Is SAO really that bad, or do people just hate it because it spawned so much terrible/mediocre isekai?

Is SAO really that bad, or do people just hate it because it spawned so much terrible/mediocre isekai?

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watch GGO Alternative and nothing else.

its both

>Is SAO really that bad
yes

I helped get me into anime but looking back it's in the terrible tier

Both. Also, Bofuri isn't isekai.

>Bofuri isn't isekai.
It's close enough

sao was fine

>Shield Hero & Slime
>Better than Overlord

yes. once you graduate middle school and leave your edgy phase you'll realize why it's better.

I wish it was. With the same luck and broken skills.

>Good Isekai
>Isn't an isekai
Retard.

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But SAO isn't isekai.

That's very condescending stand.
You have shown that Overlord fans are clearly more mentally matured than you are.

>no u
Good one.

SAO and Bufuri isn't isekai
SAO is shit in it of itself and was shit on before isekai was noticed on Zig Forums.

SAO is awful but it also gets shit on harder than it really deserves because it's a meme to hate it, it's like the anime version of Nickelback

SOA was originally a death-game plot before MC's waifu be a hostage for the story continuation.

>good
>isekai

being the vanguard of WN adaptions with gary stu MCs definitely gave it the lion's share of the hate
anything after that just seems like clones so they trace back to SAO for being the one to bring this shit about

I love the premise of SAO, but it's squandered with time jumps and bullshit. And then it turns into a shitty 2nd arc.

compared to it's abridged series its hot garbage.
compared to everything else it's mediocre

though even then it doesn't work since death game/battle royales are about the characters of that game and their psychologies.

First arc was all about Kirito and how great he was

the abridged series just made it Loading Player One

>a bunch of nerds have better reflexes than professional soldiers
>implying USA wouldn't know about the Alicization
>Kirito is the god of VR
SAO is shit but is still a little better than the average Isekai were only the MC can use his brain.

Neither is SAO

>tfw VRMMO gets better and better with their anime
>while isekai gets worse and worse

We're eventually going to have the perfect VR anime airing alongside fucking Re:monster

The abridged series are reddit

Tourists who unironically say things are reddit are reddit

You don't have to dig deep in psychosis for it to be a death game, people just change when they hear it's a death game. Just look at Player Battlegrounds Unknown or Fortnite.

>Good Isekai
>Isn't an isekai

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In what retard brain is it close enough. SAO isn’t even Isekai.