CabernetRose

Sword Art Offline didn't seem to add anything; I felt that if you watched it or didn't watch it, you're not missing out on anything (action-wise or information-wise). For animated chibis, they displayed a very limited range of emotions (most of the time it's just blushing); they're chibis, they're supposed to be over the top in my opinion. Plus, too much useless fanservice and tsundereness that I find plain annoying. The attempted humour falls flat, and everything that happens is extremely predictable. The segment that I did enjoy was the trivia corner because it wasn' something that was necessarily repeated information - usually it was something newthat you wouldn't get from just watching the series lightly.

PeaceAndCake

first of. there is NO new material in these shorts. secondly, whatever any other reviwers say, this is NOT a recap show. and, imho, you should only watch this if youre a true SAO fan. maybe even a hardcore one. i'm not, but i still enjoyed these short episodes. the review: each episode consist of up to five parts of a SAO news station broadcast: the headlines, sword art offline, trivia, playback corner, slot talk, life counseling and ending the show starts with "news headlines" by chibi anchor asuna followed by either "sword art trivia" with chibi yui (yeah) or goes straight to "sword art offline". in the swordart offline part there is dialog between the chibi host asuna and the chibi commentator kirito. the dialog plot is far from complex. it's buildt on nothing more than; jealousy, mild slapstick and character knowlegde. in the "playback corner" there is one special guest in each epsiode which the playback are supposed to be about. only compromised by the simple dialog plot. there is some character building in this part since the chibi characters are reviewing scenes from SAO and commenting on them. but nothing comes up that you didn't already know. from here it moves on to either a new "sword art trivia" or to chibi "kirito's life counseling". in chibi "kirito's life counseling" the guest is put behind a 'identity concealer' and can ask chibi kirito for any advice. usually falling on the dialog plot or the guests obvious character strengths. in the second episode chibi klein takes over the "life consulling" part and makes an apperance with the host and the commentator ever after. when all this is done it goes to a little summary where they end it in a news station manner. in epsode 6 chibi leafa takes over as host and "life consulling" is replaced with "slot talk". based on the nine episodes i have seen i rate this show as: "(6/10) Fair"