Kazuto Kirigaya

Kazuto Kirigaya, also known as Kirito, Kazuto Narusaka, The Black Swordsman, Beater and Kazu, is the main protagonist from the Sword Art Online series.
== Charactah Account ==
Kirito is a "solo" player, a player who hasn't joined a guild and usually works alone. He is also one of the very few people to have had the privilege to play in the beta testing period of Sword Art Online. In the real world, he lives with his aunt and younger cousin in a family of 3.
Kirito is someone who is not good with words, as stated by Klein, and can be quite direct. This is due to him not having many friends and closing others off because of his love for computers. As such, he can come off as a rude person to others, such as Lisbeth and Sinon. Sometimes, he actually seems to enjoy angering and teasing people as well. Also, from time to time, Kirito can be quite overconfident thinking he can do things others cannot.
He is almost always a calm and collected character, rarely showing any signs of distress. When Kayaba Akihiko appeared in SAO and announced that it had become a Death Game, Kirito showed only a slight reaction and was able to quickly accept the new conditions of the game, while many others panicked. He has shown different moods throughout the series; at times being rather cheerful, while being gloomy at others. When in a battle, he becomes incredibly fierce and aggressive. Sometimes, his fierceness is up to the point where he loses control of himself and is even unable to recall what he had done.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Sword Art Online
* Sword Art Online II
* Sword Art Online II: Debriefing
* Sword Art Online II: Sword Art Offline II
* Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale
* Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale - Sword Art Offline
* Sword Art Online Movie: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
* Sword Art Online: Alicization x Nissin
* Sword Art Online: Alicization
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - Recollection
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Reflection
* Sword Art Online: Extra Edition
* Sword Art Online: Progressive Movie - Scherzo of Deep Night
* Sword Art Online: Sword Art Offline
* Sword Art Online: Sword Art Offline - Extra Edition
=== Light Novels ===
* Sword Art Online
* Sword Art Online Side Stories
* Sword Art Online SS: Caliber SS (Failure Side)
* Sword Art Online: Celeste no Yousei
* Sword Art Online: Progressive
* Sword Art Online: Material Edition
=== Manga ===
* Gekijouban Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale
* Sword Art Online
* Sword Art Online 4-koma
* Sword Art Online Alternate Story: Kibaou-han!
* Sword Art Online dj - Lisbeth Edition
* Sword Art Online dj - Pina Edition
* Sword Art Online dj - Silica Edition
* Sword Art Online Side Stories
* Sword Art Online: Aincrad
* Sword Art Online: Aincrad Night of Kirito
* Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
* Sword Art Online: Calibur
* Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance
* Sword Art Online: Girls Ops
* Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
* Sword Art Online: Integral Factor - Prologue Comic
* Sword Art Online: Kirito's Gun Gale Wars
* Sword Art Online: Mother's Rosario
* Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet
* Sword Art Online: Progressive
* Sword Art Online: Progressive - Nether Twilight of Scherzo
* Sword Art Online: Project Alicization
* Sword Art Online Re:Aincrad
=== Video Games ===
* 300 Heroes
* Accel World VS Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight
* Dengeki Bunko: Crossing Void
* Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax
* Sword Art Online VR: Lovely Honey Days
* Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
* Sword Art Online: Alicization Rising Steel
* Sword Art Online: Code Register
* Sword Art Online: End World
* Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
* Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment
* Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
* Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment
* Sword Art Online: Integral Factor
* Sword Art Online: Lost Song
* Sword Art Online: Memory Defrag
* Sword Art Online: Progress Link
* The Black Swordsman
== Trivia ==
* The name Kirito is a portmanteau of his real name, Kirigaya Kazuto ("Kiri" from Kirigaya and "to" from Kazuto).
* Kazuto currently lives at Kawagoe City in the Saitama prefecture with his family, though his uncle is frequently away from home.
* Kazuto has notable skill with computers, managing to build a computer from parts during elementary school, finding his erased records in the national registry at the age of ten, as well as managing to stop the SAO server from deleting Yui by converting her program into an object and storing her into his NerveGear as environmental data.
* Kazuto rides a bike which has also had a multitude of passengers including Asuna, Suguha, Shino and Alice.
* Kirito is a two-time first place winner for the Top 10 Male Characters in the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!awards (for 2012 and 2013). He placed third in 2011 and 2014.
* Kirito/Kazuto usually refers to himself using the personal pronoun "ore".
* Kirito likes calculating random things, like the volume of the cake that he is going to eat.
* Kirito has a tendency of using a window instead of a door to exit the room more quickly, usually when he senses danger or in awkward situations, though sometimes just for convenience.
* Kirito's favorite skill is fishing. He even continues raising his fishing skill in ALO.
* Kirito has attempted to climb Aincrad via its outer wall. However, his ascent was halted by a system barrier, nearly causing him to fall to his death.
* Kirito uses a self-made PC with a 24 GHz octa-core CPU.
* If Kirito were to be an animal, he would be an orange wolf.
* Kazuto's favourite dish is brown stew chicken with mushrooms due to its similarity to Ragout Rabbit Stew from SAO. Due to Asuna's influence, his other favourite dishes include teriyaki and mayonnaise hamburgers, shio ramen, and honey pies.
* Kirito used to dislike spring onions until Asuna cooked some for him.
* Kirito believes he would have pursued Asuna as a love interest sooner if she had not been so cute. He now regrets this, as he only had good food in SAO when he was with Asuna.
* Kirito has attempted wielding three swords at once but had to abandon his idea when he realised that it felt like his teeth would fall out.
* Kazuto/Kirito likes to poke on the cheeks of sleeping girls. He has already done that with Asuna, Yuiand Suguha.
* Kirito said that it seemed that everyone in SAO, including Asuna, viewed him as being older than he really was and, since he had never denied it, he had trouble admitting it to her at some point in the story.
* Kirito suspected Asuna to be older than him but thought she probably viewed him older than he really was.
* Kazuto got an extremely average IQ score in the test he took during middle school.
* Ever since the second year in SAO, Kirito has been known to sleep a lot. His sleep also seems to be an "AOE" skill, as people looking at him sleeping, with Pina and Yui sleeping on him, get sleepy themselves. He himself states that sleeping when one can is the 2nd most essential point of the Aincrad-style.
* Kirito was an ideal person whom Kawahara wanted to become. Kawahara commented that he always hesitates to act, pointing out that it took him seven years to finally apply for the Dengeki Award.
* Kirito's preference for black clothing began with the first rare item he obtained from a boss drop: the black coat called the «Coat of Midnight». After that, he began to like colour black and, by the end of the game, all of his clothes were mainly black.
* According to Yui, Kirito's in-game yawns last about eight seconds on average.
* When doing Kirito's GGO character design, abec first drew him with breasts to not think of him as being male and then erased the breasts when the designs were done.
* Kazuto's GGO avatar is informally referred to as «Kiriko». The series' author acknowledged this as a commonly used name.
** In Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet, a non-canon game adaptation set in Gun Gale Online, Kirito's secondary avatar, with his canon Gun Gale Online appearance, was registered in the game as «Kiriko» by Kikuoka Seijirou, when he created the avatar for Kirito to use for the Bullet of Bullets.
* In an official character popularity poll hosted by Dengeki Bunko for the cover of abec Art Works, Kazuto's SAO avatar ranked fourth, GGO avatar ranked nineteenth, his Alicization avatar ranked twenty-eighth, while his real life persona ranked twenty-second.
* In the web version, Kazuto's avatar in SAO's beta was twenty centimetres higher than his actual height and with long, mint color hair.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kirigaya Kazuto at Sword Art Online Wiki
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