Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4098937-20160124152926/@comment-27951121-20171017232226

Ryu Heishin wrote:

Manos Stavrakakis wrote: What?? I just found this article, and was immediately dumpstruck... I've considered SAO an excellent action/romance novel. What does this mean? Kirito getting married to 6 girls, with Asuna approving it? Im well aware if that is non-canon, but I just didn't expect Kawahara to have even thought about anything like this... He wrote it as a derisive parody of the harem genre. He himself has stated on more than one occasion that he personally hates harem.

yet he made it, like chapter 16.5 Whitch is my favorite for reasons.