User:Gsimenas/FAQ

A draft for my FAQ project before I publish them as a forum board.

Episode 1

 * How do the players not starve to death in real life?
 * The anime's first episode did not mention (although episode 13 does mention it) that Akihiko allowed the players to be disconnected from the Internet for two hours while their bodies are transported to local bodies. In hospital, their bodies are kept alive through IV.
 * How are the players going to handle their waste?
 * The hospital beds the players are given are special gel beds that decompose waste and prevent infection.
 * Do the players actually die if they are killed in-game?
 * Yes. Akihiko was not joking here.
 * Wouldn't someone just hack the NerveGear to disable it?
 * No one wants to risk causing the deaths of the players by interfering with the NerveGear.

Episode 2

 * Why didn't Diavel drink the potion?
 * The potion scene was invented by the anime to justify a two minute dialogue over a 10 second inner monologue with 1 unfinished line from Diavel, because the anime hates inner monologues. In the original story, Kirito was about a meter away from Diavel when he died, so there was no way he could offer any potion.
 * Why did Kirito act like a **** in the end?
 * Kirito took on the role of the bad guy to get all the hatred on the beta testers focused on himself so that regular beta testers would not be discriminated.

Episode 10

 * Did Kirito and Asuna have sex?
 * This was never confirmed (if you are thinking about chapter 16.5, it was not even part of the original web novel, it was the author's own fan fic written some time after the original story was completed and this chapter could only be found in a hidden portion of his website), though the anime and manga adaptations do imply that something happened.