Kirito is someone who is not good with words, as stated by Klein, and can be quite direct. This is due to him not having many friends and closing others off because of his love for computers. As such, he can come off as a rude person to others, such as Lisbeth and Sinon. Sometimes, he actually seems to enjoy angering and teasing people as well. Also, from time to time, Kirito can be quite overconfident thinking he can do things others cannot.
He is almost always a calm and collected character, rarely showing any signs of distress. When Kayaba Akihiko appeared in SAO and announced that it had become a Death Game, Kirito showed only a slight reaction and was able to quickly accept the new conditions of the game, while many others panicked. He has shown different moods throughout the series; at times being rather cheerful, while being gloomy at others. When in a battle, he becomes incredibly fierce and aggressive. Sometimes, his fierceness is up to the point where he loses control of himself and is even unable to recall what he had done. However, Kirito is actually a kind person who is just misunderstood. Despite the general population opinion towards beta testers in SAO, he refused to abandon another player in trouble. This is only strengthened after the demise of the Moonlit Black Cats. He also comforts others who are scared or down such as Silica after she lost Pina. He claims to help a female player in SAO because she reminds him of his sister, whom he feels to have forced into kendo and feels guilty for that. These kind of acts have earned him respect and affection from many girls. Kirito, unlike usual male heroes, is not very dense as he was able to tell that Lisbeth was going to confess to him before Asuna interrupted them.
Kirito is also a very emotional person and lets his emotions control him from time to time. The deaths of Sachi and the Moonlit Black Cats had haunted him until his marriage with Asuna in Sword Art Online. Sachi's death in particular had a huge effect on his personality and motives, making him very distant from others for a while. This worries his friends and allies as Kirito is someone who would let guilt ruin his life if not comforted. Kirito temporarily loses his will to live when Asuna's character was killed by Heathcliff. He also tries to hide his abilities, not wanting unneeded attention. Kirito is a person with incredibly strong resolve who will do anything and everything in his power to accomplish something that is important to him without any hesitation. When Asuna was being held in ALfheim, Kirito was bound and determined to set her free and, when Yui confirmed that she detected Asuna being at the top of the World Tree, he immediately tried to fly up to the tree, which had already been found to be an impossible task, and tried to fight his way to the top by himself twice despite being annihilated the first time.
After escaping SAO, Kirito attempts to repair his relationship with Suguha, his cousin. This shows Kirito is now attempting to make up for his past mistake of ignoring her, showing a sense of maturity. Kirito, later in the series, is shown to be a calm and mature player who can be teasing as well.
THERE! THERE IS HIS FUCKING PERSONALITY!
Alexander Jones
You've convinced me. SAO is the Evangelion of our generation.
Adam Jones
Nice bait Senpai :^]
Aiden Thomas
wow your right SAO truly is the masterpeice anime of this century
Xavier Bailey
Still doesnt explain the weak shaky story. Kirito is still an unrelenting self-insert character and the story is still plagued with deus ex machina. I would list more but my contemporaries will list them later.
Gabriel Young
His personality is bland and generic. That's what it means to have no personality, you twit.
Chase Edwards
Haters are actually just baiting you. Most SAO haters hate that this show because of its unreal portrayal of life (a shy nerd getting the girl of his dreams because he's good at video games and not being a fucking retard most of the time).
It reminds them that life can't be like this and they're forever losers who got beat by an anime character. They try to sound logical or pretend to have valid points when the best argument they can come up with is "LOL HE'S PURFECt MUH GURY STU MUH SELF INSERT HERESY". As such I just ignore these retarded "losers for life" as being jealous of an anime character and do pic related.
Gabriel King
>Most SAO haters hate that this show because of its unreal portrayal of life Are you sure?
Nolan Kelly
SAO is shit. Kirito is a faggot.
Asher Anderson
Most haters hate SAO not only because it is popular and successful but also more popular and successful that the shit they like.
Josiah Kelly
pic related there is literally a more bland an generic character than Kirito.
Gavin Green
Silica likes patting Pina's head, but now she wants to be headpatted herself. Would you pat Silica's head for her?
my favorite part of SAO is when OP got super aids and died
Jace Cooper
stop replying to yourself, user
William Lopez
i always felt that kirito had a personality but the author just wasn't conveying it the way he thought he was conveying it. I find most people's criticisms of kirito's personality to be correct in with the material presented to us.
My own guessing at the intent of the author and speculating that he wasn't able to communicate properly might as well just be headcanon so i accept that kirito is a poorly written character who isn't very interesting.
Samuel Robinson
Kirino really wasn't the problem with SAO. I actually liked him.
