[@SleepingSilence] I have and it was interesting indeed, with all the political maneuvers that the main protagonist performed...and the crazy amount of glass re positioning. How it ended again? Moon aliens were behind all of it? XDDD

But that is focused more on the logical aspect, the emotional aspect is felt way stronger in anime if they can convey it properly.
Like Hai to Gensou no Grimgar which is practically a better and superbly more captivating version of what SAO [b]was attempting[/b] to reach.