Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-71.79.235.209-20140922195354/@comment-5067284-20150517211853

Ryu Heishin wrote: Frankly, I find them charming and adorable together, and I appreciate that they're a couple who, unlike other anime series, don't spend 100+ episodes playing around with pretenses of being in denial or oblivious of the romantic tension between them and act on it as soon as they realize it's there. It's refreshing to see a couple in an anime be so open and honest with one another to be perfectly honest. Not to mention the sheer dedication they show for one another is truly touching.

And aside from that, I love how they formed a family with little Yui. This is a couple that knows how to pull on audiences' heartstrings. I don't know, I think it would have been better if they dragged it out a little more. I get that they are teens, and they haven't actually felt love before, but I think them being willing to commit suicide if the other one dies, that's rediculous. Even Kirito acknoledges that this is stupid in Volume 1, by telling Heathcliff not to allow Asuna to comit Suicide under any circumstance if he loses the fight between them. I don't know, if they had dragged it out longer it would have been fine. But, I think the main problem is that the anime tried to fit four different volumes into a single season of 25 episodes, meaning three to five chapters go by per episode. Filler was definitely the least of the anime's problems. If anything, it could have used some filler.