Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-90.214.113.224-20180210223859/@comment-4136655-20180211014000

BlizzardDragon wrote: 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. While I do think SAO is very shitty, I think Kirito comes off as a placeholder due to SAO being adapted from light novels.