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It looks like I'm in minority here, but I am not so sceptical about live action series. Probably, it is mostly of curiosity. Of course the quality will depend on amount of budget. I wonder about one thing: Are they gonna keep japanese names or change them to feel more natural for western audience. My money is on the latter.

Moreover, I think the comparison to DB:E is not entirely accurate. Sure they made shit of it, but let's state some facts:

- they wanted to compress a lot plot from manga in one movie - it's always a bad decision,

- Dragon Ball manga (especially first arcs) were rather simple, only fighting and journey, sometimes comedy, so movie makers decided to add some other aspects and that was their downfall (in my opinion). For SAO they've got plenty material aside from plot (characters relationship, their psychology, virtual reality), so if they put some effort and, as I mentioned, have decent budget, I believe there are chances that at least we will be satisfied.

And it is good chance to populirize SAO and thus japanese products. Though, according to my knowledge, SAO is already most sold and popular light novel series in the world.

PS. I started to think about hypothetical cast but somehow nothing came to my mind. Any suggestions?