Accel World - Review

Kuroyukihime and Haruyuki Arita (Image taken from: anime-planet.com)

Since I'm already tired tonight, this summary will be more to the point. Accel World takes place in a universe in which everyone has this necklace-computer thing and is on an online network at all times. Basically Kuroyukihime, the school's idol, and Haruyuki meet and Kuroyukihime suddenly takes an interest in this short pudgy boy, Haruyuki. Not too far into the series, Kuroyukihime transfers a program called Brain Burst to Haruyuki, which is later discovered as a fighting game between people with the program in addition to access to the 'Accelerated World' which lets someone slow and start time at will at the expense of their points within the Brain Burst fighting bracket. Essentially, if one player runs out of points, the program is automatically uninstalled and that person can never reinstall it.

The four main characters: Chiyuri, Arita, Kuroyukihime, and Takumu (Image taken from: gogoanime.com)

Honestly, I really liked Accel World. I really liked Kuroyukihime even though I thought it was odd that she was after the unpopular pudgy guy from the beginning. It's just too unreal, but I still enjoyed it. The action within Brain Burst was pretty good and often built good suspense of considering when Kuroyukihime, Arita, or any other of the heroines of the series (that had Brain Burst) may run out of points and possibly have a complete meltdown over it. Anyways, as a whole, good anime, would recommend, very well done.

(Image taken from: plurk.com)

Ruri's Rating: 8.5/10

Suggestions: Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control