As the days go by in this world where death is never very far away, she has a fateful encounter. One of those players is Asuna, but despite not yet knowing the rules of this world, she sets off to conquer the floating iron castle, Aincrad, whose peak is too high to be seen. Hearing this, all of the players panic, and pandemonium reigns. The Game Master then gives them this warning “This may be a game, but it’s not something you play.” If a player dies in-game, they die in the real world. But the players, still euphoric over having logged in, suddenly find themselves trapped inside the game when the Game Master deprives them of any way to log out. On November 6, 2022, the world’s first VRMMORPG, Sword Art Online, is officially launched.
The day that she happened to don the NerveGear, Asuna Yuuki was a third-year middle school student who’d never even touched an online game before. This is a tale of the time before “Lightning Flash” and “The Black Swordsman” were known by those names… Both the main and Progressive series are written by Reki Kawahara with illustrations by abec.Īniplex of America describes the movie as: The first volume was published in 2012, while the eighth and latest volume was published in June 2021. The Progressive series expands on the “Aincrad Arc” of the original and still ongoing Sword Art Online series.
