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Sword Art Online #10
ソードアート?オンライン10: アリシゼーション?ランニング
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谜のファンタジー世界に入り込んでしまったキリト。痴搁惭惭翱チックなその空间で最初に出会った少年?ユージオ。?狈笔颁?とは思えないほど感情が豊かなその少年と共に、キリトは央都?セントリア?に向かい、
そして、二年が过ぎた──。
キリトとユージオは、?北セントリア帝立修剣学院?の?初等练士?となり、それぞれ先辈であるソルティリーナとゴルゴロッソの指导を仰ぎながら、人界最强の秩序执行者?整合骑士?を目指す日々に明け暮れていた。
央都を統べる?公理教会?の中枢にたどり着くため、二人はあまたの障害をはねのけ、学院にわずか十二人しか存在しない?上級修剣士?を目指す──！ 壮大なるヴァーチャル?ワールド?スペクタクル!!
谜のファンタジー世界に入り込んでしまったキリト。痴搁惭惭翱チックなその空间で最初に出会った少年?ユージオ。?狈笔颁?とは思えないほど感情が豊かなその少年と共に、キリトは央都?セントリア?に向かい、
そして、二年が过ぎた──。
キリトとユージオは、?北セントリア帝立修剣学院?の?初等练士?となり、それぞれ先辈であるソルティリーナとゴルゴロッソの指导を仰ぎながら、人界最强の秩序执行者?整合骑士?を目指す日々に明け暮れていた。
央都を統べる?公理教会?の中枢にたどり着くため、二人はあまたの障害をはねのけ、学院にわずか十二人しか存在しない?上級修剣士?を目指す──！ 壮大なるヴァーチャル?ワールド?スペクタクル!!
335 pages, Paperback
First published July 10, 2012
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264?books894?followersKawahara Reki (川原 礫) is the writer of Sword Art Online and Accel World. He also uses the pen name Kunori Fumio. His hobby is cycling.
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June 6, 2013
In short... I cannot wait for book 11. The Alicization arc was rather touching and as usual it is very detailed when it comes to thoughts and depictions.
All comments on other 9 books applied, and I noticed that the author is good at choosing which time to fast-forward and which one to slow down and explicate. That makes it enriching. Even the descriptions of how the skills work and how the laws of the world operate are well done.
All comments on other 9 books applied, and I noticed that the author is good at choosing which time to fast-forward and which one to slow down and explicate. That makes it enriching. Even the descriptions of how the skills work and how the laws of the world operate are well done.
July 19, 2017
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December 10, 2018
So, after a couple of not very interesting books, this is finally getting better. The whole Alicization project is actually quite scary, and something I wouldn't want developed, as it sounds like it could easily get out of control. In this book we learn the truth behind the project Kirito is involved in, and what is the ultimate goal of this whole new virtual world we're seeing. And then, we return to Kirito, in his quest to find a system administrator and leave the game. He is still a very annoying character, and he is still the stereotypical 'I can do it all' kinda guy, so no news there. But I do like Eugeo, and the development he is slowly having as a character. Despite we know he is an AI, he does have some human growth of sorts and its interesting to see just how much he'll be able to change or not just to see Alice again.
Im also really enjoying the whole build up of this world. Despite it all being fake and human created, the characters strike me as very real, and it's really interesting to see how they have developed the Taboo Index and how things work for them, and how they seem limited by it because of their programming.
Im also really enjoying the whole build up of this world. Despite it all being fake and human created, the characters strike me as very real, and it's really interesting to see how they have developed the Taboo Index and how things work for them, and how they seem limited by it because of their programming.
June 20, 2017
I find the Underworld wonderfully intricate and fantastic. The new technology is very interesting and inspires genuine consideration about what human consciousness is.
May 12, 2017
There's a lot of explanation at the beginning of the book. Someone might consider it a flaw, but for myself, I like lengthy explanations if the purpose is to set the stage and let the reader into a whole another universe. The 10th light novel isn't just that though. Instead, after setting the scene, it brings us to the heart of the action, showing the progress Kirito and Eugeo are doing in the Underworld.
The ending, of course, left me in anticipation for the 11th volume. If I had the entire series with me, I'd probably disappear for days on end just letting myself get lost in the story.
The ending, of course, left me in anticipation for the 11th volume. If I had the entire series with me, I'd probably disappear for days on end just letting myself get lost in the story.
