>risks his life to save others >loyal to his gf >easy

>>155780531
Because he reminds /a/ of themselves.

>>155780606
Kazuma is closer to /a/ than Kirito.

I can't hate either of em.

>>155780531
Because autists like yourself keep reposting this template thread.

>>155780531
Because none of those are flaws.

>>155780531
I don't particularly hate any of the characters in SAO. However I had to drop the series in that episode where they almost die from falling into a hole, then at the end of the episode they are launched thousands of feet into the air before it cuts to them safely back at the shop.

>>155780531

Know what's wrong with the show that No Game No Life revealed to me? SAO is heavily written to have a comedic light hardheartedness to it but takes itself too seriously as though the stakes are really high (they never are). Tonally it's disjointed as all hell and the plot arcs are written for the mentally challenged. There is no nuance in its story telling, it can't match its tone with what's being depicted with what's happening, and the stakes are all over the place but never mean anything. It's success is due to appealing to the largest part of the normal distribution of I.Q. above and below the mean.

It's the Michael Bay of Anime.

>>155780835
when was this?

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>>155780606
>implying
>>155781610
probably the Liz episode

>>155780531
He's fucking perfect which makes him boring. Don't hate the character; hate the writer.
Pigboy may be whiny and annoying, but he's at least more interesting.

>>155780531
Matsuoka

>>155780606
Just the opposite.

>>155781659
>goes to college
>has friends
>not a neckbeard
>not unhealthy

definitely not /a/

>two years worth of semen

>>155780531
>>155781869

GLOP

>>155782027
post the gif

>>155781869
>Being butthurt over a figure of speech

Virtual avatars dont even store semen

>>155780606
He is the exact thing that most of /a/ isn't and can't be.

He is not a self insert because his base personality is that of a successful nerd-chad, not a pathetic loser who gets by with pure luck and writer's favor that is usually the base for self inserts.

Klein is the better match for /a/.

>>155782089
2bh i always thought kirito was what kawahara wants to be/wishes himself as, while bizarrely kayaba is his actual self insert/author avatar

>>155780531
Because he has no flaws or depth beyond whatever's currently convenient to the plot.

>>155780835
Teleport crystal.

Also, Fairy Dance Kirito > Jotunheim Kirito. Why did he choose to make himself uglier on purpose?

>>155782336
the only thing that changed was his hairstyle

>>155780531
>risks his life to save others
There's no semblance of risk conveyed by the story
>loyal to his gf
That's the default behavior expected of people in a relationship, bravo
>easy to get along with
You realize that's a bad thing right
>wants to help random people including NPCs and an AI
Just hammers that he's vidya jesus
>fun around his friends
Also the default for friendships
>raises his child on his own
Well if he's going to go have a child he's supposed to raise it

>>155782395
4000 People died in Aincrad which is a higher death toll than most other action anime. Aincrad had critical moments.

>>155782468
People who aren't vidya jesus.

>>155782071
His real body does
Imagine masturbating after a 2 year hiatus
Your weakened muscles can't even properly grip a cock that is about to burst with so much stored up sperm
Good thing his sister is probably willing to give a helping hand

>>155780531
Because this gun is a walking Deux Ex Machina that can literally do no wrong. They describe him as loner while everything he do is socialize with hot chicks and collecting them (because they are just a pack of tits without any personality) to his harem. On top of that everybody in SAO franchise is a fucking edgelord who can't shut up about "being strong".

>>155782493
you dont actually endlessly store up sperm if you dont masturbate man

He's success and I'm not.

>>155780531
He is boring as fuck. If you want to make a Gary Stu, at least make it entertaining like Sasamaki 'Tanoshi' Izayoi or Shiba 'Sasuga Onii-sama' Tatsuya.

>>155783863
That might be, but he's still gonna cum harder than he ever came in his life

>>155780531
>accidentally makes a female character
>hit on by loads of guys

Poor Kirito

>>155784180
>entertaining like
>Tatsuya

entertaining as a meme maybe

>>155781869
came here to post this

>>155784293
Entertaining for a wrong reason but it's still entertaining anyway.

>>155783863
It's the virtual world.

Maybe the designer forgot to set a limit on the amount of simulated semen that can be stored over time so when the lost chapter says he poured two years worth of cum into Asuna's cunny, it means two years worth of cum.

If there's a cooking skill, I wonder if there's also a housecleaning skill.

>>155782468
>randos dying is the same as the main characters being at risk of dying

>>155785054
Main characters hardly ever die anyway

>>155782395
Thanks, i like blackswordsman even moar moew.

I'm hyped for the ending of the first arc of Progressive. Kawahara has already indicated in some of the side stories that it's going to end in a real disaster for all parties involved.

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Silica is so fucking cute. Can we talk about how cute and adorable little Silica is?

