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Sword art online. Drop the rape and incest beats entirely. It had potential to be a great anime about the meaning of life and instead largely ignored that possibility.
I have that show on my watchlist so thanks for the warning about themes.
My recommendation for SAO is watch the first season and pretend like the rest doesn't exist.
Mine is legitimately just watch SAO abridged. It reworks story beats for a smoother story in addition to adding gags
Is that rework anything like full metal alchemist Vs. FMA brotherhood? Like starts the same but then goes somewhere else?
I already have a copy of the whole SAO so I’ll probably still watch it (I’ve watched some pretty questionable stuff all the way through just because I started it..) but if it’s genuinely worth watching both, even if just for the sake of comparison, I’ll try to find a copy.
SAO abridged is a fan parody that you can find on YouTube, but as said before me, it has a way better storyline than the original and the production quality is incredible for a fan project.
The only downside is that the team can make approximately one episode per year.
Brotherhood is an official anime. SAO abridged is a fan made parody on YouTube. it recuts and redubs but that's it. And its purpose isn't to tell the whole SAO story, it's to make gags. It just inadvertently made a better story than SAO itself, mostly by changing certain characters motivations
Edit: oh and if you're intent on watching the full version at all, watch it before the abridged
Better character writing too.
None of the cringe happens until the end of the first season.