Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-90.214.113.224-20180210223859/@comment-4141313-20180211011344

Kirito really is the main problem, precisely because of what type of character he is. Marty Stu is putting it lightly, he's a Wish Fulfillment Character. Characters like those tend to always drag the story down because they end up making the plot center on them, or find a way to look unbelievably badass. They aren't even really characters at that point.

SAO did have potential, and had characters with potential too. SYUTK is right about Mother's Rosario being a nice arc, seeing as it gave Asuna the spotlight and gave us Yuuki. Agil, Klein, and Lizbeth all had potential that made them fan favs, and personally I think GGO would have been a lot better if Sinon was the sole lead, cause she seems capable enough of carrying an arc on her own.

Its the fact that Kirito isn't a character but rather a placeholder for the reader to imagine themselves in that Kirito ends up one of the bigger issues.

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That's not to say the series doesn't have issues outside of Kirito though, as I think we can agree the near rape scenes are disgusting and unneeded, or that certain arcs like Suguha's relationship with Kirito were very mishandled. Check out Mother's Basement btw on how he thinks they could have made Alfheim good for a better idea on how they could have done Suguha/Leafa.