Neo VS Kirito
“It is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them.” -Jean Baudrillard Neo , Thomas Anderson, The chosen One of the Matrix Kirito , Kazuto Kirigaya, The Black Swordsman of Sword Art Online In a world of symbols and images, what meaning can the human soul find in an artificial world? Perhaps what defines reality is not what you can taste or touch, but our human bonds that can guide our actions and let us make a difference in the world. Is there anything more real than the human heart? When these two heroes of unreality go head to head, who will crash for good in this classic DEATH BATTLE ? Before We Begin This analysis will primarily focus on their source material. For Neo, that would be the main movies, the Matrix comics and the Animatrix animations. For Kirito, that would be the SAO light novels and the Ordinal Scale movie. However, media that closely follows and contextualizes the source material will also be used. For Matrix, t...