Quote Originally Posted by MoM
Also, her dad has actually met Kirito in the hospital, hasn't he? He was also the one who chose the crazy guy. He most likely doesn't feel the same way.
I wouldn't be so sure. He finds Kirito to be a nice person and approves of him as Asuna's friend, but if he guns for a suitor position things may change. I'm not sure if anyone here's been introduced as a friend initially, then been looked at differently once you declared you're a boyfriend.

Kirito picked out that the girl was an NPC that was allowed to exceed the game's limits. It wasn't elaborated on whether or not he stopped trying half-way because she was a girl.

Regarding the mum issues, I've always been conflicted about the whole "I've invested a whole lot in you" mentality. On one hand, there's something about returning another's good-will. We see this all the time in anime where someone doesn't want xyz's contributions to go to waste. But then, it's a unilateral decision and Asuna had no input into the direction things were going.

At what point does a child waste a person's good parenting, and at what point is the parent being a dictator? Age comes into that. What's Asuna? 18?

Quote Originally Posted by shinta
And about Asuna being forced into anything. Didn't she just rebel against her mom completely this episode?
Not completely. She said she'll think about it.

To rebel completely she'll have to decline. To do that she'll need to be financially independent. It's largely why teenagers have fights at home. They're mentally independent but are financially dependant. Any self-supported adult would just part ways.