MC and male characters being either cucks or villains or mobs. I mean, yeah...

that though it did later get a sort of harem but despite that there's never any typical anime ambiguous I don't know who I like best bullshits. It was clear from the beginning Asuna and Kirito found each other. Though. It did later suffer from having too many females characters with a crush on the

Asuna is strong. Asuna got her own friends and hobbies and her own reasons and motivations. Asuna doesn't (just) say Kirito-kun sugoi, she tells that fucking nerd to come over here to get a pet on the head because he's too dumb to realise he needs it.

Oh and the other thing I like a bout SAO is

You have to figure out the boss gimmicks and can't just brute force it to zero HP. You have to prepare: items, equipment, information, and the party. You need to ask around, and people have their own shits to do and reasons to come or not come.

Speaking of people, Asuna.

Apart from that totally non-sensical purely nostalgic fanservice "switch!" SAO translates into anime so well that sense of endurance and co-operation needed to fight an MMO boss. The boss doesn't just die in one hit because your generic broody MC has some strong emotion. It has HP bars and phases.

That top comment answering the difference between men's and women's jeans wasn't lying and I'd like to update the joke to it's the difference at the White House before and after Trump's second term.

I hate the ending because I think Mika deserved to live happily ever after and have threesomes in the gundam.