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From Yen Press: In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online-a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other-opens its virtual doors, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in the game world by manipulating their brain waves to create a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for all its amazing features, SAO is missing one of the most basic functions of any MMORPG-a log-out button. Now trapped in the virtual world of Aincrad, their bodies held captive by NerveGear in the real world, users are issued a chilling ultimatum: conquer all one hundred floors of Aincrad to regain your freedom. But in the warped world of SAO, "game over" means certain death-both virtual and real...
The year is 2022. Mankind has finally perfected virtual reality. And within the VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) Sword Art Online, there was a player called Kirito. While he was enjoying the world of SAO, he and the other 10,000 logged-in players all received a frightening message from the Game Master—that the only way to escape from that world was to clear the game, and that a game over within the game would mean their death in the real world. That was the frightening true story behind this game. Kirito was one of the first players to accept this “truth”, and began his solo play, refusing to form a party, as he threw himself into the never ending battles that lay before him…
Yuuki Asuna was a top student who spent her days at cram school and preparing for her high school entrance exams–but that was before she borrowed her brother’s virtual reality game system and wound up trapped in Sword Art Online with ten thousand other frightened players. As time passes, Asuna fears what will become of her life outside the fantasy realm–the failure she might seem in the eyes of her peers and parents. Unwilling to wait on the sidelines for more experienced gamers to beat the game, Asuna employs her study habits to learn the mechanics of game–and swordplay. Her swiftness impresses Kirito, a pro gamer who invites Asuna to join the best players on the front lines. Is Asuna ready to swap class rankings for player rankings and join Kirito?
Project Alicization, a top-secret government project run by Rath, a company affiliated with the Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF), was started to create the first highly adaptive, «Bottom-up AI». By using a 4th generation FullDive machine, called the Soul Translator (STL), Rath succeeded in copying the Fluctlights (souls) of twelve newborn babies, creating a «Soul Archetype», a non-developed Artificial Fluctlight that could be copied to create new Artificial Fluctlights, which would then need to be nurtured to mature into an individual. For this reason, a virtual world, codenamed «Underworld», was created using the free kernel version of the Cardinal System, The Seed, and then transferred into the STL mainframe via the Mnemonic Visuals feature of the STL. Underworld is set in a past era, when science and philosophy were just being discovered, but instead of recreating a past era, limited terrain and certain customs were introduced so that the inhabitants of the world would form their own society.
The manga will not only cover the original Aincrad arc, but also various Aincrad side stories, including those that were never animated, such as The First Day/The Day of Beginnings from volume 8 of the novels.
The manga will not only cover the original Aincrad arc, but also various Aincrad side stories, including those that were never animated, such as The First Day/The Day of Beginnings from volume 8 of the novels.
From Baka-Tsuki: This series is a reboot of the SAO Aincrad Arc starting from a day or two before the clearing of the First Floor Boss, and continuing onwards. The first chapter was included in the Anime despite not being part of the main Light Novel series. Note: Please be advised that the side stories in this series have some changes from the original web versions of the Sword Art Online main story.
Adaptation [LN]: Sword Art Online Progressive vol.3 Continuation of Sword Art Online: Progressive manga adaptation after Himura Kiseki left the project.
Adaptation : Sword Art Online Progressive vol.4 Continuation of Sword Art Online: Progressive - Houei no Barcarole
From Hyper Parfait: Golden-haired and blue-eyed Heilong is the clan's most powerful and fearsome assasin; however, he left the group with his blind best friend, Pailong. Nowadays, the two of them are doing street dance performances, but the clan continues to hunt for them... to bring Heilong back!
The Mystic Lunar Dance Troupe took in Jin Sohan as an orphan, and he spent his childhood with them. But one day, one of the four great demons, the Venom Demon, discovered that he was special and kidnapped him. After all kinds of test, he decided to raise him as his disciple. Ten years later, Jin Sohan tried to look for traces of the Mystic Lunar Dance Troupe, but the Sword Dance Troupe had already been destroyed at the hands of the Unorthodox Faction that’s now ruling over his hometown.
The world is already dead. But he isn’t. From a realm consumed by death and despair comes a lone warrior—Carcerian Le Vandeiyan, the Sword God who fought until the very end. His world, ravaged by monsters and ruin, could no longer be saved. But fate offers him a second chance.
