Overall Rating 8.0 out of 10 - Very Good and Profound with few flaws.
I recommend watching.
It is kind of a hybrid between SEL and SAO or your average isekai. It has both. A little bit of insight into psychology and nature of the medium, though it does not go as deep as SEL. As well as pure entertainment value of an isekai.
I kind of deals with reasons of why people play games and how these mediums changes society. This handled in well integrated, easy to digest way.
Its characters are diverse and I think anyone will find someone likable and relatable. I personally could relate to Tsukasa to the extend.
Story often revolves around mysteries that surround Tsukasa. There are a lot of strange and abnormal things that surround him and that attracts various other characters. Some blame these on him and want to stop him, others just curious. Some however do not believe it is Tsukasa's fault and want to help him instead.
Tsukasa is rather strange and unconventional person, who does not inspire trust in people. He also does not understands why any or this happening to him or why he has any special powers.
It takes other characters a lot of time to unravel this mystery, that actually goes all the way to he creator of the MMO they are playing as well as the Game itself, that obtained consciousness and acts on its own volution. The game intends to trap Tsukasa and prevents him from logging out.
Game is rather faithful to some of the video game concepts. Despite some errors here and there, like there is no saving in MMO, only in single player games. I still think actual gamers will find it well crafted and faithful to the feel of vide game.
It has rather unique architecture and overall art style. I definitely noticed how it inspired some of the design of buildings of Prince of Persia 2008. The World definitely a very interesting place to explore.
You can feel that creators had some very lofty ideas, but were somewhat constrained by budget. For now we could only imagine how awesome it could have turned out to be, if they had the same budget for art as Demon Slayer or Studio Ghibli. Hopefully we will get a remaster.
One interesting and important metaphor is Subaruchin and this gigantic army of [s]While[/s] Crimson Knights, that guard her. They say they keep order in the world but they simply use it as an excuse to go against any independent player like Tsukasa. They are just like IRL White Knights who 'protect' girls from so called bad guys, but in reality just try to force their dogma everyone else. IRL Subaruchins would not be able to find sex unless they could disband the Knights.
One sad thing about it is that ending is kind of disappointing. Did it meant to just represent that Tsukasa finally logged out?
Overall, I can recommend it for thinking people who liked SEL, to all true gamers, to people who like unconventional anime as well as for everyone else, since it is a rare and interesting show.
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