Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online fans celebrate Good ‘Booty’ Day with their waifus

The popular Sword Art Online (SAO) series became the centre of attention with a flurry of comments on a post highlighting the physical attractiveness of its female characters. The post was made on Twitter/X on 4 November, a day when social media was flooded by a wave of excitement and debate triggered by Japan’s celebration of Good Butt Day. This peculiar holiday, based on a clever play on words that relates the date to the Japanese expression ii oshiri (good butt), became the perfect pretext for SAO fans to show off the best scenes of this angle on the characters.

Sword Art Online fans show the ‘back side’ of various characters

Los Fans De Sword Art Online Celebran El Día De La Buena “Retaguardia” Con Sus Waifus

Good Butt Day, celebrated every 4 November in Japan, became a viral phenomenon, especially thanks to one Twitter/X user who decided to celebrate the date in his own unique way with a post that quickly caught the attention of thousands of fans. The user shared several images of the butts of female characters from Sword Art Online (SAO), highlighting images of the buttocks of characters Asuna, Sinon (Shino Asada) and Silica (Keiko Ayano). He made the post because, he says, he’d heard it was a good day to flood social media with Sword Art Online character butts.

This type of content, although seemingly irreverent, reflects a reality within the universe of Sword Art Online, the series created by Reki Kawahara. It has been known not only for its intense action stories and virtual worlds, but also for the way in which certain moments, especially those centred on its female characters, have been designed with a visual approach that strongly emphasises their physical characteristics. Many of these moments are more than just a scene in the narrative, as the characters are often depicted in poses and angles that highlight specific details of their figure, which has not gone unnoticed by observant fans.

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What started as a simple post quickly turned into a phenomenon on Twitter/X, where other users began sharing their own images and picks of the best butts in the Sword Art Online universe. Many of the fans gave their points about characters such as Asuna, the most iconic protagonist of the series, as well as Sinon, who was introduced in the second season of Sword Art Online as one of the anime’s new heroines. In addition, Silica, one of Kirito’s companions in the early arcs of the series, was also among the most mentioned characters.

In addition to these three characters, fans also noted the mention of Karatachi Nijika (Rain), a character from Gun Gale Online, another virtual world within the Sword Art Online multiverse. Although her appearance is more brief, she seems to have had an impact on some fans of the series with her character design, which was enough to capture the attention of those who participated in the conversation. However, what really captured the interest of the community was the way in which the characters in Sword Art Online were drawn, lending themselves to a visual approach that, despite not being the focus of the plot, did not go unnoticed.

Asuna Sword Art Online

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