How many mysteries are in the SAO alicization opening?
So what’ up guys foxen here!
Time for in in-depth analysis and breakdown on the newest SAO s3 opening!
There’ll be mild spoilers although I’ll avoid major plot points.
Let’s get started!
3D shot of two swords with the text Projection Alicization.
Alicization is the name of this S3 arc and you just found out the what Rath is working
on itself is called Project Alicization.
Blue Rose Sword Of course you’ve already seen this since
the 1st episode.
Specifically the blue rose sword is the weapon Eugeo not only wields later, but Eugeo is
the owner of it.
He did find it after all Black sword the Night Sky sword.
Since Kirito needs his own weapon naturally he goes for a dark weapon .
It matches his past sword that a Boss dropped in SAO.
Kirito’s Black sword actually has a slightly higher authority than Eugeo’s weapon by
1.
A smaller but important detail to take notice is the 2 blades spinning at the start.
Kirito mentioned in the novel how he felt the swords were a parallel to each other
Kirito mentioned before how he felt a bond with his weapons as if it was an extension
of himself Btw don’t forget the text, Beginning.
That’s actual the Title of the 1st light novel for this Arc.
There’s beginning followed by RUNNING..
Then you got the shot of Young Alice and Knight Alice in between the blades.
This could represent the thoughts and determination from each one of them to find this lost Alice.
At the same time, neither of them is aware that Alice had already been upgrade into this
Integrity Knight
Next up the trio in this strong sunlight.
This background here actually resembles the sky when Aincrad was being destroyed.
Kirito actually mentioned how at time the sunset in the Underworld reminded him of that
floating castle.
This is followed by the trio running in the fields.
At this point you’ve gotten a good sense of how close these three were in the past
. Both this and the previous bright image are
reference to this art shot from the novel.
Kirito original saw this picture as past memory when he woke up in the Underworld on the 2nd
episode.
In the anime version you now got this Young Eugeo and Alice running together, then slowly
turning back at Kirito.
Next shot up, some house construction in the woods.
This little place being setup should be the 1st humans in the Underworld.
Specifically they’re the 4 Rath volunteers that logged into the underworld and were given
fluctlight clones to raise.
Then you see Young Kirito as this development is rapidly progressing
The following show is more construction but a different location
This is in fact the starting village Rulid being built.
You can even spot the church in the middle!
Then finally you got the central City Centoria being built as well
At the very center you got the Axiom Church white pillar.
You’ve heard about them creating the taboo index.
The leader and Integrity Knights actually live in this white tower.
More on this later!
All Around you got 4 different sections representing the 4 Empires of the human world.
The Rulers of these sections got their castle or HQ closest to the Axiom Church.
Naturally the more wealth and nobles live close to the center.
You’ll find out more about the people living here as Kirito and Eugeo continue their journey
All together you then got the Trio Young Kirito Eugeo and Alice.
Kirito was shown next to the starting point.
Of course He’s very important to this whole project.
It wouldn’t have even been possible if Kirito chose NOT to release the World Seed.
Young Eugeo had his own close connection to the Rulid village
Then the Young Alice, ironically she’s got a closer connection to the central city years
later, or should I say, only connection?
Sadly for Eugeo, he lost both of his best buddies
One of them he didn’t even recall losing!
Then you see Eugeo running and falling into some water.
Water is often used to depict that someone is lost.
In this case Eugeo is lost, he tries to run away, but still ends up getting engulfed by
this unknown.
Since Eugeo falls down, it may even symbol the grip the Axiom Church has had over Eugeo’s
life.
This all leads into Eugeo’s lovely red geass eye!
No but really, that’s the taboo index taking hold and actually restricting Eugeo.
Inside his eye you see the words System Alert 871.
This is specifically the number corresponding to the taboo index!
There’s a deeper meaning behind it that’ll be revealed by the end of the season!
Next up, the rising shot of that Axiom Church tower.
You could see the mountain range and pretty much everything from this view.
The leader of the Axiom church partly built this 100 floor tower for this very reason.
