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No like seriously, I didn't mean that as an insult to it. You can skip him meeting every girl other than Asuna, half the "major events" before they get married, and everything between the end of the romance arc and the fight with what'shisface and still understand the entire plot. 
Similarly true to DBZ. You can cut so fucking much out of it and it would still be the same, and that's not even counting the anime fuckery where five minutes takes 10 episodes.

Go read it now. Like, start to finish. It'll take a couple hours at best. Don't skip around, just read it. If you skipped around MR you'd not have your attention grabbed either but I bet you'd argue that it's good media. 
In fact, I'll bet you $20 that if you get to them entering the basement without skipping anything, you'll be totally caught up in it. 
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The problem is that I just genuinely dislike the concept in the way it's presented. We can argue all day whether or not the show itself is good, but I don't like the world.