Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5105419-20131208080434/@comment-3551173-20131212151750

Look at it objectively, Kirito would be the same as all the other OP MCs wandering the world, and SAO wouldn't be so popular, one of the main reasons its popular is because the main actually hooked up with a girl and didn't pursue the harem route (yet it still keeps tailing him hoping to jump him in a back alley).