January 4, 2023
...Kirito is getting himself another adopted AI daughter. Yui's going to be jealous.
Sigh.
So, I liked this book, I gave it 4 stars because I just zipped through it and I was kind of proud of Kawahara for actually attacking moral issues head on. It was just shallow. I don't like characters that only exist as foils for other characters and that's the role Asuna and Rinko seemed to fill in this book. But, then again, I discovered that he writes these things at the rate of one every two months! I can forgive a lot for such devotion. Not having to wait covers many sins.
Anyway, the moral issues attacked head on in this book are about copying the 'souls' of newborn babies and the life or nonlifeness of Artificial intelligences. On the first point I got a huge kick out of him saying that the nature/nurture fight had been won and it's all nurture, at least in the place of 'souls'. But, I doubt he's right. Don't get me wrong, I think nurture has far more of an effect than we ever thought, but it's because how you are nurtured and the choices you make have an effect on your DNA. That's mind boggling, true, and yet still incredibly understudied. I almost want to change careers just to go add to the body of research in this area...but instead I will just read other people's research.
I also doubt his definition of a soul, which is basically just memory. If that were the case then souls would have both a beginning point and an end point, I prefer to believe that souls are eternal. I have no evidence or foundation for that belief, it's something I take on faith. But it's also because I want my existence to be something more meaningful than just having experiences and remembering them. I want my life to have a meaning and a purpose.
The whole copying of newborn souls and then raising them in the Underworld was an interesting thought experiment that I couldn't take at all seriously. Why? Because he had these souls getting married and having children. Even if I were to accept the ability to copy a human soul into a crystal as within the realm of possibility, and then I were to accept that it's possible for said electronic copy of soul to grow and mature into adulthood...why on earth would it be possible for souls to mate and produce offspring? How would they do that exactly? How would the two souls mix together? We don't understand how souls are produced. It's a mystery that happens biologically. So how would it work in an electronic environment that has no biology? How would the technicians have mixed new souls together from the old ones? So obviously they couldn't be new souls. They just kept using the same 10 copies of newborn souls that they started with. So what, did they have a 'mother' raising herself? He tried to overcome that fundamental issue by saying that all souls at the newborn point are equal, without individual differences, but when they are raised in an extremely limited environment wouldn't you get a sort of behavioral inbreeding? Isn't that what's causing the characters to all behave the same way?
Of course, I think there's a bigger fundamental flaw. He says that there's no murder and no stealing ...somehow. But why would human nature fundamentally change to such a great degree? He tries to get around it by saying that nurture is everything and that if people grow up where there is no murder, then they will never murder. I happen to think that's not true. Humans aren't fundamentally good, we are fundamentally twisted. Even his own characters demonstrate this. They try to get around the rules of the Taboo to hurt one another out of sheer spite, envy, and mean-spiritedness. That's where murder is born.
The other great moral quandary of this book is whether AIs are alive or not. Kikuoka is on the side that they aren't, Kirito is on the side that they are...at least according to Asuna. But he isn't really. If he was then he would feel moral guilt for each of the dungeon bosses he killed. But he doesn't, he only feels moral guilt for NPCs. So what is it? They have to be 'allied' or 'noncombatant' or 'human shaped' AI in order to be alive and to have value? That's a ridiculous and shallow moral standard and I hope Kawahara figures that out and deals with this in a little bit more depth later, when Kirito wakes up from the Underworld.
Sigh.
So, I liked this book, I gave it 4 stars because I just zipped through it and I was kind of proud of Kawahara for actually attacking moral issues head on. It was just shallow. I don't like characters that only exist as foils for other characters and that's the role Asuna and Rinko seemed to fill in this book. But, then again, I discovered that he writes these things at the rate of one every two months! I can forgive a lot for such devotion. Not having to wait covers many sins.
Anyway, the moral issues attacked head on in this book are about copying the 'souls' of newborn babies and the life or nonlifeness of Artificial intelligences. On the first point I got a huge kick out of him saying that the nature/nurture fight had been won and it's all nurture, at least in the place of 'souls'. But, I doubt he's right. Don't get me wrong, I think nurture has far more of an effect than we ever thought, but it's because how you are nurtured and the choices you make have an effect on your DNA. That's mind boggling, true, and yet still incredibly understudied. I almost want to change careers just to go add to the body of research in this area...but instead I will just read other people's research.
