Finally at the climax versus Quinella! So many people are dropping like flies!
Come on best buddy Eugeo. So what's up guys Foxen here! Oh my god Eugeo
and Cardinal. Let the pain and suffering begin and
maybe just maybe I'll become mr. popular today cuz I got some mixed feelings on
some of the stuff this episode. By the way do be sure my can subscribe for
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videos so let's get started. Cardinal vs. Quinella let the trash-talking begin so
you got Quinella talking down to Cardinal I guess in more ways than one
and by the way looking absolutely divine but of course Quinella was really just
playing with her meal in hopes of baiting Cardinal to come out of the hole but
oh no Quinella suddenly sealed this whole area into the shadow realm. I mean
she was definitely prepared she couldn't let little Cardinal escape again. And oh
look who made a return the sword Titan. I've actually seen a good chunk of you
mentioned being disappointed about the sword titan being overpowered but
quickly taken out by Cardinal. Well the golden killing machine wasn't out just yet.
Cardinal really only got the sword Titan a little toasted. Anywya getting
it to the harsh truth about the sword Titan that came out this whole thing
really just boils down to being another one of Quinella's lovely experiments.
To give quinella more credit Cardinal and Kirito really underestimated her.
Naturally Quinella would have been aware about the incoming dark territory
invasion. I mean it'd be weird if Quinella was clueless about that so forget about
all the integrity knights. All of those things have thoughts and feelings
sometimes they even rebel against you looking at you Alice. Why not just make
the perfect killing machine that doesn't disobey so yes it turns out this oswordr
titan is pretty much just transmitted bunch of human fluctlights and then
Quinella really just wanted to multiply this effect. Let's just go ahead and wipe
out half of the human Empire to make these things. What the hell half? Did
Quinella get freaking inspired by Thanos? By the way really quickly once again I
am loving the ceiling art. I've only got a shot of the bow wielding goddess hmmm
looks like she's a little cold. Anyway getting into the deeper reveals
about the sword Titan yes unfortunately this thing was given life by using the
memory fragments of the integrity knights which really just means those integrity
knights were really just a stepping stone. Recall that the memory
frags were all from the knight's loved one? I mean just on saying to Quinella
brag about how this pretty much puppet was just moving on instinct trying to
reach out to his loved ones this whole thing made me feel super disgusted with
her and I actually applaud that. All this really comes down to what I mentioned in
my past videos about Quinella seeing human love as a weakness and fully
trying to use and take advantage of that. As quinella put it this love emotion is
really just a means of controlling others this right here really it seems
like it speaks volumes about Quinella. I think even Eugeo has like an episode or
two ago if she wasn't loved as a child or who knows perhaps Quinella grew up
normally but then lost any human connections when she found out this whole
Underworld was some type of simulation. As for Cardinal hesitating to take out
the golden titan to be honest I was more than a little surprised at this. Was this
just some super attachment to humans coming from the original girl or was it
more so something Cardinal develop over the centuries? Think of it as Cardinal
being this counter opposite to Quinella's mindset. Let me just mention in
the novel they did specifically mentioned that Cardinal was deeply against
murdering in this case that did include the sword Titan and it was made from
all the human fluctlights. Although to counter that the novel also
goes into detail that Cardinal would be able to bypass that if she truly wanted
to so unfortunately for this it seems like there's not least a few problems with
the whole situation. All these human fluctlights have already been fused into
the sword titan or sword material. I guess later on
Cardinal would be able to undo it maybe with a little bit of time although maybe
it's not too difficult so she did fuse Eugeo a little bit later. Then just
assuming Cardinal wouldn't be able to do anything about those lost people if you
don't stop this goddess right here she's about to do the same to half of the
human Empire. Do you really want to hesitate now? I mean if you really don't
want to destroy the sword Titan freakin restrict that somehow while you
take out Quinella. It seems like the biggest reason for Cardinal hesitating
in the first place was additional possibility of also losing the trio
behind her Kirito Eugeo and Alice which brings up the next thing. You then have
Cardinals a little deal her life in exchange for Kirito Alice and Eugeo
being let go. To be honest in hindsight this does seem like a very god-awful
decision on her part. The one thing I did like from this was Cardinal getting
Quinella to swear on her own fluctlight that being really the only thing
precious to Quinella at this point although for this
I do have to question it further. I really don't see any reason why Quinella
would be so trustful and then hold up her end of the deal when Cardinal got
vaporized. Not shocked one bit at all that she wanted to play with her food.
Naturally I knew the Cardinal loli dying was coming up this episode although that
never really didn't make it any less painful to watch. Freakin Quinella just
using that black lightning spam. She is totally on the dark side and God the
added touch with the foot remaining there. For a split second it almost
seemed like Cardinal withstood that assault then it pulled back ah.
So yes the Cardinal loli got super barbecue-ed. I do have to give the SAO
studio huge props for this whole Cardinal scene right down to her getting
charred up. Next up Eugeo's super weird fetish requests or should I say final
wish. Wanting Cardinal to do some human transmutation with him and his blue rose
sword. by the way very nice of Quinella to give these guys some time actually
catch their breath and say their goodbyes. For this I'll really just
mention that in the anime they actually cut out the line from Quinella or she
specifies that she'll give them some time to say their goodbyes. Anyway back
to Eugeo once again uttering the words remove core protection. This I'm actually
by his own choice. For the whole light show visuals very nice touch with Eugeo
combining with the young Alice fragment. Then interesting choice with that cross
symbolism so what would win an ultra power blue Rose plus release
recollection or the sword Titan that should be several times as powerful but
do you know what happened freaking awesome Eugeo this time was the one
doing the penetrating although pretty fair since that thing had this weak
spot at the center point and then finally getting to Cardinals real last
moment just disappearing into the light. Goddamnit she got dusted. Interesting
parallel with her champion Kirito now on when in the past Cardinal was
a part of the system that Kirito was desperately fighting against back in
SAO. Now for the Eugeo blade mode versus Quinella nudist mode honestly how I
loved seeing this fake goddess taking some bloody damage.
