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Sword Art Online is a Japanese light novel series written and drawn by abec and written by Reki Kawahara. The story is set in the not-too-distant future and follows protagonists Kazuto “Kirito” Kirigaya and Asuna Yuuki as they explore numerous virtual reality MMORPG environments. From 2002 until 2008, Kawahara published the series as a web book on his website. The light novels debuted on April 10, 2009, under ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko banner, with a spin-off series following in October 2012. ASCII Media Works and Kadokawa have released twelve manga adaptations of the series. Yen Press has been given the rights to publish the books and manga adaptations in North America.

Sword Art Online, a Japanese anime television series created by A-1 Pictures, ran from July to December 2012 in Japan, with a television film Sword Art Online: Extra Edition premiering on December 31, 2013, and a second season, dubbed Sword Art Online II, airing from July to December 2014. Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale, an animated film based on Kawahara’s original plot, debuted in Japan and Southeast Asia on February 18, 2017, and was released in the United States on March 9, 2017. Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, a spin-off anime series, started in April 2018, and Sword Art Online: Alicization, a third season, ran from October 2018 to September 2020. Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night, an anime film adaptation of Sword Art Online: Progressive, is planned to debut on October 30, 2021. Netflix will make a live-action series. For various systems, six video games based on the series have been produced.

The light novels for Sword Art Online have sold over 26 million copies worldwide, making it a huge economic success. The light book series received positive feedback, primarily in later arcs, but other series, such as Progressive, have been hailed from the start. The anime series has garnered mixed to excellent reviews, with acclaim for its animation, musical soundtrack, and examination of virtual reality’s psychological implications, but criticism for its pacing and narrative.

Sword Art Online (SAO), a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (VRMMORPG), is published in 2022. Players may experience and control their in-game characters with their brains via the NerveGear, a helmet that stimulates the user’s five senses via their brain. Akihiko Kayaba designed both the game and the NerveGear.

On November 6, 10,000 players log in for the first time to SAO’s mainframe cyberspace, only to find that they are unable to log out. Kayaba enters and informs the players that if they want to be free, they must defeat all 100 floors of Aincrad, a steel fortress that serves as the setting for SAO. He further claims that people who die in-game or forcibly remove the NerveGear outside of the game will die in real life.

Kazuto “Kirito” Kirigaya, one of the gamers, was one of 1,000 testers in the game’s prior closed beta. He isolates himself from the larger groups and plays the game alone, assuming the moniker “beater,” a combination of “beta tester” and “cheater,” as a result of his past VR gaming experience and a desire to shield other beta testers from discrimination. As the game progresses, Kirito befriends a young girl named Asuna Yuuki, with whom he ultimately forms a connection and subsequently marries in-game. When the duo discovers Kayaba’s hidden ID, who was playing as the guild’s leader when Asuna got in, they confront and destroy him, allowing them and the other players to exit the game.

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