The hidden truth of Rath, Alice and Project Alicization comes out! So what's up
guys Foxen here! Yeah Asuna has found Kirito but perhaps she's getting a
little bit more than she wanted. Anyway this week's SAO Alicization episode six!
Let's go ahead and get started, This was definitely a rollercoaster of
an episode. So last episode you saw the pissed-off Asuna infiltrating the ocean
turtle. Recall that Kirito took a few days to rescue her back in season 1
however she took only like a day. Asuna definitely wasn't playing around! By the
way the truth of why Kirito was taken comes out from the man himself.
Kirito's brain is so deeply damaged that owning the Soul translator is
capable of helping him out. The kind of weird part is that they changed it in
the anime so Kiku already spoke to them about this and even got their consent.
Almost equally as weird is raging Asuna backing off pretty quickly. Yeah
let's go ahead and trust the shady guy and Kiku definitely has that evil
glasses looked down. And actually I was trying to figure out who he reminded me
of. He really has this Aizen vibe going on and unfortunately for Asuna they
really can't do anything but wait. Right now this Soul translators only thing
that could help your Kirito. Anyway getting deeper into this now you're
finding out the purpose of Rath and the whole meaning of this project
Alicization. It's not VR at all the Soul translator and Underworld are only the
means of achieving their true goal of AI also known as a bottom-up AI. So in my
last video on last week's episode I mentioned Asuna cutting out the
discussion about top-down AI like Yui which is now why you have Kiku bringing
it up here, something that wasn't in the novel. The true AI that they're talking
about is directly linked to the fluctlight clone or artificial fluctlight. An
important detail is that this artificial fluctlight is being stored in this lightcube
You could think of this lightcube as pretty much housing what would be
your brain in other words every single person in the underworld has a physical
location in reality where their mind is being stored. Even more interesting is
that these light cubes not only cost a good chunk of cash but they also take
real physical space in other words there's a physical limit to life in the
Underworld. I'll be talking about this detail in my Underworld video coming up.
Anyway back to Kiku and Rath so far they've been only successful in cloning
a human soul but that been about the extent of their progress.
So yeah only able to clone a human soul no big deal at all.
I'm actually thinking about how long you'll take us here to digitalize a
human brain then easily copy it like a music file. I'm thinking at best that's
decades away and potentially scary when it becomes a reality. Anyway from this
you have their example of Higa's clone soul. To be honest I recall getting
chills on top of chills when I read this in the novel. Now what the anime version
you could actually hear he got talking to himself. It didn't really give me that
chill factor but it made me feel really sad for this cloned existence. Once again
I wonder when this type of a technology will be possible maybe not in our
lifetime. Now getting into the meat of Rath why not just clone baby minds and
raise them in VR sounds perfectly legal now and I think you heard Kirito reached
its conclusion in the first few episodes. Thanks to the world seed program
recreating this world for them to live in and was super easy. Thank You Kayaba!
or should I say Thank You Kirito! Since Kirito was the one to let it out
freely into the world and let's talk about the whole development of this
Underworld Society which is pretty intriguing. I mean isn't
this almost like Adam and Eve? In this case you got four real-life people each
given four babysoul's to raise and nurture although unlike the Adam and Eve
story well let's just say no fun times going around. Even the children that
later became adults here or quote-unquote given new clones to raise
themselves so is the origin of the infamous stork tale too. And then in just
three weeks it was possible to construct this world of 80,000 people. At this point
it feels wrong to call it a simulation. I mean they're not simply fake people
anymore so now you have Rath that has a morally questionable project that's
been a huge success except has it really? You then have the
further truth coming out about the Axiom Church major problem right there!
Thanks to religion this Underworld is too perfect and peaceful damn it looks
like Kiku wasn't looking to create this utopia and yes Asuna realized it.
That's right the whole real purpose of project
Alicization and Rath is to create AI that's capable of killing. I think that
says a lot of Kiko as a person. I mean when he first looked at the VR
technology instead of thinking games he thought of something else this could
potentially lead up to but just to give the guy some credit he's done so much in
only five years and yes let's talk about the Rath project that's leading into AI
that could kill but at the same time people running is like Kiku or Higa
actually coming this from the point of view of well if you can't ends wars at
least you could prevent real humans from dying off in these battles or so they
claim. Just taking this at face value it sounds like a noble cause. Let's see if
they could actually walk that fine balance. This of course lead into the
somewhat difficult discussion from Asuna something that very much Kirito and
Asuna believe in which is the rights of the people living within the Underworld.
