"But Kirito has no personality"

>"But Kirito has no personality"
-SAO Hater

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.

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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!

You've convinced me. SAO is the Evangelion of our generation.

Nice bait Senpai :^]

wow your right SAO truly is the masterpeice anime of this century

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.

His personality is bland and generic. That's what it means to have no personality, you twit.

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.

>Most SAO haters hate that this show because of its unreal portrayal of life
Are you sure?

SAO is shit. Kirito is a faggot.

Most haters hate SAO not only because it is popular and successful but also more popular and successful that the shit they like.

pic related there is literally a more bland an generic character than Kirito.

Silica likes patting Pina's head, but now she wants to be headpatted herself. Would you pat Silica's head for her?

C-Can we finally stop pretending we hate SAO?

Nice bait.

Anyhow, THIS is the SAO we deserve:

youtube.com/watch?v=eZtV0h-dhWs

my favorite part of SAO is when OP got super aids and died

stop replying to yourself, user

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.

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.

>Kirino

>not just posting the usual SAO pasta

Wat?

The Abridge is better desu senpaitachi.

We all know this already. They put more effort into the fucking background sound effects alone than the actual show did.

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..."

digibro btfo

2 years worth of semen made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into Asuna.

t. Todd Howard

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

>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

make it about guilds or something
or make the guy who gave kirito his life potion for no reason, the MC

>make it about guilds or something
Way to show you understand nothing about scriptwriting.

SAO is trash but this abridged show is reddit autism, fuck off with it

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.

>namefag
Opinion disregarded.

>projecting this hard

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

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

>Implying you can tell what I had in mind when I wrote that
way to show your bad judgement famalam

At least Progressive is okay.

who?

My Sonic OC from 15 years ago is more consistently written then this schizophrenic mary sue.

Here's your (you)

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.

>Most SAO haters hate that this show because of its unreal portrayal of life
then why don't they hate all anime?

Oh god no. Eva is trash

allow me to explain with a quote

You can think however you like, it's clear you're retarded and understand nothing about screenwriting.

explain that to people who hate anime, not to me

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

>Guilt tripping yourself this hard

Cant you just accept your shit-taste and move on?

so basically Kirito is an autist. good to know.

sorry
was meant for

that's some high grade pasta

Explaining a shit personality doesn't magically make it a good personality.

Well, he's not wrong.

>still playing elitist on 2017 Sup Forums
There are fucking RWBY threads here. Why would it matter.

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

Obey the board's culture or get your ass outta here scum

He's a good candidate for a hentai MC

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.

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.

>we
You're on your own buddy. Self moderating 150 shit threads is just not worth it.

>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.

Kirito is boring.
But he is handsome. That's an okay.

But he choose Ashutna instead of Suguha.
Therefore he is TRASH

Because most MC in anime doesn't get laid fro some reason eventhough the girl wants their dick.

Shut the fuck up

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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.

Imagine being that much of a pleb you defend SAO hahahaha

More personality than me ._.

I want to gouge Kirito's eyes out with a corkscrew and stuff fire ants into the sockets.

Did you enjoy your 13th birthday this year?

Sounds like he's "on the spectrum".

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.

I want to fuck his boypussy,

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

shute the fuckup

No one over age 14 likes SAO, so you tell me.

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?

It's good to see Sup Forums is waking up and realizing SAO really isn't bad at all.

Would've been 6/10 if they'd ended at episode 12.

Alfheim is where most get the "nuke it from orbit" reaction.

>Hater
Stopped reading there.

see

Whats evangelion

>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!

So who is Kirito in AW?

Please tell me its the nerd robot and that he's been watching the MC from the start.

wait whats wrong with RWBY
sorry im newfag

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It's Sup Forumsshit but the retarded fans think it's anime.

Lord Anno's milking factory.

All these newfags can't even use fucking google.

>OP characters done wrong:
Kirito, Tatsuya
>OP characters done right:
Ainz

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.

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.

just gonna leave this here

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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.

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

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.

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