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Dec 25, 2018 4:04 AM

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Only enjoyed it because of the "umu" hahaha

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Dec 25, 2018 7:09 AM

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i dont understand what is going on in this episode

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Dec 25, 2018 7:11 AM

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MemeConsumer said:
Watch Kirito pull up his 'Heathcliff admin override' and take over as new admin. He did it last season in alfeim but that's just my guess

Classic Kirito action when author desperate to move the plot LMAO

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Dec 26, 2018 12:31 AM

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This episode was one to remember. The second they saw Alice I just knew she would be a different person.

Honestly it felt a little anti climatic because I was expecting Eugeo to be more shocked. Instead he was just kinda like ‘meh, she’ll come around’.

The librarian is a good person indeed but the Integrity Knight definitely saw her save them and they might not be safe anymore.



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Dec 26, 2018 5:57 AM
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an important episode, as it explained the history of the taboo index and all about the pontifex of axiom church... love this one...
Dec 26, 2018 7:13 PM
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Dec 27, 2018 6:58 PM
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One cour down and I'm very impressed so far....Really appreciated all of the mysterious stuff and reveals in this one too
Dec 27, 2018 10:25 PM

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That triangle thing coming out of his forehead kinda reminded me of FLCL tbh. Fun times.
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Dec 29, 2018 5:33 AM

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lmao that was a good one. hope she gets beaten to oblivion though because animal abusers are the lowest of the low scum.
Dec 29, 2018 7:45 AM

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thus another volume is complete. If there is a break after the 25 episode I can imagine it would be after the vol 14 (people who have read that volume will know why)
Dec 29, 2018 5:57 PM

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When's episode 13 coming out? Isn't it already past the scheduled time?
Dec 29, 2018 6:14 PM

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Xzyle said:
When's episode 13 coming out? Isn't it already past the scheduled time?


Aren't they taking a break right now for the new years?
Dec 29, 2018 11:03 PM

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LaughingCoffinx said:
Xzyle said:
When's episode 13 coming out? Isn't it already past the scheduled time?


Aren't they taking a break right now for the new years?


it was delayed for idk what reason
Dec 30, 2018 8:12 AM
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jerrrge said:
LaughingCoffinx said:


Aren't they taking a break right now for the new years?


it was delayed for idk what reason


I recall that the same thing happened to Fate Apocrypha on the final week of Summer 2017 when it took a one-week break to air the second cour the week after.
Dec 30, 2018 1:22 PM

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Quinella's pretty hot, loved how one of the first things she restored after becoming Administrator were her looks xD Typical! not that I blame her lol

A lot of exposition happened, but it was mildly interesting, so I didn't mind it that much. Shame there's no new ep this week :(
Dec 30, 2018 1:42 PM
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This was just awful... This fucking generic story about evil church which uses religion as a tool to control people, evil administrator blah blah blah another info dump.
Dec 30, 2018 6:00 PM

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SNDT said:
This was just awful... This fucking generic story about evil church which uses religion as a tool to control people, evil administrator blah blah blah another info dump.
thats how it is, to understand the world and what the objective of lead. So happens that its a little boring bcuz about info dump episode.


Jan 1, 2019 11:48 PM

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As expected those with numbers are being controlled, they were so close to saving him by the looks of it.

Either way they now know who to going about saving people like him and Alice when and if they get an opportunity to.

So that is the sage after all, thought it was from the opening, a Cardinal system, by we sure got a lot of info about this world.

So Quinella also has the same deal with the eye as Eugeo, guess we will learn more about it another time.
Jan 2, 2019 7:43 AM

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I rate this ep UMU/10!
Lol I couldn’t stop imagining Nero while she was talking.
Pretty good ep overall.
Jan 4, 2019 7:03 AM

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I still dont understand the part where quinella fused her soul with cardinal & returned as admin. what does it mean? does it mean her personality is overwritten by cardinal system's prime directive & no longer hungry for domination?
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Jan 4, 2019 7:11 AM

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Tarotist said:

"System Call. Generate Thermal Element. Form Element, Arrow Shape. Fly Straight. Discharge". Gee it takes a long time to cast a spell...


Exactly. the MC in no game no life would've slashed him while he recite all those commands lol (even the minor antagonist in Isekai Maou to shoukan shoujo knows better.. he quickly attacks & close their distance while Maou is casting spells)
Jan 6, 2019 6:07 PM

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Terrible episode. Sword Art Online's pseudo-intellectual and wankery bullshit is so frustrating, made even worse when it's an ENTIRE episode. This season is going downhill and fast. Started off so good too.
Jan 11, 2019 11:24 AM

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Of course one of the Original Four had to be corrupt. Unfortunately, that makes sense for humans.

It was pretty cool learning about the world building though. I wonder how the story plays out from here...
Jan 21, 2019 9:42 PM

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Umu umu padoru padoru
Jan 31, 2019 4:23 AM

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Nice to see Cardinal and Quinella's story.
Jan 31, 2019 9:15 PM

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This is why I don't like admins.
Feb 9, 2019 8:03 PM

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Feels good Kirito finally found someone who knew about the real world. Before that he's been pretty much alone for over 3 years in there.
Feb 21, 2019 1:02 AM

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That's pretty cool that Kirito's immediate response to taking an arrow was to remove it.

Looking forward to more of the "ja" and "desu wa"

Feb 21, 2019 3:24 PM

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Alice and asuna are best girl
Mar 27, 2019 1:18 AM

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That was quite a whole lot of information to go through. The fight was good too.
Jun 23, 2019 12:12 AM

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-If the main character was Eugeo and we started from his perspective, this would be some Matrix type stuff. Putting one of the Underworld people into the robots would be a "Welcome to the real world" moment.

