Sword Art Onlineis a popular anime for many reasons, and infamous for just every bit many too. A lot of that arraign usually goes to its protagonist, Kirito, who anime fans accuse of existence too overpowered and impossibly good at everything. While his personality isn't exactly unlikeable, the fact that the plot and characters often bend around him does make these criticisms understandable.

Not helping him, either, is the fact that Kirito has done some pretty weird and iffy stuff over the entire span of the anime serial. Whether they be deportment or lines of dialogue, it seems like another of Kirito's college game stats is his blench factor.

10 PHILOSOPHY OF A VR GAMER

Through the many arcs ofSword Art, Kirito has come to certain conclusions well-nigh the barriers between the real world and the virtual one and shares those views pretty often. While there is something to say about how real a game world can become to people, Kirito likes to drill into the signal that the experiences in VR can be equally existent as real-life.

It'd be 1 matter if he did this once or twice, but Kirito tends to beat out this message into the clay advertizement nauseam across the course of the anime. After the third or fourth fourth dimension, it really becomes annoying and pretentious, making Kirito seem more similar an obnoxious know-information technology-all.

9 KIRITO'Southward HEALING Factor

This one's definitely 1 of the more infamous moments of Kirito being overpowered. Ambushed past Rosalia's social club, Kirito and Silica are surrounded by fierce players. Deciding to fight them all past himself, Kirito lets the guild attack him all at in one case. All the same, they don't brand fifty-fifty a dent in Kirito's HP and, because of his higher level, he could heal faster than they could impairment him.

While this is supposed to be a moment to prove how badass Kirito tin can be, don't forget that Sword Art Online was supposed to be an MMO game. Meaning, he was just grinding his level until he became invincible, which isn't nearly every bit absurd every bit Kirito tries to make it sound.

8 GETTINGCLOSERTO ASUNA

Kirito and Asuna's relationship is ane of the more than popular aspects of the serial, merely the route getting there had some bumps. While waiting for Asuna to join him on a quest, Asuna springs out from the spawn surface area of the map and falls right on superlative of Kirito. Feeling something squishy in his manus, Kirito gets a fiddling likewise close and personal with Asuna than he should've been at the time.

While this wasn't entirely Kirito's fault, this moment was using an anime cliche that really had no place here. The scene was probably supposed to exist funny, just only ended up being forced and cringy.

seven ROLEPLAYING

While the first part ofSword Arthad life and death at stake, other arcs of the anime toned the danger downwards. In Sword Fine art Online, players who lost all their HP would die both in the game and in the existent world, but in others like Alfheim or Gun Gale Online, losing your HP mostly meant waiting to be respawned, like in whatever video game.

Despite that, Kirito continued to accept the non-threatening matters of those games seriously, as if they were as real every bit his time in SAO. Any fourth dimension he did this, it made Kirito wait like he was a hardcore roleplayer that was way too into it. This was peculiarly eye-rolling when some situations, similar the Excalibur arc, are literally just part of the game and the risks are extremely low.

vi KIRITO'S PLAN TO SAVE YUI

At present the introductory episodes of the avant-garde AI and adopted girl of Asuna and Kirito, Yui could exist a cringe moment unto itself. But in terms of things Kirito himself did during that time, his programme to save Yui isn't just cringy merely besides calls a lot into question. To save Yui from being deleted by SAO'south system, Kirito manages to hack the game and store Yui into an in-game item. Kirito pulls this skill out of nowhere and manages to succeed in merely a few seconds.

The implications of this scene are much worse than the anime cares to explicate. If Kirito tin hack to source code of the game to this degree, why can't he hack it again to assistance log people out of SAO? In that location'due south no answer for that because the only time he displays this skill in the Aincrad Arc is to save an AI he knew for only a couple days that pretended to exist his daughter. This unmarried human activity by Kirito takes a graphic symbol that was already mostly unstoppable in the game and makes him fifty-fifty more broken past pretty much making him a genius as well.

v HIS RUSHED Wedlock WITH ASUNA

While many have had eyes for Kirito across the series, it'south clear Kirito but has a thing for Asuna. While their relationship has lasted past their time in Sword Art Online, some aspects of it were called out for being a little rushed. Peculiarly, their in-game marriage comes to mind since they decide to get digitally hitched after but starting their relationship.

Now in that location'southward nothing specially incorrect with this since this wasn't actually the two getting married, only what makes information technology weird is that they care for it like its real. In the movie, they even plan to go married for real despite the fact Kirito hasn't even met Asuna's mother. But what really sends this one into true blench, is that the anime implies that out of all the players in SAO merely Kirito and Asuna's dearest is considered "true honey".

four THAT TIME HE PRETENDED TO BE A Girl

In the Phantom Bullet Arc, Kirito enters Gun Gale Online while on the chase for the murderous player known equally Death Gun. For some reason, his avatar in the game ends upwards beingness quite feminine this time around, to which he decides to take advantage of. In order to proceed a low profile, Kirito actually pretends he is a daughter while in GGO. It's as difficult to sentry every bit information technology sounds.

During this time, Kirito manages to charm men with his avatar's appearance and he keeps his deed going upwardly until Sinon has her character strip in forepart of him, which makes this moment peculiarly painful and cringy.

three "Call ME A BEATER"

After revealing his status as a beta-tester for SAO to other players, he decides to have all the hate for beta-testers onto himself. Angered, the other players combine the words "cheater" and "beta-tester", to call him a derogatory name called a"Beater".

Now while anyone else could look at that name and run into how impaired that sounds, Kirito really decided to roll with that new championship and wear it similar a badge of laurels. While his intent was well-meaning, hearing Kirito calling himself a Beater doesn't sound cool, information technology only sounds silly.

2 KIRITO BREAKS THE GAME

One of Kirito's crowing achievements of overpowered-ness came during his final battle with Oberon in Alfhiem Online. Just when information technology looks like Kirito has no mode of beating the Admin privileges Sugou Nobuyuki, Akihiko Kayaba (the mastermind behind the SAO incident) appears from across the grave and gives Kirito his Admin privileges. Using them, Kirito utterly breaks the game and decimates Oberon.

This moment serves equally even so another example of how invincible Kirito can be, but what makes information technology worse is that he basically did aught to earn that second wind. A lot similar his hacking abilities and his Gleam Eyes transformation, this ability comes out of nowhere and only accomplishes making Kirito await fifty-fifty more like a Mary Sue.

1 THE HAREM THAT KEEPS ON GROWING

Sword Art Onlineis not technically office of the "harem genre" of anime, though information technology would be understandable if someone thought it was. Despite the fact that Kirito is rather committed just to Asuna, at that place have been many girls throughout the multiple seasons of this anime who all vie for his attention and it just keeps growing.

With every new season, a new daughter falls in love with Kirito and joins the ranks of his harem even though he's already in a human relationship with someone. It is especially bad since his ain sister is among them, which is admittedly icky. The longer this goes on the more painful to watch it becomes equally it happens over and once more.

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Ethan Supovitz is a long fourth dimension fan of comics, anime, and video games, which inspired him to write well-nigh them. Formerly, he was a writer for The Source, a comic volume/superhero news site that was endemic by the website Superherostuff. Currently, Ethan is an Anime List Writer for Valnet Inc. over at Comic Book Resources. He considers himself a "well-rounded nerd" who has an involvement in many dissimilar kinds of media. His email is supovitzethan@yahoo.com

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