dear sword art online,
are we ever going to address the fact that kirito has lost the ability to distinguish games from reality, and that that’s a bad thing? i’m on episode 20 and he’s gotten completely sidetracked from his quest to rescue asuna, who is actually in a coma in real life and is actually going to be forced to marry an evil perverted freakazoid in real life…because you won’t abandon leafa’s inter guild drama that doesn’t affect reality at all?
i know it’s an anime so he’ll somehow end up rescuing asuna anyway, but i am rapidly losing faith in him as a character. the only explanation i can think of other than poor character development and plotting on the creator’s part is that the experience in SAO has traumatized him…but they’re not going to address it from that angle.
from,
me
They do address it though. Kirito has made it clear multiple times in this arc he does’t see the real self and the virtual self as being any different. His refusal to let party members die while he’s still alive, his insistence on helping Leafa even though it takes him away from his goal. His whole speech to Leafa when she needs to leave. Even his hesitance to kill early on is all tied into his mindset from SAO. It’s obvious he doesn’t treat the game as anything other than reality because he was forced to do so for so long. It’s a case of show rather then tell.
And yes the SAO survivors almost Stockholm syndrome reliance on VR is a pretty big theme going forward in the series. As is the trauma they endured there. Sometimes it’s affects are large and sometimes they’re not as evident, but every single player that came out of that game carries it differently.
Also this all makes sense in the short term narratively because it’s been made clear that reaching the top of the world tree is impossible without help.
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