[Lender]

Originally Posted by SilverSyko

One thing I wish to ask the readers of the source material; did they ever describe the appearance of what the scientist's avatars looked like in that scene where they captured Asuna? I'm curious whether or not my notion is correct that they were made slug monsters, despite every other avatar in the game being a faerie of some sort, was just something the adaptation did to get some service out of it.

Spoiler for Comparison to the novels:

They were slug monsters in the LN too. They are quite funny in my opinion, they were obviously toying with admin privileges putting themself in monsters body and trying to control it.

They skipped this part in the anime.

Asuna: "Ouch...! Stop... Let go of me, you monster!"
Scientist 1: "Oh, how cruel. Especially when I'm still experimenting with bathyesthesia[1] mapping."
Scientist 2: "That's right. Manipulating this body like this needed a lot of training."

If i was a admin I would like to try a monster body too, a Dragon or something like that