Dual Blade Kirito versus death angel Gabriel. It's showtime.
So what's up guys, Foxen here. SAO Alicization War of Underworld episode 20,
the final showdown. Death God versus the SAO swordsman,
the Epic conclusion. So be sure to dual blade that LIKE,
subscribe and ring the bell so YouTube actually sends you my new videos.
Unfortunately no sponsor,
but do me a favor and watch my re Zero season 2 review it's now up.
It's got a cute bunny!
This SAO episode titled the Night Sky Blade. Oh, Kirito,
making this blonde wet.
What a change with the new blades added to this black Swordsman look
by the way. At least a clear difference from behind and
aww the cute dragons. Unfortunately,
both of the dragons did take enough damage to die from Gabriel.
So what happened? Kirito
realize that the max life of both of the dragons was far beyond what he could restore via
sacred arts. Next best option. How about shrinking their max values?
Small enough into little dragons to prevent their death. Then for Goddess Asuna
you guys were wondering where she was last episode.
The plan as always from Kirito was a reckless one.
He really only planned to stall Gabriel,
really to buy them enough time for them to escape. Oh yeah,
Goddess Asuna for the win. Time to take these Bowser' steps to the
floating Island in the sky,
which is supposed to give you a vibe of the OG Aincrad castle. Naturally,
all of these guys do have a time limit.
Asuna originally mentioned they got about eight minutes. While
Asuna and Alice were running up notice to the sides.
You could actually spot the impenetrable wall for the entire underworld on the
Dark Territory side. For Kirito here thinking back to the Kiku message.
Kiku mentioned 200 years, but keep in mind, that would be a quick estimate.
In other words, it could be much longer. All right
so unfortunately the anime cut out Kirito's thoughts here.
He was actually saying goodbye to Asuna and Alice. On purpose
he didn't tell them about the 5 million times acceleration
otherwise they would stay and fight.
Kirito's only priority was to get Alice and Asuna logged off. As for Gabriel's still
at that Reaper of souls line. Come on, dude. Already recovering his arm too.
How about doing something about that crispy face? So Kirito who are you?
Of course Gabriel
wasn't like Vassago who was obsessed or even interested in Kirito. Unfortunately,
this did get changed for the anime. Oh, you do
swear of the anime keeps on watering down anything related to Kirito.
You did have Gabriel trying to invade those fluctlight directly.
Similar to Goddess Sinon. Kirito had to ask himself, who was he?
The hero of the Underworld? No. A Knight who protects the human realm?
That's not it. The hero who defeated the SAO death game? No,
the greatest VR player alive?
Not that either. The black Swordsman? A dual wielder?
No. Kirito instead chose his own title Kirito
The Swordsman really a callback to him calling himself that in early season
three,
which really was meant to show a lot of development and growth for Kirito.
Earlier he was struggling living up to this Black Swordsman persona,
which of course the anime cut out completely. In the anime
now you have blonde boy Eugeo cheering on Kirito.
I was now starting to feel they were overplaying this card. Anyway,
Kirito versus Gabriel. Kirito actually noticed that sword must be a divine object.
It was supposed to be dark as if space itself had been removed from existence.
It was far beyond
Vassago's chopper and its ability to absorb resources. As for Kirito's
wings
I was super curious to see how the SAO anime would show this. Thinking back to
the light novel it seemed almost silly,
especially after Kirito flying without them, but then for the anime,
this actually works.
The wings look almost exactly like they do for his fairy avatar.
And it seems Kirito flying last episode seem to confuse a lot of people,
perhaps they should've just switched to the fairy wings from the get go. Then for
Kirito generating all elements. Thanks
Quinella. Normally some sort of terminal is required for sacred arts.
Like your fingers. During this time Kirito was using the air as terminals,
but too bad, complete failure. Oh, Gabriel was too overpowered.
Gabriel actually had the ability to absorb and drain slashes, thrust, and anything
involving elements.
It is interesting to notice how his only weakness was related to anything
involving him as a soldier, which was why Sinon was able to hurt him.
So how generous of Gabriel? Kirito
gets to have three minutes in heaven with him.
He really wasn't a fan of not being able to taste Kirito's soul.
He had gotten a small taste earlier,
but now Kirito had encased himself in this transparent shell.
That's no fun. As for Gabriel's upgrade at what did he steal?
He actually noticed what Kirito had done. So why not get some wings too?
Although it does make sense. This thing was originally his GGO Jetpack.
So you got an ariel of fight with black thunder. Gabriel must be a Thor fan.
The anime actually cut out Kirito trying to kick him, but failing at it.
I really loved how they showed the Gabriel completely overpowering Kirito.
No question.
You could really tell that Gabriel had no doubts about winning this little
dance. It was completely one sided.
