{Characters]
there are way too many pointless characters in this show, like i feel like they tried making this show a harem anime but halfway through decided "screw it KirtoxAsuna is the hot trendy thing for the show so give the viewers what they want", which didn't seem to work out that much because half of the first part of S.A.O was almost over and Kirto and Asnua had little to no development and instead of being "almost real people" they were just "the couple you knew were going to get together because you wanted them to"
Also maybe this was just me but I never really understood what the motives of any of the main characters in the show were. Like in the beginning it was all about getting through the floor and beating the final boss and making it back home, but after Yui gets introduced our mains just want to settle down and decide to call and quits and live out the rest of there days inside a virtual prison.
[How They Could Have Improved]
Take out every single person that's not going to be very useful to the plot
so no more harem (sorry Kirto) and now use all of that time that you would have used on pointless characters, on wait for it, the main people in your show that are not very like able in the slightest.
[Story]
One of the worse things that S.A.O did was that it was just too damn long, like it had a really good place to end and it didn't take it and it suffers because of it.
So not should it have ended halfway through. it screws with the characters again by taking Asuna out and replacing her with Kirto's sister, like GREAT more people that will fall madly in love with Kirto for no reason.
Taking out Asuna in the way that they did was that she wasn't even an important character anymore she just turned into princess peach and was not who she was in the first half.
[How They Could Have Improved]
basically follow the show how its been going from the start introduce the the boring people that shouldn't be there in the first place blah,blah,blah get up to the floor where they battle the commander and kill of both Asuna and Kirto and the commander and that sets everyone else free (you can have the bit where they are saying goodbye to each other at the end as that would work) they body kiss one last time and they disapear into pixels and then the entire series ends. No elfhiem, no gungale it just ends and hardcore fans might have cried for the next year.
but that was if you did it right....and for me.you didn't.....at all
