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Try contacting Seven Seas Publishing, they're the largest OEM manga publisher i know of. Ask about thier submissions requirements. http://www.sevenseasentertainment.com

Alex Approximately by: Jenn Bennett

For some reason, this does not make too much sense. There are writers and artists out there that do get to have a say over how their work is adapted into television series or a film, but many just let the teams do their jobs. In fact, Togashi had little to no power over what was happening when Yu Yu Hakusho got its anime adaptation. As for the whole aincrad being 25 episodes, I do not really see how, since the first book just skipped right to the stage where Kirito fought Kayaba after a while and the second book had basically everything that happened before it. Maybe, if the content from Progressive were added, it would come to 25, but certainly not with the original novel series that got published in print. As for the machine, I am not too sure, since the first book in the regular series was so extremely terrible to the point that I did not want to bother, but the machine was basically like morphine or other drugs people near death are given, in order to lessen their suffering.

Oh. I always considered them to be a member of the cat family, @ragkt -chan...:blush:

@RepentantSky A thirteen episode series is standars now and each story arc got that many episodes, apologising in the books does make sense as he has now power over how they portray his scenes in the anime what looks like "oh kirito has another girl" makes sense in the book cause each scene has context and is told from the characters perspective, thus creating a bond between you and the character and a actual basis for thier feelings vs a third person set anime episode. And really if they adpated all the content from the books the aincrad arc could easily be 25 episodes it's self. So in that instanctle yes it could be seen as a short series. As for season 2, the whole first half was about sinon, how she was afraid of guns, her breakdowns and ptsd from shooting someone when young, her guilt and fear, the whole fact that her friend was driven crazy and commited all the murders with the help of his brother to try and get to her and her having. It was very detailed. Kirito even confides in her, showing emotion and telling her about his past and how he killed people in SAO and that events did effect him but he needed to move on. And I'm pretty sure Yukki needed that machine to live right? (My memories cloudy on that arc) As for asuna being a jelous type, that seems realistic, people get jelous in real life and it doesn't have to be logical, love isint logical And as for kirito being instantly liked, this happens too, I had a friend in real life, and everyone loved him, it didn't matter who he met, everyone loved him, and yes, girls swarmed around him as well for no reason I can understand you don't like sword art. That's fine. That's your taste and that's ok. But your reasons not liking it I can dismiss with the facts of what happens and the extended lore of SAO. The only major plot flaw I noticed in the whole anime, that's isint explained anywhere in the books.or anime, is how kirito wakes up at then end of season 1 and walks around the hospital, yet in season 2, he says that he awoke to nurses beside his bed. I wasn't the largest fan of the anime, but I really enjoy the books. But I just can't watch someone attack the show for reasons that in my mind and aren't based in fact. It's just not in my personality, I have to defend. So don't take anything personally . Also SAO is special me as it was my best friend (who sadly passed away two months ago) favorite anime. We shared many memories over this show and it was one of the first animes I watched, snuggled on my bed afternoon long watching the show with him. So yeah, when I thought something in the show didn't make sense I looked into it. I researched and compared it against It's self. And most facts seem to add up. Not every anime is perfect though. And I admit that. Is there anything else i need to explain ?

Fair enough. I was just giving my opnions on why I think sword art works. Of course I could be wrong. I won't pretend to know how much involvment the author had. Maybe he wanted the anime like this? All I can say if that is the case that he didn't make sure they accurately portrayed the events 100%. Yes I was including progressive as that is still part of the storyline despite when it was published. And I understand people not liking the series as I've said. The other member was posting reasons they they didn't like it and i thought some of the just sounded like preferences vs anything specific to sword art so I jumped in to defend it

