The new SAO Alicization War of Underworld Opening.
Duel Black Kirito returns!
So what’s up Foxen here.
Another new SAO season comes another awesome opening.
Animation + music.
You won’t be surprised at how jam packed of hidden stuff there is here.
Thankfully I am going to keep this non-spoiler, with a small spoiler section near the end.
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And let’s fully awaken .
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Kicking this off Kirito in the school.
Alone, what a loner.
Naturally this is hinting at something in Kirito’s past.
Not to mention being alone fits the whole loner persona.
Notice this whole thing had this vintage / old film filter added which is used often when
showing scenes when looking in the past.
You do briefly see Kirito seeing a distant island?
This either represents the World End Alter seen later or if you do want to get more out
there, Kirito’s own floating Castle in the sky, if you will.
So a Kayaba Parallel.
Next up you have Asuna in Red, the red shadow.
Of course this being a stand in for Goddess Stacia and red and white have always been
Asuna’s colors.
This for Leafa green, Nice the Cat shape on shirt.
Green being for her Alheim character plus the Terraria Goddess account .
For Sinon blue.
Naturally you got her GGO Hair Goddess Solus.
Sinon is the only one that actually passed by very close to Kirito.
Actually they’re both parting ways.
You can interpret this as still having feelings towards Kirito.
Something that of course is out of her reach.
For all 3 of them they are steadily opening their eyes aka the ‘awakening’ theme .
Then for the oddball Alice yellow.
Actually those golden eyes definitely made me think of Kirito’s incarnation mode.
Honestly I kind laughed at this one.
Alice is not reaching Kirito.
This really goes back to Integrity Knight Alice really not knowing practically anything
about Kirito.
They were together for like half day.
Sorry Alice.
And no taking care of Potato Kirito doesn’t count.
That might as well have been a body pillow with Kirito’s face on it.
Freaking hell Ronie and Tiese spent more time with Kirito.
Anyway for something else notice Alice’s modern clothing .
Another way of looking at Integrity Knight Alice has been on this ongoing journey to
discover who she truly is.
Previously back in the first half of SAO s3, you had Integrity Knight Alice who previous
decided to return this borrowed body to Young Alice.
But you know what happened after Post Quinella fight, Young Alice and Eugeo were no more
so that was no longer possible.
Anyway getting to Tokyo Ghoul Kirito.
You got the guy being completely White pale, or more like Colorless Kirito.
Still with the same soul-less eyes.
Notably the arm is still missing.
Alright so for this part of the Opening I honestly think its freaking genius.
You got Red, Green, and Blue.
Notice anything about these 3 colors?
Perhaps due to my science background I thought this was the case when I first saw the opening,
then double checked afterwords.
The Colors Red, Green and Blue are actually the Primary Colors of light,
When you put them all together they become white.
White here being represented by the colorless Kirito.
On top of this all through this you had Reona’s intro line ask about the soul.
What color is your Soul?
Next up the Beam of Light.
It feels like this coming from the Seed.
You first got Aincrad to the left.
Alfheim Online to the right Aka Fairy Dance Arc.
GGO on the left aka Phantom Bullet.
Finally all of this has lead up to what has given birth the Underworld.
Although let me just mention technically even the Underworld is yet another pitstop
Next up the Integrity Knights looking into the sky.
You got Fanatio ,Bercouli, Sheyta, the Crimson Knight, Renly,
Even Ronie, Teise and Liena-senpai.
You may even spot a certain Potato Boy.
Post the kickoff new SAO episode, you now know those blue eyes represent the reinforcements
coming in.
Thankfully no more red knights, hopefully.
Unfortunately briefly you do see all the knights followed by everything just disappearing.
Without sugarcoating that is definitely not a good sign.
Anyway getting into the IRL shots, You got Bercouli and Fanatio maybe on a date
in real life.
No surprise the purple and blue totally make sense for them.
But then Silica nearby, notable yellow.
