Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-2.137.81.153-20170219184604/@comment-27384850-20170220031810

To the anon who says SAO was pointless after the first season and that it should have been extended: perhaps you should read up on SAO's history, as well as look into a little thing I like to call SAO: Progressive. Perhaps then you'll understand why SAO takes the path it does, and you'll find something you'll likely enjoy.

Anyway, I know Kawahara says he wants to write about Alice's time in the real world and ALO, but he also says he wants one more big arc. I think the big arc he wants to write might be a connecting arc to Accel World, one that ends with Kirito and Asuna getting married and a Harry Potter-esque epilogue that shows the entire gang in the future. That said, I think SAO's connection to Accel World will be far smaller than people speculate it to be, with the connection being just enough to fit everything together in a coherent way.