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NetEase Announces Anime Series, EN Version Not Confirmed - Revelation Online - MMORPG.com
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NetEase Announces Anime Series, EN Version Not Confirmed - Revelation Online - MMORPG.com
Revelation Online News - NetEase has announced that an anime series based on Revelation Online is in the works. The gaming giant is working with Sparkly Key Animation Studio to produce the series. At this time it is unknown if an English language version will be released as well. NetEase released a teaser trailer for the series. Check them out!
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Seriously, with a population of 1.4 billion, the Chinese games market dwarfs the NA and EU combined. And it's a single market with one set of laws and speaking basically one language...
A year or two from now, I wouldn't be surprised to see a new MMO launching in the Chinese market every other week !
The hate comes from several places. As a contest entry, SAO was rushed and condensed, exacerbating any writing problems it might have. And oh boy, did it ever have problems.
Plot Pacing- SAO's plot establishes itself strongly, then shits the bed. The concept of a life or death MMO dies within the first few episodes as time skips cut out dozens of boss encounters at the same time and kill hundreds of players offscreen with death toll announcements. Instead of focusing on, you know, the actual premise of the show, they'd rather make episodes about fishing or detective work.
Plot Pacing 2 - SAO, instead of intelligently focusing on developing one world like a decent work of writing, goes on to jump into entirely new worlds like a poor man's Tsubasa Chronicles.
Main Character - Kirito is not a character. He is a plot device. Nothing can even remotely threaten him. He will always win through some combination of power and deus ex machina. And unlike similarly godlike characters (like Hellsing's Alucard), he has no definable personality and no aspirations.
It's a harem anime disguised as a MMO anime - yawn.
Deus ex Machinas - Why does Yui even exist? Why can Kirito cheat death at the end of SAO? Why did he suddenly receive admin rights from a ghostly SAO programmer at the end of Alfheim? Because the writer sucks at storytelling, that's why.
All of the secondary characters suck - Every harem member is lacking in personality except for Asuna, who is just a classic tsundere. None of the male secondary characters get screen time to present even that much.
The MMOs themselves are unplayable - No one would play Sword Art Online. It has no tanking, no support, no classes, no roles, zones that randomly disable healing crystals, rewards players for stealing boss kills, allows every boss to be challenged by infinite players of any level, and splits xp between group members encouraging solo play. Also, it has infinite levels and randomly gives players exclusive skills that no one else can have - in a pvp game. And that's ignoring the fact that it kills you. And the other MMOs featured in this anime are even worse.
And there's so much more. The fact that there are channels with popular videos featuring HOURS of valid criticism of this dumpster fire says all that needs to be said.
the people who "call themselves weeaboo" *EDIT: noticed I completely screwed up the last sentence in the post u quoted :P I meant to say that I don't think that there's an awful lot of people that call themselves weeaboo and care for the localization of an anime unless its to japanese.