SAO Rewatch - Ordinal Scale

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Ordinal Scale

Aincrad showing up

by their cabin, looking up at the... ceiling

married IG, talking about marrying IRL...

jump to now? didn't see calendar year but Asuna looking out at city

Argus facility, empty...

explanation of SAO incident

flashback to to Aincrad arc events

Kirito's ghost... again

4k died

book, SAO incident records..

someone standing in front of mainframe...

augmented reality! "Augma" device

comparison with full-dive VR

Ordinal Scale is AR game

ranking system.. number reflects rank

looks bit like PoGo maybe?

discounts from retailers at higher rankings?

drones now all over

Yuna is image character, AR idol (Hatsune Miku knockoff)

I've wanted good AR for the past decade

Liz, Silica, Asuna all plugged in and playing, kirito just sitting there

Yui there too

units handed out to students at survivor school

"Deep Learning" AI picked out their desserts

and Liz gts a popup about too many calories

smartphone replacement, basically

school gets free tickets to concert too, kind of a class
Silice a big Yuna fan

Liz sets up stage for her, she can't resit karaoke

audience applauds her

I'd kind of love to see this as a stand-alone movie about AR?

different characters and setting all

rumors about SAO mobs showing up in OS

like PoGo raids, need to get there in time

Kirito can give them a ride at least

very much like PoGo, heh

Klein and his crew showing up as well

neat AR clothing when they join the game

lower number = higher rank?

AR landsscape transforms around them, makes it into fun game setting

boss from 10th floor of SAO

drone dropping Yuna on bridge above, she provides music which buffs them

10 minute timer

this is an arrangement/cover of one of the OPs?

Kirito not enthusiastic about playing but dodging just fine

lot of normal MMO raid tactics, some players with guns weren't too effective

someone watching, noticed SAO survivors.. 8 of them

(Klein's crew + Kirito/Asuna)

Kirito finding running a bit harder here, out of shape

Yuna saved from errant show by #2 player... dunno who that is

guy is doing flips and shit IRL

fun to see actual acrobats playing this

good for exercise I guess?

guy says Switch as Asuna's running past.. definitely SAO thing

Asuna gets final blow

and the guy walks off...

Yuna awards Asuna MVP, gives her a kiss on the cheek too

she's more interested in the guy that walked off

"Eiji" #2

Kirito in 82k range, Asuna ~1300?

AR leading this guy to item in dark alley..

AR duel? or are they killing people IRL too?

meeting in cabin in ALO, talking about it..

Leafa/Silica interested in Yuna showing up

Agil and Sinon got tickets, will give them to those that don't get in for free

Asuna not obviously recalling the switch...

Silica/Leafa want to join, Klein offers to pick them up with his guild

Yuna has... marbles? Eiji "getting revenge" on SAO survivors

focusing on Sugu's chest again

Kirito still has NerveGear but using AmuSphere

Asuna's mom wants to meet Kirito, huh

30% drop in ALO logins in past week, OS the new hotness

Klein asking Asuna if she wants to join the raid, near her place

one of Klein's guild was taken out before

Yuna again, ..boss is a gryphon?

Klein's group was behind waiting for their guy

different boss appears by them?

Eiji watching from a distance, noting they were one of the assault teams

difference between AR and VR... runs in and hits a guy in the stomach

easily takes out rest of them, Klein takes off Augma and also taken out

guy augmented abilities with something to hit Klein?

also uses AR as prediction engine of sorts

Asuna noticing raid tactics, takes over command

bunch of random guys around her...

Asuna 127 now

with release of SAO book, lot of people want to redo it now

brief lot of previous characters showing up, including Siune

mysterious suited guy with AI program now

May 4th, when they're gonna see meteor shower

Kirito feeling "lag" IRL

virtual girl right behind him.. mysterious, cloaked, red eyes..

pointed at something and mouthed words but couldn't hear

no NPC tag but not a player either.. "AR ghost?"

"Search" going by lip reading

Asuna thinks #2 was in Knights of the Blood Oath, Nautilus in game

Yui discovered pattern in boss raids

matches map of dungeons in old Aincrad

Liz joining <3, Sinon has to work, RIP

Klein MIA

Kirito trying to call Klein, asking Agil where he is

dining with Asuna over ipad

Klein marked off too

Yuna noting they got a bunch

"like a journal of my memories" Eiji says of book

Yuna ..excited to hear about them?

note about Black Swordsman

Kirito sees digital ghost again..

she responds to him this time

again does the point and disappear

Klein broken arm, in hostpial "ran into trouble"

Kirito caling in help

not real or exactly AI either..

raid time, giant lobster thing?

another OP for music?

Kirito running in from the side..

oh, Yuna looks like the ghost

Asuna calls Eiji out, was right

Yuna notices Yuna...?

oooh I like this song

..Pina showing up? except it's now a boss

crab thing still there

floor 91 boss Chaos Drake

Silica in trouble, Asuna takes hit for her

something with Augma flips out and bead launches from her hting to Yuna's jar

raid time over, bosses leave

Asuna still down..

Yuna says too bad to her before disappearing?

robe girl watching in distance.. light in her hands?

Asuna asking about the time they first met.. about how he asked her to join his party

what happened to her? losing memories?

remembering their cabin days.. dreaming?