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Right, so, for anyone wondering where I've been, basically, I got a job at Rona 40 hrs a week doing random shit, strapping skids, picking things up, labeling etc. Felt guilty about not applying for other jobs and so never logged on. Between work and the gym and training (learning muay thai now), I've been pretty beat, not to excuse my failure to look for better work mind you, or how I virtually vanished from the site. But hey, that's life, people come and go. Anyhow, the world and this forum have both moved on so I guess that's all that needs to be said. It looks like I've got questions to answer. 1. I am ambivalent to cats. 2. I don't know who you are, or at least don't remember, so I guess I'd be flattered, virtually pat you on the head. 3. Assume that my ass has a mind of its own and move on with my life, sometimes it does. 4. Check your surroundings, if you don't spot anyone in a clown costume, find a weapon and ready yourself, get your phone out and ready speedial to 911. 5. From where? The mirror? The ceiling?the bathtub? A girl or a woman? If there were anyone staring at me from the mirror or the ceiling, I'd first have to establish whether or not those are real threats, and once I discovered they aren't, get some meds for schizophrenia. If there is a girl in my bathtub? Why the hell is a girl in my bathtub? I'd attempt to relocate her from the bathtub to the living room and call the police. If it's a woman, I would pray it's a visit from my friendly neighborhood nympho and not a murderer, cue the Marvin Gaye music, I hope. 6. Assume I'm crazy and so long as nothing else goes wrong, live with this fact, I'm ok with being crazy so long as I don't see things or hear voices, I'm not the picture of sanity anyhow. 7. Grab my combat knife, sharpen it, strap it to my chest and wear baggy clothing. Increase the security of my house, add more locks, set-up camera's in my house, watch my neighbors. Identify suspects at work or around me generally, set up a tripwire alarm in my entranceway, come up with a strategy of attack. Slowly acquire better weapons until I feel satisfied, apply for a gun license, get a gun and a crossbow. If more creepy things kept happening and I felt they could do something, notify the police. 8.If you can tickle yourself, and find that you are coming up with very detailed conspiracy theories as well as feel a decreased need for social interaction, see your doctor. Jk, kick em in the nuts, if they're women, punch them right in the nipple, repeatedly, tell them you're tired of their shit and if they don't fuck off right now, they're all gonna look like breast and testicle cancer survivors when you're done. I recommend getting a spear from cold-steel or something, it's a good ranged weapon and you can use it to accurately deball, dedick, declit and hipsterify they're nipples. Hipsterify is my new word, it means to make like a hipster. If they're ghosts, find a church, also supernatural taught me ghosts are allergic to iron and salt, so when you are debreasting them, make sure to use an iron spearhead dipped in salt water. 1. To be honest I stopped watching anime about a month ago. But I liked Saiyuki Reload blast and the one with the interdimensional restaurant, and sort of liked re.creators with lukewarm feelings, oh and definitely natsume yuujinchou roku. I've come to the conclusion that anime is a waste of my time and that I ought to be doing better things with it. Not to put any social pressure on myself here, clearly that doesn't work and only results in me feeling shame and never coming back. At any rate, I continue to battle with my youtube and entertainment addiction as well as my procrastination and insatiable need for virtual punani. Also about 10,000 different insecurities and fears. But hey, that's me. I guess I'll come back whenever, if I feel like it, I have less time than I used to.

Let me be a bit fast on my point. The execution is a bit.. disappointing. The character creation focusing on Kirito and Asuna isn't what I'd expect, or should I call it slightly "empty"? I know I haven't said much, but I'll say what's not or already has been said: the soundtrack is amazing. If I were to give an overall rating, probably a 5/10. But people already watch before stating an opinion. I do agree that some people are acting harshly towards it, but you don't have to blame us who don't like it. Opinions are not facts.

There are times when you want to be alone not because you want to seclude yourself from the world but because you want to try the feeling of being alone and the feeling of having no one to depend to. I think it has become my ways of feeling secured that "Oh, I can do it on my own." I depend on my friends a lot whether they are online friends or real life friends. Me, volunteering to be a a social media analyst here wasn't because I was brave enough to volunteer. It was me being constantly sent death threats by this friend of mine who keeps persisting that I should do it because I have nothing to lose anyway and because I want to but I was just too much of a chicken to volunteer. He was right of course and I'm glad I listened to him. I get overly attached and I find that as a big problem. Being overly attached to a person and then knowing that the feeling of attachment isn't reciprocated back is hard to deal with. But then silly me would then again get attached to another person and same thing happens. I was always vocal with my feelings (whether they are romantic or not) and I accept that. That's just me being me. And I see nothing wrong about it. But at the end of the day I always come reflecting and thinking that being yourself doesn't always mean free flying. There will always be bumps that you need to go through.

