Even though I have discussed anime on this blog a few times
by now, I don’t want to give the impression that I even classify as an otaku by
most people’s standards. Hell, I know even less about it than I do filmmaking,
but I can at least bluff my way through most films. This fact will become
obvious as we get into more franchise anime films that I have absolutely zero prior knowledge of, with today
being a perfect example. I know a little bit about Sword Art Online based
purely on seeing its name in passing on anime aggregators and the occasional
review by one of my contemporaries, but that barely passes for intel; I’m going
in all-the-way blind on this one. Thankfully, I’m fairly certain that this isn’t going to be one of those weird
sectors of anime where going in unawares results in the destruction of sanity…
not that that would matter much to me anyway, so let’s get into today’s
offering.