Unfortunately this day extracted a heavy toll. What did it cost? One powerful loli
the young Alice and best buddy Eugeo. Goddamn it blonde boy Eugeo got split
down the middle and notice right here they were definitely
doing some clever censoring with that stone there which I bet will be removed
on the blu-ray but then further damage even the actual blue rose sword got
shattered. For this let me actually quickly clarify something about Eugeo.
Everyone seems to have already counted Eugeo out but he's actually
alive. The only person truly taken out this
episode was poor Cardinal. Then I do have to mention something about the holy Eugeo
blade scene. I don't know I think right now I'm not too much of a fan of the whole
sword scene sequence and I definitely wanna know your thoughts down below.
I mean how I pictured there was Eugeo doing the whole sword combo thing then
instantly launching straight at the sword Titan. Then later a straight stab at
Quinella. The anime did do that Eugeo had a little bit more flying action with
the actual wings. I don't know maybe it's something I'll get used to it with time.
As for quinella just a little wet it is but a flesh wound.
To be honest for this I was surprised when Quinella really just didn't heal
herself why not do it? Then I expected her to try reattaching her arm back but
even that didn't happen. She instead switched that into a weapon. Come on
Quinella you're just like your knights. Super extremely overconfident. Anyway now
you actually have the final fight way Quinella that's beginning. Once again you
have Kirito feeling super down temporarily being in this broken-down
state. This right here instantly reminded me of
the time that Asuna got killed back in SAO while fighting Kayaba. Of course this
was made even more obvious with Alice stepping in to take the hit which is
kind of why I wish they didn't splice in that old footage in but hey they
actually been kind of avoiding SAO callbacks so I'll take it minor nitpick.
Either way once again you have black swordman rising. Final episode next week!
Quinella vs Kirito and let me just say do not expect anything like the opening
although i do say that as kind of a vague statement. It's been a while since i
read it so i don't recall the exact details so overall for the events for
this episode you have one Cardinal going down. I think this episode really
reminded me of also not being too much of a fan of the stuff from the SAO light
novel some of the stuff that happened here. It really seemed like Cardinal was really
too quick to give in. It really felt like okay so you got this all-powerful
Quinella equivalent. They now need a way to take her out or remove her
completely. That way the battle could shift over to
Eugeo Alice and Kirito. Maybe that's why I really think
this whole switching over to give Eugeo the big moment could have been done
differently and more effectively and don't get me wrong. Right now it's not the
biggest issue in the world for me but it does feel bigger than this simple
nitpick about the whole situation. Which is why I'm definitely curious how
do you feel about Cardinal's choice? Was she barbecued way too easily? Either
way I am about to rewatch SAO Alicization this week. I do need
something to watch anyway on my flight over to Japan. Next up let's go into the
light novel what changes going into the anime some highlights so perhaps sounding
like a broken record but very nice adaptation just some details and thoughts
cut out for the anime. First off something about the sword Titan not
mentioned in the anime was how this monster had this auto healing ability.
Most likely this healing ability was granted by the release recollection. Next
up some info about the integrity knight memory fragments. I feel like it was
hammered a lot more in the novel how these memory fragments now exists as a separate
being from the original user. For example the blonde Alice fragment pretty much
being that young blonde girl from a decade back. Next up some Kirito thought
cut out. As Kirito was watching Cardinal being hit by the Thunder dark attacks
Kirito thought about that slash from the sword Titan not too long ago. He could
still feel the blade tearing deep into his stomach area. Kirito felt like
he was branded with this image of being defeated. It's really only helped to
bring out Kirito's fear something that perhaps were prevent him from calling
forward the black swordsman persona. In his current state Kirito felt he
wouldn't stand any chance versus any integrity knight. Next up some Eugeo
thoughts cutouts specifically about his final goal. Eugeo was convinced that
all of this had been his fault since he sure was the one that wanted to go out
and rescue Alice. Eugeo really only felt worse by the fact that he previously had
fallen to Quinella's seduction. You did hear the line about him feeling powerless;
Eugeo thought about even if Quinella actually kept her promise to let them go
Quinella definitely split them all in different faraway locations. In the worst
case Eugeo may never see Kirito again or ever return to the Rulid village. As
for Eugeo combining with the sword Eugeo partly got this idea by recalling the
blue rose sword's memory which is how the blue rose originally was a combination
of the rose and ice on top of the mountain top.
Next up Eugeo cross mode the only thing I quickly mentioned was how the
anime actually kept Eugeo's clothing. In the SAO light novel Eugeo got fully
stripped at this fusion moment. I guess they really only wanted one
store to shine here. Next up young Alice's memory so you had to use your
fusing was her memory fragment to make this powerful winged blade.
Why didn't Quinella create a blade from Alice's fragment? Not mentioned in
the anime was how young Alice's memory fragment had this vast amount of love
sealed within the fragment. Young Alice wasn't limited to deeply loving only one
person instead. Alice loved Eugeo Selka her parents and everyone in the village.
Quinella just wasn't able to create a weapon to match that link at least not
yet anyway more important now let me hear from you question of the day. Anyone
else feeling down about what happened to Cardinal and Eugeo this episode? And
precisely aftermath how do you feel about the whole Eugeo and Cardinal
events that took place this episode? Are you ready for the mid-season finale next
week? Any predictions? Post down below! If you're anime only you'll definitely be
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