Im’ think could Silica have any relation to Alice?
With the yellow.
Probably not for this scene.
For the actual location, right away when I saw this I was like, hmm that location looks
pretty familiar.
It is specifically an Area in Shinjuku.
Naturally the places and businesses in the back are changed up a bit.
I live in Tokyo, Shinjuku so I do spend good amount of time here.
Next up Klein and Crimson Knight on the train.
Where’s your mask guys?
Come on they totally these two together due to their red color.
Notice how the guy’s dress.
I could picture this guy working at a Hotel or maybe night club?
Or even better I could totally see him in one of this vintage cafes around here..
Next up Sheyta and Agil.
Where are they?
To be honest I really dont got no clue.
There is some similiar-ish spot like this in Shinjuku that I know of but in the background
there’s not too much to go by.
I do know in Tokyo where Agil’s Dicy Cafe is located so maybe around there?
Fun Fact by the way: Agil’s Cafe is actually a Chinese food hole in the wall place.
Next up Ronie, Tiese, and Renly in real life.
I like how they got student uniforms on.
Correct skirt length btw!
In the background you do see Liz stalking the trio.
The more interesting tid-bit is how you can see the Augma Device UI.
In other words, really hinting at how Underworld citizens could visit real life.
Which could actually be very similar to Yui.
You have already seen her interacting with Asuna and Fiends in season 3.
Overall for this you might be wondering why are the knights in real life?
One take would be how the Integrity knights could live if they had been born in real life
instead of the Underworld.
Really going back to them being human.
Btw did you notice Someone’s hand moving the camera among these places?
Could it be Kirito or Kayaba?
Hmm
Next up the Fluctlight Acceleration UI.
You know about Kirito being at 1000x Acceleration during his Underworld adventure.
Right here it just keeps on rising, You can actually see it go past 1,000 before Yui enters
the shot.
For this Yui is glowing.
Naturally she’s played such huge part helping Mama and Papa just getting the ALO players
over.
Next up the White Kirito slideshow.
You have all these guys who of course are fighting for Kirito’s sake and the Underworld
citizens.
You got 3 Alheim online leaders + Agil and Klein.
Poor Agil, the dude’s got a cut on his forehead.
Over to the left the Crimson knight and Bercouli .
At this point it’s not really a spoiler since thieve shown them in the past trailer.
I mean even if they didnt you already saw them coming due to Liz’s speech.
Next Round of this slideshow.
You got Sheya, Silica, Liz and the Remaining Sleeping Knights.
You can actually see the damage detail on Liz’s shield.
Don’t’ forget even if they cant die, their personal accounts are at stake!
Then a much bigger focus on Goddess Sinon and Goddess Leafa.
You can actually already see leafa taking on Red Knights
Come on.
Where is Asuna?
Getting into the reflect in Kirito’s eye This platform here should be the World Enter
Alter.
Naturally that’s no only where Kirito, Asuna and everyone else need to take the passed
out Alice, Gabriel is also heading to that location too with the Hot potato.
You should notice Alice here still has that make-shift patch and her armor looks shattered.
As for the Blue Roses, obvious an indication of Eugeo.
And Lastly Asuna in the real world, you can even spot the ring!
Asuna and Kirito need to go on a long vacation after this whole mess!
In all you got 4 very important thoughts for Kirito.
Getting to the Alter, Integrity knight Alice, the lost Eugeo and his beloved Asuna he doesn’t
know is in the Underworld.
Next up the Lightcube cluster bleeding out.
The very clear obvious metaphor is just many lives from the Dark Territory and Human empire
are being killed off for this RATH experiment.
Just draining the world and soul in hopes of military usage.
Then that red spot on the ground.
It just screams Japanese Flag!!
Of course Rath being funded by Japan.
My quick interpretation for this mixing of Red, Black and this more Clear substances,
feels like w/e comes out of this AI experiment will be neither be inheritly bad or good.
There’s equal possibilities for either option.