I also doubt his definition of a soul, which is basically just memory. If that were the case then souls would have both a beginning point and an end point, I prefer to believe that souls are eternal. I have no evidence or foundation for that belief, it's something I take on faith. But it's also because I want my existence to be something more meaningful than just having experiences and remembering them. I want my life to have a meaning and a purpose.
The whole copying of newborn souls and then raising them in the Underworld was an interesting thought experiment that I couldn't take at all seriously. Why? Because he had these souls getting married and having children. Even if I were to accept the ability to copy a human soul into a crystal as within the realm of possibility, and then I were to accept that it's possible for said electronic copy of soul to grow and mature into adulthood...why on earth would it be possible for souls to mate and produce offspring? How would they do that exactly? How would the two souls mix together? We don't understand how souls are produced. It's a mystery that happens biologically. So how would it work in an electronic environment that has no biology? How would the technicians have mixed new souls together from the old ones? So obviously they couldn't be new souls. They just kept using the same 10 copies of newborn souls that they started with. So what, did they have a 'mother' raising herself? He tried to overcome that fundamental issue by saying that all souls at the newborn point are equal, without individual differences, but when they are raised in an extremely limited environment wouldn't you get a sort of behavioral inbreeding? Isn't that what's causing the characters to all behave the same way?
Of course, I think there's a bigger fundamental flaw. He says that there's no murder and no stealing ...somehow. But why would human nature fundamentally change to such a great degree? He tries to get around it by saying that nurture is everything and that if people grow up where there is no murder, then they will never murder. I happen to think that's not true. Humans aren't fundamentally good, we are fundamentally twisted. Even his own characters demonstrate this. They try to get around the rules of the Taboo to hurt one another out of sheer spite, envy, and mean-spiritedness. That's where murder is born.
The other great moral quandary of this book is whether AIs are alive or not. Kikuoka is on the side that they aren't, Kirito is on the side that they are...at least according to Asuna. But he isn't really. If he was then he would feel moral guilt for each of the dungeon bosses he killed. But he doesn't, he only feels moral guilt for NPCs. So what is it? They have to be 'allied' or 'noncombatant' or 'human shaped' AI in order to be alive and to have value? That's a ridiculous and shallow moral standard and I hope Kawahara figures that out and deals with this in a little bit more depth later, when Kirito wakes up from the Underworld.
August 19, 2018
Sword Art Online volume 10 is the second part of the Alicization arc, Alicization Running. Aside from Reki Kawahara's skill in general, I'm continuing to enjoy this arc because of how distinct it is from previous ones.
First of all, it is split in two segments, one for Asuna and one for Kazuto.
I like the first one because it has a genre shift to Mystery. Asuna has to put her head together with Silica, Suguha and Yui to find Kazuto so that they can rescue him. It can be seen as a flip of the alpha couple's situation at the start of volume 2, and, in fact, Yui points this out. She has a MUCH harder time of it than Kazuto.
He was forwarded a picture taken in a publicly available server. She has to search for clues, piece them together, and make logical deductions that drift rather far into conspiratorial speculation. Then she has to devise a way to enter a private, highly secured, area. It is not action-y but it is awesome. Really, that scene was my favorite part of the book.
The continuing development of the mechanics of Underworld fascinate me. It is a shame that SAO's haters don't read the light novels. Then they would see that Reki Kawahara's is not some hack terminally dependent on harem fanservice. There is a ton of thought and foresight and literary skill going into the science fiction here, and more goes into how it is set up and delivered through the narrative.
There is this one scene in particular where a human talks with his fluctlight clone, and the clone has a critical case of Cloning Blues. It is genuinely unsettling. It is an existential terror.
As for Kazuto's section, he is still inside Underworld where he goes by Kirito. This book is about the VR nerd part of him. He spends basically the whole of his section trying to figure out how the Underworld works, and he does it through experimentation. The OP Mary-Sue that haters insist that he is cannot be found here; he has three fights and two of them are against practioners with more experience than him. The later two are struggles and neither of them is a victory. Neither is the harem seeker his detractors deride him as present in this volume. On the contrary, he resolves to be a Celibate Hero out of faithfulness to Asuna.
Trickster Eric Novels gives "Sword Art Online Volume 11: Alicization Running" an A+
First of all, it is split in two segments, one for Asuna and one for Kazuto.
