User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/Kneejerk reaction to "Raven Branwen"/@comment-10380701-20150825003158/@comment-25857155-20150827045156

What pisses me off about SAO is how they spent the entire first arc (SAO proper) building on this relationship between Kirito and Asuna, and then after Kirito manages to break the game through willpower alone (gimme a break, please), they go and nerf Asuna and make her a damsel in distress.

Come to think of it, they started that process with the cooking skill. It would've been fine if it had stayed a surprising, out-of-character kind of thing about her, but they decided to make that sterotypically outdated 'feminine' side of her into her primary character. (Not gonna lie, I'd probably take up cooking as a primary skill if I were in SAO.  Think of all the money you could make....)

Oh, and then Kazuto and Asuna's relationship gets disregarded for the entirety of the rest of the series through the end of Mother's Rosario.

GGO was a cool idea though, disregarding the Kirito-trap part or the lack of any sort of action not involving the MCs or Kazuto breaking yet another game. Would've been funnier if they'd actually given him a female avatar. The whole randomly-assigned avatar thing was stupid as hell though; what kind of game does that?

Oh, let's not forget (the once impressively strong and stoic) Asuna bawling her eyes out for a good third of the Mother's Rosario arc over her big-sister almost-yuri relationship with the Kirito-lookalike female character she barely even knew. Granted, that over-emotional reaction could be explained by some form of PTSD, but they don't even touch on that subject except for when Kazuto has flashbacks to the raid on Laughing Coffin that we didn't even see in the first arc.

Sweet fuck, that got out of hand.

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Back on topic - let's be honest, "all-ages" means "middle-school appropriate" to most people. It'd be better if they made it TV-13 rated or something like that, at least.