Sword Art Online Alicization Episode 13 ââ“ Ruler and Mediator Reaction
Sword Art Online: Alicization
by Theron Martin, 
This episode is titled "Ruler and Mediator," which is fitting I suppose, given the topics being discussed. Yet, a much more authentic title would probably have been "Massive Infodump Part 2."
Even anime-only viewers could probably see this information overload coming given how the back terminate of episode 12 played out. The but real question was how this adaptation would try to avoid the potential talking-head drudgery of this material. The ultimate determination the staff settled on was fully animating the 1 potential activity scene in this part of the story: the battle between Ambassador and Cardinal when they first split apart. This is only described in broad strokes in the novel, with more than emphasis on the disadvantage that Key faced due to the meridian difference, merely the battle is drawn out much more in this episode. The result is still the same, leading to Cardinal holing up in the Library while Ambassador constructed the Integrity Knights to maintain her ability base. Still, it'south a welcome tweak that does liven the episode upwardly a scrap.
The infodump is also truncated by deleting an caption of how Fundamental and Administrator create things using their Sacred Arts, which concerns me a footling considering this particular will be important later on. Still, nosotros do finally go an introduction to the character who's been nudging Kirito along sporadically over the last couple years: a spider named Charlotte (of course!), who's been riding along in Kirito's pilus, basically 1 of Central'due south familiars. And so I have a feeling that the material cosmos caption will come along later, close to when it'southward nearly relevant. Other topics covered past Fundamental include the explanation for how she came to be, that she was originally the subroutine of the system responsible for error-checking. The most interesting detail is her supposition about what'southward really going on, including how Rath never had peaceful intentions in mind for the world and the oncoming "stress test" on the organization, which is presumably an all-out attack on the human realms from the Dark Territory. (We also get confirmation that the Night Territory critters are Fluctlights too, which poses interesting possibilities for the future.) That realization, peradventure influenced past her original office, has led her to a remarkably nihilistic perspective, so I'm a petty surprised that Kirito goes along with a scheme that boils down to "destroy the globe except for a select few so that information technology doesn't get corrupted by whatsoever Rath is doing." Her very human desire for a hug later 200 years of isolation was a squeamish impact, though.
The other of import developments this week are that Kirito and Eugueo get instructed on how to harness their swords' "memory" and more formal details on how to undo the Integrity Knights' brainwashing. The revelation that the retention fragments taken from the Knight are probably stored in the Administrator's sleeping room on the 100th flooring of the Cathedral suggests that the voice that Kirito heard dorsum in the cavern was probably Alice'southward stolen memories. That sets a firm objective for our intrepid duo: recover their swords and so make it up to the pinnacle floor. I anticipate that this is going to accept the entirety of the second flavour to attain.
So if the last couple of episodes have been wearisome you lot, at least we're nigh to enter the most activity-intensive phase of the story.
Rating: B-
Sword Art Online: Alicization is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
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