SAO Creator is heavily influenced by Political Correctness in the US that he will make more Strong Female Characters.

Yautja said:
I already hate harems as things are... Anyways, unless the goal is to make a better story, why the fuck are you doing it? Adding more strong women to be politically correct is the stupidest reason to add more female characters. Unless it's going to make the story better, which it won't because this is a generic ass harem; which are notoriously bad for writing shit female characters, you shouldn't do it. Instead of pandering to lonely incels and niceguys, now he's going to try and pander to white knights and feminazis and even then it's going to fail. You can't make a series pander towards two complete opposites.

If it's not to make the story better, if doing it will not make the story better, if doing it will make the story worse, if it's to please an ideologically charged minority, don't fucking do it. This author was already a moron for dropping the Aincrad arc so quickly but good lord man. Pandering to increase popularity instead of making a better story...

The last thing SAO needs is more women, like fix the shit you already have before you go get more problems. Not to mention, a fucking harem author is the last person I would come to for social commentary on the roles of women in literature.

deathbySNU-SNU said:
"he will make more strong female characters"
more harem yeay!
fuck this shit, another garbage incoming

Yautja said:
I already hate harems as things are... Anyways, unless the goal is to make a better story, why the fuck are you doing it? Adding more strong women to be politically correct is the stupidest reason to add more female characters. Unless it's going to make the story better, which it won't because this is a generic ass harem; which are notoriously bad for writing shit female characters, you shouldn't do it. Instead of pandering to lonely incels and niceguys, now he's going to try and pander to white knights and feminazis and even then it's going to fail. You can't make a series pander towards two complete opposites.

If it's not to make the story better, if doing it will not make the story better, if doing it will make the story worse, if it's to please an ideologically charged minority, don't fucking do it. This author was already a moron for dropping the Aincrad arc so quickly but good lord man. Pandering to increase popularity instead of making a better story...

The last thing SAO needs is more women, like fix the shit you already have before you go get more problems. Not to mention, a fucking harem author is the last person I would come to for social commentary on the roles of women in literature.

aleenya said:
Gotta say, I can't help but chuckle at the sheer amount of butthurt in this thread, particularly around people who are swearing off SAO forever now. I just can't understand the mindset, no matter your opinion, that surrounds people being so salty over a creator's comment to focus more on strong character development. You know, a thing that, regardless of gender, is so pivotal in any anime, manga, tv show or what have you?

You do you, I guess. But it shows a level of immaturity and dramatics that you might want to take note on. I swear, most of you sound more offended than the 'SJWs.'

ExecCute said:
I know, right, san diego-chan?

I'm so fucking SICK of all this political correctness.

Mattinator95 said:


So you rather not see the female characters become indepencent and no reliant on the male to save them all the time . Instead keep them as trophys in the background and relie on the hero to save them all the time

Vini310 said:
At this point, does people even care anymore?
It is very clear that everyone will trash on SAO regardless of anything the creator tries to do.
The hatedom already established that Kirito is a pimp and SAO is an anime that glorifies rape and sexism, and this reputation will never go away EVEN IF THE GUY TRIED TO REWRITE EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH!
Honestly Reki, just do whatever you want and ignore all the criticism you recieve. These people don't care about you or your work, they just want to mock you, so write only for yourself from now on. Want to give development to the female characters? OK, but do this for yourself only, don't think on the "fans" because at this point it's fair to say that SAO DOES NOT HAVE FANS!

Kookerz32 said:
Honestly, it's surprising that this is even being seen as a problem. Do people not see how pointless and useless 99.9% of the female characters are in this series? Asuna started out strong only to become a manual on "how to be a tsundere waifu." Silica and Lisbeth never had personalities to begin with, so no point in mentioning them. Suguha is iffy. He did right by Shino until she had to be put back in her place as harem member #332939 and her dialogue became less about being a pro player and more about being a jealous side girl that craves attention. The development in this anime is severely lacking for every character, that much is obvious, but more-so for the females. They can be taken out of the show completely and it wouldn't change anything. I see that as just...bad writing. I'd be interested in seeing where this takes useless side characters like Lisbeth, Shino, Suguha, Silica, Klein, and Agil.

weeabootakbankai said:
I feel bad for anime-only watch who haven't read the source material yet.The adaptation for the source material was horrible cause of A1 picture. People who read the source material already know that Reki give his female character more active role such as progressive. Asuna have a lot of development in the book than her anime counter part which they completely butcher her arc in aincrad and that include the mini subplot in episode 5-6 in Alicization. So yeah, this is nothing new and his writing won't be influenced by the SJW cancer. I wish people actually read the interview completely. The media outlet is the one who caused all this controversy by making a stupid clickbait such as comicbook.com. Reki didn't even mention western version of political correctness in the interview.

Vini310 said:
At this point, does people even care anymore?
It is very clear that everyone will trash on SAO regardless of anything the creator tries to do.
The hatedom already established that Kirito is a pimp and SAO is an anime that glorifies rape and sexism, and this reputation will never go away EVEN IF THE GUY TRIED TO REWRITE EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH!
Honestly Reki, just do whatever you want and ignore all the criticism you recieve. These people don't care about you or your work, they just want to mock you, so write only for yourself from now on. Want to give development to the female characters? OK, but do this for yourself only, don't think on the "fans" because at this point it's fair to say that SAO DOES NOT HAVE FANS!

aleenya said:

Gotta say, I can't help but chuckle at the sheer amount of butthurt in this thread

Vini310 said:
At this point, does people even care anymore?
It is very clear that everyone will trash on SAO regardless of anything the creator tries to do.
The hatedom already established that Kirito is a pimp and SAO is an anime that glorifies rape and sexism, and this reputation will never go away EVEN IF THE GUY TRIED TO REWRITE EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH!
Honestly Reki, just do whatever you want and ignore all the criticism you recieve. These people don't care about you or your work, they just want to mock you, so write only for yourself from now on. Want to give development to the female characters? OK, but do this for yourself only, don't think on the "fans" because at this point it's fair to say that SAO DOES NOT HAVE FANS!