Ironically the ones who have those birds eye view of everything going in are Kiku and High.
These guys are the top ones involved in the Alicization Project within Rath
From their monitor room, they could do some pretty illegal nsa type of crap, a bit creepy
if you think about it You even see the text Fluctlight Simulation,
underworld
Next up, mc Klein if only only!
As you’ve seen so far, Klein has got an upgraded role for season 3
Also notice behind him the weapon resembling his Japanese blade.
Then you got Suguha this type time boobage included!
A good chunk of you have mentioned being sad that some girls went flat this season.
umm I’m sure that’ll be back I guess?
Either way similar to Klein, she’s next to Leafa’s signature weapon
Next up, the lovely Silica and Liz.
Both of them have gotten upgraded like Klein Their both fully included into this S3 rollercoaster,
Originally Asuna chose NOT to tell either of them about Kirito being assaulted.
By the way both of them are near their weapons too.
Silica has a dagger behind her and Liz has the blacksmith hammer.
Finally you got Sinon sporting some green glasses, and necklace.
Sinon was always involved in this arc from the start so no surprise here.
Normally she’s next to one of her arrows instead of a sniper.
oo foreshadowing?
Next up, up above, you got a distant shot of this platform in the ocean.
You now know this is the Ocean Turtle that houses Rath and Project Alicization.
So much secrets in order to develop that bottom up AI.
This is followed by the Asuna shot of her taking of her shades.
This in Agent 006 Asuna, the one who successfully infiltrated the Ocean Turtle.
Let’s hope Kiku isn’t too pissed about that!
Better get cozy, this Ocean turtle will be home for a while now!
Following Asuna is the lovely Laughing Coffin symbol and member.
Unfortunately Asuna and Kirito just can’t seem to escape their past!
This Laughing Coffin guy is actually PoH aka the leader of Laughing Coffin.
You saw him watching over Kirito, Asuna and the rest in GGO.
He’s always been in the background since the SAO days.
Laughing Coffin in general will play an important role throughout this season, Kirito is stuck
in the UW already due to one of these lovely guys.
Next up, a nude lady in on this huge bed.
This is actually the Princess that Eugeo And Kirito gotta rescue!
Only then could the UW be saved! ah just kidding.
This whole room is inside the Axiom church.
On floor 100 you’ll find this nudist Lady that loves this bed.
She goes by many names, one of which is the Admin.
For reasons you’ll discover she spends most of her time locked in this room and sleeping
too!
I def will have a fully video on her later on!
Next up, one of the light cubes that stores each fluctlight.
This one should be the one housing Alice.
Interesting number too, about 180k.
I mentioned in my last video about there being a physical limit to life in the Underworld.
Gotta double check but it was like 200 thousand.
Def will have a fully video on the Underworld too!
Very nicely this switches over to Alice.
At this point it’s Integrity Knight Alice.
So far they’re not hiding at all the fact that Alice is alive, and on top a knight.
This includes most promotion shot of Alice too.
Why did Alice become a knight?
You’ll discover the dark secret soon enough.
Next up, a picture of the great creators of VR in General.
The whole Shigemura crew!
Up in front you got Shigemura in the chair.
This is Yuna father from the SAO OS movie.
Of course you saw Kiku showing him Rath at the end of the movie, so wonder if he’ll
show up eventually.
Next to him on the right you got Higa.
On top Right you got Kayaba and newly introduced Rinko!
On the Top left you got the slimy Sugou, let’s hope that bastard stays in jail!
Then you got 2 original chars with the ones left over.
It also looks like this pic was cut off since you see someone’s shoulder on the left.
Perhaps these other guys will get fleshed out more later for season 3.
Next up, the SAO server from the SAO movie.
When I visited the A1 studio, the director Ito mentioned this was modeled after the IBM
servers.
I’m pretty sure IBM even sponsored part of the movie.
As for the Younger Kayaba and Rinko.
You now know of these two being lovers in the past.
Although it def felt more on sided.
Perhaps Kayaba felt some love to but big castles in the sky excited him much more!
