Sword Art Online Wikipedia. Sword Art Online. Cover of the first light novel featuring Kirito left and Asuna right. Sdo to OnrainGenre. Action, Adventure, Science fiction. Light novel. Written by. Reki Kawahara. Illustrated byabec. I/51YA8K025WL._SR600%2C315_PIWhiteStrip%2CBottomLeft%2C0%2C35_PIStarRatingFOURANDHALF%2CBottomLeft%2C360%2C-6_SR600%2C315_ZA(87%20Reviews)%2C445%2C286%2C400%2C400%2Carial%2C12%2C4%2C0%2C0%2C5_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg' alt='Download The New Hot Wheels Acceleracers, Vol. Breaking Point Movie ' title='Download The New Hot Wheels Acceleracers, Vol. Breaking Point Movie ' />Setting. The light novel series spans several virtual reality worlds, beginning with the titular world of Sword Art Online. Each world is built on a game engine. Even more Account Options. Sign in Search settings. Published by. ASCII Media Works. English publisher. Demographic. Male. Imprint. Dengeki Bunko. Original run. April 1. Volumes. 20 List of volumesManga. Sword Art Online. Sword Art Online Aincrad. Sword Art Online Fairy Dance. Watch The Full Gilgamesh The Movie. Sword Art Online Girls Ops. Sword Art Online Progressive. Sword Art Online Phantom Bullet. Sword Art Online Calibur. Sword Art Online Mothers Rosario. Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online. Sword Art Online Project Alicization. Anime television series. Directed by. Tomohiko ItProduced by. Kazuma Miki. Shinichir Kashiwada. Music by. Yuki Kajiura. Studio. A 1 Pictures. Licensed by. Original network. Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, tvk, TVS, TVA, RKB, HBC, MBS, AT X, CTC, BS1. English network. Original run. July 7, 2. 01. 2 December 2. Episodes. 25 List of episodesLight novel. Sword Art Online Progressive. Written by. Reki Kawahara. Illustrated byabec. Published by. ASCII Media Works. English publisher. Demographic. Male. Imprint. Dengeki Bunko. Original run. October 1. Volumes. 4 List of volumesAnime television film. Sword Art Online Extra Edition. Directed by. Tomohiko ItProduced by. Kazuma Miki. Shinichir Kashiwada. Written by. Reki Kawahara. Munemasa Nakamoto. Music by. Yuki Kajiura. Studio. A 1 Pictures. Licensed by. Original network. Tokyo MX, BS1. 1Released. December 3. 1, 2. Runtime. 10. 1 minutes. Anime television series. Sword Art Online IIDirected by. Tomohiko ItProduced by. Kazuma Miki. Shinichir Kashiwada. Ysuke Futami. Music by. Yuki Kajiura. Studio. A 1 Pictures. Licensed by. Original network. Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, tvk, TVS, CTC, TVA, MBS, TVQ, TVh, AT X, BS1. English network. Original run. July 5, 2. 01. 4 December 2. Episodes. 24 List of episodesLight novel. Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online. Written by. Keiichi Sigsawa. Illustrated by. Kouhaku Kuroboshi. Published by. ASCII Media Works. Demographic. Male. Imprint. Dengeki Bunko. Original run. December 1. Volumes. 6 List of volumesLight novel. Sword Art Online Alternative Clovers Regret. Written by. Watase Souichirou. Illustrated by. Ginta. Published by. ASCII Media Works. Demographic. Male. Imprint. Dengeki Bunko. Published. November 1. Volumes. 1Anime television series. Sword Art Online Alicization. Studio. A 1 Pictures. Anime television series. Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online. Film. Video games. Anime and Manga portal. Sword Art OnlineJapanese ,Hepburn Sdo to Onrain is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec. The series takes place in the near future and focuses on various virtual reality. MMORPG worlds. The light novels began publication on ASCII Media Works Dengeki Bunko imprint from April 1. October 2. 01. 2. The series has spawned eight manga adaptations published by ASCII Media Works and Kadokawa. The novels and four of the manga adaptations have been licensed for release in North America by Yen Press. An anime television series produced by A 1 Pictures aired in Japan between July and December 2. Extra Edition episode aired on December 3. Sword Art Online II, aired between July and December 2. Four video games based on the series have been released on the Play. Station Portable, Play. Station Vita, Play. Station 3, and Play. Station 4. 