I like the first one because it has a genre shift to Mystery. Asuna has to put her head together with Silica, Suguha and Yui to find Kazuto so that they can rescue him. It can be seen as a flip of the alpha couple's situation at the start of volume 2, and, in fact, Yui points this out. She has a MUCH harder time of it than Kazuto.
He was forwarded a picture taken in a publicly available server. She has to search for clues, piece them together, and make logical deductions that drift rather far into conspiratorial speculation. Then she has to devise a way to enter a private, highly secured, area. It is not action-y but it is awesome. Really, that scene was my favorite part of the book.
The continuing development of the mechanics of Underworld fascinate me. It is a shame that SAO's haters don't read the light novels. Then they would see that Reki Kawahara's is not some hack terminally dependent on harem fanservice. There is a ton of thought and foresight and literary skill going into the science fiction here, and more goes into how it is set up and delivered through the narrative.
There is this one scene in particular where a human talks with his fluctlight clone, and the clone has a critical case of Cloning Blues. It is genuinely unsettling. It is an existential terror.
As for Kazuto's section, he is still inside Underworld where he goes by Kirito. This book is about the VR nerd part of him. He spends basically the whole of his section trying to figure out how the Underworld works, and he does it through experimentation. The OP Mary-Sue that haters insist that he is cannot be found here; he has three fights and two of them are against practioners with more experience than him. The later two are struggles and neither of them is a victory. Neither is the harem seeker his detractors deride him as present in this volume. On the contrary, he resolves to be a Celibate Hero out of faithfulness to Asuna.
Trickster Eric Novels gives "Sword Art Online Volume 11: Alicization Running" an A+
January 13, 2021
The Alicization arc—of which this is the second light novel—continues to be really, really good. Author Reki Kawahara is really showcasing some impressive sci-fi/tech conceptualization/execution skills here. I mean, wow wow wow, ideas!
Granted, I have not kept a close ear on modern sci-fi/tech writing world. If I would think of a comparable series I'd look at 's Otherland trilogy from the mid-90s, which is also about the last time I kept up with what would have been considered contemporary sci-fi. (Otherland, for the record, is really damned good.) Even if Kawahara's tack isn't as unique as I presume, she has a deft skill in taking big concept ideas and making them coherent within the plot.
Now, I'm definitely letting my enthusiasm—both of the series as a whole and of the concepts she's been riffing over the last two volumes—drive my score here. There are some bumps. The biggest is how plot advancement basically stops in its tracks when Kawahara uses large swarths of exposition to explain her concepts. Like, chapters worth of exposition where nothing is happening except inventors lecturing (with a bit of dialogue from our heroes) about the tech being used. I'm not sure where the line is between giving enough information to allow a reader to suspend disbelief, and becoming too enamored with those ideas that the writer gets lost in them, but Kawahara goes way over it. It's great that she has all this worked out in her head, but she could have waaaaay trimmed those explanations down to the barest of bones and we, as readers, would have been good. Especially because, frankly, these ideas—which are great, don't get me wrong—are basically fantasy. I took one of the easily Googleable ideas ("fluctlights") and found... one marginal scientific paper outlining the hypothesis, and a whole lot of Sword Art Online mentions. While it's cool that Kawahara found that marginal scientific paper and was able to do something pretty cool with it, like, we're still in fantasy sci-fi realms here. Keep the explanations brisk.
But I don't give a fuck. Her writing is repetitive and I hate the weird romance subplot that's cropped up the last few chapters? I don't give a fuck. It's so good.
Granted, I have not kept a close ear on modern sci-fi/tech writing world. If I would think of a comparable series I'd look at 's Otherland trilogy from the mid-90s, which is also about the last time I kept up with what would have been considered contemporary sci-fi. (Otherland, for the record, is really damned good.) Even if Kawahara's tack isn't as unique as I presume, she has a deft skill in taking big concept ideas and making them coherent within the plot.