Well, I'd need a pet first. But, based on past experiance on how I get attatched, it would be very sad. I'd want a burial.

I bought a mascara. I can be a girl sometimes.

For me, this is one where I'm going to reserve judgement until I see the movie, both in terms of it's quality, and it's voice acting. One, because some of the actors can return, and two, because even if they don't, if any new actors can make me like their interpretation of the characters, I will be highly impressed. I will be greatly annoyed however if it really is a whole new cast and they just end up imitating the previous cast because that to me, would come off as lazy.

When your seasons are cut up into two stories or more that are only half a season of length at best, you have short arcs. Apologizing in the books doesn't mean anything if you don't read the books, and it doesn't excuse doing things people obviously don't like regardless. No Harem makes sense when A, it takes away far too much time from making an actual story, B, it doesn't really get off the ground until the person who is the focus of the Harem is already in a relationship with someone they end up proposing to C, is used as an excuse for making so many characters one note and D, defines the place of every character whether or not they are in involved in the Harem. Asuna becomes the jealous type and does little else, characters like Lisbeth, the guild leaders in ALO and all the rest just like Kirito, mostly for no reason, and other characters like Klein and Agil, who were far too interesting to just fall to the way side, become something like the best friend who is goofy and does little to nothing, and pub/weapons owner who can move the plot along for about 5 minutes before doing nothing again. Knowing your audience is one thing, not giving anyone a bigger role if they don't move the fan service forward is another. If that's really true, and it's all about how people cope, then more of that should have been shown, not told, that's a basic bit of knowledge given out for free anywhere that will tell you how to write a story. Telling people something is just asking them to accept something off screen, which can prevent it from feeling real, showing it to them, makes it as real as it can be. As for coping, I don't see much of that. Kirito is drastically effected by death for an episode or two where he tries to do something that doesn't work, and before you know it, even though he won't join parties for a few more episodes, is doing just that with Lisbeth, the Loli character, and Asuna. When you are faced with the death of literally thousands of people whom you could end up like, it should mess with your mind from the offset and make you paranoid or afraid and prevent you from taking risks, yet Kirito keeps taking those risks throwing caution to the wind until he "reaches the point that being a solo player" no longer works for him, whatever that means. They never really have him explain that properly even though he says it more than once. He seems to recover from that experience in just a few episodes, and while they tell us it's been a while, again that just shows off the problem of telling instead of showing, because it doesn't feel like that at all. As for the second season being an analysis of guilt, I don't feel that at all. I don't remember that season all that well, which is a great indication of failure already because I remember the first season more, but basically what I think I can remember is, someone from SAO is pretending to kill people in real life with an in-game weapon, a move that's telegraphed from the start if you watch the anime because they give that away in the opening if you can even understand the basics of foreshadowing, and no the books do not count, because again, I didn't read them because I didn't hear about SAO until the anime came out and I was annoyed by the first season's anime, why would I bother. Then there's a few episodes of them doing a random side quest just for an excuse to run into Yuuki by the end of it, which is a lazy way to fill in a few pages of a book or an anime, and it all follow's Yuuki trying to make a name for herself before dying, which she does in Asuna's hands, which was a somewhat nice touch, because it gave Asuna something to for the first time since SAO but that in and of itself is a huge problem because I cannot suspend my disbelief so far as to accept that a human being was A, allowed to spend their last remaining moments playing a game when they are being highly monitored in a medical facility, and B, that said dying person would want to spend the last few minutes of their life with an online friend instead of the family who cared enough to try and do everything for them that they could. I'm sorry but no, no matter what impact someone made on you for the last few weeks or minutes of your life, that doesn't add up, which is exactly how I would describe SAO anyways, it doesn't add up.

