User:TUSF/Web Novel

The Web Novel refers to the version of Sword Art Online that was posted on Kawahara Reki's website, under the pen name Fumio Kunori. The Web Novel made up 4 major arcs, and 7 "Extras", and most of the content has since been adapted into a printed form as Light Novels, with various changes to details.

History
The first volume of the series was first written in 2002 as a competition entry for ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Game Novel Prize (now Dengeki Novel Prize), but the author refrained from submitting it as he had exceeded the page limit and did not want to shrink the size of the story. The unsubmitted work was instead published as a web novel under the author’s pseudonym, Kunori Fumio. The author continued writing new arcs and stories for his series until he finished writing the 4th main arc, Alicization in 2008. After Kawahara Reki’s second series, Accel World, was successfully entered in another Dengeki competition and won the grand prize, Kawahara's editor suggested he request to have Sword Art Online published as well.