Kirito vs Heathcliff

Episode 15 of Sword Art Online feels almost like an entirely different anime. Right from the OP दिखा रहा है Kirito and co. frolicking around in Aion the new game which wasn’t introduced in this episode, down to the new characters and real world setting, only Kirito and Asuna (along with Kawahara Reki’s distinctive लेखन style) remain as reminders of the पूर्व arc. We’re out of SAO, Kirito is undergoing rehabilitation, Asuna remains in a coma for some mysterious reason, and right off the bat we have another new प्यार interest and antagonist. Yes. Already. Perhaps some would complain that...

So how about some loli fanservice? This was certainly an episode packed full of it! Once again, Kirito manages to save the life of another player and ends up travelling with them. It’s also the सेकंड time he’s done so in order to help a female player (that we’re aware of).

Given what is probably a vastly skewed ratio of males to females in the SAO playerbase (just to put it into perspective, during the Pre-Open Beta Tests for Phantasy तारा, स्टार Online 2, over 71% of all characters were female… what do we think this says about the Japanese playerbase for online games दिया most of those were...