Sword Art Online
Last week before my trip I watched my first ever season of an anime show. As you can probably tell from the title of the post, it was Sword Art Online. I've tried various anime shows over the years but I've never been able to get past the first few episodes of one. Usually the pacing is too slow and the show isn't visually interesting enough for me. My brother has told me that modern anime is much better than what I tried to watch long ago, but I haven't had much time to check out any of the shows he recommended. Then, last week, I heard some of the podcast members on Aggrochat talk about the premise of Sword Art Online and I was very interested. Essentially, Sword Art Online is a fully immersive MMO in an advanced virtual reality. The premise of the show is that only 10,000 people were allowed a copy of the game at launch and as soon as they all log in on launch day they are locked in the game until they can complete it. They end up stuck in the ...