⭐Sword Art Online Morning Dew Girl Chapters 1-2: Read Along & Analysis
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Sword Art Online Morning Dew Girl Chapter 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D3SVLnYAFX3YYP2GAKk3kvwxwqRG_IAA/view?usp=sharing
Sword Art Online Morning Dew Girl Chapter 2 (Part 1):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JnevU2w8TGZRwGwuxr3J0sur0TwlQO8H/view?usp=sharing
Sword Art Online Morning Dew Girl Chapter 2 (Part 2):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17YiwrzuhXvRQn0kKdbKhzSXsM9I3A1SA/view?usp=sharing
Sword Art Online Morning Dew Girl Chapter 2 (Part 3):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_J6aTi6jpN-L8Q5zL_lLwcw_bT4FFDbw/view?usp=sharing
Comments
I’m not sure if Asuna wished to escape the real world in the traditional sense of the word. After all, unlike most of people in SAO, (although, naturally, she did not know it was uncommon) – she actually chose the name of her avatar to be the same as her own. Maybe it wasn’t a decision made with a deeper thought behind it. But then it could still be something subconscious. I think, it means that it wasn’t supposed to be an escape from herself, but the expansion of the world she lived in before. Something where she could discover more of herself. While people like Kirito wished for that second world to be free of the problems of the real ones, Asuna was so cornered by her «compressed life», that she was basically pushed out of it into SAO. But what she probably wished for, is to make her real life better, which isn’t the same as escape that others seek. It just so happens to be that SAO imprisoned them inside. And what I find even more interesting – is that during her life in Aincrad, Asuna managed to fall into the «compressed life» again, on her own this time. That’s what I also love about Reki’s writing –characters not always just change and stay that better version of themselves all the time. No, just like real human beings, they have their up and downs. And while Asuna gained some freedoms in this world, liberated from all the requirements she had to meet every day – she slowly became her own mother without realizing it. She fell into the role of her, the role she inherited in her mind – she became the one to command the whole guild and more. The one to push best people for the better future of liberating them from the game. It’s not bad in itself, and naturally her leadership qualities helped to speed up the game clearing process. But she began to forget to *live* in the process, again. «Sacrificed her present life for some future she was meant to have». Just like when she worked and worked for better marks in the real life, to go to better college and etc. Then, she met Kirito under that tree. Just like after the Kayaba’s announcement her first thought was about finishing the homework to not be scolded by the teacher, same way her first thought when she saw Kirito was that he could be helping finishing the labyrinth. But thanks to him, she woke up again, just like she did after her first weeks in SAO. Realized what she was missing the entire time, again. And this is also why Kirito is so important to her. He can be there to not let her fall into that state again. When they came out to the real world, they actually followed the same idea – they did not wait to immediately get married again the moment they could. Instead, they enjoyed the present, remembered the past and work for their future together. The problem Asuna describes is also a very real one to me. I had my moments, when I rather would not go at school at all the day I don’t have all of my homework done for some reason. (No, I did not secretly avoided school but openly discussed it with my mom xD). So that not to meet the possibility of the disappointment at home if I got the bad mark because of it. But it was all in the past by the end of school, because we had always a good communication at home as I grew up. Something that Asuna did not realized she needed, and as we know still took her some time to figure out in the end. And it’s good that Reki brings up the topic – even if you’re older than the characters, all this is funny to look at now, the experience you can gain from it might help you in future. «You start knowing their faces» – that’s why Kirito also avoided people, I believe, too – because knowing their faces also adds to affect they have on Kirito when they stop appear on the frontline. I just realized, after going through the scene of the guy with the apple tree, that what Asuna thinks about is what we actually experience now because of Covid. There are people that locked themselves, and people who go out to work and have more resources to survive no matter the higher risk. Of course, the points to consider are different in those cases, since leaving might also affect other people. But otherwise, that does remind me of the current situation. But especially what we had in our minds when it just began, and many people skipped work at first - something that I witnessed personally. Asuna is surprised by the existence of taxes, because it really only exists on the lowest floor of SAO. Army takes the money from the poorest not because they are poor, but because they are the weakest players in there, since they never levelled up, and cannot oppose them. There’s no need for taxes to exist in Aincrad – if you’re in a guild, the portion of your money would go into it automatically. And it also shows the further separation from the upper floors, since nobody up there cares on how the people that chose to stay safe are living. That is what Army uses to their advantage. It might have some rationality behind it in the beginning – if players could somehow safely acquire the money, they might as well help those who are clearing the game with it or those who maintain the order – which Army originally did, since they are the ones to look after the prison of Aincrad. But the power corrupted the people in it, and here we see where it led some of them.
