Sword Art Online... WTF Happened?

[Lightspeaker]

I mean, the things being shown ARE extremely fucked up, but I had become far too detached from what I was watching to be emotionally impacted, which is interesting, because I tend to be fairly squeamish about these things. I didn't see it until I was about 21, not sure how I would have reacted to it at 15.

For me I'm the exact opposite. I've got a pretty strong stomach about most things which is helpful as a biologist who has spent most of the past few years working with people who operate on eyes. But Elfen Lied creeped me the hell out.

Not the violence itself necessarily, but the psychological stuff.

Jesus Christ, every SAO thread... People! SAO is not objectively bad no matter how much you think it is. No one has ever elected you to decide what anime is objectively terrible. Your post reek of elitism. So how about we stop insulting people who have the audacity to like it? Mkay?

I've got this rather amusing image in my head of someone coming in claiming to be the President of Anime and trying to argue that its objectively awful. X-D


Captcha: "complex number" I very, very nearly wrote a+bi for that one. My maths geekiness creeping out there.