Another week another integrity knight fight time! Time for Kirito and Eugeo versus the
Golden knight Alice! So what's up guys Foxen here but first
Kirito vs Fanatio! That cliffhanger from last week. You're
getting to integrity fights this week for the price of one and by the way
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SAO Alicization episode 16. Only eight more to go! At the start is the
finale of Kirito vs. Fanatio. Oh yes Kirito's shikai unleashed and yes
Kirit for the win with the black getsuga of his. Technically a win but both of
these knights did go down hmm Does Kirito as a knight now? Perhaps an honorary
one. Overall it was actually a pretty quick finale to that integrity knight fight. By
the way for the heavily piercing sword versus the night sky sword here's
something not mentioned at the anime. that Kirito's sword was technically a
perfect matchup. Recall the origins of the sword that's right once upon a time
you had that demon tree just greedily absorbing all of the Sun Goddess's
light turning it into energy but anyway Kirito succeeded in smashing that
Fanatio knight real good and goddamn she just got sent flying. Something
interesting to notice is that some sort of symbolism with Kirito smashing the
goddess painting on the ceiling. Better watch out Kirito you're going up against
the underworld gods so I definitely want to hear from you what do you think about
Kirito's perfect weapon control? Does it fit Kirito or did you
expect something else? To be honest I originally did expect something a little
different although a black gestuga does suit this black swordsman very well at
least I think so. As for Eugeo switching over to his
side he's mostly a okay unfortunately mr. swiss-cheese Kirito was
leaking blood everywhere. Poor Eugeo couldn't plug up Kirito's holes with
that magic sauce of his. I do really like how Eugeo didn't hesitate at all just
returning the favor of with that life transferring sacred arts from before.
Too bad that Eugeo didn't get his very own young Alice visual just like Kirito
did a few years back. As for Eugeo's conflict here they actually
expanded on his frustrations from the last episode regarding the Knights.
It really does boil down to you seeing them now as humans not some faceless
emotionless knight servants. I mean just look at Fanatio. he has been serving
Quinella as an integrity knight but still she has her own repressed thoughts
and feelings about one day finding love. Kirito's counseling here doubles down on
the integrity knights having this eternal conflict themselves. Also some very nice
were shadowing with Kirito dropping the line about their commander. Ph cannot
wait! Now for the Eugeo blizzard ice aftermath you guys were worried about
Fanation but how about those knights just chilling
or should I say freaking popsicles about now? Also how about Fizel and
Linel both of these kiddies were flat on the ground so hopefully they avoided
getting frosty somehow and about these two knight apprentices. They were really
only a quick mention in the anime. They didn't even show them. In the novel Eugeo
smashed their weapons and gave them about 70% of that paralysis cure.
Eugeo estimated they had about 10 minutes to get the hell away from them oh and
Eugeo was sure to double-check that they had no more weapons too just in case. As
for Kirito trying to rescue the integrity knight Fanatio I mean after all
he said about her being human how couldn't he at least try? Gotta save
Fanatio her beloved senpai hasn't noticed her yet so yes Kirito really wants
to save all of his opponents. Will it also be the same with the nudist
quinella? So yes Kirito right here really reminded me of Ichigo from Bleach
just always trying to rescue whatever opponent he almost died against. I mean
going as far as easing that precious dagger from Cardinal come on guys you
have one left so let me know we think about Kirito trying to rescue people?
To be honest it does seem foolish then again I probably try to do the same as
Kirito at least I hope I would. At the very least that ultra rare dagger became
to max heal potions. Plus two potions to the inventory. Hey Cardinal you should
have really given them a gallon of this stuff cuz really this potion stuff is
amazing. it Even healed up Kirito's hole filled jacket. That is some top
level healing potion. By the way about the quinella stuff mentioned this
actually goes back to Quinella spending most of her time sleeping on
that best buddy bed of hers. Recall that she previously had this storage problem
one of the way she found around it was just to minimize the stuff she does on a
day-to-day basis then she just deletes the memories that aren't important. It's
like cleaning out your computer. Cardinal also mentioned the fact about there
being only a few knights left. She definitely knows her stuff. On the higher
floors there's only Alice and the Captain Commander of the Knights Bercouli although
he's busy doing something right now. Other than them is really just quinella
and best buddy the clown. Most of the other
integrity knights are usually stationed at the mountain range. Next scene up the
elevator girl the one from the opening. I do like how Kirito was super
casual about them being intruders against the church. Yeah let's just go
ahead and tell her then see how she reacts. I know some of you have been
asking whether this place had a fracking elevator so here you go modern
technology does exist kind of. The only thing missing right here is some lovely
elevator music and by the way just goddamn that animation on Eugeo right
here took a massive hit. They must have had the c-team on this scene. I'm really
hoping they fix this on the blu-ray but back to miss elevator here to be honest
her little tale from the novel was pretty sad. Quinella pretty much stripped
her of everything basically making her into this NPC. I mean she doesn't even
have a name oh but Quinella isn't she so generous the poor girl have still
allowed a lunch break and to sleep. I could bet you that quinella just didn't bother
looking around for the sacred arts to remove that and eventually just forgot
about this girl. I mean who uses this elevator so here's
something to wonder about what would happen to her if quinella did disappear?