It almost seem like Kayaba was thinking or looking over at the monitor of the Aincrad
castle.
Next up, the digital baby uncle to be born inside of the Underworld.
This was most likely the fluctlight clone for the initial experiments.
Then you got Higa resting his eyes a bit.
Creating killer AI is hard work!
On one monitor Higa has 6 fluctlight displayed They range from number 3k to 7k.
This suggests it’s very early on into the Underworld development
Of course you were waiting for this cheese pizza shot of Yui!
Yui herself is a top down AI, possibly the most advanced known one in the world.
Displayed here is Yui going through some wort of security firewall.
Thankfully Yui is still around playing some major sort for our heroes!
Next up Kayaba and Shigemura.
Interesting how one developed full a way to enter a new reality, while the professor made
a device to turn reality into the VR reality.
Next up, Yuna makes a cameo return!
This looks almost like the Shibuya area in Tokyo Japan.
Def loving the movie references, hopefully Yuna returns too!
Then you got the money shot with Eugeo and Kirito wielding their beloved blades.
This must be at the Sword Mastery Academy.
They’ve pretty much cut out references to this in the anime so far, but this one of
Eugeo and Kirito’s goals.
Just one step in their road to become knights!
This leads into Eugeo and Kirito taking on that Integrity Knight from the 1st episode.
I’ll just come out and say it, very nice fan service.
Unfortunately this particular event doesn’t play out like this.
Either way it does hint at Kirito and Eugeo battling these knights later on
Im just getting a huge smile on my face thinking about it.
These battle could be some of the best fights in anime history depends on how they do it.
please A1 studio do it justice!
Next up, 4 swordsman in this training ground area.
Starting with the purple clothing one, this young lady is Sortiliena.
Kirito serves under her during his 1st year at the academy
The Green dressed fellow is Gorgolosso.
Eugeo serves under him.
Then you got the other 2 girls, Ronye and Teise.
Both of them server as Eugeo and Kirito’s own interns on the 2nd year
You’ll get to know all 4 of these chars in good depth this 1st half of season 3.
Now for this Library shot with a young looking girl.
This Great Library behind her holds the entire history of the Underworld.
This is Cardinal.
Yes Cardinal, the SAO system that Kirito and Asuna were fighting against all this time
was actually a small girl!
She’s actually pretty interesting.
Can’t wait to meet her in the anime!
Then you got Kirito inside this garden area.
This should either be the garden in the Swords academy or the special one in the Axiom church
Due nice this very special Zephilia flower, this’ll be very important to Kirito this
season!
Talking about Kirito, you got the best buddies doing that handshake.
That’s def something new for the season 3 anime,
The novel didn’t mention any special handshake, although it does demonstrate their close bond
Of course this is just as their leaving for the next village
Kirito here has the strong branch of the Gigas tree.
If it isn’t completely obvious already, that’ll later behind Kirito’s black sword.
Next up, some mysterious building.
This could be the Axiom church when it was in the early stages.
Later you find out how the admin keeps on making the tower taller and taller every couple
of years.
Within here there’s the painting showing some important Underworld history.
You see the 3 goddess fighting against the darkness.
They’re the Goddess of Earth Terraria, Sun Goddess Soul and Goddess of Creation Stacia.
The story shows them driving away the goddess of darkness Vecta.
The Novel mentioned this being inside the Admin’s room but several cities have something
similar.
Finally Eugeo and Sword putting away their blades and the move away from their starting
point.
That being the Young trio in the background.
Time to begin this adventure!
Btw a bonus.
From one of the s3 visuals you see Eugeo and Kirito wielding their weapons
You also got Alice in the middle with this shining golden chain.
Just so you know, that’s not ALICE getting chained up.
That’s a chain that Alice herself made.
Integrity Knights like Alice can easily great items like chain no problem!
Anyway hope you enjoy.
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I will be doing more in-depth breakdown like this for other Underworld mysteries.
Definitely doing one on the Underworld, all the knights and the Admin.
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What’s been the biggest surprise from s3 so far?
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