The Shrine

Sword Arts Online (SAO) is a manga about a bunch of guys playing a virtual reality simulated MMORPG where if you die in the game you die in real life too, and nobody can leave the game until the game is beaten. I'm pretty convinced this manga is an explanation of why stuff like FF14 happens, since it shows that in Japan, MMORPGs are created without any respect to reality. Right now you got the main character fighting some boss with an officer in some uber guild, and they were wiping badly to a boss and the main character unleashes his true power by DUAL WIELDING, and apparently nobody in the entire MMORPG has ever seen someone DUAL WIELD, so clearly nobody has ever gotten past about level 10 in any MMORPG or just rolled a Rogue type class in a MMORPG at all.

The sad thing is that the manga attempts to pass some MMORPG lingo like people are 'canceling' into moves (even though no MMORPG really does this, that's more of a fighting game concept) but the author apparently isn't aware that everyone and their brother can dual wield in a MMORPG.

I mean I can at least buy it if the guy starts pulling out a third sword and wield it with his mouth like One Piece and that might actually be pretty uber in a MMORPG if you can wield 3 swords at the same time. This is apparently one of the examples of good story from Japan too. To be fair the story isn't bad but I'm not sure if I can take a story seriously in a MMORPG where only one person on the entire server knows how to dual wield.

Actually SAO reminds me a lot of Austin Powers when Dr. Evil talks about ONE MILLION DOLLARS except I don't think it's meant to be funny in the case of SAO.

Sounds a lot like GANTZ. Haven't read any manga recently other than a few new chapters of Yotsuba and my attempt to reread Kenshin that basically lost momentum when I finished the Shishio saga.

The story is actually okay and I'm pretty sure he's going to rescue the girl and all that, but I keep on get this image of a bunch of guys who are equivalent of level 3 in WoW wiping to The Hogger and the hero is some level 8 Rogue who actually know how to train his skill from the class trainer saving the day.

In the part after that he dueled the guildmaster of the local uber guild, who used shield bash and apparently that's a technique nobody has ever seen before too.