@flex Seems like classic SAO... the loli with the blue dragon thingy was raped by plants early on, Asuna at the end of the Alfheim (twice) and since this arc is slower paced it just took them longer to get here. But yes, this instance was particularly dumb given that she was just "waiting" to see who the bad guy was while the lady doubled down on the rape with two prolonged "insert" scenes...
@sp1ti Seriously, I could not remember those scenes and had to check YT. Effective memory cleanup on my side.
I have forgotten the authors total inability to have antagonists who are not trash.
Previous rapes happened due to inability to save themselves... but letting it happen, because she doesn't want to kill a fluctlight...
@flex Considering what gets "canceled" today I find it quite funny that SAO got so much mainstream backing back in the day. Hardly anyone who proclaimed the show to be glorious still watches it though :wink: (on trakt 25k people watched the S1 finale and recent episodes are a measly 4k). At least you can consider this progressive writing since it was a woman doing the deed this time around and she could actually defend herself (unlike Asuna who had to be saved by Klein (WTF)).
And yeah, antagonists are not his forté. The first one is still the worst imho. His motivations for trapping people in a death game were reeeeeaallllyyy dumb ("I just wanted to have friends/adventure" (or something along this line - forgot)).
Shout by FelixBlockedParentSpoilers2020-07-12T10:36:48Z
We had a good run in the first half, so what can we improve?
Let's include some near-rape tentacle scene with a 17yo! Just felt wrong and in your face.
Took quite a bit of enjoyment from the rest of the episode.