MMMRPG Anime / Final Fantasy's future

[Roserei]

SAO had an interesting concept, but godawful execution. In my opinion, Log Horizon and the .hack// franchise both did it far better. Granted, some parts of .hack// (Legend of the Twilight, LINK) were kind of awful too, but they made up for it with other parts (my personal favourite is G.U. even though it was never released in my home region).

[Tule]

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The manga of Legends was good for a nice short story that gave closer to what happened with some characters, and the outcome of the game itself. As well as added to Aura in a nice way. The anime throws all that away to be a nice short mainstream cartoon. And even though Legends anime is by far the worst part of the .hack series I often see it getting praised in anime communities and on youtube because of the fact they gave in to the mainstream. People actually like big breasted dog humans, borderline incest, and cutesy drawings. It sucks, but its true. G.U. manga, movie and novels were pretty good, but the games were awful. Story wise. LiNK is really good if you give it a chance. I hated it at first because of character design and some of the plot points they chose but LiNK and onward are probably some of my favorite .hack after the original IMOQ story.