Sword Art Online was a horrible show

REFUTATIONS"First off, the characters are bland and unappealing. Asuna and Kirito are basically boring Mary Sue's. Their relations, dialogues with their friends and enemies come off as... bland and sometimes even awkward. They definitely tried to make Kirito a cool character, somewhat of a MMO gamer badass that is popular around girls. But well, the problem is, as he has no real interesting traits, putting him in cool situations just won't work out. He just comes as overpowered. Asuna is just bland. The side characters are really undeveloped and the way they handled the girl characters, was again, boring." To begin with, I would like to point out all of this is subjective, and even with such an opinion false. Because of such, you are unable to factually prove that these things are true, and so your points are invalid. Anyway, I shall counter. The characters are actually quite appealing, and dialog is quite amazing. Kirito is a normal kid who learns to become better and a hero in a video game. Asuna is quite a rich teenager who likes to play video games as well. The point is that they are average, however in this world they can do thing they never could in the real one, and they are much different. Also, kirito is not over powered. As you can see, he was unable to finish that boss under the town of beggining without yui deleting the monster. Asuna is meant to be bland, because Kirito changes her through their relationship. And honestly, how is this unapealing? "Second, the pacing was absolutely horrible. The action was jumping from place to place like a kangaroo on steroids, and the action got really confusing really fast. I even had to check if I didn't miss any episodes." You just aren't otaku enough to understand. It is actually quite simple. The pacing was normal, like in many other animes such as "no game no life" and "attack on titan". He weant through a few adventures, and such is normal."Third, the focus of the show was not right. Instead of really focusing on truly interesting thing in this setting, living trapped in a MMO and seeing how the game mechanics change the lives of people playing, they focused on action, wasting a really interesting idea." That's just like saying fairy tail should be more about the world they live in then the characters themselves. The focus can be on anything, and in this case it was on Asuna and Kirito. If anything, the focus was perfect, because quite a lot of people enjoy the Asuna/Kirito ship which brings in more viewers. And this idea you like is actually being included in GGO, the sequel of SAO."Fourth, the show was cheesy and full of silly dialogue. This wouldn't be bad if show had actually intended to do this, because there are shows that actually included cheesiness on purpose. But SAO takes itself way to seriously, and doesn't benefit from it's silly moments." Are you kidding me? Their dialogue is amazing, and deep, not cheesy."Levels are just numbers. In this world, strength is just an illusion. — Kazuto Kirigaya""I'd rather trust and regret than doubt and regret. — Kazuto Kirigaya" [1] The quotes well relate SAO to the real world as well."Fifth, Kirito having a harem was just unnecessary and really threw me off. That guy had really nothing special to him and for some reason, every girl in the show loves him." Yeah, because finishing a video game that can kill you by yourself is totally not special. He helped these girls, and saved their lives, he deserves a harem."Sixth, the romance between Kirito and Asuna was horribly forced. As they don't really have much character, they don't really have chemistry between them. There is nothing interesting about their love." 2 people stuck in a video game who met eachother at first and some how met again and eventually earned a child that was actually a secret program imbedded in the software is very interesting! Also, it wasn't forced. There was chemistry from the start, when Kirito offered her food."Seventh, the second season was horrible. The change of setting completely threw away any sense of danger, the show got even more cheesy, and the villain was boring, uninteresting, annoying and uncomfortable." The second season focused on him saving the girl he loves while having family issues, and trying to make it up to his family. There wasn't meant to be danger, because the 2nd season is focused on Kirito trying to fix everything. The villain was a man who made a video game just to take over peoples mind, and he raped a girl. This isn't boring at all.========================= Not only are all of your arguments opiniated, but all your opinions are false. ========================== SAO is proven to be an amazing show, due to it's extremely high ratings. According to IMDB, a just website to which they weigh the votes in order to only use fair detailed reviews, SAO has a stunning 8.4! [2] Furthermore, they are also making the next season, GGO. If the anime was trule terrible, the ratings would be under 5.0, and they wouldn't have enough ratings to make another season. This itself factually proves that SAO was not a horrible anime. The anime also has various, various fans. So many people cosplay as SAO characters compared to other animes. This itself proves people like it, and so it cannot be a horrible anime if the majority of viewers enjoy it. In conclusion, SAO is factually an amazing show, definitly not horrible. All your arguments were opiniated, and your opinions were false. Sources:1.http://hummingbird.me...2.http://www.imdb.com...