Now, I'm definitely letting my enthusiasm—both of the series as a whole and of the concepts she's been riffing over the last two volumes—drive my score here. There are some bumps. The biggest is how plot advancement basically stops in its tracks when Kawahara uses large swarths of exposition to explain her concepts. Like, chapters worth of exposition where nothing is happening except inventors lecturing (with a bit of dialogue from our heroes) about the tech being used. I'm not sure where the line is between giving enough information to allow a reader to suspend disbelief, and becoming too enamored with those ideas that the writer gets lost in them, but Kawahara goes way over it. It's great that she has all this worked out in her head, but she could have waaaaay trimmed those explanations down to the barest of bones and we, as readers, would have been good. Especially because, frankly, these ideas—which are great, don't get me wrong—are basically fantasy. I took one of the easily Googleable ideas ("fluctlights") and found... one marginal scientific paper outlining the hypothesis, and a whole lot of Sword Art Online mentions. While it's cool that Kawahara found that marginal scientific paper and was able to do something pretty cool with it, like, we're still in fantasy sci-fi realms here. Keep the explanations brisk.
But I don't give a fuck. Her writing is repetitive and I hate the weird romance subplot that's cropped up the last few chapters? I don't give a fuck. It's so good.
January 7, 2023
While volume 9 plunged us into the Underworld without any explanation, volume 10 brings us back to the surface and fills in many blanks that we were left with in the closing portions of volume 9. For example we finally learn what happened with Kirito after he was shot by one of Death Gun's followers. Much of the revelations delved into more of the theoretical with descriptions of AI, souls, and the views of the role of technology on the battlefield. Much of the discussion even included nods to the real world. In my opinion, I would probably ended up determining or declaring that Kirito would probably still went along with Rath's plans since he has a vested interest in VR and AI, regardless of the implication of war.
Regardless, while that discussion ended we were plunged back into the Underworld and followed Kirito and Eugeo on their journey posting felling the Gigas Cedar to enrolling in the academy. The characters they find themselves involved in all feel alive (though two are a little on the borderline comically bad side, but well this is fiction so some characters need to be a little overexaggerated to have some sort of impact). I liked how Kirito found himself feeling wholly immersed in this world and honestly, from some perspectives he's had closer fuller interactions with these characters than he had with the others he's met. Maybe only Asuna, but then, he only knew Asuna in the closing stages of Aincrad.
Overall, this was a great volume, overall. I'm liking this more slower pace through the game than the brisk pace of, for example, Aincrad Online or Fairy Dance.
Regardless, while that discussion ended we were plunged back into the Underworld and followed Kirito and Eugeo on their journey posting felling the Gigas Cedar to enrolling in the academy. The characters they find themselves involved in all feel alive (though two are a little on the borderline comically bad side, but well this is fiction so some characters need to be a little overexaggerated to have some sort of impact). I liked how Kirito found himself feeling wholly immersed in this world and honestly, from some perspectives he's had closer fuller interactions with these characters than he had with the others he's met. Maybe only Asuna, but then, he only knew Asuna in the closing stages of Aincrad.
Overall, this was a great volume, overall. I'm liking this more slower pace through the game than the brisk pace of, for example, Aincrad Online or Fairy Dance.
October 17, 2017
Una continuación bastante bien llevada y con un buen ritmo de lectura (no lo acabé antes por flojo :'v)
"Underworld" sigue siendo maravilloso y cada vez lo conocemos más a fondo, es más complicado entenderlo por que es mucho más que NPCs e Inteligencia Articial. Personalmente, creo está mucho mejor construido que Aincrad.
Me gustó y me pareció muy útil el detalle de los mapas incorporados porque en esta novela es cuando Kirito y Eugeo empiezan su viaje y hacen mención a nuevas ciudades y lugares.
El alma de Kirito sigue atrapada en ese mundo virtual tratando de llegar a convertirse en un Integrity Knight en compa?ía de su amigo Eugeo. Mientras que en el mundo real, Asuna descubre el lugar donde tienen a su amado y las razones por las que fue tomado para el experimento de RATH. Me gustó que revelaran esas cosas y me hicieran poner la situación en perspectiva.
Se introducen nuevos personajes en ambos mundos y sé que van a ser importantes en los siguientes libros. Sortiliena-senpai me recordaba mucho a Issabelle, de Shadowhunters, así que me sobraron motivos para quererla.
Por otro lado, la relación de amistad de Eugeo y Kirito en "Underworld" se va fortaleciendo y haciendo más madura conforme pasa el tiempo. Se empieza a ver su evolución como personajes independientes y el aprecio que se tienen es evidente al leerlos. Más historias de amistad como esa. ?
Hay más tramas secundarias saliendo a flote, y el epílogo es un gran avance para lo que se viene en el libro 11.