Саша Одинец
2021-11-11 18:59:17 +0000 UTCI simply cannot view Kirito and Asuna’s marriage anywhere near the perspective of «teenage mistakes». They just aren’t the type. For me, «teenage mistakes» is something related to the stereotype teenager – the one with rebellious nature, ones who try to take control over their lives before they are ready to manage it, making rushed decisions and view the problems of their current stage of life as the end-of-the-world type of situations. Neither Kirito nor Asuna just never were the type. If anything, Kirito is the type to be «older» than the children of his age, and SAO only enhanced that trait of his, as we see it countless times, in this very chapter for example, when Asuna realizes that he might be younger than he acts, once sees him relaxed and asleep. She herself is the «responsible» type, who wouldn’t act like the «teenager» either. This age is still affecting their development, naturally, but not in that direction. If they were the type – one of the first things they would do once they are out of the SAO, would be to go and repeat their marriage in real world. Present it to their parents as a fact, and rebel against them if needed to do so. But they didn’t. They, as always, were rational about it. There’s no need to rush it, they will do it once they are ready to do it. Once they sort out their lives here, rebuilt the connection in the real world, approach each other’s families bit by bit. And even if it was the case of them acting in a «teenage mistakes» way – it is still proven by time that their decision never was a mistake. Not in consequences for each of them, nor for the events around them. I should also add, that the marriage in Aincrad isn’t exactly the same thing as marriage in real world, as I mentioned once already in my comments. It doesn’t make it less serious, but it has the different meaning behind it. In Aincrad, the share of your possessions isn’t defined by words to each other, or documents or society, but by the very nature – the system. Thus, in Aincrad, marriage is an act of absolute trust, act of giving your life, your survivability into the hands of another human being. And for Kirito at the moment – he already was in that same condition, when Asuna was the one to hold his broken soul together. There were already no walls of mistrust between them. So, for him, rationally viewing the situation, it was the only thing left to do. Plus, after all, the circumstances are also different in SAO, it’s not just «you could die at any moment» with way higher probability than in real life – they both actually *did* died just two weeks after their marriage. The reason we haven’t seen previous chapter (Ch4 of Liz) in the anime is pretty obvious – there’s no place for it in the story of Kirito and Asuna. And that’s the reason, what you mentioned in the video isn’t really possible – the reordering of SAO stories into chronological way. We can do it to an extent with the small side stories outside the books, but as I mentioned in my previous comments – it is not the same, as when you know exactly what happened with characters in the future, because that’s what Reki relies on at times – our knowledge of future. Yes, it’s usually something very small, easy to miss even, but these small things could achieve to produce extra emotions, as I’ve experienced a number of times myself, reading and rereading SAO through. I love when Reki does that – this reverse again, from presenting Yui as something that Asuna was scared of the most, only to turn the «ghost» into one of the most beloved ones in her life. Excluding the newest Progressive movie, over 90% of all anime-only content, I believe, is Ordinal Scale. For me, a lot of what Reki does with SAO is an exploration. Exploration of human nature, humanity, in a very wide spectrum. From love and friendship, to fears and despair, from what it means to be a human, to loosing every last bit of humanity in a person that lost themselves to minute pleasures, given liberties and power. (Which is why I don’t see rising of some of the villains as something that came «completely out of nowhere», or as people say «was unnecessary»). And this story, as is every story in this volume, is also an exploration of Aincrad itself. If the last two introduced new classes, here we start to explore more of the populace diversity in the world of SAO. We already saw one of the oldest characters in the previous volume, how he adapted to the life here, and now we came to see what’s going on with the youngest ones. I love that even small dialogues of Kirito and Asuna reveal something new about this world, like «of course» there’s a protection from bypassing the boss battle to the next floor. «Of course», players tried climbing the support pillars on the edges :D We even hear Kirito using the teleport crystal to survive the fall, which he didn’t do in precisely the previous story, although mentioned that he would’ve if believed it’ll work.
Саша Одинец
2021-11-11 18:39:34 +0000 UTChmmm did we skip chapter 4 of Liz?
MasterAries7
2021-11-08 14:48:29 +0000 UTC
