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There has yet to be a zany situational comedy focusing on Agil and his wife taking care of real life and virtual business while also dealing with the shenanigans of the rest of the SAO crew. They’re missing out on a great opportunity to make it while also giving it some kinda delightful corny name like “Setting Up Shop” or just about any pun you can make on Agil’s name.

Seriously, *any* more development for Agil, Klein, Silica, or Lisbeth would be awesome. They’re all effectively relegated to set dressing, and they’re complex enough characters that you could get a lot out of them.

Sure enough! There’s a “Girl’s Ops” spinoff that focuses more on the female characters that Silica and Lisbeth is included in that was made in part due to the response of wanting more involvement with the female characters…but having it as a spinoff doesn’t exactly change the fact that it’s not really happening in the light novels OR the anime as a result. In terms of “things that are truly TRULY wrong with SAO”, I’d say using the characters they already got is within that scope. You did have the Caliber arc but that’s really not enough. I think Reki kinda has the “Tite Kubo” approach to storywriting: “better to add new characters in to add variety than to bring in variety by way of developing old characters”. Not that adding new ones is bad, it just shouldn’t be at the expensive of older ones and even Kubo from what I remember wasn’t entirely shrugging off older ones, it just took longer to get back to them.

Haha, it’s nice to see legitimate SAO criticism sprout from these blog posts, even if the Everything Wrong part was a joke! I think we all really want to see more from the other characters, but leaving older characters in the sidelines just seems to be how a lot of long-running anime/manga nowadays operate. Other than Girls’ Ops, I really recommend Kawahara’s side stories, because they help flesh out characters a bit more and are quite neatly written.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact some authors make these characters without actually expecting such great fan reaction. Kawahara said on an interview himself he was rather confused over how many people loved Agil (especially when he visited the States), considering that he is an incredibly minor character, all things considered. 

I think it’s understandable why they end up getting sidelined (being side characters and all), and seeing as Kawahara was a novice writer when he started writing SAO, it also makes sense that he would like to make a lot of new characters to try new things out, but it really does make you wonder how differently the story would feel if he gave them more attention after creation (part of why I made this blog actually, other than make a joke on EWWSAO).

For example, wouldn’t it have been nice to see more of Lisbeth’s take on the ALO Incident, seeing as she was Asuna’s best friend? Couldn’t Kikuoka have called more people from the SAO gang for a task like the GGO incident, such as Klein and Asuna, seeing as they all have nearly the same amount of combat experience and Full-Dive assimilation? Even though not everyone liked Caliber all that much due to opinions on writing, I think a lot of people appreciated the tidbits of non-Kirito-centric intercharacter dynamics we got to see in it. Those are not necessarily things I perceive as “flaws”, by the way, just possibilities I wonder regard their potential if implemented in the story.