>>155782089
>Klein is the better match for /a/

Klein isn't a loser though, except in the anime adaptation. He starts off as a clueless noob but ends up becoming one of the best players in the game AND manages to turn his circle of real life friends into a raiding guild that cleared the game without casualties.

>but what about in the real world

He's apparently a responsible adult with a good job. The silly stuff he does in game, like hitting on cute female NPCs, is just his way of blowing off steam.

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Silica is a silly cat!

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Silica is a cute nerd.

>>155780531
>risk his life to save others.
Only applies to those with a pussy.

>loyal to his gf
Except he isn't. He plays around with other women.

>easy to get along with

Not when you have all the girls lusting after his dick.

>wants to help random people including NPC and an AI

Again only those with a pussy apply.

>fun around his friends

Indeed he does have "fun" with his "friends". in bed

>raises his child as his own

Playing happy family in a death game? What a creep.

>>155782125
I remember someone in a thread before say it was PoH

>raises his child on his own
Let's get one thing straight, the child is an AI program which is born already as a toddler. Do you know what raising a kid from when they're a baby entails? Waking up every hour, feeding it milk (preferably breastmilk in the first 18 months), cleaning its shit, making sure it shits everyday, gentle exercising (ie. teaching it to stand by holding it up), speaking to it so it learns how to speak, teaching it social ques, taking it to the doctors if it gets sick, dealing it all the crying and resisting the urge to shake it, watching it 24/7 so it doesn't decide to swandive off a sofa or something, among many other things.

None of this shit happened in SAO. Why? Because it presents the ideal state a child should be and every virgin NEET sucked it up.

>>155787193
sooo
kawahara is a flamboyant half korean half jap mercenary working for an american company with a murder fetish?

How can Kirito become a pro enough AR fighter to beat a guy with a combat computer, but he can't beat Johnny Black with dual umbrellas?

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>>155781763
Well youre not /a/ either if you couldn't see the quotation marks around friends,

>>155787745
I FUCKING SWEAR THAT THING HAS ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE A DICK

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>>155787891
>Pina
>Penis

>>155787745
delet this
silica is pure

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>>155788233
Pure cat litter?

>>155788295
Must have missed that one but it sure doesn't seem to exist.

>>155788464
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.clonezone.link/news_2017_04_02_sword_art_online_iii_announced_new_visual_unveiled

>clonezone.link
it's clearly fake

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he wants to kill me

>>155790122
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkbHS3U9lJM

?

>>155780531

Because he is the worst example of a Garry stue there is.

>>155780531
I've only lurked /a/ occasionally but man he IS hateable.
All his jokes are cheap and not funny at all.
He is only liked for his looks and skills.
Then he bites a girl's finger and gets away with it only because... because oh surprise, the girl was already falling for him. Because of his skill and looks.

That's it.

He is no fun.
And not easy to get along with unless you are one of those who talks all the time and asks questions like Klein.
Or unless you're a girl and insult him for 6 episodes, which will undoubtely make you close to anyone.

That's it.

He is not easy to get along with.

As for the rest of the items.
I think those are a standard in the population.

>>155780531
>loyal to his gf
>has a peculiar with a woman in another game
>has better chemistry with her
>when introducin his waifu to the new girl he called her his friend, not his girlfriend

>>155785054
he's only not at risk of dying because it would end the story prematurely. It's only no risk because it's a fictional tale. Logically he has plenty of risk of dying, and almost does so multiple times.

>>155790837
Well tbf he didn't say "friends" per se, he said comrades-comrades in arms, fighting in SAO and such

Also japs are beta esque reclusive about relationships

>Get the impression that Kirito is some gary stu from /a/ crying about him for years
>Finally decide to watch the Aincrad arc to see what all the fuss is about

>Barely kills Kobold Lord and requires the help of an entire party to do so
>Get the entire Black Cat's Guild killed due to his incompetence
>Haunted by Sachi's death with PTSD years into the game
>Dual Sword Deus Ex Machina isn't enough to let him solo anything past Gleam Eyes
>Gets BTFO by Heathcliffe and only wins because Heathcliffe wanted to die
>Only gets to such a high level because he literally doesn't ever fucking sleep and just grinds 24/7

/a/ was fucking wrong and I will never listen to you fags again.

>>155780531
That's called a "Gary Stu", op

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>>155780531
>ywn be his bff

>>155780531
He's a dual wielding, skinny faggot, wearing all black and tight clothing

>>155791183
You've only just scratched the surface of the /a/ hyperbole. Kirito wins one real life fight and loses three others. In the later arcs and side stories, he actually loses almost every single duel or PVP encounter he gets involved in.