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 1. United States on March 9, 2. Sword Art Online has received widespread commercial success, with the light novels having over 1. The anime series has received mixed to positive reviews, praised for its animation, musical score, and exploration of the psychological aspects of virtual reality, but criticized for its pacing and writing. OvervieweditSettingeditThe light novel series spans several virtual reality worlds, beginning with the titular world of Sword Art Online. Each world is built on a game engine called the World Seed, which was initially developed specifically for SAO by Akihiko Kayaba, but was later duplicated for ALO, and later willed to Kirito, who had it leaked online with the successful intention of reviving the virtual reality industry. In 2. 02. 2, a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role playing game VRMMORPG called Sword Art Online SAO is released. With the Nerve. Gear, a helmet that stimulates the users five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in game characters with their minds. Both the game and the Nerve. Gear was created by Akihiko Kayaba. On November 6, 1. SAOs mainframe cyberspace for the first time, only to discover that they are unable to log out. Kayaba appears and tells the players that they must beat all 1. Aincrad, a steel castle which is the setting of SAO, if they wish to be free. Those who suffer in game deaths or forcibly remove the Nerve. Gear out of game will suffer real life deaths. One of the players, named Kazuto Kirito Kirigaya, is one of 1,0. With the advantage of previous VR gaming experience and a drive to protect other beta testers from discrimination, he isolates himself from the greater group and plays the game alone, bearing the mantle of beater, a beta tester and cheater. 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. After the duo discover the identity of Kayabas secret ID, who was playing as the leader of the guild Asuna joined in, they confront and destroy him, freeing themselves and the other players from the game. In the real world, Kazuto discovers that 3. SAO players, including Asuna, remain trapped in their Nerve. Gear. As he goes to the hospital to see Asuna, he meets Shouzou Yuuki, Asunas father, who is asked by an associate of his, Nobuyuki Sugou, to make a decision, which Sugou later reveals to be his marriage with Asuna, angering Kazuto. Several months later, he is informed by Agil, another SAO survivor, that a figure similar to Asuna was spotted on The World Tree in another VRMMORPG cyberspace called Alfheim Online ALO. Assisted in game by his cousin Suguha Leafa Kirigaya and Yui, a navigation pixie originally an AI from SAO, he quickly learns that the trapped players in ALO are part of a plan conceived by Sugou to perform illegal experiments on their minds. The goal is to create the perfect mind control for financial gain and to subjugate Asuna, whom he intends to marry in the real world, to assume control of her familys corporation. Kirito eventually stops the experiment and rescues the remaining 3. SAO players, foiling Sugous plans. Before leaving ALO to see Asuna, Kayaba, who has uploaded his mind to the Internet using an experimental and destructively high power version of Nerve. Gear at the cost of his life, entrusts Kirito with The Seed a package program designed to create virtual worlds. Kazuto eventually reunites with Asuna in the real world and The Seed is released onto the Internet, reviving the VRMMORPG industry. Soon after, at the prompting of a government official investigating strange occurrences in VR, Kazuto takes on a job to investigate a series of murders involving another VRMMORPG called Gun Gale Online GGO, the Amu. Sphere the successor of the Nerve. Gear, and a player called Death Gun. Aided by a female player named Shino Sinon Asada, he participates in a gunfight tournament called the Bullet of Bullets Bo. B and discovers the truth behind the murders, which originated with a player who participated in a player killing guild in SAO. Through his and Sinons efforts, two suspects are captured, though the third suspect, Johnny Black, escapes. Kazuto is later recruited to assist in testing an experimental Full.