Frickin finally Kirito got a new blade and did they just skip two years?
so what's up guys Foxen here and back to Kirito and Eugeo's Underworld
adventure. By the way a full in that breakdown of the season three opening is
now up definitely go ahead and watch that after. For now let's go ahead and
get started. SAO Alicization episode seven and
while we're at seven already so about the two-year time skip Kirito and Eugeo
are now at the Academy and both of them are now nineteen and yes I've
already seen a bunch of people complaining about this time skip. I mean
you wouldn't be wrong that's two whole years and I'll definitely be talking
about this throughout the video. Anyway at the start of this freakin Kirito same
as always even two years later he still needs someone to wake his ass up. Isn't
there any alarm clock sacred arts not that Kirito's any good at that anyway.
Poor Eugeo are now doing Selka's job and about that skip content. Right at the
beginning you have Eugeo recalling their adventure in Zakkaria so let me touch on
a couple things skipped here. The Zakkaria chapter was only about 90
pages. Five months after leaving the Rulid village both of these two were at
this next town for a while. Naturally Kirito was overseeing Eugeo's
training with the Aincrad technique. Both of them hoped to win the
tournament here just to be able to go to the Academy in the central city which
they are at now. So all of this pretty much got done in Eugeo's flashback and to be honest I was extremely worried after finding out that we're gonna be
skipping all of this. Now after seeing what's been done I'm actually pleasantly
surprised. The biggest thing cut out here was a
certain character introduced that was keeping an eye on Eugeo and Kirito.
The certain character was watching them from afar but at the same time very
close. You want to know until later whether this character was an enemy or a
friend and I actually have a feeling they're gonna be cutting out this
character almost completely. Then the second major thing that got cut which
was that slimy noble that Kirito faced. This guy actually tried to get
Kirito injured before their match and even during the match this noble guy was
using a strong training weapon in other words cheating. It really comes down to
nobles looking down on those from lower backgrounds and often using loopholes in
the taboo index or laws to commit horrible things. As for why they cut this
out let me actually come back to this later in the video.
Next up Lina getting introduced so Lina is the second best at this
Academy. Serving under her is the little intern Kirito and I do like
Lina's first appearing now in this more casual setting. Originally you first
met her during Kirito's training match that came much later in the episode. By
the way right here Eugeo is still too way uptight which is quite a contrast to
the more laid-back Kirito. I guess it's only expected considering you
have the shy Eugeo and his humble upbringing. Kirito the other hand
seems very closed and pretty casual with Lina. That's why it was a little
surprising to see Kirito get super formal with her regarding her
graduation. I guess it's just Kirito's Japanese habits kicking in. Anyway
getting into the deeper mechanics of the underworld
the Stasia window makes a return. By the way I will be making a full indepth video
on the underworld later on. The key stat for the underworld people here is the
object and system control Authority. HP is also nice to have. I know they make
a mention of it and let me just over simplify it the object control Authority
is like your strength stat in game while the system control Authority is more
like your mana or intelligence. No surprise that the stat is super low for
Kirito. He's always been quite bad at this magic stuff. I do like how he did
though here subtly hints at Selka leveling up too for her sacred magic
arts. As for this mental image system let's talk about this for a bit. I was
really curious to see how this was gonna be translated and fleshed out in the
anime. This was a concept that was covered throughout the novels. It also
went by various names like the imagination system, the incarnation
system, a system overwrite or one's will and transcending past that. The way the
Kirito puts it here is how one's confidence could give you a boost in
other words this mystery unseen factor that could potentially multiply your
strength and yeah Kirito talked about it however I am super curious to
see how this gets applied in future battles in the anime. That's gonna be a
real treat. As for Kirito versus the lovely
Lina senpai my God loving that beautiful skill animation also glad to
see someone other than Kirito and Eugeo using those skills. Kirito did mention
that confidence booster when it comes to Lina part of what makes her so powerful
is herself not imagining herself losing at least not to Kirito. You could only
see the system in play with how much trouble Kirito is having and let me
actually mention something my previous video somewhat brought up
the fact that Kirito should be near integrity knight level since he could use
SAO skills so if you actually think this Kirito versus Lina actually gives you a
a good example of where Kirito stands. Forget about Kirito fighting
integrity knights just in training nights at the Axiom Church would wipe the
frickin floor with Kirito as he stands right now. As for Kirito trying
to be clever sorry but Lina saw right through you. Lina
figured on that Kirito was hiding something and there still are a lot of
SAO skills that Kirito purposely hasn't used yet which was really so one
day he would have an advantage in battles, that was part of the reason
anyway but back to Lina she's freaking powerful but she's only second best at
this Academy. The number one guy is Volo he definitely has that higher confidence
and background training to give him an edge at the same time Lina's self-doubt
surely had a negative multiplying factor for herself. Next up let's talk about the
slimy bastards in the present story so you got this blonde and gray haired dude
intentionally trying to troll Kirito. The best advice of course comes
from Eugeo which is really to ignore these trolls and not give them any
attention. As for Kirito's green thumb or was it garden dumb? Either way Kirito
has taken a strong interest in gardening ever since entering the Underworld. I
know they mention its supposedly being Lina's graduation present which is sweet
but these special flowers can be used to boost sacred arts here in the
Underworld so time to make a good profit or become more powerful. Too bad that Eugeo
kind of brings the mood out by bringing up Kirito's supposed in lost memories.