Mattinator95 said:

He shouldn't just focus on the girls but also build up klien and agil which have been adapted as back drop characters in the anime

When Nakatani remarked that she thinks that the female characters already display a lot of agency, and that there wouldn't be a problem with them as long as the "damsel in distress" parts were removed, Kawahara insisted that when he first started writing Sword Art Online, he had not been keeping such issues in mind. Because of that, the girls around Kirito kept increasing without thought about what role they would play.

aybekay said:
ALL WAMEN ARE QUEENS !

NthDegree said:
You can dislike ANN writers all you want but they at least attempt to stay neutral in their news coverage.

Vinceennt said:
I don't know but for me Asuna is not treated as "trophy",especially in the progressive series but oh well we'll see how it turns out. Just expect a Yuri scene in the 4th season (and possibly the last story arc of SAO)

NthDegree said:
You can dislike ANN writers all you want but they at least attempt to stay neutral in their news coverage

kanthorn said:
More girls? Come on, this series already have girl much more than many shojo anime!! (Like 85% of main character). Rito from to love ru only have 15 candidate. Will kirito (who have like 13 girls and the number is growing) surpassing him and become Harem king?

_Aqua_Sama_ said:
I hate it when stuff like this happens because you really can't discuss it without looking bad. First of all, I want to make it very clear that I have absolutely nothing against strong female characters! What I do have a problem with is adding them for the sake of appealing to the masses. Whenever we have characters like this, they tend to be very soulless. They don't have any personality, backstory or weaknesses. They are just overly powered characters who happen to be females thrown into the mix just to be "le politically correct". It's annoying. Letting your political ideologies slip into your piece of art that has absolutely nothing to do with politics is a huge turn off! Second of all, why? Why do we keep needing to see the message "woman can be strong too!". I'm not saying they can't be, it's just that I ALREADY KNOW THAT!!! I've literally known this since I was a kid. It was only after I turned into a teenager that I realized there are people out there who think woman can't be strong, and to those people I said "you're an idiot". I'm pretty sure the majority of people think like me, so again, I ask, WHY DO WE NEED TO KEEP HAVING THIS MESSAGE SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS?!?!

Anowser said:
If he does that, I will stop watching and reading SAO. Just include more Asuna in the story and that will be more than enough. (Basically the Aincrad arc)

kanthorn said:
More girls? Come on, this series already have girl much more than many shojo anime!! (Like 85% of main character). Rito from to love ru only have 15 candidate. Will kirito (who have like 13 girls and the number is growing) surpassing him and become Harem king?

Pedram said:


Never in the interview even once Reki Kawahara said or even hint that he is changing his writing to please the haters tho.
He said he became conscious of his flaws after some oversea feedback. so he is trying to grow as a writer and become better so he is focusing on his flaws and making them better.

that's all there is to it. He don't really care to make western people happy, he got his HUGE fanbase and popularity in japan.

but what he care and ALWAYS cared, was to become a better writer. you can find his tweets or afterwords in his novels always being critical of his own work, u can find them as old as 2009 !

And honestly, as a Fan since his old aincrad days even before anime started in 2012. I'm extremely impressed by his improvement. Every time he became better and better the more he write.
from 2001 to 2008 from Aincrad to Alicization all is see is improvements from him.

and then from 2012 to 2018, from Progressive to UR, it's the same. Last vol of Progressive available in English is Vol5, and it's a 9.9/10 from me. nothing less.



Well he already did with Klein in Ordinal Scale, he had a much bigger role, but not yet too much i guess, I am sure he will do it later too.

Pedram said:


Never in the interview even once Reki Kawahara said or even hint that he is changing his writing to please the haters tho.
He said he became conscious of his flaws after some oversea feedback. so he is trying to grow as a writer and become better so he is focusing on his flaws and making them better.

that's all there is to it. He don't really care to make western people happy, he got his HUGE fanbase and popularity in japan.

but what he care and ALWAYS cared, was to become a better writer. you can find his tweets or afterwords in his novels always being critical of his own work, u can find them as old as 2009 !

And honestly, as a Fan since his old aincrad days even before anime started in 2012. I'm extremely impressed by his improvement. Every time he became better and better the more he write.
from 2001 to 2008 from Aincrad to Alicization all is see is improvements from him.

and then from 2012 to 2018, from Progressive to UR, it's the same. Last vol of Progressive available in English is Vol5, and it's a 9.9/10 from me. nothing less.



Well he already did with Klein in Ordinal Scale, he had a much bigger role, but not yet too much i guess, I am sure he will do it later too.

Manaban said:

Sure. I'll even give them acknowledgement befitting of their effort.



Sankaku Complex's reporting being a joke doesn't make ANN's reporting any less of a punchline :P

NthDegree said:

Personally I still find even a poor attempt better than none at all.