito doesn't really have a choice. This is where Asuna pops
in from the back. With Asuna here the discussion turns to talking about Kirito's
part-time job. Kirito tells him about the company
Rath, the soul translator, and the VR world Underworld. Asuna and Sinon point out
how it looks like Kirito has notably lost some weight ever since he started
this part-time job. This is when Kirito starts going into more details. He
did though mentioned how he can't recall anything from his time inside Underworld.
He then goes into details about the soul translator. The Soul translator is this new
VR technology. It pretty much connects to what we know as the human soul. In this
case someone's Fluctlight. The Soul translator basically writes information
directly on someone's Fluctlight so it's capable of imprinting memories and due
to this the opposite should also be the case. Kirito finishes by thinking
that this doesn't seem like VR at all. He also wonders whether Kayaba's research
would eventually have led up to this type of world. Sometime during this Asuna
brings up that she's now tracking Kirito's heart on some app on her phone.
Kirito says that ever since he started working on this part-time job he's been
wearing this heart monitor. Oh and you could bet that SAO haters and parodies
are gonna run with it. This must be Asuna's anti cheating device which Sinon
does comment on! Anyway eventually Kirito and Asuna head out. Notice how at this
point Asuna does have that promise ring she got from the Ordinal scale movie.
They also did bring up the Aguma device in their conversation. After
walking a little Kirito starts to bring up his plans about the future.
He tells Asuna how he wants to move to the u.s. Virtual reality advancements
are supposedly superhead in the u.s. so Asuna wants to be at the heart of
that development. With this Asuna ask Asuna to come with him to the u.s.
Of course Asuna agrees and both of them kiss and yes
they do show you the kiss along with her ring. As a to continue walking down
suddenly Johnny Black appears. Johnny is a former laughing coffin member and the
only one remaining. Kirito mention something about how he did feel they
were being watched while they were at the cafe. Johnny here just goes insulting
about how Kirito is in real life. He then takes out the syringe and
charges Kirito. Kirito pushes Asuna out of the way. He manages to stab
Johnny with his umbrella however Johnny succeeds in stabbing
him with that syringe and yeah this is that shot from the trailer. Asuna screams
out for Kirito while Kirito collapses on the ground.
Then credits. So holy damn what a cliffhanger ending. I do think most shots
from the trailer actually appeared in this first episode.Tthe one thing that
definitely didn't show up was any fights with them with the orcs so going forward
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question of the day. How hyped are you for SAO season 3 now? Especially after
seeing this video? Do you have any thoughts on Eugeo
or Alice so far? And does anyone want them to take a break for SAO season 3 in
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