We all have one or two shows we feel like that about, but we can bend the rules for some things at the end of the day. Like, for me I dislike seeing Kirito get NTR-ed, as someone that read the novels before there even was an anime and SAO got popular and thus so many Haters, I really winced a lot of all the shit and trauma this kid so many people call "an OP Gary Stu" because of circumstantial out-of-context things, but at this point after seeing it happen so many times is just whatever XP (And also indirectly the reason I have kinda grown to like SAO Reverse NTR despite it being so mega-rare, LMAO)
I started reading the LN from volumes 15-17, then 18 and 21, and then from volume 1-14
A bit out of order, because I started watching SAO 2019 and reading the SAO LN from volume 15.
I wonder where the haters for SAO and other anime come from because they don't read LNs or because anime in general are popular? I always watch anime carefully and try to understand what the characters say and what the plot shows. For me, Kirito is not a Gary Sue and Asuna is not a Mary Sue. I keep arguing with haters about SAO anime, Naruto, etc
He said he's gonna go back and finish them after SAO is done, supposedly :O