The problem was the show going to shit after a mere 5-6 episodes. The episode where that girl dies and leaves him a message was sad as fuck, and the murder mystery was heartfelt and interesting. After that everything fell apart, and I didn't even brother with season 2.
Jaxson Brown
>Kirino
Isaac Howard
>not just posting the usual SAO pasta
Angel Bailey
Wat?
Wyatt Cruz
The Abridge is better desu senpaitachi.
Henry Thompson
We all know this already. They put more effort into the fucking background sound effects alone than the actual show did.
Daniel Johnson
They gave Kirito an actual personality and character development and Asuna is more than just 'ultimate waifu'. And their relationship is more believable.
"The most sociopathic players that I laid my eyes on..."
Josiah Rivera
digibro btfo
Jose Nelson
2 years worth of semen made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into Asuna.
Chase Lopez
t. Todd Howard
Kayden Reed
kirito is a turbo autist who doesn't know how social interaction woks the only thing that saves him is the fact that the author apparently doesn't know it either so in the show it works the way he imagines it to work watching the show felt like watching a power fantasy of 'that' kid the person who wrote him had zero awareness and people who like him probably do as well people complain about the tentacle rape and damsel in distress stuff, throwing away the entire plot in the middle of the first season etc. none of that shit actually bothers me, I quite enjoyed both seasons I just fucking hated kirito and his daugterfu the show would be 100x times better without those two characters and he's also got the award for anime character with the most punchable face
Jacob Bailey
>the show would be 100x times better without those two characters But SAO without Kirito is like One Piece without Luffy. You would have to re-write the entire plot
Carson Torres
make it about guilds or something or make the guy who gave kirito his life potion for no reason, the MC
Brandon Turner
>make it about guilds or something Way to show you understand nothing about scriptwriting.
Lincoln Barnes
SAO is trash but this abridged show is reddit autism, fuck off with it
Noah Lee
Possessing character traits doesn't make someone a good character. Kirito is dreadfully boring. Cool-headed, kind and brave are the three most generic traits you could assign a protagonist, and they form almost the entirety of his identity. The lack of a strong supporting cast in SAO (I couldn't be bothered to watch more than that) meant that he wasn't able to develop interesting relations with other characters. Instead, he became a character who was defined by his stuff. He's a beater. He can dual wield. He's a loner. This is the kind of stuff that makes up a young teenager's first attempts at fiction and character. It's no wonder that that audience eats him up. If you're an adult and you think Kirito is a good character, you're either blinded by nostalgia or completely lacking in discerning taste.
Adrian Harris
>namefag Opinion disregarded.
Oliver Jackson
>projecting this hard
Carter Lee
or keep kirito but at least make him more self aware and less self centered and cut down the ridiculous wish fulfillment crap and the childish conflict that's happening between him and society
Nathaniel Roberts
Remember when Kirito found out his girlfriend was in danger of being murdered, but he spent 20 minutes flirting with his sister? Lmfao what a cool guy
Tyler James
>Implying you can tell what I had in mind when I wrote that way to show your bad judgement famalam
Samuel Bennett
At least Progressive is okay.
Luis Smith
who?
Jeremiah Sanders
My Sonic OC from 15 years ago is more consistently written then this schizophrenic mary sue.
Here's your (you)
Tyler Peterson
The manga is alright (pretty good at times) as it is illustrated by Kiseki Himura (Tawawa), doesn't take itself too seriously and more comedy\romance focused. And Kirito, for a change, is not an edgy emo in this work.
Ian Ross
>Most SAO haters hate that this show because of its unreal portrayal of life then why don't they hate all anime?
Mason Morris
Oh god no. Eva is trash
Camden Edwards
allow me to explain with a quote
Jackson Stewart
You can think however you like, it's clear you're retarded and understand nothing about screenwriting.
Wyatt Anderson
explain that to people who hate anime, not to me
Thomas Rodriguez
but you were asking why don't they hate all anime that's because lot of them just like the fairytales are "true" in the metaphysical sense - even if they are made up fantastic stories you can't say that about SAO
Jonathan Perez
>Guilt tripping yourself this hard
Cant you just accept your shit-taste and move on?
Nolan Phillips
so basically Kirito is an autist. good to know.
Austin Scott
sorry was meant for
Hunter Long
that's some high grade pasta
Hunter Davis
Explaining a shit personality doesn't magically make it a good personality.
Justin Gomez
Well, he's not wrong.
John Lee
>still playing elitist on 2017 Sup Forums There are fucking RWBY threads here. Why would it matter.
Camden Flores
the real question is why do you think I should care about how things seem like to a person with as bad judgement as that of yours I think I already expressed that your opinions have zero value to me why do you keep bothering me
Camden Jackson
Obey the board's culture or get your ass outta here scum
Nicholas Watson
He's a good candidate for a hentai MC
Aaron Gonzalez
That's exactly why we have to be even more elitist.
