Board Thread:FAQ Board/@comment-26391060-20140522031602

With translation+localization+modification+addition+liberal-interpretation of them. Part 1 would be for anime watchers while part 2 would be for novel readers.


 * How many cour does the anime have and when will its season 2 air?
 * Season 1 contain 25 episodes and 2 cours. Season 2 will be air since July 5, 2014 and number of episode it have had yet to be revealed. There're also an Extra Edition episode which happened between season 1 and season 2 with 70% of its content being a conclusion of what happened in Season 1, but there are also new plot in remaining time.


 * What's the series based on?
 * The series is originally a network novel which then turned into published light novel and then adapted into manga before it become anime.


 * What anime will it then be?
 * In the upcoming Phantom Bullet section, Kirito would be facing some incidents related to a mythical Player, Death Gun, that appears in an Amusphere-based VRMMOFPS game called Gun Gale Online.
 * To investigate consecutive unnatural death incidents, he joined Bullet of Bullets, the event for deciding the strongest gunner. How it would turn out will be described in Anime.


 * What's GGO and what's AmuSphere?
 * GGO is a short form of Gun Gale Online which is a VRMMOFPS operated by Zasker on American server.
 * AmuSphere is a machine intended to replace NerveGear that have an enhanced safety and security mechanism and a much weaker electromagnetic pulse output.


 * Can AmuSphere destroy brain?
 * With a much-weakened electromagnetic pulse output and battery volume, it can't generate pulses that are strong enough to destroy human's brain.


 * Why there are still FullDive games on market even after the SAO incident?
 * Due to market's high demand on FullDive games.There are also some government regulations which involved spoilers and their details could be checked from related articles.


 * Is AW or SAO a rip-off of (insert any title here)?
 * There are quite a number of Virtual Reality works existed before the creation of both series like Klein's Bottle back in 1980s which had already become a genre in its own which made it become a non-problem.(Interesting Fact: It had once been stated that Klein's avatar name is a reference to that series.)

Line that separate Anime and Novel reader


 * Is Accel World and Sword Art Online set in the same universe?
 * While there are some hints/setting/technological development paths show that they are somehow related, it exist no concrete prove for any solid link in-between them. In the Afterword of Accel World Volume 10 where Versus is originally published at, the author hoped readers treat both series as in parallel universe at that point of time (in year 2011).


 * What is SAOP?
 * another series of novel which then adapted into its own manga adaption and anime episode 2 that described what happen ever since the beginning of Aincrad clearing from the first floor to supplement the giant timeline hole after the game started.


 * Who is Kunori Fumio?
 * The name used by the series's author, Kawahara Reki, when conducting doujin activity. Also the rationale behind why he is nicked as Kunorin.


 * What's web version of SAO?
 * That is a network novel which author published on his own personal website back in year 2002 before they're being taken down and modified and published into book volumes. This wiki would mostly not carry information about web version due to their limited availability.


 * Is abec the same person as BUNBUN?
 * According to what they said, abec-tan is a high school girl, thus please don't link "her" with some old man lived nearby like BUNBUN. (believe it or not)


 * What is 16.5?
 * A story with mature content placed on a corner of author's website that can only be accessed by specifically typing its URL before the series commercialized and currently it had been taken down which the story itself happened somewhere near the chapter 16 of volume 1, web serialization version. See the web part below for details.


 * What is 16.6?
 * A story sell as doujin written by author himself that happened after The Day Before. It had been written in its afterword that "The title does not contain any special meaning".

- Line that separate published version versus web version -


 * Where can I obtain web version of SAO?
 * Before January 2009, they are placed on Author's personal site, but the public availability of them had already terminated. SO they cannot be officially obtained by now and please wait for them to be adapted into books.
 * ※ secondary distribution also because it is prohibited, please refrain from the act Kurekure - pride get in this thread.


 * Is there H scene between Kirito and Asuna, and what is Wordgear Reverse?
 * There're a work called Sword Art Online #16.5 which described bed scene among Kirito and Asuna placed on a hidden page within the author's site.
 * Originally on the "Word Gear Reverse", it had terminated publiciation after being commercialized.
 * It happen in-between book version vol.1, p.244 line 9 and 10, web version between chapter 16 and 17.
 * It is not counted in web release too. Currently only those who saved the site page by page before they're taken down would have access to that material.


 * So, which story do each web version side stories number represent?
 * EX01/03/02/06 are located in Volume 2 respectively. EX04 had been adapted into Volume 7 and part of the Volume 8 is adpated from EX05.
 * And please pay caution that EX07 may spoiler non-web-version reader for the ending prologue of alicization


 * Had web version of SAO completed? And how long is it?
 * Completed by now. It consist of a total of four main chapters.
 * SAO1 had been adapted into Volume 1, SAO2 adapted into Volume 3 and 4, SAO3 adapted into Vol. 5 and 6. And jujdging from the end of SAO4 plus some EX short stories, there are still quite a time before the adaption would end.

 