Aincrad disintegrating, Kirito walking away and not remembering her..

nightmares, memories fading? faces getting blurry

call Kirito middle of the night, meeting in cabin

yep, losing memories of Aincrad.. nothing left

hospital: memory scanning in specific areas

memories of SAO trigger specific things firing while Augma tracking them

could get worse, unclear

Asuna.. making logout gesture? collapses, pale

visiting Aincrad in ALO, trying to jog memories

can clearly remember ALO side but not SAO

Kirito wearing ring in game, neither have one IRL

Eiji was.. left behind in SAO?

"soon can deliver what I promised her" - some other girl he met in sao?

he's the one at the AI thing

Klein forgetting SAO too

Kirito remembering the promise they mhad made from SAO.. but she won't now

he mad now

Sinon joining him for next raid

she'll be fine, not from SAO

man Asada's cute

floor 18 boss, Dire Tusk

10 monsters in multiple locations, shuffled

another player down, drone collecting the sphere.. Yui tries following but hit "Keep Out" when it came to transfer?

!! honestly having ranged attacks when former game was all melee?

cleared

robed Yuna.. again disappears

plotting everywhere she was pointing.. specific place, Toto Intitute of Technology

Augma designer

lecturing.. Kirito asking about changing perception of reality with AR

Eiji was a student in his lab... maybe?

getting right to the point

Kayaba was his student too

doc asking if it's a bad thing if they forget about SAO...

oh, prof's daughter was in SAO

Yuuna, different hair/eye color but otherwise it's her

govt guy in contact, can't act to shut it down unless there's evidence because other govt uses

Kirito visiting Asuna's place, first time

the memories define who they are now, even if they were terrifying

accidentally finds journal

"to the me of tomorrow", writing to herself

one week until camping

"seems like he'll have a present for me"

of course she walks in on him reading, but she doesn't mind

hug-tackle

and he landed face-first into her chest

her parents are out, so...............

not time for two years of semen, aww

Yuna's concert is tomorrow......

"read to me from the book again"

Eiji couldn't fight in SAO so he's not in the book

prof is talking with him, yep

"self-preservation program" for Yuna

53% of whatever she needs of the orbs

trying to rebuild Yuuna's life in SAO from their memories?

"dreams and virtual worlds are the same"

Kirito talking to Yuuna

Yuuna wants to keep singing

she.. makes him wake up, he was "sleeping" in a park

fully VR there, takes over the brain

another raid, Kirito there

floors 20-30 bosses, Kirito chaining them

berserker mode IRL

Kirito didn't die from hit so didn't do the thing

up to rank 9 now, Eiji still easily disarms him

says he'll return Asuna's memories "there"

Kirito facing Eiji in parking garage

Nautilus refused to fight since he couldn't face death in SAO

Yuna on stage!

..anoher OP? sounds like it at least, maybe same artist?

prof used Argus board director position to get Yuuna NerveGear, so his fault...

"in the end people only remember those who fought on the front lines.."

he was with Yuuna when she disappeared

yep using memories from other players to resurrect Yuuna as an AI

OS numbers absolute, #1 become immortal

Ordinal vs. Cardinal, was prototype for SAO stuff

existence of a power that transcends the system itself.. i.e. Kirito

Kirito wins

also why the fuck does it *steal* memories instead of just copying

if that was the case I'm sure people would straight up volunteer

Yuna had the one thing and then vanished

everyone's system lit up, so many bosses appearing at once at the event

drones have power boost, bigger memory wipe if not killing them

even if it means following Kayaba, will do anything to get that moment back...

govt guy rushing in now

watching virtually from argus lab by mainframe

wants Eiji's memory now too... too late for him

oh hey it's The Gleam Eyes again, briefly

reaper

place they met was floor 100

Augma just limited NerveGear, has full-dive capability

Yuuna gonna send them in

WHY IS ASUNA SITTING OUT

the hell

Agil, Liz, Silica, Sinon, Kirito

bigass boss lady

that's a lot of health bars

"An Incarnation of the Radius"?

why don't all the people in the arena just take off their Augmas

Asuna joining them now

this definitely isn't Heathcliff

Leafa and Yui join.. along with a bunch of ALO players (and Klein)

bunch of GGO people too

also Yui jumped out of Leafa's chest

all in their SAO gear now

"loaded the saved data left on the SAO server"
... but I thought character data wasn't saved on the server

Asuna using Mother's Rosario

Kirito with whatever dual-wielding skills

and they did it

bigass sword comes to Kirito

Kayaba talking.. "now you've completely cleared it, but isn't there something you have to do?"

seriously everyone just remove their Augmas

Kirito back saving everyone in the arena

he becomes #1, Yuuna now #2

that sword just clears bosses in one hit

govt dude found prof too

everyone remembering her in SAO...

others partying at tavern, Kirito and Asuna camping

Asuna didn't tell her mom after all

he was a dumbass just handing the ring to her before, but how he actually puts it on her

they almost kiss then Yui interrupts with the shooting stars and all

second edition of the book included section about never forgetting the nameless players...

post-ending!

"very insterested in what I saw of your AI"

Kikuoka working on... "Rath" and wanted prof to see it

that was okay