Clear victories:
1.) Sinon round one (changed from the webnovel, where he actually lost this encounter)
2.) PoH (Kirito's stats and items are way, way stronger, and his knowledge of how UW works is far superior)

Heavily contested victories:
1.) Administrator
2.) Gabriel (Kirito wins via spirit bomb)

Clear losses:
1.) Red Eyed Xaxa
2.) Zekken (at least twice)
3.) Sortiliena
4.) Alice
5.) Administrator's golem
6.) Morte

>>155791730
nice spoiler tags you got there friend

>1.) Red Eyed Xaxa

how does he lose?

>2.) Zekken (at least twice)

anime ruined the second one making it look like he was just about to kill her before the timer ran out though


>4.) Alice
It's a tie

>>155780531
Because he's a shit noob who plays RPGs and not city builder master race.

>>155791607
Eugeos, or Kiritos?

>>155791812
Xaxa was kicking the shit out of Kirito until PHANTOM BULLET saves his ass and one-shots with a lightsaber.

>>155791812
Dunno how the anime adapted it, but in the LN, Xaxa's actual skill as player with his improvised estoc is way higher than Kirito's. Xaxa tells Kirito that while Kirito was being a normalfag in real life/playing harem master, Xaxa dedicated himself to preparing for their eventual rematch--and it shows. If Xaxa had been using an actual weapon and not just a ramrod that had been crafted to resemble an estoc with incredibly low base damage, he would have emerged the victor.

>>155791969
Both
>>155792240
>>155792541
I've read the LN, but he still won in the end, is the point, calling it a 'clear loss' is just bizarre

>>155791812
>It's a tie

I was referring to when he fights her inside the Central Cathedral, where he can't even slow her down for more than a few seconds.

>>155792635
after he releases his swords recollection they're even in power and both get blasted out without concluding their match

>>155792632
Clear loss was referring to the 1v1 situation before Sinon bails him out.

>>155791730
I just finished Mother's Rosario and his loss against Yuuki is debatable. Asuna (or whoever) debated that he never actually fights seriously anymore and Yuuki had the advantage of being hooked up to a better machine with much more experience in ALO anyways.

>>155781659
This describes me too 100%, except the hair thing because i got a new haircut not long ago

>>155791730
To add onto this:
Kirito loses his first fight against Eiji, but after about a day of training in AR he wins the rematch pretty clearly. It should be noted Eiji was using a powered exoskeleton and still lost to the regular human out-of-shape Kirito.

>>155792768
From what I remember, Kirito himself concedes that her skill is greater than his ever was and that she would have gotten the unique skill and not him if she had been stuck in SAO. Unless I am remembering incorrectly, I don't think that's very ambiguous.

>>155792873
This is in the recent movie, I assume? I haven't seen it yet.

>>155793947
its better than most of the franchise 2bh

Alicization Human World>>>Alicization War>Mothers Rosario>>>Ordinal Scale>Phantom Bullet>>>Aincrad>>>Fairy Dance

rating ln arcs and not anime obviously

>>155780606
not true

>>155780531

Because Digibro told them to

>>155780606
not remotely possible or plausible

>>155780531
Because he's main character of a popular show, same goes to why people hate alot of shounen main characters

>>155791730
>Heavily contested victories:
>1.) Administrator

>Clear losses:
>1.) Red Eyed Xaxa
I'm not sure why these two are on different lists. Xaxa was eventually defeated in the end, even if it was with Sinon's help.

On the other hand, Administrator effectively won that battle, considering the losses Kirito endured, and the fact that in the end, Kirito still couldn't kill her—even with Dual Blades or Incarnation he only managed to severely injure her. He needed the Deus ex Machina that is Chuddlekin to kill her.

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>>155780531
Everyone here is just jealous

>>155795938
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't it go something like

>Eugeo takes off one of her arms but gets mortally wounded in the process
>Kirito takes her on and finds out that she's better with the sword than he is and knows all of the skills
>Kirito uses an incarnation attack to do a dual blades attack and mortally wounds her
>She starts running to the logout console
>The last bit of her HP gets taken off by the flaming fat dude that she had left for dead

>>155796354
Eugeo takes one of her arms, and gets "mortally wounded".
Kirito also takes one of her arms, but also loses an arm.

At this point, Kirito isn't able to fight anymore, Alice is outcold, and Eugeo is in literal pieces. Administrator grandstands, as she opens up the console, and gets ready to leave, which is when the giant flaming clown hugs her to death.
I don't remember how much Life she had left by that point, but if it weren't for Chuddlekin, she could have easily restored herself to full Health once she retreated. (Like she did when "Cardinal" was still part of "Quinella", and she tried to "kill herself", only to immediately restore herself to maximum health.)

>>155796608
If that's the case, that should probably just go under "Clear losses" then.

Is anyone going to mention the Asuka Empire arc?

