Sword Art Online War of the Underworld Episode 10
Sword Fine art Online: Alicization War of Underworld Office 2
by Theron Martin, 
Note: This episode is listed as episode 22 on Crunchyroll and HIDIVE and episode 46 on Funimation
If I had to say what my favorite part of the unabridged Alicization arc is, information technology would probably be the content covered past this penultimate episode. For all of the dramatics, large flashy battles and fun character interactions, this is what the entire arc is ultimately all about and what the entire franchise was ultimately leading upward to: the emergence of a new life class into the real world, with all of the consequences such a feat entails. Considering of that, the episode existence named subsequently the arc's titular graphic symbol, the girl who is the subject field of all of this, is only fitting.
Alice has had only a minimal presence in this cour of the arc upward to this point, so seeing the episode both start and terminate by featuring her was a welcome return to her activity level earlier in this half of the arc. She has the mode of a diplomat down pat during the news conference, simply the feistiness which has always defined her is dorsum and quite axiomatic, even if restrained for politeness. Seeing her in the school uniform for the SAO survivors' school should be no surprise, given that Alice is very briefly shown in that compatible at the end of the opener, but the purple clothes and matching shoes she is wearing in the last scene are much more of a visual highlight. (I already have a figma of Alice in total battle clothes, but if one is ever made of her in that dress, I would probably have to buy it.) Her complaining in that scene almost withering away seems ominous and will have consequences in the final episode, but it's to be expected; she has, after all, been thrust into a center-stage office in a wholly new surroundings, and even if she has been here for a month, that kind of pressure would take a toll on anyone.
But this episode has a lot more than going on than only Alice's situation and her efforts to convince the public that she isn't a threat. Kikuoka is letting everyone believe that he's dead, and the condition of Underworld – which is fully dependent on the real earth for ability and physical structure – is precarious for understandable political reasons. Kirito and Asuna finally wake upward after a month, but Kirito's starting time request is to accept their memories of the last 200 years purged, just like they were when he was working for Rath at the beginning of the arc. That does non reply the question of how they survived past the theoretical limit, though 1 detail in this episode suggests a possible solution: Alice's sister Selka going into Deep Freeze to await Alice's return. When Ambassador found herself hitting her fluctlight'due south memory limit (equally described in part 1 episode 13), she tried to subordinate another fluctlight to deal with the overflow. The more ethical Kirito and Asuna could well accept gone into Deep Freeze themselves when they found themselves hit that limit.
That'due south not the only issue at hand, either. Recall dorsum early in the first one-half the sit-in about attempts to brand a copy of an existing fluctlight, and the resulting personality crash? Of course Higa would effort to make a copy of Kirito, as he would want to know – just like we do – what happened in those 200 years. And of form Kirito'southward copy is stable; the episode doesn't betoken out that the conversation the copy has extends well past the lifespan of previous attempts, but that is evident. That re-create doesn't spill more than i random detail about what happened, just information technology has other interesting things to say, such every bit vowing to be a defender of Underworld and suggesting seeking out Kayaba'south copy. (Seriously, did anyone recall he was out of the picture for good this time?) The brief flashbacks of Kirito's memory exercise not reveal anything more than than expected reunions within Underworld, only two random lines – when he calls Asuna "Her Majesty" upon waking up and when the copy refers to Asuna as "the queen" – provided tantalizing hints. Either could be casually taken as a general reference to his strong-willed beloved, simply they seem a little too specific hither. The truth of that should come out in the concluding episode.
In terms of story completeness, I also felt that Kirito'southward terminal emotional breakup was a necessary scene. He'south had a lot to cope with even from the stuff he does think, and spilling on Eugeo to a sympathetic Suguha is quite plumbing fixtures.
One episode remains to put a cap on this story. If the anime ends the style novel xviii does (and at this point I have no reason to believe that it won't) then I volition be very curious to see how anime-only viewers react.
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