#just a nitpick I understand it’s to communicate to the average viewer who is bad with faces that the characters are the same nbd

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If I was Beetlejuice I would not keep a photo of teenage Winona Ryder on my desk but that’s just me

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Let’s Talk Anime: Will the Anituber Community Ever be Happy? By usotaku

When I woke up this morning I thought it was going to be an average Saturday, doing the average Saturday things and then I got on You Tube. While scrolling through the recommended videos, half of which I’ll never watch, I say the title for this video and I was almost surprised. That is until of course I remembered what century it was and how you can find a negative reaction to just about anything on the internet but what we have here is just a pure lack of realization that Anime Is Fiction!

In his most recent video, AniNews makes the claim that LLenn from SAO: Alternative GGO is more OP than Kirito from SAO. In the video he states his experiences with FPS’ to lend some credibility to his argument but he forgets one key fact. Its all a work of a fiction that takes place in a game with a higher level of immersion than our own limited analog gaming capability. Also from the universal cannon surrounding SAO a large part of a players inherent skill revolves around their compatibility with the gear rig its self and how fast their brain can receive, process and react to the situations they are involved in (see the Mothers Rosario arc for this explanation). 

So will the game mechanics of GGO may be more fleshed out in this story they are still not absolute and universal because the players personal level of connectivity (latency in modern terms) changes the playing field in many ways also the adaptability LLEN demonstrates in the SJ tournaments is largely based on her PVP hunting experience prior to the tournaments opening. Now I can’t say I disagree with every point that he makes because there are some things in the anime world that wouldn’t actually be true in the gaming world such as LLenn’s hit boxes being based on her avatar size due to its massive advantage over the other players but this is an anime and not a video game so their will always be some suspension of belief for the sake of the story. 

The world of GGO and SAO are fictional stories created by authors with little or no video game building experience or an understanding of world breaking mechanics. So it stands to reason that these rules will be bent in the fictional setting in order to keep the story engaging. After all anime is in its self an escapist medium and even total realism in a fictional gaming world would make for a boring story and less action based anime that would look a God view video game with out the ability of the viewer to control any of the interactions and I mean how boring would that be? So no SAO: Alternative isn’t perfect from a video game stand point and but is a much better work of fiction than the original that I was very happy with.

In saying this, I do realize that this single reaction won’t stop the endless stream of people who complain about anime’s lack of reality but reality is boring which is why we watch anime. I just hope that at some point people will realize that nitpicking every anime they watch to death is not only bad for the community but disheartening for its creator. As a content creator my self I realize not every one on the planet will agree with my opinions but if I were to receive the constant level of criticism some of these anime and manga creators do I’d probably find it hard to great further content. I’m also not saying that we always have to agree with what they do either and by giving them a fair and constructive criticism we can help them grow but constant streams of complaint after complaint just is going to help. Until next time, jane! 

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