Then Colorless Kirito sinking deeper in water.
This type of scene is all too common type of seeing of a char going into the water.
Usually depicting a char turning evil, getting depressed, slowing dying, or in general being
lost.
You saw this for Eugeo in a previous SAO Opening.
Next up overplayed onto Kirito’s face You got a bunch of Red knights,
A fellow with a gun, something that shouldn’t be in the Underworld.
Notice the lab coat.
You also got the Laughing coffin here.
Vassago up in front, this guy is persistent.
Dont forget about Gabriel, specifically his avatar from GGO.
Looks like he hungry for more souls.
You even have Eugeo making a Cameo.
Best blonde boy holding up a lightcube.
I would assume it was his own cube but that should be lights-out.
Naturally Eugeo will place some role in Kirito’s come back
Alright so the black swordsman Kirito.
Back in SAO Kirito had to endurance so much as the Black Swordsman.
Years later, the scars remain but as he discovered in Season 2 he has to take the burden and
continue advancing forward.
I’m only a bit surprised to see Kirito back with a smile.
Perhaps all of this WAS a learning experience.
Next up the Goddesses Kicking some tale.
First off Leafa getting some time to shine.
Then for Goddess Sinon, another kickass display!
I was thinking it was a repeat of her grand entrance but you can see the ruins to the
side.
Getting to Goddess Asuna vs Vassago, the dude is even damaging her armor.
I really wasn’t going to mention Vassago being in Laughing Coffin but you can clearly
see the PK guild symbol on his glove.
Now you know why he’s so obsessed with asuna and Kirito.
Then for Alice and Asuna, aww both of them being awfully close!
They really got a front row seat to the action.
That’s right Dual Blade Kirito officially Returns!
At least in the opening.
Now upgraded with the Night Sky Blade and Blue Rose Sword
The blue blade now fully restored too!
And then for the big moment Kirito vs the Shadow Angel Monster.
They’re really not waiting, they’re giving away this new enemy in the Opening.
Time to dual blade that mofo.
The question is was Kirito using the Starburst Stream?
That would surely be any sao fan’s first guess.
I actually tried to count the hits, which was super difficult given how the animation
and the angles.
It looked like maybe 17 but Kirito was still going.
This could possible be the Eclipse dual blade skill instead.
All of this leading up to the SAO Alicization Awakening sign.
Awakening being the Title SAO Light novel 17.
I’m predicting it now, this’ll change in the later half.
They may even include some updated animation.
Finally dual blade Kirito, Alice and Godess Asuna at the shiny gates.
Seriously Kirito and Asuna need a long vacation post season 3.
Maybe go on another camping trip.
Take Asuna to an Onsen.
Then some fun, you see the OG Nervegear At Kirito’s place.
On the display you can actually make our 4 swords.
Those belonging to Alice, Eugeo, Kirito and even Asuna.
This spot looks like it could be the alter on top on the previous floating platform.
So go ahead and let me know your favorite scene from the Opening!
The quick Quick Spoiler section is up ahead.
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Anyway spoiler section time up to the end of SAO Alicization.
For the first opening scene you do see Kirito in class.
This should actually be the last few pages of SAO LN 17
Really wheat’s going in Kirito’s head and mind.
As always really hoping they capture this right.
This will lead into Kirito’s internal mind struggles In SAO LN 18.
I do think the anime could really take this opportunity to expand on it .
As for the Guy with a gun, this should be the Traitor back in the Ocean turtle.
You know, the one that was helping out Quinella.
Then for Eugeo water scene.
This is Really representing the last little bit, the last push they needed to Awaken Kirito.
And now I can actually talk about it.
Kirito vs not a new Enemy but Gabriel, that’s right.
This guy is not even in his final form at least for the lately episode.
For this type of thing I always wondered how it’s be represented in the anime.
At least animation wise this seems like to be a really good indication
That said screw the animation, just please please capture the char moment right.
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