![]() In the real world, Kazuto discovers that 300 SAO players, including Asuna, remain trapped in their NerveGear. After the duo discover the identity of Kayaba's secret ID, who was playing as "Heathcliff", the leader of the guild Asuna joined in, they confront and destroy him, freeing themselves and the other players from the game. As the players progress through the game Kirito eventually befriends a young girl named Asuna Yuuki, forming a relationship with and later marrying her in-game. With the advantage of previous VR gaming experience and a drive to protect other beta testers from discrimination, he isolates himself from the greater groups and plays the game alone, bearing the mantle of "beater", a portmanteau of "beta tester" and "cheater". ![]() He also states that those who suffer in-game deaths or forcibly remove the NerveGear out-of-game will suffer real-life deaths.Ī player named Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya is one of 1,000 testers in the game's previous closed beta. Kayaba appears and tells the players that they must beat all 100 floors of Aincrad, a steel castle which is the setting of SAO, if they wish to be free. On November 6, 10,000 players log into SAO 's mainframe cyberspace for the first time, only to discover that they are unable to log out. Both the game and the NerveGear were created by Akihiko Kayaba. ![]() With the NerveGear, a helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds. In 2022, a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online ( SAO) was released. See also: List of Sword Art Online characters The anime series has received mixed to positive reviews, with praise for its animation, musical score and exploration of the psychological aspects of virtual reality, but criticisms for its pacing and writing. The light novel series had good reviews, mainly on later arcs, while other series like Progressive were praised since the beginning. Sword Art Online has received widespread commercial success, with the light novels having over 30 million copies sold worldwide. Six video games based on the series have been released for multiple consoles. A live-action series based on the light novels is set to be produced by Netflix. A second film titled Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night premiered on October 22, 2022. An anime film adaptation of Sword Art Online: Progressive titled Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night premiered on October 30, 2021. A spin-off anime series titled Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online premiered in April 2018, while a third season titled Sword Art Online: Alicization aired from October 2018 to September 2020. An animated film titled Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale, featuring an original story by Kawahara, premiered in Japan and Southeast Asia on February 18, 2017, and was released in the United States on March 9, 2017. The novels and the manga adaptations have been licensed for release in North America by Yen Press.Īn anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures, known simply as Sword Art Online, aired in Japan between July and December 2012, with a television film Sword Art Online: Extra Edition airing on December 31, 2013, and a second season, titled Sword Art Online II, airing between July and December 2014. The series has spawned twelve manga adaptations published by ASCII Media Works and Kadokawa. The light novels began publication on ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko imprint from April 10, 2009, with a spin-off series launching in October 2012. Kawahara originally wrote the series as a web novel on his website from 2002 to 2008. ![]() The series takes place in the then-near future and focuses on protagonists Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya and Asuna Yuuki as they play through various virtual reality MMORPG worlds. Sword Art Online ( Japanese: ソードアート・オンライン, Hepburn: Sōdo Āto Onrain) is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec. Sword Art Online: Last Recollection (2023).Sword Art Online: Variant Showdown (2022).Sword Art Online: Black Swordsman Ace (2021).Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris (2020).Sword Art Online Alicization: Rising Steel (2019).Sword Art Online Arcade: Deep Explorer (2019).Sword Art Online VR: Lovely Honey Days (2018).Sword Art Online: Integral Factor (2017).Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight (2017) Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization (2016).Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment (2014).Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment (2013).Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night (film).Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night (film).Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (film).Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online (spin-off).
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