Kirito must have been like crap! I totally forgot about that BS but
seriously you know Eugeo's main goal right now is to become an integrity
knight in order to find Alice. To him it really just seems that Kirito is
tagging along for the ride and I know Kirito's trying to play off the fact
that he wants to become a knight simply due to him being a swordsman but there
is more to it. Not mentioned here is Kirito is actually hoping that there's a
system console or just some way to log off within the Axiom Church. Then you
have the truth of their situation coming out which is Eugeo and Kirito needing one
another. Kirito being one who didn't know
anything about the underworld and Eugeo being one that needed that extra push in
also learning some powerful sword skill wasn't a bad bonus either. By the way I
really love this shot of Kirito reaching out
which is a very nice parallel to Eugeo doing the same in the very early
episodes. Unfortunately for the best buddies the trolling Nobles just won't
stop. Talk about losers having no life. I guess
to be a little fairer they don't have things like Netflix or the Internet.
Gotta pass the time somehow by making others miserable I suppose. Next up time
to stop by the local blacksmith. This really brought back some wonderful
memories of Kirito visiting Liz in season one and ah yes they brought back
the Gigas branch scene via flashback. Fingers crossed some past stuff comes
back too. Kirito's trusty weapon is in fact made from the strongest branch from
the gigas tree they chopped down. In fact all the divine class weapons in the
Underworld have some deep history to them and right now I'm just freakin loving
Kirito's new black blade especially the little detail that getting heavier
was completed and who doesn't agree this new Night Sky sword is definitely a
beautiful blade. I was really curious to see how it will look in the anime
especially after the excellent job done for Eugeo's Blue Rose sword. The one
thing they did cut out here that I should mention was Kirito
accidentally breaking something after swinging his new blade but really
definitely let me know what you think of Kirito's new blade! Just pause the
video for a second and post whether you like it or not? Is it blue rose sword better?
And how does this new blade compared Kirito's past weapons? As for Kirito
testing out this new dark toy now you're getting the second piece of info on why
Kirito chose to hide some SAO skills. It turns out the training weapons
could only do 2 hit skills max and then even using the Blue Rose sword the limit
has been for four but damn it Kirit! You screwed up big time getting the number
one's uniform dirty! Even licking a clean wouldn't be enough and it's almost
funny too because part of the reason that Volo showed up was him wanting to
do almost the exact same thing as Kirito. Oh don't mind me I wasn't going
to practice on my day off. Keep in mind that Volo is a noble and he is really
just taking advantage of the fact that Kirito screwed up to get a nice
challenge. Volo is even pretty crafty and how he
puts Kirito in a corner. Of course naturally Kirito wasn't gonna back down
especially not when he has this golden opportunity to try out his new blade for
a test drive. As for where the story is right now it's
really getting to the point where SAOis gonna switch into nonstop conflict one after
another. All right so getting into the light novel cuts and changes for this
episode. I already covered the major points of the Zakkaria tournament. Let's
get into other juicy things so two years later Kirito had estimated the
acceleration being 1,000 times that should have been about 18 hours in
real life. Kirito also mentioned the fact that during these two years there were
countless times that he woke up crying just thinking of Asuna, Suguha, his
parents and friends poor lonely Kirito. As for Kirito at the academy
Kirito mention the fact that he wanted to not interact too much with females
and definitely didn't want to face against girls in tournaments. Too bad
for him right at the start he serves under Lina. As for the Academy itself
most of the students at the academy our children for Nobles and rich merchants
only about 20% of them come from poor families. As for Kirito's new Night Sky
sword the novel mentioned this sword being chiseled instead of being forged. After
all the gigas tree was fire resistant and another thing about the Night Sky sword
when Kirito try to get this thing a registered the lady at the counter was
super surprising the stats of Kirito's new blade. I got a feeling this is gonna
come back later. Then last up Kirito apologizing to Volo. Here is a very
interesting detail. Kirito mentioned that the only other time he apologized
so desperately was after Asuna beat him up in her room this is back in SAO. So Oh
Asuna and Kirito quite kinky! Now overall let me mention something about the SAO
light novel change.s I think for me I definitely gotta use through the changes
for the light novel part of this has been a natural occurrence for the SAO
serious but also other light novel series like konoSuba and especially ReZero.
This newest episode felt like watching the ReZero anime after reading the ReZero
light novel which means an episode being almost super sped up. That's why at the
end of the day being super strict about the light novel will only bring
disappointment. There are a couple things I wish that were cut out and I do have
my issues here and there but still overall I've been happy with SAO
Alicization so far and just considering the fact that they do have
to squeeze this in only 50 episodes some stuff isn't going to make it in. I mean
the second part of Alicization feels like it could be 40 episodes alone.
Really helping the A1 studio does it justice! By the way my fall end up
breakdown on the SAOAlicization for opening is now up definitely watch that
next but anyway more important let me hear from you now. How are you liking
Kirito's new night sky sword? Does anyone here have issues with the
two-year time skip? And then for light novel readers is anyone really missing
the Zakkaria chapter? Anyway if you enjoyed this video smash that thumbs up
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