I respect your opnion, but in mine the books were much better than the anime. More well developed. @RepentantSky Sword art was not "Short Arcs" It got two seasons of about 25 episodes each, taking into account these cover about 2-4 books worth of content thats about 6 episodes a book. Which the anime actually adapted alot of the side plot and threw it in with the main story. The idea of sword art online is to examine the mental and emotional strain of a death game on teenagers, forget the harem that's there because 1 the author likes them 2 they know the market they are trying to sell to And in the books the author actually apologises In my opnion the story has a much more analytical theme in the books and gets into the characters emotions to a point where the harem acutally makes sense. Thefl first season is basically a mental test to see how the characters cope. Then to have everything thrown back to "normal" and getting used to that again Through out the second season we have a in depth analysis of guilt, abuse and post traumatic stress I really don't see how people miss this

Thankyou its great to be back. I can see, everythign is new and shiny. I do remember you floating around way back but not much else , sorry , have a cute kanna as my way of apology

actually here in australia its known as crème caramel [spoiler=we use] 100 g (4 oz) caster sugar 450 ml (16 fl oz) semi skimmed milk 2 eggs, beaten 2 egg yolks, beaten 75 g (3 oz) caster sugar Method Prep:10min › Cook:1hr › Ready in:1hr10min Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. In a heavy bottomed saucepan over medium heat, melt 100g sugar until golden. Carefully pour hot sugar evenly into four ovenproof ramekins or custard cups, tilting cups to coat bottoms evenly. In another saucepan, bring milk just to boiling over medium heat. Stir hot milk, a little at a time, into beaten eggs and egg yolks, until well combined. Stir in 75g sugar. Pour milk mixture evenly into ramekins. Line a roasting tin with a damp tea towel. Place ramekins on cloth, inside roasting tin, and place roasting tin on oven rack. Fill roasting tin with boiling water to reach halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Bake in preheated oven 40 minutes, until set. Let cool, invert onto small plates and serve. [spoiler=I think Ryes variety Leche Flan uses] 9 tablespoons sugar 12 egg yolks (from large eggs) 1 (14 ounces) can sweetened condensed milk 1 (12 ounces) can evaporated milk using 3 llanera molds Method In each llanera, place 3 tablespoons sugar. Set llanera over the stove on low heat and using tongs, move llanera repeatedly over flames until sugar is melted and golden. Continously tilt and swirl the llanera to ensure even melting and to distribute melting liquid on bottom of mold. Remove from heat and allow caramel to cool and harden. In a medium bowl, combine egg yolks, evaporated milk and condensed milk. Gently stir in a circular motion until blended. With a cheesecloth, strain egg-milk mixture. Pour strained mixture into prepared llaneras. Cover llaneras with foil and arrange in a wide, oven-safe dish with about 1-inch of water (water bath). Bake in a 375 F oven for about 50 minutes to 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in the middle of custard comes out clean. Remove from oven, allow to cool and refrigerate to set. To serve, turn flan over on a serving plate, ending with caramel on top.

I dunno bout the mighty thing but I've learned a little Japanese due to watching animes all the time. Well, just a few sinple phrases though. I'm not sure if I can teach. Let's learn together.

Pets are like family to me so if the passed on I would cremate them and keep them around. I used to bury some in my old place in the backyard so they are still there but I like to have them around so I can talk to them sometimes, if feeling down even though they don't talk back. Makes me feel not so alone.

Why would they just leave? That's strange. I feel like you are a nice person and want to know about people and befriend them. Some people man... I don't take that as your fault. Some are just nasty as and shouldn't be around others. I once knew a friend for six years. I overheard her once on the phone talking smack about me, to her mum. So I just gave up talking to her after that. To feel she was lying to me for that many years...

I have a dog and he means everything to me and if he died it would kill me and he would be buried right in my back garden

Screw the haters! Sword art online is a great anime and if you don't think so you can go fall in a ditch! I mean seriously, you don't have to watch the show if you hate it so much, you can JUST LEAVE IT ALONE.