Deletion of List of Sword Art Online characters

Comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sword_Art_Online#Proposed_merge_with_List_of_Sword_Art_Online_characters this was just discussed six months ago with the consensus not to merge. Considering the fact that ''Sword Art Online'' is one of the most popular Japanese media series of all time, and that the article's 15 sources are already more than can be found on many a BLP, I find the claim "these characters have no shred of notability" to be difficult to believe. Wikipedia has always hosted lists of characters, such as List of Neighbours characters (2016) (TV series), List of Sonic the Hedgehog characters (video game), and List of Marvel Comics characters: V (comics), so the second part of the nomination isn't really true. Also, you have to keep in mind that since this is a Japanese series for a primarily Japanese audience, |the majority of coverage is probably not in English. A search for just https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BA%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%83%88&tbm=nws one of the characters brings up plenty of hits, which can then be sifted through and sorted
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Systemic bias (WP:BIAS)

Comment: This is a very popular anime and video game series currently. If absolutely necessary, I can dig for sources, but I just cannot believe that we could scrounge up enough sources to meet the  between all the games and anime releases, especially with a number of the character having their own individual articles, which I've reviewed in the past, and thought they looked pretty good
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: A precedence has been set by previous anime's and I don't see a good enough reason to change what is essentially working. '''meets''' . The anime is popular, maybe not as popular as some of the others have noted, but among the thousands of animes released, it is one of the more notable ones. This alone should be enough to warrant a keep
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN)