Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-90.214.113.224-20180210223859/@comment-26018514-20180220011704

Sentry 616 wrote:

BREAK OFF BREAK OFF

The first arc, when they're trapped in Aincrad, is heavily flawed, but passable. (C- ?)

After that, aside from the arc about a terminally ill girl which largely forgets the Marty Stu protagonist, and maybe the new spinoff which has no sign of said Stu, it goes way downhill from passable. Tbh aside from the Leafa incest Arc part(mostly the beginning and the end, though sadly infesting the rest of it to an extent) the rest of season 2 is a perfectly fun romp as far as power-fantasy's go provided you stop thinking of Kirito as a developing(or main) character and rather as a plot device that drives the story forward and connects the different arcs.

The main issue with it is that Leafa's romance is forced, unnecessary, and she was already rejected by proxy in the first season, so all the "OMG will he love me" is just wasted uninteresting time... essentially it's written as though she is the MC, and the previous seasons characters besides Kirito are absent, so if you hate Kirito and watch for other characters it is bad... which you probably should(like the others more) as they are more interesting.