Sword Art Online: Aincrad

Reki Kawahara

Apr 2014 · Sword Art Online: Aincrad Vol 1 · Sold by Yen Press LLC

About this eBook

In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in 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...

Ratings and reviews

I have seen the movie all of the sword art online if you want my preference some of the characters can be weird but I do like it except on the actual seasons I don't like the parts when it gets weird and crazy and stuff especially because it's to go if it wasn't for sugo I'll find him online want to be made and Austin all would have been freed so I hate to go and there's also keys out also known as the Black swordsman the front lines dude no shield one-handed black dressed in black.

This first volume was great. Although it seems that the anime took a chronological view on the events, eliminating some of the tension created from not knowing about certain events. While I I highly satisfied with this purchase, I still feel let down in that I cannot as of now purchase the light novel itself as an ebook from google, or purchase any of Kawahara Reki's works in japanese. I would much prefer to read these in japanese over english. Five stars

Seeing as this is the manga adaptation, it makes for quick and easy reading. But Sword Art Online as a whole is originally a light novel. And since Yen Press has both manga adaption and light novel published in the US in material form, I was hoping the light novel would be available here as well. Nope. Whatever adaption there is, I will always want to try the original. So while the manga is the closest thing to official at the moment, it's still incomplete. I hope that efforts will be made to make the light novel version available in digital form. I'd like to read that, preferably.

About the author

Reki Kawahara is an award winning author best known for his light novel series, Sword Art Online and Accel World.