Infinity Moment Takes Everything You Know About Sword Art Online, and Turns It on Its Head". Kotaku. April 2, 2013. Archived from the original on July 29, 2013 . Retrieved July 27, 2013.

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Sword Art Online Ordinal Scale Film to Open in 2017". Anime News Network. March 13, 2016. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016 . Retrieved March 13, 2016. Sword Art Online official air dates" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 21, 2013 . Retrieved June 19, 2012. The anime has been licensed in North America by Aniplex of America [46] and an English-language dub premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami from July 27, 2013 [47] to February 15, 2014. The series was released by Aniplex of America in four DVD and Blu-ray sets, with special extras on the BD sets, between August 13 and November 19, 2013. [48] 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. [51] Sword Art Online has been available on Netflix in North America since March 15, 2014. [52] Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment is a PlayStation Vita game released in Japan on April 24, 2014. [114] [115] Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment takes place in the same alternative storyline as Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment, [116] and it includes all content of "Floor Clearing" from that previous game [117] with the addition of new unexplored "Hollow Area" of Aincrad. [118] The protagonist Kirito fights a mysterious player who becomes one of the key characters in the game. [118] The game sold 145,029 physical retail copies within the first week of release in Japan, topping the Japanese software sales charts for that particular week. [119] The game had also been released in Taiwan by Namco Bandai Games Taiwan with Chinese and English subtitles. [120] A digital-only North American, European and Australian release was released in August 2014. An anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures, known simply as Sword Art Online, aired in Japan between July and December 2012, with a television film Sword Art Online: Extra Edition airing on December 31, 2013, and a second season, titled Sword Art Online II, airing between July and December 2014. 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 18, 2017, and was released in the United States on March 9, 2017. A spin-off anime series titled Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online premiered in April 2018, while a third season titled Sword Art Online: Alicization aired from October 2018 to September 2020. An anime film adaptation of Sword Art Online: Progressive titled Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night premiered on October 30, 2021. A second film titled Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night premiered on October 22, 2022. A live-action series based on the light novels is set to be produced by Netflix. Six video games based on the series have been released for multiple consoles.

Sword Art Online is a massive anime franchise, it can be said to be a gamer’s paradise … the dream for every gamer. The series that merges action, adventure, and science fiction is written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by Abec. Progressive 01 - Progressive 02 - Progressive 03 - Progressive 04 - Progressive 05 - Progressive 06 - Progressive 07 - Progressive 08 Sword Art Online: Aincrad 1] (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014 . Retrieved March 26, 2014. Episode 01 - Episode 02 - Episode 03 - Episode 04 - Episode 05 - Episode 06 - Episode 07 - Episode 08 - Episode 09 - Extra Edition The 2013 TV movie is the first movie of the Sword Art Online franchise, and it was directed by Tomohiko Ito. The story is set a few years after the events of the first season of Sword Art Online. We get to see Kirito narrate what transpired in the first season to Seijirou Kikuoka who is a high-ranking government official.

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The third season of Sword Art Online, titled Sword Art Online: Alicization, and a spin-off anime, titled Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, were announced in 2017. [64] Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, animated by 3Hz, premiered in April 2018. [65] [66] Sword Art Online: Alicization aired from October 6, 2018 to March 30, 2019, [67] with a one-hour world premiere which aired in Japan, the United States, Australia, France, Germany, Russia and South Korea on September 15, 2018. [68] The English dub of the third season premiered on February 9, 2019 on Toonami. [69] The season was originally announced to air for four cours, and adapt from the novel's ninth volume, Alicization Beginning, to the eighteenth volume, Alicization Lasting. [70] However, the season ended at episode 24 on March 30, 2019 (completing the fourteenth volume of the novel, Alicization Uniting), and continued on October 12, 2019 with a second part titled War of Underworld. [71] [72] The second half of the War of Underworld series was originally scheduled to premiere in April 2020, [73] but due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan, [74] it was rescheduled to air from July 11 to September 19, 2020. [74] Music [ edit ] Understanding Sword Art Online". Anime News Network. March 1, 2017. Archived from the original on January 24, 2019 . Retrieved January 24, 2019. Sword Art Online Inspires Girls Ops Manga". Anime News Network. April 9, 2013. Archived from the original on September 28, 2014 . Retrieved May 2, 2014. Sword Art Offline is a special consisting of 9 episodes, each running for 11 minutes. It aired from October 2012 to June 2013. There is no actual plot to this special as different episodes focus on different issues because it is meant to discuss the daily lives of the Sword Art Online characters. Sword Art Online Progressive, Vol. 5 (manga)". Hachette Book Group . Retrieved May 2, 2018. [ permanent dead link]Kawahara, Reki (April 22, 2014). Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad. New York: Yen On. ISBN 9780316371247.