Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-79.24.170.237-20160510203254/@comment-38120486-20190110155356

That was my post above. I made an account!

Yes, the Medicuboid is not stated as designed or capable of soul transfer. My point in all of the above was that, as a reader, there are questions that can logically be asked about options for Yuuki. Those questions do not get asked. I compare this to the handling of Kirito and Asuna.

I ask myself, if Kirito were in a situation where he was dying, wouldn't some pretty extraordinary measures be wheeled in to...y'know what, that's not even hypothetical. That's the current anime arc. More hypothetically, what if it were Kirito in the Medicuboid. Suffering, in our retelling of events from an illness (AIDS) that got worse while he was in SAO and that he never mentioned to Asuna until they were both out. Would we have gotten, then, more proactive potentially-character-saving energy with a reasonable probability that Kirito survives in some fashion? I would wager yes.

The author did not give Yuuki an out for her situation during the arc when one could very credibly have been supplied given the scope of the SAO world. I maintain that there are still credible ways to return her to the world. Again, it comes down to a matter of interest on the part of the author. Yuuki functioned as a strong mentor archetype for Asuna, and mentors are prone to dying in stories.