I mean before it was easier to disregard AI as not being human but from what's
going on here that's no longer the case at all.
At what point does something like this almost start to become inhumane. That's
the difficult question so definitely let me know down below where you stand on
this? Should all these VR people just easily be sacrificed? And try to think it
over a bit before commenting. Of course Kiku has a very firm position himself
humans with physical bodies are much more valuable. Forget about one
Underworld life equalling one human life for him over a hundred thousand wouldn't
equate to a single one ouch! And just like in real life they switch
topics instead of continuing this awkward topic. This gets to another
grand reveal so why was Kirito even chosen for
this project in the first place? And yes they oversimplified here in the anime
but they need a Kirito since he was someone used to living in VR. I'll talk
about this more in the changes part of this video. Next up you have Asuna and
the girls in Alfheim online. By the way very nice of Kiku allowing Asuna to
share these government secrets! As for whether you could actually trust him
let's not forget about all the stuff he's been holding back until this point.
Anyway getting into something important regarding Kirito it's something
that really hasn't been emphasized enough up until this point but it is in
fact that being around Kirito has greatly influenced Eugeo and Alice.
Ironically Alice even broke the taboo index because she was concerned for
another life instead of wanting to kill them. Oh and just by coincidence the
taboo breaker is named Alice so this is living into another huge problem or
oversight. Recall that the Underworld is going at 1,000 times the speed. In the
case of Alice you may have gotten some development but then easily missed
due to the time difference. The Axiom church
surely isn't going away so it's definitely something to consider going
forward. Next up an episode highlight you just gotta love the parallel of Asuna'
looking over the unconscious Kirito. Very nice addition of a promise ring by
the way. As for the important info here they mentioned having four soul
translators on the ocean turtle and two back in Japan where Kirito was going
and next up we have Kirito's private nurse. Surprise nurse Aki makes a return!
Remember her from season two so what's with all these people having dual
identities in real life? Watch Klein is gonna turn out to be like double agent
seven and then yeah more Rinko coming out so this episode has so much juicy
info coming out one after another. You got Rinko calling Asuna over to her
room late at night time ooh Lala. Complete with boobage. Anyway getting
into the truth about Rinko and Kayaba so you know they had some relationship
together. Rinko actually had this bomb put inside
of her and threatened to help take care of Kayaba's body otherwise explosion!
Except this was all a lie the bomb was really so she could escape freely and
Dammit Kayaba you could have inserted that bomb somewhere else!
As for Kayaba here once again you're getting more Kayaba from Rinko's past. I
do like how Rinko was quite pushy in the past enough to get this VR nerd outside
so yeah these two were dating and I'm sure Rinko was the one to ask him out.
Which this whole relationship seemed almost one-sided. Kayaba's heart clearly
belonged to a different world and I'm actually getting even more
intrigued with the type of person that Kayaba was. Just what was going inside
of his head? If you think about it he didn't do anything special or sinister
to manipulate Rinko yet he fully trusted her.
That was even after she found him in the mountains too ready with that knife. Was
Kayaba simply that trusting? Did he not care? Also interesting is the fact
that the commander was logging in and out freely from SAO. yeah I think I'm
gonna log out for a quick second ago at 7-eleven what a frickin privilege!
Fortunately for all of this you have a Asuna taking the glass half full
approach to the SAO incident. There really never gonna be able to recover
the lost time or the four thousand people that all died but at the very
least Asuna was able to meet and fall enough was Kirito aww!
And then for that ending whoa looks like Kayaba isn't only
roaming around somewhere in the digital world. I'll go ahead and leave that scene
for you to interpret. Oh but by the way a skip detail here is how that pendant
that Rinko wears has that mini bomb sealed inside of it. As for some
animation worth noting this episode something I really appreciated here was
the visuals during the discussion about the soul translator, fluctlight and so on.
Looking back at episode one I think some visuals would have really helped when
Kirito was explaining the stuff to Asuna and Sinon although to be fair perhaps
the director wanted notice to be a little bit confused just like they were.
