Kirito (Sword Art Online)

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Kirito is a male anime and manga character who features in Sword Art Online.

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Biography

Kirito and Asuna in Sword Art Online.

Kazuto Narusaka (Japanese: 鳴坂 和人, Hepburn: Narusaka Kazuto) was a Japanese male who was born on October 7, 2008 where his biological parents were noted to had died in an accident. This led to the young boy getting adopted by his aunt and uncle a year after his birth. Raised by his foster parents as a son, Kazuto was originally forced to train with his cousin in the neighborhood kendo dojo; however due to his aunt's influence as an editor for a computer systems magazine, Kazuto became more interested in computers and dropped kendo after two years. This decision earned him a heavy beating from his grandfather, prompting Suguha to defend him by promising to practice enough for both of them. At the age of ten, Kazuto discovered that he was adopted from erased Juki Net records and since then unintentionally began distancing himself from Suguha. He came to be one of 1,000 testers in the closed beta of Sword Art Online (SAO) that was the first ever Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) which used NerveGear. Kirito logged hundreds of hours of playtime. He, along with the other top players, were able to reach the 10th Floor before the beta had ended.

Shortly after logging in to the fully released SAO, Kirito was stopped by a stranger. Klein, a new guy, asks for his help in learning how to play. After befriending each other and training in the fields for several hours, they were forcefully teleported back to the Town of Beginnings, to receive an announcement from Kayaba Akihiko. He revealed that the lack of a logout function, which they had recently realized, was a "feature" of his new game, and that forced removal of the NerveGear headpiece from the other side would fry the person's brain using microwaves. The only means to escape was to clear the game, in other words, to successfully defeat all 100 floors of Aincrad and defeat the final boss. Kirito immediately took Klein and ran off, and after hearing that Klein would remain with his friends here, left him and headed off to the next town.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Kazuto Narusaka had slightly long but neat black hair and black eyes where his delicate face showed no trace of masculinity allowing people to easily mistake him for a girl.

Typically, he was known by the portmanteau of Kirito (キリト, Kirito). Through gaming, he came to gain a reputation and was called the Black Swordsman (黒の剣士).

With the advantage of previous VR gaming experience and a drive to protect other beta testers from discrimination, he isolates himself from the greater groups and plays the game alone, bearing the mantle of 'beater', a portmanteau of 'beta tester' and 'cheater'.

Powers and abilities

At his home, he had a virtual reality headset known as a NerveGear. The helmet stimulated the user's five senses via their brain, allowing players to experience and control their in-game characters with their minds.

Notes

  • Kirito was created by Reki Kawahara where he featured in the setting of Sword Art Online.

In other media

Television

  • In Sword Art Online, Kirito appeared in the setting of the anime adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actor Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and by English actor Bryce Papenbrook in the dub.

Video games

Appearances

  • Sword Art Online:
  • Sword Art Online: Alicization:

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