Sword Art Online Alicization War of Underworld Episode 9
Sword Art Online: Alicization War of Underworld Part 2
by Theron Martin, 
Note: Crunchyroll and HIDIVE list this as episode 21, while Funimation lists information technology every bit episode 45.
Last episode brought the Underworld side of the Alicization arc to its climax, and now this episode brings the existent-earth events to their climax. Importantly, though, neither side has been brought to conclusion. While the epilogue showing Kirito and Asuna flight off into Underworld (and facing potentially 200 years there from their perspective) feels very much like a series-catastrophe scene, the climaxes of the concluding two episodes have actually left a lot unresolved, and information technology will have both of the final two episodes to handle those resolutions. To put information technology some other way, 105 pages of the novel remain to be adapted at this signal.
In last week'south review I mentioned a scene that was either skipped or delayed until this episode, and the latter case proved to be truthful. It's the one where the ghost of Alicia – the girl Gabriel killed as a child – confronts him and drags him downward to Hell as he experiences fear for the outset time. (This bespeak is more heavily emphasized in the novel, but astute viewers may call back that he has not been shown as being even slightly unsettled by anything prior to this.) The scene is suitably harrowing, with the blood coming out of Alicia's left ear being an especially nice trivial addition. (Think, he killed Alicia by stabbing her through the ear.) Merely Gabriel's decease still leaves a mess to deal with. He had a contingency plan to destroy the Ocean Turtle by making the reactor which serves as its engine go nuclear, and at present Critter is left to carry that out. Kikuoka gets badly wounded in the procedure of protecting Higa while Higa tries to bring Kirito and Asuna out of Underworld and exist the hero in stopping the engine as well, just that role falls to another: Akihiko Kayaba, who has inhabited the robot body Niemon.
Even if I had not read the novels offset, Kayaba reappearing here would not have been a surprise. In fact, him non appearing here would have been casuistic. The climax of Fairy Dance and early scenes in the first half of this arc both suggested that he still exists in some digital form, and Underworld is both an extension of his enquiry and perhaps the ultimate form of what he was striving for. That gives him every reason to be checking out the Bounding main Turtle and what Rath is doing there, and with both Underworld and the woman he may have genuinely loved endangered, he has every reason to brand an appearance. Also, Yui cannot be the one to save the day in this circumstance; since she has never had a concrete body, she does not have the sense of balance that the robot needs to move equally effectively as this job requires. A former villain coming dorsum to brand a heroic sacrifice to relieve the good guys is too quite a common storytelling feature in comic books and long-running anime series. The only matter illogical here is the robot rebooting itself for a last stand up based on Rinko'south cajoling, which does result in a cheesy final effort, but I'll have that as dramatic flavour.
All of this raises one of the serial' biggest moral questions: does Kayaba acting to finer save thousands of lives (a dozen or so on the Ocean Turtle and innumerable ones in Underworld) redeem him for what he did in Aincrad? I don't feel that it does considering Kayaba is even so acting out of personal involvement hither rather than making a specific attempt at redemption, but the heroic portrayal of the scene shows that the story is at least leaving alternate interpretations open. Of course, Kayaba might not be done hither, equally his robot body mysteriously disappears at the terminate. So does Vassago in an all-too-predictable twist, though Gabriel is definitely dead.
The episode ends with several other loose ends every bit well. Alice'southward fluctlight cube has been safely ejected and is in Rath's easily, only what will become of her? Asuna and Kirito did finally go logged out of Underworld, but merely after enough real-world fourth dimension for well over 100 years to have passed game time. (Call up, at an acceleration rate of 5 million, ix.five years in Underworld passes per infinitesimal in the real earth.) What effect volition that accept on them? Did Kikuoka survive his ominous-looking injuries? What did Kirito and Asuna go up to during the decades they spend in Underworld? And what will be the ultimate condition of Rath, the Ocean Turtle, and Underworld given the potential international consequences of what has happened? All but one of these loose ends will be at least addressed (if not fully wrapped up) over the final two episodes, and the next episode being titled "Alice" suggests that her case – which is arguably the most impacting for the earth at large – will non be short-changed.
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