Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-79.24.170.237-20160510203254/@comment-35248429-20190213045555

80.49.200.112 wrote: I admit I went a bit overboard with this but the female and male characters around Kirito so far are 100% intact as facts not as theory:

- Agil - has wife already before meeting Kirito, all is good

- Klein - doesn't have girlfriend or anyone before meeting Kirito and look how it goes for him especially in Fatal Bullet where they made him so bad and pathetic I feel sorry for him because he could be quite good male character (he tried to date an NPC and was making wild theories like "Try 1000 times and event will start")

As for the females, look at Sakuya and Alicia Rue, practically one or two meetings and they already want to recruit him in very...unique way to put it lightly...

As for Kirito's power...well...check GGO anime when he cuts bullet from Sinon's sniper rifle from not too far away and explains that he KNEW she is aiming for his left leg because he SAW her eye going in that direction...that's...simply a bit too much for standard "main hero traits" without at least going towards "Garry Stu" or at the very least, Plot Armor...

And finally to go back to the main problem, SAO - the first one, with Aincrad and stuff - is already pretty "dark" type, with all those real deaths if you die in the game, whole game being as they called it "Death Game"... In short we have already lots of problems here and they are quite nicely presented... and then we go suddenly to real-life problems like AIDS for Yuuki... it's like putting sugar to your favourite soup, you can do that but is that a good idea? Alica Rue and Sakuya are trying to recruit him for his strength, nothing more.

All front line players of SAO are capable of following eyes like that. It comes from fighting humanoid monsters day after day on the higher floors. Like people scream Gary Stu, but then ignore all the other characters that are shown or are stated to be able to perform the exact same feats.

This is a series about how virtual reality could affect reality, it's use in medical tech is an obvious one.