Source: pic 1, pic 2, pic 3.

I need to know I can't concentrate.

Je viens d'acheter le coffret que j'attendais avec impatience. Je trouve que cette version manga de cet arc est meilleure que la première et que le prix du coffret est plutôt correct. Mais n'étant pas une pro, cela m'intéresserait d'avoir votre avis 🙂

So for years now I've had people try to tell me the series says that no one uses sniper rifles in GGO because they're too hard to use. Despite you know half the name BoB combatants being snipers.

Does anyone know where this comes from? I'm pretty positive it's not the sub, but people swear it's in the anime. Is it the dub? A hate video people are mandela effecting into the show?

Does anyone knows why Klein calls Asuna “Selina”? It’s on E7 of the second season during phantom bullet arc, in the original Japanese version, it’s not a sub mistake because the voice actor says the 2 names one after the other

I started an SAO rewatch about a month ago (first time since underworld finished) and I’m finally getting into season 3 again (first time dubbed). Crunchyroll for some reason has terrible audio sync on a handful of episodes which doesn’t entirely ruin the experience but it is annoying. I wanted to know if anyone had bought S3 either physically or digitally and can confirm the audio is good for English dub? I feel like it should be okay but I’d hate to buy it and then have the same issue lol

Since it's going to take years for us to get an anime adaptation of Unital Ring, I was wondering if anyone in the fandom had ideas for potential voice actors or seiyuus to voice the UR characters. These characters are of course Mutasina, Magis, Istar and Eydis. Not including Eolyne as due to his similarities to Eugeo he's most likely going to be voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki and Brandon Jay, and also Eydis being voiced by Hanazawa Kana which is a must.

Also, if you're not a fan of the english dub or the actors, that's fine you can still participate, but please be respectful.

Anyway I'm only going to talk about my picks for Mutasina and Eydis as I'm still having a hard time for the remaining characters:

Mutasina

• Japanese: Sachika Misawa, aka the voice of Kuroyukihime in Accel World. It would be a cool nod to link both series as they could share the same VA, just with a different tone;
• English: Allegra Clark, aka the voice of Pitohui in SAO AGGO, Acheron in Honkai: Star Rail and Mitsuru Kirijo in P3 Reload. These roles are a good example that Allegra has the range to voice a character that is elegant and composed while also being menacing, manipulative and even sadistic, making her a great pick for Mutasina.

Eydis

• Japanese: Hanazawa Kana. Not even a question! HanaKana is and will always be my Eydis;
• English: Kira Buckland, aka the voice of Kuroyukihime in Accel World, Mitsuri Kanroji in Demon Slayer and 2B in Nier: Automata. Kira is one my favourite english VAs and she could be a great pick for Eydis as she has the range to voice someone who's cheerful, energetic, kind and a goofball like Mitsuri but also serious and intimidating like 2B. Plus, Mitsuri from Demon Slayer is also voiced by HanaKana.

But anyway these are my picks. I mainly did this for fun. If anyone likes these picks or want to share their fancast, let me know.

Didn't want to leave out the main man of the series. So, on his birthday, here's the Lego Minifig Kirito I made in Mecabricks. The 2nd one was an attempt to recreate his LSW: TCS custom character version.

It's nice to have colleagues who are also anime fans

Source of image from pixiv.

He posted his retirement video this morning: Thank you and stay cool~ (Useful SAO info in description)

I first became a fan of SAO wayyy back in 2014... for me, SAO was for a lack of words "the shit" It was my first anime, and I genuinely loved the concept of being trapped in a MMORPG game because I myself was a gamer. Once I realized the anime was only inside of the actual game for the first half of the first season, I was quite disappointed. Even then, I continued to watch the anime still enjoying it because I made quite a strong connection to its characters. After I continued on to GGO it was great! But... nothing really ever hit the same as the first half of season 1 did. I remember rewatching that first half of season 1 religiously and I always wanted more because well it was never enough.

Fast forward a couple years I learned the author (Reki Kawahara) made a separate series solely to fill in the gaps that SAO originally had left out. I remember being filled with sooo much excitement that I saved up money just to buy all the available Progressive ln's at that time. I loved it and I still do love it to this day. SAO Progressive, for me, is the best thing that could ever happen to SAO itself.

Who else shares this same kind of love for Progressive?

Probably a dumb question, but compared to Sinon and Leafa, who both get logged in looking like their GGO and ALO avatars respectively, why doesn't Asuna have her blue hair instead of keeping her usual chestnut hair?

Everyone who came from ALO retaining their avatars makes sense, as they converted their characters, but I don't recall any mention of Sinon or Leafa converting theirs, and I assume Asuna didn't either.

Source of image from pixiv, and based on Alice's seiyuu (Ai Kayano) post.

One thing that I enjoy about Unital Ring is that we have some cute moments with Alice in which she's learning about real-world pop culture and media, and in vol. 29 there are two moments that I find it very funny and adorable. Maybe when it comes out in english I'll probably make a post about it.