What in the world is going on with this series?! It’s evolving from an action fantasy series to more of the harem aspect with Sinon falling for Kirito.  Asuna’s going to be pissed.  At first glance Sinon was an interesting character for this series, and now that we’ve had her emotional background in the previous episodes- she is turning out to be rather annoying.  A total tsundere.  About the only good part of this was the first segment where we get to see Kirito back in Sword Art Online fighting off Laughing Coffin.  I really like how the murder mystery episode we had in the first season of this series re-introduced this group as the villains.  My concern wasn’t who it was but that entire scene where was it in the first season?  SAO sure likes to drop in convenient story threads for the overall sake of saving this show. This was horrible!

OVERALL IMPRESSION: 3/10

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