Eventually you've been had Kirito trying to block the darkness with that shield
wall. It didn't work the first time when trying to save Alice and the dragons.
But this time he did the was more weakened. Oh, and did someone say swordsman
Kirito? Nope. You got the Marco treatment. and what was this?
Was Gabriel actually showing some emotion? You could feel it in the distance.
A dragon just died. So fricking finally it comes out Gabriel,
the Angel of Death, what a demented image he has of himself.
Like I'm already going to win it so why not just completely overkill it?
That actually makes you wonder how godly other insane individuals would be in
the Underworld
like the Joker. Keep in mind pretty much anything and everything Gabriel has done
up until this point has been via his twisted Incarnation.
I know some of you have been confused about him using God Vecta powers,
but Gabriel has been way beyond that. Naturally the anime skipped over Gabriel
gradually figuring out how the Underworld works. Recall Shasta?
It all started there. Every moment and fight since then
Gabriel has been figuring it out including the Bercouli fight. Anyway
you got to love the dire look on Kirito's
face finally acknowledging that he has screwed up.
You really shouldn't notice how you have Kirito going back to doubting himself
pretty quickly.
He brings up being a person that doesn't understand how others feel.
Which should have been a defining character flaw up until this point.
It just sucks that he's referring to other issues that he struggled with
that unfortunately the anime glanced over or completely cut out,
especially in the previous mind scene. Hey
blonde boy Eugeo coming back for the pep talk.
So I really don't mind seeing Eugeo again,
but it feels like they've been overusing him
especially with the anime adding additional Eugeo time. Either way more important
Shinigami Gabriel. It really wasn't fair for Kirito comparing himself to him.
They're nothing alike,
Gabriel is supposed to be this man that doesn't feel any fear,
but the truth is fear and despair of death are emotions that Gabriel did share.
Cut out here from the anime was that Gabriel actually kept on killing more people
past Alicia. He kept on wanting to taste their souls but he was never satisfied.
Come on, Gabriel
you're making Vassago seem like a Saint and then the anime did not do
it. This was the one Gabriel scene.
I was waiting for. Him ripping out Kirito's heart and then biting it like a
delicious ripe Apple. Come on. I can't even call this watered down.
They didn't even show it so disappointing. Anyway
at the very least what you've been waiting for. Golden Eyed Kirito comes out.
Double release recollection again. Oh yes.
The ultimate Underworld spirit bomb time. You got Goddess
Sinon missing some limbs,
bleeding out. Poor Leafa giving the last of her strength. Too bad the anime didn't
her show her what the countless sword stabs.
Then the best Underworld couple Sheyta and Iskahn.
Gotta send your energy too. I did like the shot of
the Dark Knight without the helmet. Liz and silica. Oh,
we like Kirito, barf.
And of course I know they're going to use 'love' for the subtitles too. Non main
character here Klein, come on,
give this guy one line. Then Moonphase, Mei and Eugene together
gotta represent. As for Tiese and Renly These two love birds do move quickly.
Oh, what is over here?
Liena senpai and Ronnie hmm? For Fanatio here,
this scene really reminds me of the fallen Dakira plus Papa Bercouli's
death. For the Crimson integrity knight plus the terrible two. Too bad
the anime cut out their plot line, Even Selka one final time. Too bad she's
not going to be able to say goodbye to Alice and then the family and the
two twins that Eugeo and Kirito stayed with in Zakkaria. For the Swords Academy,
notably their supervisor to the left. Hey elevator girl.
She prayed for one thing that one day she would see the two young swordsman.
again. I really did love this new anime addition,
actually seeing some of the others from the dark territory side,
from the goblins, ogres, the giants, the merchants,
if only the season three anime didn't rush through things.
They could really flesh this out.
Even an overview shot of the entire Underworld. It's not that big at all.
For Asuna and Alice damn. You guys are slow. Time to get up the step master
when you get back. By the way, their own energy contribution. It was super quick,
but this was meant to show further growth from Alice really going past her own
struggles of questioning whether she was just a puppy created by Quinella.
All of the sacred spirit energy now belongs to Kirito.
You really had this blanketed Night Sky here.
This actually came from the thought of Eugeo's dying words,
as he spoke to the night sky, which of course became the name of Kirito's blade.
The power of the night sky blade is to absorb the resources,
but the greatest sacred energy doesn't come from the earth or sun.
They come from the power of the human heart art, the power of hopes and wishes.
Then for the candidate Shasta plus Lipia, Bercouli plus Quinella and
Cardinal. This really got me tearing up a bit.
A major important line is actually from Quinella. Oh,
why is Kirito so strong after waking up?
How does one forget the purple bag of XP
he helped kill? You know big scene in the first half of season three,
getting into it finally Starburst Stream. How many years has it been?