Vamos bien, Kawahara-san. ??
"Underworld" sigue siendo maravilloso y cada vez lo conocemos más a fondo, es más complicado entenderlo por que es mucho más que NPCs e Inteligencia Articial. Personalmente, creo está mucho mejor construido que Aincrad.
Me gustó y me pareció muy útil el detalle de los mapas incorporados porque en esta novela es cuando Kirito y Eugeo empiezan su viaje y hacen mención a nuevas ciudades y lugares.
El alma de Kirito sigue atrapada en ese mundo virtual tratando de llegar a convertirse en un Integrity Knight en compa?ía de su amigo Eugeo. Mientras que en el mundo real, Asuna descubre el lugar donde tienen a su amado y las razones por las que fue tomado para el experimento de RATH. Me gustó que revelaran esas cosas y me hicieran poner la situación en perspectiva.
Se introducen nuevos personajes en ambos mundos y sé que van a ser importantes en los siguientes libros. Sortiliena-senpai me recordaba mucho a Issabelle, de Shadowhunters, así que me sobraron motivos para quererla.
Por otro lado, la relación de amistad de Eugeo y Kirito en "Underworld" se va fortaleciendo y haciendo más madura conforme pasa el tiempo. Se empieza a ver su evolución como personajes independientes y el aprecio que se tienen es evidente al leerlos. Más historias de amistad como esa. ?
Hay más tramas secundarias saliendo a flote, y el epílogo es un gran avance para lo que se viene en el libro 11.
Vamos bien, Kawahara-san. ??
June 3, 2019
So we're in the second volume of the Alicization story arc. I liked it. I admit that the first half of the book is full of a LOT of exposition but much like the first volume I've been enjoying learning about the way things work in the world and the tech and whatnot. Plus I want to see even more of Asuna and more of Rinko and what they might be up to.
As for the rest -- Kirito and Eugeo doing their thing. It may have been a smidge fast paced, but it wasn't bad. I certainly want to see where it is all going and how it works out.
Verdict: if you like SAO -- worth the read. If you don't, you probably don't care enough to read this review anyway. If you're looking to start somewhere with SAO -- don't start here, go back to the beginning.
As for the rest -- Kirito and Eugeo doing their thing. It may have been a smidge fast paced, but it wasn't bad. I certainly want to see where it is all going and how it works out.
Verdict: if you like SAO -- worth the read. If you don't, you probably don't care enough to read this review anyway. If you're looking to start somewhere with SAO -- don't start here, go back to the beginning.
October 5, 2017
I haven't given a 5 star to a SAO book in a while now, but this was a really great one. First half of it finally shines some light about what Alicization is and hints at some relations with the original Aincrad mess. I'm feeling these connections are going to be key, as there's a lot happening in the VR world that is unexplained.
Reki Kawahara is rehashing the Accel World concept of "willpower over logic". And to be honest I don't like it. It made some sense in Accel World, but I'm thinking he needs to come up with a better explanation or he will ruin the next Alicization books.
Looking forward to volume 11.
Reki Kawahara is rehashing the Accel World concept of "willpower over logic". And to be honest I don't like it. It made some sense in Accel World, but I'm thinking he needs to come up with a better explanation or he will ruin the next Alicization books.
Looking forward to volume 11.
November 3, 2018
This was an enjoyable follow up to the first book of the arc, but I did get a little bit bored two thirds of the way through the novel.
I was disappointed with the real world aspects of the books (those not taking place in the "game" world, if you'd call it a game). The characters were too easily able deduce certain aspects of the story. While I realize this series targets a young demographic, it felt far too easy for the characters to figure out what was going on and develop a plan that would succeed so easily.
As far as the rest of the novel goes, I again appreciate Kirito not being "OP" like he was in previous arcs. The characters are still succeeding relatively easily, but it doesn't feel so cheap. A few new characters have been introduced, although it's hard to tell whether these will be characters that will be relevant in future books.
After this novel, I plan to take a small break from Alicization and read something else, but I do plan on reading future novels. This book wasn't exciting enough to make me want to dive right into the next one, but I do plan on continuing the series.
I was disappointed with the real world aspects of the books (those not taking place in the "game" world, if you'd call it a game). The characters were too easily able deduce certain aspects of the story. While I realize this series targets a young demographic, it felt far too easy for the characters to figure out what was going on and develop a plan that would succeed so easily.
