Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4098937-20160124152926/@comment-1200981-20171017230135

Manos Stavrakakis wrote: What?? I just found this article, and was immediately dumpstruck... I've considered SAO an excellent action/romance novel. What does this mean? Kirito getting married to 6 girls, with Asuna approving it? Im well aware if that is non-canon, but I just didn't expect Kawahara to have even thought about anything like this... He wrote it as a derisive parody of the harem genre. He himself has stated on more than one occasion that he personally hates harem.