Thread:PhoenixDragonSamurai/@comment-4389268-20170929112832/@comment-24152851-20171004120458

PhoenixDragonSamurai wrote:

SAO is hated? Most of the time I heard its still good, both the novel and anime. Maybe its because of the second half of season 1 though has an a******  villain who raped the female protagonist and cousin-cousin incest. But other than that, S2 and the movie are quite good. I think its just exaggeratedly hated like almost everyting else on this wiki. At first it was the most talked about and hyped anime for a while during the first year of its release, and it stayed that way for a while. But that all changed when a certain critic destroyed its reputation overnight, and from then on it pretty much became the anime community's punching bag. It's almost impossible these days to bring it up anywhere on the internet without attracting a swarm of haters (we're talking Twilight or CoD levels of hate here).

Fairy Dance is undoubtedly the low point of the series, I hated everything you just mentioned. However the hate actually goes beyond that. The main complaints are that Kirito is an OP Mary Sue, the romance was too rushed, there was not enough focus on Alfheim, and the series ended up becoming a harem. Though personally I don't consider myself a hater, quite liked Phantom Bullet and Mother's Rosario with the huge amount of character development they put in.