Hexa
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I'm kinda scared now yall mention the next arc is serious and deep.
Wasn't that what the guy was trying to do with GGO?
Even the animators were bored that they just kept the camera on sinon's ass the whole time.
Nah. GGO was supposed to be more edgy but was still overall like the other arcs for the most part. Mother's Rosario is... different. Like in the arcs so far everything serious has to revolve around Kirito. The end result solution of everything so far is Kirito being awesome and essentially solving it. In MR Kirito isn't the focus. He still has points of awesomeness where he magically is able to solve problems, but they're minor and more to support the rest of the plot rather than vice versa. Its weird to describe. I think he managed it really well though. Best LN with a full arc I've read since The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Maybe that's the case in the light novels, but the anime here seemed to completely ignore that when presenting those events already. Nothing was said about that taking place during the previous arc, so I don't see why it couldn't have been a story placed right before this.
In the anime they can put it wherever they want I suppose. They didn't really provide an explanation for why Kirito didn't immediately go and get the blade as soon as he saw it though, so I guess they would have to do that.