If we let more trash like faggots in OP in, the board gets even worse.
Thomas Richardson
Nah, all you've done is elongated explanations of very basic character/personality traits. Even if there was more going on below the surface, it was very poorly communicated. Pic related on the other hand is at least more entertaining on top of having arguably more depth.
Kevin Bennett
>we You're on your own buddy. Self moderating 150 shit threads is just not worth it.
Jason James
>the real question is why do you think I should care about how things seem like to a person with as bad judgement as that of yours Because you're clearly an idiot and it's clearly bothering you.
>I think I already expressed that your opinions have zero value to me Sure buddy.
>why do you keep bothering me If you're going to say stupid shit like you did, expect to get called out for it. Not my fault you understand nothing about screenwriting.
Christian Brown
Kirito is boring. But he is handsome. That's an okay.
But he choose Ashutna instead of Suguha. Therefore he is TRASH
James Harris
Because most MC in anime doesn't get laid fro some reason eventhough the girl wants their dick.
Jayden Adams
Shut the fuck up
Henry Torres
...
Wyatt King
I watched the first season and feel like it was a poor rip off of the .Hack franchise. I'd rather rewatch that then bother with the 2nd season of SAO. Kirito is as bland as congee.
Jason Roberts
Imagine being that much of a pleb you defend SAO hahahaha
Aaron Morgan
More personality than me ._.
Samuel Robinson
I want to gouge Kirito's eyes out with a corkscrew and stuff fire ants into the sockets.
Xavier King
Did you enjoy your 13th birthday this year?
Benjamin Russell
Sounds like he's "on the spectrum".
William White
What a great explanation. I love the series and am not jaded about it. SAO was an emotional rollercoaster and each character played their part in my opinion. Though I suppose we are all entitled to our opinions even if those opinions are unpopular.
Ryan Smith
I want to fuck his boypussy,
Hunter Brooks
LNfag here
The anime is a garbage adaptation, the web novels were amateur garbage, and the first few volumes of the LN were rush edits to aforementioned amateur garbage
Read Alicization and Progressive, then Accel World. They end up being about the only things that matter anyway
Hunter Watson
shute the fuckup
Grayson Price
No one over age 14 likes SAO, so you tell me.
Christopher Kelly
Araragi >actually has a harem; cheats on his GF all the fucking time >beats up a 10-year-old girl and later gets his ass kicked by a girl his age >Sup Forums: BASED MC! HOW DO I BE LIKE ARARAGI?
Kirito >remains loyal to his waifu; ignores all the girls throwing themselves at him >never backs down from a fight >actually gets sad and even cries occasionally >Sup Forums: MUH GARY STU WORST MC OF ALL TIME
Why is this allowed?
Joseph Kelly
It's good to see Sup Forums is waking up and realizing SAO really isn't bad at all.
Cameron Gutierrez
Would've been 6/10 if they'd ended at episode 12.
Alfheim is where most get the "nuke it from orbit" reaction.
Jonathan Roberts
>Hater Stopped reading there.
Juan Edwards
see
Lincoln Gutierrez
Whats evangelion
Kayden Robinson
>take attributes of an basic archetypal hero literally everyone strives to have >slap it onto socially retarded autist who literally kills an entire guild by the mere power of his social retardation and selfishness >now he's also a chick magnet for some reason >but all this kissless virgin wants is just one gf - how noble of him!
Ryder Turner
So who is Kirito in AW?
Please tell me its the nerd robot and that he's been watching the MC from the start.
Nathaniel Baker
wait whats wrong with RWBY sorry im newfag
Camden Ross
...
William Bennett
It's Sup Forumsshit but the retarded fans think it's anime.
I wish they didn't rush through SAO so fast to get to ALO. That shit was awful. GG was great, mother's rosario was shit.
Ryan Carter
Main reason he seems like such a bland character is that he's being forced along by the plots or by the girls. In alicization arc we actually see some fucking character from him when he isn't surrounded by pussy 24/7.
Nathaniel Scott
just gonna leave this here
Mason Cooper
...
Ian Edwards
No such thing as an OP character done right. Overlord is as bad as the other two. The cocksucking is even more blatant there than in SAO, and that's saying something.
Leo Stewart
No that's Kawahara's self insert
Kirito is probably Graphite Edge, the guy who taught Black Lotus how to fight, ergo why she has half of Kirito's Aincrad movelist
Asher Stewart
You mean the robot on Kirito's shoulder there? That was created for the Accel World anime, and voiced in the TV broadcast by Reki Kawahara himself.