Something else that I really loved this episode that wasn't only animation was
how the storytelling was done with shifting between Asuna talking to Kiku
and back to the girls in Alfheim online. That felt like A plus material right
there! By the way in case you're itching to get back into the Underworld there's
actually not gonna be more Asuna and real life stuff until at the end of
these first 24 episodes although we'll see. I got a strong feeling they're gonna
be adding some anime original Asuna scenes although they may be short.
Definitely wouldn't mind more those! Next up getting into the light novel what
changes especially the cut out scenes from the sixth episode. A lot of the cuts
and changes actually revolve around Kiku. For starters during their whole talk with
Kiku he kept on taking out some sweet or candy. It was similar to the time where
he talked to Kirito always eating in some type of sweet or meeting him
as a cafe. I'm a little sad to see this cut out.
Next up during the example of the collapse clone AI originally in the
novel would actually survive much longer about four minutes 30 seconds. Anime Kiku
also skipped out the detail of Higa having an IQ of 140 .Novel Kiku further
mentioned how our human mind must not be able to handle the fact that we were not
unique when cloned. Then the followup from Asuna got cut out too Asuna brought up
the example of Yui. Even as a top-down AI Yui hated the idea of being copied.
Yui thought that if she was ever copied they will likely destroy one another.
Anyway shifting back to Kiku the anime skipped out on him and Rinko
discussing whether it was simply possible to delete memories from the
copied soul. Perhaps that could prevent the soul breakdown. Unfortunately for
them deleting memories wasn't that simple. Just to oversimplify it memories
weren't exactly like data. Trying to delete memories eventually led the clone
to be in this unusable state. Next up the story about how the Underworld
came to be. The novel goes into the details about how the pair of volunteers
were chosen. The children were then super sad when they mysteriously died off. The
parents in real life were even in tears as they saw their children burying them. By
the way here they brought up the limitation of the acceleration.
Supposedly there was no limit although they chose not to go past a thousand
five hundred times for humans. They also mentioned the theoretical limit of a
soul being 150 years before degrading. This is gonna be important later. Kiku
here then goes into why Rath is even researching true AI. As expected a lot of
historical details got axed. Kiku in the light novel will use past wars as examples.
In the Second World War 400,000 people died. In the Vietnam War about sixty
thousand people died. Then in a more recent Iraq war about four thousand
deaths. Slowly but surely humans wouldn't be
fighting in future wars. Kiku credited these four thousand lives lost along
with other factors as a fall down of the Bush administration which eventually led
into Obama taking office. I definitely didn't think that would include any
political references. Anime Kiku also skipped out on how Japan had been so
reliant on the US. For example Japan right now buys their military weapons
and jets from the US however all the stuff is notably outdated from their
current tech. Next up the reason why Kirito was chosen
for this they really wanted to see whether there were issues with the
cloning process or the lightcubes. Did this somehow prevent the AI killing each
other? Also not mentioned was how they previously tried this with a people from
Rath. From this they noticed something really weird all these people reborn
into VR always seem to be very uncomfortable and chose to never go
outside exploring. The reason was due to even the underworld not exactly being
like reality. The one thing missing was a sense of gravity since our brains relies
so much on gravity to adjust itself. This led into why Kirito himself was
chosen someone who was used to living in VR and I actually got the feeling that
Kiku would have chosen Yuuki if she was still around.
Next up Asuna logging into Alfheim Online and informing the girls about
the situation. Naturally all of this was newly added
for the anime. You heard me talking about last time how Liz and Silica weren't
even told about Kirito. After Asuna James Bonded onto their ship she actually
never talked to any of the girls again until the end of this arc. I'm actually
liking this additional change. It's just more connective tissue being
added which will smooth out some future events and my god can we get to like
episode 40 right now? So as of this episode we're partway into Sao light
novel number 10. I read this a while back and I recall almost questioning reality
after processing the juicy info given. I actually strongly recommend reading this
light novel portion of this especially if you love SAO! By the way I am working
on the opening break down now for SAO Alicization and that's coming up next!
But anyway more important let me hear from you now question of the day. What do
you think about all the reveals this episode? Is Rath ambitious or what? And
how do you personally feel about this AI rights debate? Anyway if you enjoyed this
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