There are also a variety of original spin-off manga, including Girls Ops, Aincrad Night of Kirito, Kirito's Gun Gale Wars, and a Kibaou-centred spin-off. In celebration of the anime's 10th anniversary, the song "Sо̄kyū no Fanfare" ( 蒼穹のファンファーレ) was used as the theme song for the commemorative event "Sword Art Online: Full Dive", held on November 6, 2022. Another spin-off series, titled Sword Art Online Alternative "Gun Gale Online", written by Sigsawa Keiichi, illustrated by Kuroboshi Kouhaku, and supervised by Kawahara Reki, began publication in December 2014.

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Sword Art Online is a Japanese light novel series, first written as a web novel series, by Kawahara Reki and illustrated by abec. Sword Art Online: Material Editions [ ] The Material Edition (ME) series is a series of doujinshis created by Kawahara Reki himself using the pen name "Kunori Fumio" (the same pen name he used when he wrote the web novel of SAO). Richard Eisenbeis of Kotaku hails Sword Art Online as the smartest series in recent years, praising its deep insight on the psychological aspects of virtual reality on the human psyche, its sociological views on creating a realistic economy and society in a massively multiplayer online game setting, and the writing staff's ability to juggle a wide variety of genres within the series.The game is also the first game in the franchise to faithfully follow the canon storyline in the initial stage, adapting from Alicization Beginning, volume 9, to Alicization Uniting, volume 14. Manga Entertainment released the first series on BD/DVD in the United Kingdom in December 2013, [49] whilst Madman Entertainment released the series in Australia [50] and the English-language version began airing on ABC Me on June 7, 2014.

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This is the Phantom Bullet arc (volumes 5-6), plus the Calibur (part of volume 8) and Mother's Rosario (volume 7) side stories. 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.The Sword Art Online series currently has twelve manga adaptations: an Aincrad arc adaptation by Nakamura Tamako; a Fairy Dance arc adaptation by Hazuki Tsubasa; a Phantom Bullet arc adaptation by Yamada Koutarou; an adaptation of Calibur by Kiya Shii; an adaptation of Mother's Rosario by Hazuki Tsubasa; an adaptation of the Ordinal Scale movie by IsII; an Alicization arc adaptation by Yamada Koutarou; a Progressive arc adaptation by Kiseki Himura and a Progressive Barcarolle of Froth adaptation by Miyoshi Shiomi; an adaptation of the Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online series by Tamori Tadadi; an adaptation of the Hollow Realization and Alicization Lycoris games by Hirokawa Tomo.

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A ninth manga, an adaptation of Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, began serialization in the November 2015 issue of Dengeki Maoh. The series also has several spin-off manga, including a Leafa, Lisbeth, and Silica spin-off manga by Nekobyō Neko, two Sword Art Online game spin-offs titled Aincrad Night of Kirito and Kirito's Gun Gale Wars by Kurogewagyuu, based on Hollow Fragment and Fatal Bullet respectively, and a Kibaou spin-off manga. Ordinal Scale takes place between LN volumes 8 and 9, or after anime season 2 and before the Alicization anime.An animated film titled Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale, featuring an original story by Kawahara set after the events of Sword Art Online II, premiered in Japan and Southeast Asia on February 18, 2017, and was released in the United States on March 9, 2017. Kazuto finds a picture of what looks like Asuna in one of the other VRMMO games known as ALfheim Online (ALO). Additionally, some doujinshi work created wholly or partly by the series original author was published in the form of manga.

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This arc features a lot of world-building and amazing character development, the first season of the series is a must-watch. While the anime received criticism in western media, the later light novel arcs, such as Mother's Rosario and Alicization, received praise.Outside the Cathedral, during a chat with Alice, Kirito mentioned her sister, Selka, unintentionally triggering her lost memories. The first volume of Fairy Dance was released on October 27, 2012; [28] the third volume was released on June 27, 2014. The series expands the story of the Aincrad Arc by focusing on the adventures of Kirito and Asuna throughout each floor of Aincrad. After escaping the Axiom Church's jail and an encounter with another Integrity Knight, they were saved by the world's Cardinal, which had taken the form of a human avatar and no longer in control of Underworld.