Sword Art Online Alicization Episode 15 ââ“ the Relentless Knight
Sword Art Online: Alicization
by Theron Martin, 
So is anyone even slightly surprised that the ii girls who appeared at the end of final episode turned out to exist fledgling Integrity Knights? Anime has much too long a history of seemingly-innocent children turning out to exist battle-honed powerhouses. Thankfully for the protagonists, Kirito wasn't whatever more than fooled past their antics than the audience, though I find it inconsistent that he was planning ahead on the counter-poison movement notwithstanding wasn't more on-baby-sit against a sneak assault. I suppose I can buy that they were just that fast (which is the explanation that the novel gives), but it still smells of plot convenience.
Anyway, they aren't the chief opponents in this episode. Fizel and Linel fill the classic trope of the experimental exam subjects, exposed to horrifying weather condition from an early on age in lodge to accomplish some keen feat. Making them ultimate warriors wasn't actually the goal of the dastardly experiments, which were more focused on developing resurrection; it was just a by-product of their ability to endure and adapt from the grueling process. Rather than being embittered by all this, they have instead get playful child sadists. At present that's a tired cliche, so seeing them sidelined quickly wasn't a disappointment for me. Besides, they were never fit to be challenging opponents on the level of Fanatio Synthesis Two.
This leads us to the 2nd spectacular battle of this Cathedral run, which goes fifty-fifty more all-out than the fight against Deuselbort final episode, creating quite the spectacle. In the archetype shonen action tradition, she displays an entirely dissimilar approach to tactics then previous opponents, using sunlight concentration to reach light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-like effects, though she also proves handy with her sword when Kirito gets close. The animation squad opts for a looser way to keep things flowing chop-chop, and while I'm not a fan of this model-warping approach in full general, it'due south at least tolerable for this scene. Eugeo's ice field was about what I would take expected, but it looks like we'll have to wait for next episode to see what Kirito's sword's enhancement will be.
The other issue I have with this episode is Fanatio trying to hibernate that she was a woman because she didn't recollect men would take her seriously plenty in a fight. The presence of Alice among the Integrity Knights demonstrates that there is at least some tradition for female warriors in Underworld, then her mental attitude seems out of place, as does the way other warriors take reacted to her. Of all the female person characters introduced so far in Alicization, she's the i I observe the least interesting in terms of personality.
With this episode, the new opener adds "Alicization Rising" as a subtitle—the title of novel 12. That ways episode 16 should end at novel 12's cliffhanger, leaving 8 episodes to cover the remaining two volumes in the story's first act. For now, that feels like exactly the correct step to exist setting.
Rating: B
Sword Art Online: Alicization is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
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