I’m very confused about this one. It has good elements, like the way it handled Asuna’s memory loss. I could feel the tragedy. Then the show gets to it’s action part and it foregoes all of the previous development and resigns itself to bullshit logic to make the action as flashy and in Marvel’s terms, as Endgamey as possible.
The ending broke whatever goodwill I had with this. I love how it looks and similar to Alicization, I enjoyed the lore. But that ending tho. It just doesn’t hit right. Yuuna’s father felt like a blank slate kind of villain. There’s no explanation as to why the guy had to ‘steal’ memories rather than copy them. He didn’t seem to have any future plans about what to do after brain frying thousands of people. The ending didn’t seem all that together. It felt like a bunch of people brainstormed different ideas and just decided to include everything rather than sticking to what makes sense.