For Kirito and Eugeo she's really just another poor soul to save. Anyway
before their cloudtop adventure oh Eugeo you're so carefree let's
defeat quinella then Cardinal will take care of everything including the Underworld
although he's not wrong. Of course Cardinal wants to do a full-on Thanos
on this world. That'll be a little awkward for Kirito to explain later.
Yeah buddy let's talk about that way later Eugeo. Next up let's welcome back
the golden Knight Alice so they just had a calm Alice here meditating it's Eugeo's
turn to stab his own knight. Inlike in the 50th floor that had fine knights and this
really is her own one knight army. Poor Eugeo too his heart being almost ripped
down just by the site of Alice. Come on easier you got a knock Alice out
then throw your pokeball at her oh wait wrong series. As for Alice here looking
as stunning as ever. Really cannot wait for some of her figures to come out!
Unfortunately for Kirito and Eugeo Alice has mastered her bankai can you say
Senbon Zakura? Is this McDonald's cuz I'm loving it? It really reminds me of
byakuya's shikai or bankai move and to be honest with bleach gone I'm really
enjoying this even more now. Hey Alice just try controlling that with
your hands it'll double the speed let's see how many bleach fans get that. For
Kirito here gotta love how quick he is at making up this bullcrap. Oh miss
Alice please forgive my disrespect. I formerly
challenged me to the fairest of duels. one-on-one. As for Alice's fragrant olive
sword's origin how nice of you to share the details when asked so yes her sword's
origin was actually also this divine tree the oldest in the underworld. Which
is stronger Kirito's log or Alice's rod hmm. For the actual fight
Kirito was being thrown around like a freaking rag doll. Clearly this
guy is no match against Alice. Alice at this point should be the second
strongest knight move over Fanatio! Just recall back that Alice had no problems
carrying both of their swords plus her own divine weapon. Kirito can't
even lift his night sky sword and the Blue Rose sword at this point but don't
count out Kirito just yet. Kirito with pulling that gentleman move
on Alice. I got a love seeing him play dirty. Naturally a knight like Alice
wouldn't have expected that just gotta stab her real quick although
come on Eugeo you freaking mess up not frosting Alice's divine sword. I do have
to mention that I do like how Kirito restrained Alice. In the novel I just
pictured him pinning her down on the ground. I'm glad that didn't happened.
Anyway that firkin finale what a cliffhanger quite literally.
Definitely better than last week's and perhaps the best of season three so far.
Alice and Kirito just got vacuumed out of that exploding
Tower whoops is that a double suicide? And then to make matters worse you had
the wall healing itself. I wouldn't want to be Eugeo at that moment. Overall for
this episode I did love seeing the matchup versus Alice but I do have to
bring out one complaint about this matchup. This Alice fight was clearly a
step down in animation from the last two integrity knight fights especially when
compared to the crimson knight one. For that I am a little disappointed
I really wish they saved them more for this Alice better than the crimson knight
one. I mean that guy's not that important. I mean just throughout this episode you
did see some lower quality shots which I could deal with but I was just hoping
they were saving up some of the resources for this Alice fight. Now I'm
actually getting a little worried about the upcoming Bercouli and Quinella
fight. How is that gonna look? Fingers crossed that they actually redraw some of
this stuff entirely for the blu-ray. Next up let's talk about some of the changes
from the light novel going into the SAO Alicization anime. Once again I am
happy to say that there's only minor differences. First off is the Fanatio
aftermath. Fanatio in the novel was described to be much worse. She had more
holes in her body really from her own damn attack and then she got burnt up
even more from Kirito's black getsuga. In the anime version she only had like
this massive hole in her gut but not as crispy. Next up sticking with the scene
is something regarding Eugeo. When Kirito was actually trying to rescue her
just calling out he included this line saying that I have to rescue her even if
it meant I die. At this moment Eugeo really started to wonder what Kirito meant
by that. Eugeo was someone from the underworld so Kirito dying
shouldn't be any different from him dying or anyone else dying. Basically
throughout this you had Eugeo just wondering. He wondered even more about
this when Kirito just stepped on the elevator and also just before they
stepped into the fight with Alice. The thing about Cardinal that he would
explain later. Oh Eugeo you're not gonna be happy
about this but at least you're included in the people in that Kirito wants to
save. Next up staying on the 50th floor when Kirito was chatting with Cardinal
some of Quinella's pet bugs appeared and freaked out Eugeo. Eugeo did
step on one of them but then he tried to run away cuz bugs. In other words Quinella
was very much aware about them getting closer and closer
despite her snoozing away like a Snorlax. Obviously in this episode that is show
up at all and I could totally see why they cut
that out. Next the last little bit is Kirito versus Alice actually brought up
the weight of the sword before. Right here Kirito fully-realized while taking
this sword head-on that it actually weights several times that of his night
sky sword. In other words Alice can lift. Ny the way
really quickly let me mention that I do have a full breakdown on the second
Alicization opening go ahead and definitely check that out! Some of the
hidden stuff in the opening have been revealed so far and I also did include a
major spoiler section at the end of that video for those of you that want to know
what's coming up. Anyway question of the day how much did you enjoy Kirito
and Eugeo versus Alice? How do you rank the for integrity knight Fights so far? Is
Alice on top for? oh and how about that cliffhanger?
come on has there been a better cliffhanger this season? but anyway
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