Asuna Yuuki

**Asuna Yuuki**, also known as **Lightning Flash**, **Titania**, **Berserk Healer**, **Goddess Stacia** and **Star Queen**, is one of the main characters from the *Sword Art Online* series.

## **Charactah Account**

Asuna is the daughter of the former CEO of RECT Inc.. Asuna was one of the 10,000 players trapped in «Sword Art Online», where she was the sub-leader of the «Knights of the Blood» (KoB) guild. Her skills with the rapier had her earned her the nickname the Lightning Flash.

Asuna is a kind and helpful young woman who, similarly to Kirito, cannot abandon another in trouble. She takes the game very seriously and is determined to clear it before Kirito tells her to enjoy SAO a bit. Asuna is also somewhat proud and despite her kind personality, she will not hesitate to get physical with those that challenge her authority or make fun of her abilities, such as cooking. She even challenged Kirito to a duel after an argument over how to handle a Field Boss. She is not afraid to act out on her own and will take matters into her own hands from time to time.

Asuna, in a similar manner to Kirito, is someone who can be controlled and manipulated by her emotions. This is evident during Kirito's final duel with Heathcliff on the 75th Floor, when she resisted her paralysis, jumped in front of Kirito, and took an attack that would have otherwise killed him. She also cannot handle seeing others die in front of her, such as when she recklessly attacked The Gleam Eyes after seeing the Aincrad Liberation Forceplayers getting slaughtered.

## **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
* 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 SS: Caliber SS (Failure Side)
* Sword Art Online: Progressive
* Sword Art Online: Material Edition

### **Manga**

* Gekijouban Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale
* Sword Art Online
* Sword Art Online dj - Lisbeth 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: 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: 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: Code Register
* 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

## **Trivia**

* Asuna was born on September 30, 2007. September 30 is also the birthday of Kuroyukihime of Accel World, another light novel written by Kawahara Reki.
* Asuna placed second in the Top 10 Female Characters in the *Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2012* and *2013* awards and third in *2014*. She placed sixth back in 2011, and fourth in 2015.
* Asuna is one of the two known players using their real name as an In Game Name (IGN), the other being Yuuki.
* Included in the first Blu-ray/DVD package, is a character song CD sung by Asuna (Tomatsu Haruka), titled «My Independent Destiny». This is the first character song available for this series.
* In the original web-novel, Asuna did not hesitate to kill Kuradeel, when he began to beg for his life, and in fact stabbed through him. This was changed in the light novel, anime and manga, so that it was Kirito who killed him, after Kuradeel attacks Asuna for her hesitation.
* The anime depicts Asuna and Kirito having met at the meeting in «Tolbana», rather than in the dungeons, where Kirito informs Asuna about the meeting. Given this, the battle was on the very next day after the meeting, instead of two days after. This means that Kirito never showed Asuna the room he was renting, nor offered her the bath, as in the light novel.
* In the anime, after the boss battle on the 1st floor, Asuna runs up to Kirito while he is still climbing the stairs, but in the LN, she actually caught up to him while he was sitting idly on the second floor.
* Asuna once tried to dye her hair to cherry pink in Sword Art Online, but had to disappointingly return it to brown after finding out that the colour did not suit her.
* The design of Asuna's KoB uniform in SAO was actually chosen by other members, who kept it a secret from her until it was ready. When she first saw her uniform, she rejected it, saying that she could not wear something like it, but after Daizen told her with tears in his eyes that the price of even a single set of the uniform was colossal, she reluctantly agreed to wear it.
* Asuna has a phobia of astral-type monsters and had used numerous excuses to avoid clearing Labyrinths on horror-themed Aincrad floors.
* According to the light novel illustrator and character designer abec, the braided part of Asuna's hair is meant to symbolise her good upbringing, while the mussed part is meant to symbolise her demon vice-commander side.
* In an official character popularity poll hosted by Dengeki Bunko for the cover of abec Art Works, Asuna's SAO avatar ranked first, her Alicization avatar ranked ninth, her Undine avatar ranked fourteenth, while her real life persona ranked thirteenth.