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Get Ready To Accelerate Your WORLD.


Hey I know its been awhile since i put up a new review been so engrossed with other stuff that i took a break from Blogging (How I missed it).but am back now here is a review of Accel World its still ongoing but i never miss the weekly episodes that Air.

Am really impressed with the amazing anime this season!  "Accel World" is one of these series. The artwork is superb, and its use of technology is creative and interesting! Let's go into the plot.

"Accel World" centers in the future of 2046 around Haruyuki Arita, a chubby social reject who is constantly picked on by the bullies of his school. He lives in shame and can't stand his life. The only thing that gives him any real happiness is, when he is submerged in virtual reality, where he commits his time to beating his high-scores in video games, something no one can top him in.

Though all of his efforts seem to be in vain when one day he discovers his top score is beaten to the ground, the culprit? Kuroyukihime, the most popular, praised girl in school; And she wants to talk to him!
Not prestigious at all himself, he cautiously takes up the offer, but he never thought the offer would be something like this!! Kuroyikihime offers him the chance of a lifetime; the chance to bend the world in his favor, the chance to escape his daily criticism and torment, the chance to be free! This choices name? BRAIN BURST

 A "Virtual Reality" that can stop time itself. This is a world far different from his own. The universe "Accelerated World" only few are privileged to engage in, which quickens the thought process through acceleration.

 A second in the real world, is instead 1,000 seconds, or 16 minutes in "Accel World", effectively making it seem as though time has stopped. Though such a promising opportunity does not come free, and the consequences for using it are nothing short of brilliant.

If you're a Videogame kid, I'm sure you've heard the saying:

You can only prepare yourself for you know what it means, and here in "Accel World" it's meaning is no different. In order to preserve the number of times you can accelerate, you must collect points in, you guessed it, Fighter battles!

Whenever you walk out of your house you're in danger of being challenged, which can become quite tedious, if you think about it, however, once you run out of "Acceleration", that's it. Game Over!

You don't get any more chances and you are unable to download the software again. So Fighting is one's only choice, but it's not all bad. If you win, ten points are added to your "Acceleration"; that's ten more chances to stop time, definitely worth the strife!

The battles are really enticing, and if you're a video game player of sorts, you'll get a lot of the references and understand the game-play much more.

 The overall character design for "Accel World" avatars is sleek and gorgeous as well. The fighting style is based on the character, so like any fighting game the moves of the character vary for each, and like an MMORPG, character progression is based upon defeating enough enemies to level up and receive new moves, or just power up the old ones.

Aside from 'gameplay' there's seems to be a romantic element in this series as well. So I suppose we'd call this genre, 'Sci-Fi Romance?'

Kuroyukihime

 As comedic and strange as that may sound, these first two combined episodes were very enjoyable, and contrary to the argument that it's just like "MÄR" or "Hack" I find the plot extremely original and unique.

Personally it's going to take a while for me to get used to such a lame hero main, but I'm hoping it'll be one of those situations where he gets cool later,  so who knows?

If you're one of those people whose interests lie in Voice Actors, you'll be glad to know Arita is played by popular VA, Kaji Yuki. More commonly known for his roles as Shu of "Guilty Crown", and Finny of "Kuroshitsuji".

 To wrap it all up, "Accel World" had a very promising start and I suspect mass popularity in the near future! And with both PSP and PS3 games coming out soon and even completed Nendroid, Figma, and Banpresto etc. figure designs completed for the near future, there's really no doubt at all this is going to be a really big hit!

There's no turning back, your whole reality will change as you know it. So what do you say? "Don't you want to accelerate any further?"