So, we begin our new tale by establishing that a bunch of people didn't wake up after the conclusion of SAO. That Kirito did not save everyone. Some people are still in their VR comas, including Asuna. So we see Kirito's daily life and find out that his sister is good at kendo and is playing this new game, Alfheim Online. Kirito is apparently also good at kendo, but not as good. Good thing SAO kept him in shape (not).



So, we find out their not siblings but cousins, his mom and dad died in a car crash and his aunt took him in. We never meet the aunt. We find out that Kirito is distant from people because he found this out on his own and he got really good at computer shit from his aunt. After he goes into his VR coma (for 2 years, by the way), his aunt tells his sister/cousin and she falls in love with his coma-ness. This love story permeates the second half of SAO, and it's garbage. She knows he's in love with Asuna and wants to sleep with him. She blames him for leading her on and all kinds of other bullshit. It's fucking weird and it makes no sense, but hey, they're only cousins. Also she's two years younger than him. Anyways, Kirito (who is not playing AO yet) visits Asuna on the regular. He then meets her parents and some guy who will marry her.



Let me set this straight:



Her parents are going to marry some guy, to her, so this guy can inherit the company. You see, McRapeface (as I call him) wants to get Asuna's dad's company because HE has created Alfheim Online in order to brainwash people in their sleep. He will then sell it to the military so they can create perfect soldiers or some bullshit. It honesty doesn't matter, since conditioning already exists in the world. However, not only that, but he wants to vigorously hate fuck her. See, she hated him as a kid. Apparently they're parents were friends, or Asuna and McRapeface were cousins. I can't recall. Anyways he tells Kirito that he's not allowed there, but can go to the wedding. Kirito's like "You can't marry a coma patient." McRapeface is like "No but the family can adopt me."



Are you confused? So am I. So, here's my next big issue: Alfheim Online. AO has no stakes, except for Asuna. You can't die in the game like you can in SAO, so any sacrifices made have no weight to them. They don't matter. The rules of AO in general, don't make sense, and Kirito just sort of cheats his way into the game. In fact, he gets to bring back his dead child from SAO (still not explaining it)! So anyways, he teams up with his sister-cousin to help him rescue Asuna in the game. They don't know that they are each other, but they team up and his sister-cousin falls more in love with him (only she didn't know it was him the whole time). Some bullshit happens, they meet these two female guild leaders who want to fuck Kirito. They team up later.



But I also want to tackle the villain, McRapeface. See, his plan doesn't make sense. The military probably already has super-conditioning bullshit, and his plan of entering the family in order to inherit the company..well, I don't get it. He's going to get adopted, but Asuna's parents are also condoning that they get married? It doesn't make any sense, let alone the fact that it's super disgusting.



Before the end of it all, Asuna tries to break out of her in-game jail cell and fails, having to fight off slug-scientists that try to tentacle rape her because, and I quote one of them, "I'm sick of using the dolls."



Yup.



So Kirito makes it to the top. How he does, I don't know. You see, the World Tree (where Asuna is being kept) is guarded by a shit ton of endless, uberpowerful soldiers. Kirito's sister-cousin's friend (Yeah he's her best friend and in love with her or something. Honestly his only character trait is that he dies in game a lot. Somehow it ends up helping) uses a self-destruct and clears a path for Kirito, who is told by his not-dead child (not explaining it) that he's fast enough to beat the soldiers on their respawn. What does he do? He WAITS AND TRIES TO FIGHT THEM. Anyways, those two guild bitties that wanted him so bad? They show up with their super big guild alliance and help him out. So he makes it to the top and stumbles upon McRapeface with a tied up Asuna. McRapeface then, being the game master, forces Kirito to watch him rape Asuna, telling her that he'll record what's happening here, go to her hospital room, put it up on the big screen, and then rape her there while he watches it.



Yup.



So, in order to beat McRapeface, Kirito is visited upon by Akihiko Kayaba, the creator of the first game a.k.a. Heathcliff. Kayaba tells Kirito that if he gives up now, the honor that their duel had will have meant nothing. What? Honor? You killed Asuna in front of Kirito and laughed about it! What honor! But no, Kirito doesn't think about this. Kirito goes "Yeah. You're right!" and then fucking cheats. He cheats. Kayaba gives him the admin codes because AO was built on the same architecture and engine as SAO, and Kirito then brutally "kills" McRapeface. Doing this wakes Asuna and the other VR coma patients up. Kirito races to the hospital and defeats McRapeface, who ambushes him in the parking lot with a knife. McRapeface goes insane and to prison.



Kirito and Asuna live happily ever after and recreate Castle Aincrad (the world of SAO) within AO using the World Seed that they got from Kayaba, because Kayaba just wanted everyone to have fun (I'm not shitting you, this is what happens). Kirito skydances with his sister-cousin, because she isn't over him, and he wants to remind her that she shouldn't be and she might have a chance.



The end. It's garbage.



The incest and rape is the worst. The timeskips hurt any semblance of character development, since things like Kirito doing his whole Dark Knight bit doesn't stick. It disappears over time, and with no explanation. He develops no real connections in SAO outside of Asuna. During the second half, he has no reputation, but he's god tier because a glitch allowed him to import his loot and stats from the first game. He cheats and wins! The rep means nothing in the end. He gets a rep for dualwielding, but that's a skill he shouldn't have gotten. Asuna's regarded as one of the fastest fighters in the game! Kirito says she is faster and yet HE gets the power up! WHY!?



Honestly, the series is a mess. There's other stuff, too. Like how we find out near the end of the SAO arc that people apparently went AFK due to being moved to hospitals. Question: How come that didn't happen to Kirito or Asuna? Apparently it was a big event, but it didn't happen to them? And how come no one tried to disconnect people from the servers, and then remove the helmets? Obviously you need to be connected to the servers via online connection. If that connection breaks, can't you remove the helmet then? Or better yet: Removing the power from the helmet will divert to a back-up battery power source that has a 4 hour limit. What happens when that battery runs out? We never find out. How do they know that doing that would still kill the person wearing the helmet? Unnecessary risk? I guess.