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Sword Art Online II (TV).

Watching a bunch of friends just hanging out, as in this arc in SAO, just isn't entertaining for someone to watch.

I think they're more in abundance than you think, though I wouldn't limit it to women. Men get jealous too when their girlfriends pal around too much with their friends.

In my experience, men can usually only have friendships with women who have boyfriends/husbands already, thus neutralizing the threat. A single woman, regardless of anything else, is a threat.

the tailpull... in this context is tantamount to slapping her on the butt since she feels it as part of her body.

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Watching a bunch of friends just hanging out, as in this arc in SAO, just isn't entertaining for someone to watch.

Slice of Life works out very well contrary to your opinion.

FenixFiesta wrote:

Quote: Watching a bunch of friends just hanging out, as in this arc in SAO, just isn't entertaining for someone to watch. Slice of Life works out very well contrary to your opinion.

Slice of life characters are insane for the exact same reason.

A lot of people here are not understanding that when you get in a real, long term relationship with someone, you make a WHOLE lot of sacrifices. You are settling down with the one person you love. You don't have the same leeway to be out and about with a gaggle of hot individuals of your preferred sex, teasing and grabbing and slapping each other on the ass. Even if you have absolutely no intention of sleeping with them, it is simply disrespectful to your significant other. You will have to learn how to respect them and both will make compromises on things you used to do when you were single and fooling around.

It's disrespectful to your significant other to behave in a way that you know they do not approve of. Kirito's behavior is not disrespectful of Asuna because she is self-assured enough to not find his behavior threatening. She knows that he only has eyes for her, and he does. If he'd ever given her reason for concern, it might be a different matter.

The word you probably mean to use is "eccentric", you might be correct in that most of the personalities in the current set up are "not loud" but just as well the audience would have already understood this so if you or anyone still watching expects something different than from what has been set up so far... that is the fault of the viewer and not the series if it is "disappointing".

She knows that he only has eyes for her, and he does. If he'd ever given her reason for concern, it might be a different matter.

Ohoni wrote:

It's disrespectful to your significant other to behave in a way that you know they do not approve of. Kirito's behavior is not disrespectful of Asuna because she is self-assured enough to not find his behavior threatening. She knows that he only has eyes for her, and he does. If he'd ever given her reason for concern, it might be a different matter.

Well that's kind of the point of what I was saying earlier. She is Kawahara's perfect fantasy wife. She's never going to be concerned about anything he does because he can just write her in any way he wants to. She's his 2d girl. I do think his fantasy is pretty unrealistic though.

Has this thread turned into an elementary relationship group therapy session or what? Enough already. Asuna and Kirito are as satisfying an anime couple to watch as I have seen for a long time. Leave it at that.

The only part that is "strange" is that realistically the party would be closer to a balance of gender than disproportionately female players, but this is a fictional setting and the author wanted to have as many possible female interests for the audience as possible.