Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.9.88.182-20140810005353/@comment-1200981-20160611034219

83.80.220.72 wrote: 71.9.88.182 wrote: Personally I like Kirito x Shino best. :3. Asuna kind of pisses me off in a way. She reminds me of princess peach. she cant help it The Princess Peach comparison is inane since she does NOT rely on Kirito to save her all of time and is a hardcore fighter. She saved Kirito as many times as he's saved her. She has literally sacrificed her LIFE to protect him, and she is currently leading the charge to rescue him in the PA arc. As for character development, she gets plenty of it, most explicitly in Mother Rosario.

Also, "badassery" has NOTHING to do with relationships - chemistry does. Putting two characters together just because you think they're cool, as opposed to how they interact and complement each other on a personal level, is pretty shallow IMHO. But Asuna has proven herself to be pretty badass, so moot point.