Sword Art Online Abridged Im Going to Need More Context

May 05, 2022 Post a Comment

Overview:

Sword Art Online Abridged is a parody series of Sword Art Online from Something Witty Entertainment over on YouTube. The story is essentially the aforementioned just the show has been recut with scenes removed, and it has an entirely new dub.

Review:

Information technology is odd that I'm reviewing the abridged version of SAO earlier actually reviewing SAO nevertheless I'd like to write this while the evidence is still fresh in mind. Equally much as I enjoyed watching this abridged version on YouTube I'm pretty sure once was enough because while some of the jokes made me laugh out loud I somehow don't call up they'd take the same impact a 2nd fourth dimension through. That said, this is going to be a fairly short review.

Generally speaking I don't much similar one-act and modern parody is probably one of the things I hate near nearly comedy. Mostly because it seems a large majority of people think that you can just accept a basic thought, lower the intelligence of all the characters, have some obvious concrete sense of humor, sex jokes, and inappropriate comments, and serve with substandard presentation, and voila people will enjoy. Tragically they are right in that a lot of people do enjoy that only I find it kind of tedious and dull and generally it misses the indicate of being a parody in that information technology is supposed to be an false of the original style but with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. Admittedly, parody expands beyond simple imitation and is full of intertextual references and social commentary, but good parody understands the original subject matter, fashion and intent and plays off of information technology rather than simply humid things down to the nearly obvious joke.

This is where I fell in love with SAO Abridged. Yes, it has got swearing and obvious sex jokes (Yes, Klein does ask Kirito is he is going to show Asuna his sword skills which is i of the least subtle euphemisms you could come up with given the context). Honestly, if foul linguistic communication or smut aren't your affair, while this isn't farthermost past whatever ways, information technology is adequately frequent so you lot are probably going to pass on the series at this point.

However, what SAO Abridged does is demonstrate an actual understanding of the underlying characters they are making fun of. None of them are given entirely new personalities. Bones traits they already exhibited, through one interpretation of the characters at least, are just exaggerated. And so Kirito, the socially bad-mannered poor communicator essentially becomes a bit of a sociopath at the beginning and all the style through his incredibly twisted personality is pointed out by other characters. The affair is, information technology isn't every bit though these traits couldn't exist seen in the original series. He does prioritize his own life early in the series and he does avoid building meaningful relationships with other characters for an incredibly long fourth dimension after his showtime attempt to join a guild concluded in disaster. That understanding of Kirito's original character, heavily reinterpreted and extremely exaggerated, is what makes it so funny (at least to me).

There is one recurring joke with Asuna that I actually disliked and it has to do with how she deals with race and to be honest I plant those scenes cringeworthy, still for 11 episodes of one-act, for there to just be one recurring joke that really missed its mark with me is something of a surprise even to me. Asuna, otherwise, is pretty funny in this parody. While episode 2 had me worried when they were clearly playing on female gamer stereotypes with Asuna non being able to open her card, and that is a recurring joke, they fairly apace expanded Asuna beyond the trope of new female person gamer.

Additionally, I loved the style the show played on stereotypes of gamers and the current generation. It didn't feel like information technology was simply lazily taking on the usual stereotypes and saying, 'hey we're being self-aware, laugh'. I certainly loved some of the glitches that they introduced to the playing experience as information technology actually fabricated the whole online gaming experience more real. Plus, equally a parody it did call SAO on some of the more than obvious issues specially the motivation of the 'villain'. Information technology actually felt like some beloved and thought had gone into how to portray different ideas.

And that's where I have to highly recommend SAO Abridged. The quality of the testify put together here and the idea put into the writing really stand out compared to then many other parody videos. Certainly there are some moments where added art piece of work is not quite every bit polished every bit the scenes taken from the evidence and at times the voices don't quite match up with the character movement, merely for the most part the presentation is pretty polished for what it is. Plus, the audio runway is crawly. Role of me wants to know why that isn't the actual theme song for Sword Art Online at present and that last fight sequence took on a whole new level of absurd with that audio rails.

Okay, I'g done. If you've watched information technology, what did you think?

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