🇸‌🇦‌🇾‌🇳‌🍡さんのイラストまとめ

I appreciate how Kirito still comes off as a dork in the progressive movies as well. He can barely talk outside of battle and really cares only about Asuna more so than the "greater good." They kind of skimp over his crying as Asuna holds him, but you can kind of tell from his

much sense since he was supposed to be holding it out of a moment of weakness thinking he could have that power for his guild

Kirito getting nervous and Asuna holding his hand was still good, but it makes much more sense when in the novel w/ context

I will say though that for a

The more of Progressive I read, the more I see how badly Kirito was adapted in the OG anime even worse than Shirou lmao.
Outside of fights he comes off as a completely different person 😭
Ig A1 wanted a "cool guy" MC because "terminally online" didn't bode well for marketing.

My MC

What is this dude cooking

The one downside was no Kizmel but it is what it is. Some things are necessary. But at least we got a good chunk of Argo. Gotta love the rat tbh

as well as in the first movie. They have a great relationship budding.
Super wholesome.

Seeing other relationships form starts to cement this idea in their minds that that might be possible as well, so that was an interesting addition to mix into their wandering thoughts 👀

And if it wasn't obvious, this was another huge interesting development between the two with an interesting structure.
The first half of the novel tackles Asuna's POV while the second half gives us Kirito's perspective from further on.
I expect A-1 to capture Ki's awkward side

The questing and boss battles definitely got fleshed out even more as they fought their hardest boss and battles yet.
It gave Asuna and Kirito a lot of time to grow together.

While this novel does skim over the Elf Quest line with Kizmel, I find that understandable so that they could focus on the Laughing Coffin subplot.
This map was basically built for easy PKing. Scary thought.