As far as the rest of the novel goes, I again appreciate Kirito not being "OP" like he was in previous arcs. The characters are still succeeding relatively easily, but it doesn't feel so cheap. A few new characters have been introduced, although it's hard to tell whether these will be characters that will be relevant in future books.
After this novel, I plan to take a small break from Alicization and read something else, but I do plan on reading future novels. This book wasn't exciting enough to make me want to dive right into the next one, but I do plan on continuing the series.
December 22, 2017
I took me a while to finish this one, not because it isn’t good just because I was too busy; that been said I enjoyed this one, we finally get some answers and some unexpected revelations, around half of it was real world story and intrigue with Asuna tracking down kirito and some serious and huge project. The second half is back in the VR world with exiting events and an awesome adrenaline full duel, some interesting facts about will power and the path to their respective goals.
August 29, 2018
La narrativa está mucho mejor que la del primer tomo de Alicization, comenzando este volumen te explican muchas cosas que resultan muy interesantes, se hace ameno el aprender sobre lo que Kirito está viviendo en el Underworld, aunque a veces se llega a hacer algo tedioso cuando empiezan a usar un vocabulario un tanto rebuscado para mi gusto, de cualquier manera estamos ante el mejor arco de SAO por mucho.
October 21, 2018
Another Great Book!
While the beginning started off slow-paced, it was all GREAT knowledge to have about Kirito’s situation. When it refocused back on Kirito, it also shows even more development and some of the special capabilities of Underworld.
As always, I am excited to continue this series!
While the beginning started off slow-paced, it was all GREAT knowledge to have about Kirito’s situation. When it refocused back on Kirito, it also shows even more development and some of the special capabilities of Underworld.
As always, I am excited to continue this series!
September 3, 2017
This volume just went nowhere for three quarters of the entire length of the book! It was so boring that I fell asleep in the middle of reading it! I am not kidding!
How can this volume be so bad when volume 9 was so good!
How can this volume be so bad when volume 9 was so good!
July 3, 2020
Another great novel that kept me interested and reading. We get to learn more about a few characters we've known for a while and meet new ones that are as well developed and three-dimensional as I've come to expect from the series. I can't wait to start the next one.
February 3, 2021
This volume explains all the mystery from the previous volume. It explains what happened to Kirito's real body and also explains the purpose of ‘Fluctlight’ or the need for a human like AI. In the Underworld, Kirito and Eugeo had started working on their goal. It was fun seeing Kirito and Eugeo act like best friends. In essence they are, after all they are with each other for nearly two years. I am dreading the ending of this arc. I know what happens with Eugeo and Kirito and I am equal parts excited and sad to read that. Overall an enjoyable read.
June 10, 2017
I'm enjoying this new story arc alot, I don't think I liked this Vol. as much as the last but from reading the afterword is sounds like the next one is going to be awesome..cant wait until august
June 23, 2017
aaaggghhhh this arc is killing me
"You'll never meet a guy who avoids recklessness and abandon like I do."
Oh, the sarcasm, Kirito. Our Black Swordsman still has it.
"You'll never meet a guy who avoids recklessness and abandon like I do."
Oh, the sarcasm, Kirito. Our Black Swordsman still has it.
September 8, 2017
This series is so interesting! Enjoying how the mystery just keeps building even while explaining various things
August 21, 2018
STL là cái chi chi?
??c ?o?n gi?i thích có khác gì ??c Non-fiction kh?ng??
??c ?o?n gi?i thích có khác gì ??c Non-fiction kh?ng??
January 7, 2020
Bom!!
April 7, 2021
Once again, lots of exposition in the first half, but it's good to finally know what is going on from reality's side. I wish it has more on Kirito's journey, but in the end it was satisfying enough.
August 20, 2022
Alicization continue en beauté, avec un deuxième tome excellent. Plus d'informations, une storyline qui commence à se révéler, et des personnages toujours plus attachants.
April 18, 2023
I'm really loving this whole series so far!
October 14, 2023
No lubi? j? ten sposób opisywania emocji i motywacji. Niby lekkie a siedzi cz?owiek i rozmy?la czy daleko nam do takich sytuacji. Polecam.
March 7, 2024
Great, action and swordfights were captured amazingly.
June 3, 2017
Que intenso primer a?o en la Academia de Espadachines
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