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Originally Posted by Insane
Okay so . . . Kirito is a motherfucking badass with capacity to kick the living crap outta anything. He's so damn cool, a perfect boyfriend, and capable of mastering everything so quickly. Nobody can beat him in the game unless he's the game creator itself.
Is it just me or that Kirito is too . . . perfect? Somehow a MC that is too perfect to the point of nearly invincible just feels plain to me.
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No, being strong in combat, reasonably smart, and reasonably competent at dealing with a girlfriend does not make him perfect. It makes him a skilled gamer, and ordinary guy functioning on a normal level.
People are just too used to main characters that: are either idiots only skilled at combat, have no interest in woman, or are losers unskilled at pretty much anything, and interested in woman but unable to deal with them, or paired with nut job tsunderes that are near impossible to deal with. By comparison a main character that's competent within his fields (geek, hardcore gamer), and both interested in women and capable of dealing with them, and not paired with one impossible to deal with is a rarity that seems like he's perfect just because he isn't being given the cliche flaws.
That's not to say he's perfect, or unbeatable, nor are his social skills perfect. For example, at the start, he was both selfish and cowardly. Ditched Klein because he wanted to grab the best advantage he could, and was afraid of the responsibility of trying to protect Klein's friends in addition to Klein. His fear of rejection had him lying to the Black Cats, and resulted in them being overconfident, and triggering a trap he couldn't effectively warn them against without revealing his lies, which again, he was afraid to do. He largely grew out of the selfishness and cowardice, though the cowardice still reared it's head just before the floor 75 fight, but in turn it was replaced by a certain degree of arrogance and cockiness. 9 times out of 10, he can back up that cockiness, but it still blows up in his face from time to time.