werevthe first 2-3 season like the one piece beginning or something what happened?

nope, it's bad the whole time, in fact it arguably gets worse. People figured this out 10 years ago: https://youtu.be/3uON7ANNOi4

Aliciazation was kind of fun

the mini-season with super-aids girl was pretty enjoyable, bc asuna was the main character

ggo is alright if you have guntism and get erect every time you see your favourite gun represented in media. as for the rest of sao, the only good thing about it was the cute blacksmith girl.

>>2
Guy literally trooned and never even learned Japanese. You sure you want to follow his opinions?

If hating sword art online makes u transition, we gotta get this stuff before every repper in the world!!! Idc if some of them, like >>6, enjoy it. Even if we have to trade 100 Kirito cosplayers for every woman, we can do it! WE CAN DO IT FOR THEM!

>>7
Hating sword art online and not learning Japanese is a guaranteed path towards a quick transition. They say Kirito is wish-fulfillment and problematic because HE IS EVERYTHING they want to be but lack the strength and ideals to accomplish.

>>8
That's a cute opinion. Did a youtuber give it to you?

>>9
It's my observation after consuming youtube video essays where they try to explain just how problematic Kirito is.

>>10
lol i have seen the libido kamen video too hahaha.
i wouldn't go as far as him but most western critiques of anime protagonists are retarded, included that of kirito.

They just want every anime protagonist to be some kind of 80s flick action hero.

Personally I have no problem with kirito but rather it's the heroines in SAO that are boring when paired with Kirito. The alicization arc where Kirito is paired with a guy is the best part of SAO partly because Kirito has more chemistry with him than any of the girls.

Part of the problem is that SAO is not really a harem, since Asuna wins at the start, so at best what you have got between Kirito and the other heroines is a buddy cop relationship that can never really blossom into romance because Kirito is already taken. So all the romantic hints and sparks which the anime throws at the audience's way are totally pointless.

The other thing which I dislike in SAO is that other than Kayaba and the villain in Alicization, the villains tend to be boring one-dimensional evil assholes. Season 2 is the worst for this. I am not saying that every villain needs to be a shade of grey but can't they at least be a bit intelligent and take some interesting decisions?

Finally, it's not a unique criticism, but the time skip... the time skip in S1 really sucked.

>>11
Did you watch the SAO progressive movies by the way? I think they fix some of the issues you mentioned.