Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-90.221.228.185-20150511233505/@comment-172.74.187.210-20170624233356

1caiser wrote: In Japan, males are considered adults at age 16, and females at age 14, but pretty much, if you've graduated middle school, you're considered an adult. Also, first off, the anime is ecchi as a secondary genre (Season 2 just throws that into your face with all those Sugu close-ups), and the SAO light novels themselves have quite a few ecchi-like illustrations (the Progressive series especially).

The Wikia doesn't refer 16.5 as canon because of Reki's claims, and because of its location under a "fanfiction" header rather than something like "official works". (I haven't seen the WordGear site, so... just repeating what was told

It is not true that males are considered to be adult at age 16 and female at 14, they're considered adult at age 20. I know this because I'm Japanese and my brother is 21. Just wanted to correct you