mos555
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You're digging too deep. There is no hint in the novel at all that Asuna somehow has seditious thoughts about cheating or anything like that. There's nothing like that there at all. Even when fans shouted during "Fairy Dance" that "Oberon fucked Asuna in a golden cage," Reki Kawahara immediately tweeted that "sexual interactions are prohibited in the game and these prohibitions are added at the core level of the game, so Sugo, even as the owner and administrator, cannot remove these restrictions." That is, Reki Kawahara immediately removed all NTR hints from his novel.You’re literally proving my point. You keep repeating that Asuna is “the perfect supporting character” and “always there,” but that’s exactly why she’s a weakly written character in the first place. Her entire role boils down to being Kirito’s eternal cheerleader, and whenever Kawahara runs out of ideas, he just shelves her until he needs her again. That’s not strength, that’s narrative convenience.
And about Alicization, yeah, she spent 200 years with Kirito in the virtual world, but how much of that did we actually see? Barely anything. Kawahara throws in these “perfect wife” tags because he knows fans eat it up, but he never develops her beyond that.
If Kawahara had really wanted to do ntr, he wouldn’t need Laughing Coffin or drugs or revenge arcs. He’d just need to lean into the cracks he already wrote into Asuna’s character, her jealousy, her dependence on Kirito, and her insecurity about losing him. Fujino didn’t invent those flaws, he just took the mask off![]()
If there were any hints of NTR in the novel, it was more likely hints that Kirito had cheated on Asuna with someone from his "harem", which resulted in several non-canon stories from Raki Kawahara himself, and in one of them Asuna allowed Kirito to sleep with all the other girls in the virtual world.
I don't think it's worth looking for hints of something like this in Kawahara's work. Just as it is not necessary to look for some kind of connection between him and Fujino. I think this is Fujino's personal initiative, which may have a double bottom. Maybe it's just money, or maybe Fujino hates OP characters and loyal, unblemished girls. Therefore, Fujino created the exact opposite of Kirito-Inoda and decided to punish all the girls around Kirito. Just out of dislike. It's not for nothing that he talked about his love for Inoda and that he likes Asuna, which he created. Psychopath-rapist and a hypocritical whore? Seriously? Do you think Reki Kawahara is so disrespectful of his work?