>>155781659
>doesn't care about having things like cell phones
He lost me there. I used to have a shit computer for a long time so I reoriented myself towards J2ME games and phoneshit in general.

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>>155797295
You mean the "Clover's Regret" spin-off?
I don't think that's on anyone's radar. Unlike with Alternative GGO who has Sigsawa writing it (who is also well known for Kino's Journey), I don't think CR's author is well known at all. Not to mention that there seem to be a lot of Japanese culture references to the point that there are several TL notes.

Basically it's too obscure, an not interesting enough.

>>155780761
this

>>155780761
What kind of flaws do you even want him to have?
People have pointed out flaws.

>>155798012
Where is this being translated?

>>155799076
DreadfulDecoding
Only the first chapter (which is like a 3rd of the book apparently) has been translated so far. What the translator has to say about it:

>I've started translating chapter 2, but since Pryun and Haffen caught up to me on AGGO, I'm currently prioritising that project. I plan (or at least hope) to focus on translating Clover's Regret during my Spring Break in April.

>>155780606
No, he's what we want to be. Like most harem protagonists, he is the viewer's power fantasy, what he would most like to be. I'm not saying those fantasies are wrong I have them all the time, and I bet you do too , but they make for poor literature.

>>155780531
>risks his life to save others
that's easy, when you are overpowered

>loyal to his gf
bullshit

>easy to get along with
that's what you think

>wants to help random people including NPCs and an AI
wow, he wanted to help NPCs, what a retard

>fun around his friends
does he has any?

>raises his child on his own
who is an AI, so technically she already know, what she needs

>>155780531
I don't

He's also a cute girl in GGO

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>>155799743
I wonder who's behind this post

>>155799820
who is that?

>>155780531
Mostly because he is a massive Gary Stu.

>>155799848
One of the more memorable memes from S2

>>155799916
ok, never watched it

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The "Aincrad Night of Kirito" spin-off manga is fun so far.
Needs more Yui reaction shots. And I don't even like Yui.

>>155800655
I fuckin hate Yui, she ruined the entire show

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>>155800678
"Hate" is a strong word.
I dislike her position in the story, because she's literally a Deus ex Machina meant to fit in a pocket.
I wouldn't say she ruined the whole show, but her very existence in the series is mind-boggling.
During GGO, she learned in-depth information about a police investigation, which is probably information that shouldn't be publicly available.
In the Alicization arc, She fucking hacks into a secret military facility in the middle of the ocean and swaps out photos of a scientist to fool facial recognition software.

Meanwhile, Kikouka, a government worker (who also has ties to the JSDF and shit) just lets this Skynet-esque AI do what she pleases while only being supervised by two teenagers who play house with her.

>>155780531
>easy to get along with

Eh, not really. Watching SAO, I always thought he was a complete fucker to anyone who wasn't a potential haremette.

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There's a lot of side material that more fully fleshes out his personality, and it's not as Mary Sue-ish as you might think from just watching the anime. He's probably autistic and definitely emotionally stunted. He's almost as bad as Tomoko at times. The effect SAO had on him was that it ultimately forced him to actually interact with other human beings for the better part of two years.

>>155780531
Black coat, harem protag, so powerful he beat the admin, no interesting qualities as he is just an a object to move the "plot"

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Abridged Kirito is much better.

>>155782336
yui asked him to change his hair. so she can sit on his head while she is in pixie form.
his previous spikey hair prevented her from sitting on his head

>>155801042
he ditched Klein the first episode ffs

>>155804361
He ditched Klein's Party, because he didn't want to be responsible for them. He was 14, and felt he would be blamed for anyone dying.

>>155786960
>Only applies to those with a pussy.
He does save men.

>Except he isn't. He plays around with other women.
He has female friends. Stop projecting your insecurities about relationships.

>Not when you have all the girls lusting after his dick.
Except it doesn't matter because he's loyal, see Klein and the black guy.

>>155780531
>Raises his child on your own
The child is actually Agil's

>>155782071
So he is still technically a virgin, huh, he has got more in common with /a/ than I thought

>>155782468
>Established as a hard core game
>Only 40% are killed off in two years

>>155784832
>Getting a literal creampie

>>155788295
This is the one with evil Americans and Koreans right?

>>155805563
>Hard Core game
It was set up to be winnable without dying (assuming safety measures are taken)
It's never really said to be a "hard core game", other than the perma-death thing which was the reason for the game being "easier" (if not more grindier) than usual MMOs.

>>155780531
Because while SOME of his actions may be good in concept he is a poorly written character in a poorly written story.

>>155780606
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried

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>>155805436
Probably not by the end of the movie.

SAO abridged did a better job of capturing your average teenage mmo player.
>You get bullied a lot in the real world, don't you?
>Shut up! Here I have power!