-The accepted religion is wrong and a sham for subjugation, insert truth of creation here. Naturally one of the "gods" is an ass, cuz humans gonna human.

-How come the Cardinal system didn't detect her as a threat? Figured once she attempted to access the master command list that they'd be onto her... However, the librarian does suggest that she may have received outside help, and now she's primarily concerned with preserving the current state of the world with her at the helm. Glasses dude we're on to you. He's probably that mad scientist not going along with the villain's plan, more concerned about the preservation and prolonging of his creation rather than allowing them to grow to the stage where they'd be put to their intended use by the evil boss. We'll see though.

-Do all Integrity Knights have their memory blocked? But they go to an academy to become one, where they form numerous bonds and friendship though?
Aug 19, 2019 11:38 AM
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Oh, we got a lot of history on their world. So, she's basically the one that holds everything, the system itself, that's nice.
Oct 5, 2019 3:56 AM

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So, backstory for the Taboo Index and we know the main villain from this season. On that note, pretty good episode.
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Oct 24, 2019 10:23 AM

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When I heard that Umu I was like "Yep, that's Nero" lol.
Quinella looking fine as fuck wew, too bad she inherited that selfish trait.
Feb 26, 2020 1:46 PM

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Kirito and Eugeo meet UMU

and that Quniella is a witch!
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Mar 23, 2020 10:35 AM

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Lol shitty devs used the seed to generate a world to produce bottom up AIs and they didnt balance it properly so a npc could get administrator rights. Rath only has the most capable people working for them.

That being said, I can never have enough Quinella content. Never. Also I wouldnt mind having her rule ngl.
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May 30, 2020 4:29 PM

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A lot happened, the new girl is cute, Underwolrd is ruled by Administrator
It was interesting
Jun 30, 2020 3:58 PM
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The infodump episode I was waiting for, so much had been clear and it was so satisfying to finally hear them talk on the outside world in a 4th wall breaking way.
Nov 9, 2020 12:37 PM
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Damn imagine living in a library for 350 years
Nov 16, 2020 10:41 PM

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Taking a short breather at the halfway point to say... This is series has been so satisfying. When I finished season 2 years ago, little did I know there was all this bromance adventure content getting animated as continuation.

I've been dreaming of Vrmmo's so often as of late so I knew I had to revisit this series. Ordinal Scale was fun, and the story writing here is right up my ally. The scientific/quantum theoretical frameworks are just enough, and the overarching exploring of Kayaba's mind was always of interest. Sword Art Online!

Also: Administrator Quinella giving me best girl vibes with that seiyuu and design.
Nov 28, 2020 2:41 PM

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Eugeo and Kirito somehow are able to get the Guard to remember some of his old memories which confirms that they are indeed being controlled. They meet the librarian who is really a result of the Cardinal System who tells of a super interesting backstory of how the world and Taboo Index were created. We find out who is the Administator and her story. I usually find info episodes like this boring, but I thought this was actually a really cool little episode. Well done.
Dec 11, 2020 6:48 AM

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Huge info dump this episode, as a programmer myself I would say not all of it made an awful lot of sense though. I just know that Quinella is a bitch.
May 14, 2021 10:22 AM
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so let me get this straight, cause I'm confused as all hell at this point, Rath devs either have absolutely no control over this world or are not actively observing what happens in it, I know neither of this things can be true, but the anime goes on as if they are true, do they not see what Kirito is doing? do they not receive the info from Cardinal about the corrupted lineage? holy shit this is a record breaking amount of plot holes in any anime I've ever seen, absolutely nothing about the structure of this story makes any sense or has any integrity, no pun intended with the Integrity Knights, I was willing to overlook the fact that an AI made a list of rules of things you can't do and didn't include rape on that list, but this is just going downhill and it's not stopping, how low can it go?
Nov 11, 2022 3:23 PM

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Very interesting. I wonder if Quinella knows she's just a "pawn" for Rath, lol.

Finally someone who knows who Kirito is! With that story, I wonder who told him to come at the top of the tower, if not Quinella herself. I hope it's not her "human" side that wants to do good and all that, it would be a pretty underwhelming explanation.
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Jan 15, 2023 3:30 PM
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That's a cool backstory. It reminded me of playing "God" in Crusader Kings. It would've been cool if the AI in CK is as advanced as the ones in this show. It would be so fun to observe them.
Feb 5, 2023 5:00 AM

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Pretty reckless to let a NPC gain admin rights, unless that was done on purpose with some help from the outside world.

Dec 16, 2023 8:34 AM
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Well damn, what a really powerful weapon he has
Jan 19, 2024 5:18 PM
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WOW JUST WOW I KNEW IT WAS SHIT BUT BRUH WHAT IS THIS SHIT WRITING!!!!
Jan 15, 9:24 PM

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So it is Alice and her memories were screwed up.

And someone at Wrath sabotaged the project.
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So the cardinal system that was used in the aincrad has a humanoid interface in the underworld, makes sense since rath make this underworld using kayaba akihiko's "the seed".

Cardinal system is a loli-baba and she's really cute,tho it's unfortunate she was pushed out from her position by that administrator woman.

Even for artificial fluctlight standard, that woman is quite terrifying AI. She keep using the command call until it hit the right one and what's more is that she merge her own fluctlight with the system and with that process she become administrator.

Quinella might be the first female antagonist of this franchise and damm she's hot asf!! She's a villain, and a hot one of course.

Even tho the 3 goddess is a myth made by the church, they do exist as a super admin account which makes me wonder is that the same for the dark territorial emperor vecta??
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