"There's no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die..."One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead. Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone. Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, t...

"There's no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die..."Having cleared the first and second floors of Aincrad at great cost, Kirito, Asuna, and the rest of the players ascend to the third floor. Tenuous new allies await them--most crucially, Kizmel, the elven knight. Kizmel is supposed to be a minor NPC with low-level AI, but she soon reveals herself to be much more. With new allies come new complications, though, and the elves of the vast third-floor forest are...

A few months after escaping from Sword Art Online, Kirito is ready to dive into a brand-new VRMMO--Sword Art: Origin. This game promises to have all of the base features from Aincrad without any of the bad. When Kirito meets a mysterious girl in need of his help, that theory will be put to the test...

This might be a game, but it’s not something you play.Die in the game, and you die in real life. This is Sword Art Online, the latest VRMMORPG, and upon the game’s launch, ten thousand players realize they’re trapped in this virtual world with no escape…unless they can make their way through Aincrad, a massive floating castle with dangers lurking on each of its one hundred floors. Enter Kirito, a swordsman and former beta tester for the game who has the knowledge and skills to rise to the ...

In clearing the seventh floor, Kirito transforms into a Civis Nocte, kindred to vampires, receiving great power in exchange for a lethal weakness to sunlight. Together with Asuna and Kizmel, he pursues the Fallen Elves who have stolen the five scared keys at the center of the Elf War questline. To the group’s surprise, however, their search ends up taking them back to the fourth floor. While there, Kirito and company accept a request from Lavik, the former Commander of the Sandalwood Knigh...

This might be a game, but it’s not something you play.Orchestrated by genius scientist Akihiko Kayaba, the SAO Incident trapped players in a game they had to beat in order to escape—one where death in the virtual world meant dying in real life…As a survivor of the Incident, Kirito now spends his time playing the new VRMMORPG ALfheim Online with his old friends, Asuna and Alice. But their fun is short-lived, as Kirito soon finds himself thrust into a mysterious new game called Unital Ring. ...

This second collection of gorgeously illustrated artworks highlights events from volumes 10 through 15 of the main story. The definitive edition also includes illustrations from volumes 1 through 3 of Sword Art Online: Progressive, as well as art from animated productions, games, and conventions. A must-have for SAO fans and abec fans alike!

From the illustrator of the Sword Art Online light novel series comes a collection of artwork featuring illustrations from the first nine volumes, magazines, posters, character designs for the anime, and more!

Kirito, having explored the latest beta test, has a pretty good idea of what to expect from the newest SAO launch. With Asuna along, the pair hope to experience the official playthrough together, but there’s something about the release that’s a little different from before...Certain unexpected tweaks from the previous version have Kirito and Asuna tackling a flood of puzzles anew!

A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK!The secret feud between the Nachtoy and the Korloy families, who control the Volupta Grand Casino on the seventh floor, takes an unprecedented turn when Kirito and Asuna intervene. But when Kirito attempts to expose the Korloy family’s misdeeds, he ends up stumbling into a trap. Now he has just two days to unravel a mystery, put an end to an unscrupulous conspiracy, and defeat the floor boss. It’s all leading up to a showdown in the arena where everything’s on the ...

Kirito is still trying to figure out how to recover Asuna’s lost memories. When all hope seems lost, the enigmatic girl who exists solely in Ordinal Scale appears before him and explains that the only way to uncover the truth is to rise to the top of the OS ranks. But will he make it in time? And even if he does, will he be able to take down Eiji...?

LUCK BE A LADY TONIGHT! The seventh floor of Aincrad-a massive casino where over half the game’s beta testers dropped out before launch. Kirito was among the many who lost everything in its Battle Arena back then. When an informant named Argo the Rat entices Kirito and Asuna with knowledge that could aid in their investigation, the pair soon plunge into the casino’s dark underbelly once more. Meanwhile, the “Elf War” quest also reaches a sudden turning point when a flurry of crises rock th...