The probably should have slowed it down just to help with the impact.
It is almost funny how people wrongly call Kirito overpowered.
This moment is a perfect example. I mean, even at this point
he had his arm slice off when it most counted. Thank you blonde boy
Eugeo for the save. Starburst Stream is a 16 hit combo,
but here's an extra 17 hits Gabriel. Payback's a bish.
What a perfect death, a Gabriel death
angel explosion. Funny how this actually gave me a vibe of Quinella and her clown
going crispy. So really quickly, just to clarify Gabriel's finale.
It wasn't just going boom. Kirito had actually stabbed his heart.
He then sent the infinite energy of hopes and wishes and to Gabriel was dead
frozen heart. Oh yes death by feels.
An nice little bonus the Dark Territory could finally see the sky and sun. Oh yeah,
it was thankfully Alice made it out. Log out complete. The bad news?
The Underworld acceleration kicking in. Sayonara. It looks like the Celestial
players have made their Mark. At first I was like, who is this?
I totally didn't recognize you. You did have Silica afterwards. So,
and that should have been Liz. Then Klein's bum ass. Damn
his place looks like a dump. What does it look like
my place? For Agil this should be the cafe, just the top floor.
They even included Mei and Moonphase so far, it seems like SAO season 3 has avoided
pissing off China and in South Korea. For Leafa and Sinon time for some food,
Go get a jelly donut, fun fact for them,
both of them actually logged off before the acceleration kicked in due to loss
of life. Alright, so getting back to Kirito,
the sliced off arm recovered. This shot
actually it looks like Alice on the poster. Right here
you have Kirito's saying a final goodbye to Eugeo, but why? Keep in mind
Eugeo's soul had been infused with the Blue Rose Sword.
He really had been working overtime pushing Kirito.
Unfortunately Eugeo stopping Gabriel had finally consumed him at last. Good night
blonde boy Eugeo. Then for Kirito at the end world alter stuck inside.
Cannot log out trapped again, but Oh my God. Yes,
Asuna stayed behind him for Kirito for him. I mean,
screw everything else this episode. This is probably the best part for me.
Definitely crying time.
So how much did you enjoy the final fight for Kirito? And the episode overall?
How do you rate the Kirito fight compared to everything else in season three?
I do have to admit I'm majorly disappointed
there was no death angel munching on the red, big heart. Before this,
I was worried to see how the anime would show this. Would it be censored?
Although at the same time this could have been some amazing imagery,
but no they didn't even try.
The second major thing they really needed to get right was a spirit bomb energy.
It is so fricking a knowing how people call Kirito overpower or is God somehow
when he's constantly getting help from other people.
At least for this finale, I do hope the episode
clearly show that. There's no way Kirito could have done this solo.
And then the Starburst Stream fully making a comeback. Honestly
I do want to like it more,
but I don't think it's going to top the first one and don't get me wrong
Animation wise, this looks fricking gorgeous. Slowing it down
some might have helped so you can actually taste a slices.
Another thing I do have to give prompt to the anime is the look of Gabriel,
the death angel. Unfortunately overall Gabriel has been a little meg,
especially with how the anime has watered him down.
But visually they got this angel of death really right. From the opening.
I was worried that there would just be this giant shadow creature.
It looks like the green usage helped a lot. For one smaller thing.
I'm really glad that the wings they use are really similar to his fairy avatar.
It just makes sense.
And then one of the smaller moments I really enjoyed was Bercouli and everyone
appearing giving some final advice to Kirito.
Well that go over your anger or whatever the Star Wars quote is.
And then the cherry on top Asuna treasuring Kirito over anything else.
200 years alone, time to get busy hashtag bunny time.
And for the worst thing, I'll be quick about it.
Really all the stuff they cut out,
Anything for SAO War of Underworld should have really been twice a length.
For example, this episode of the anime was adapting it better.
They could have ended it with the cliffhanger of Gabriel ripping out Kirito's
heart, but oh well perhaps in a different timeline,
there is as much better adapted SAO anime with every anime Youtuber loving
it. It is sad to say that the SAO Alicization adventure is pretty much done,
which is why personally I wasn't really rushed to get Kirito un-potatoed
I am now curious to see what the anime does add any new scenes,
especially for Asuna and Kirito. Since you're awesome
go ahead and check out my ReZero episode review.
If that does get over 6,000 LIKES before the next Re Zero episode,
I will keep on doing those weekly too. Come on make it happen. Make me suffer.
I mean, I woke up at 3:00 AM for this video, but anyway bonus question,
now that Gabriel has done,
who's been your favorite SAO season three villain? Post the bastard below.
Don't forget to subscribe.
I know a lot of you aren't. I got some juicy SAO and ReZero videos coming on top of
reviews and I'll see you guys later.