Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6697950-20140102180802/@comment-26391060-20140107185445

Season II opening/ending released? A segment of the opening had been released in one of the commercial posted above, in the 『ソードアート・オンラインII』番宣映像第2弾 video as background music. And アニメ「ソードアート・オンライン2」エンディング曲公開 春奈るな「Startear」 for ending. don't be confused by Extra Edition's theme song or ED signer's previous release.

Is there something about SAO coming by June 2014? yes, a radio program called "sword art onair ii" but 99.9999% chance it would not be subbed or translated

When can I see SAO II first episode? Generally it's July 5, 2014 for most of the people, but if you are in Japan/USA/French/German/Korea/HK/Taiwan/etc. then you'd have a chance of attending some premiere event held locally and watch it at (June 29 for Japan and July 4 for others)

Any other PV released except the one after Extra Edition? see the top message for detail.

Will there be another voice actor casting Kirito's form in GGO? Base on released information, Kirito's voice actor in season 2 is same as season 1.

Where's the anime official site? Japanese: http://www.swordart-online.net/ English: http://www.swordart-onlineusa.com/ Note that the Japanese site have more info and is more updated.

Who's Sinon's voice actor? See infobox in her article. The one who voice the first promotional video released by the end of last year.

Will there be more girls in season 2? A few more, for example the one in the first PV.

Yet another VRMMORPG? This time it's an VRMMOFPS with RPG element.

What will season II talk about? It's sure that the story will cover Phantom Bullet arc, but no further information about potential inclusion of any other arcs except the simultaneous adaption of Phantom Bullet, Caliber, and Mother's Rosario into Manga. Also, The recently released SAO game does contain PoH, a character appear in SAO that will have some important effect to future arc, Sinon, a character in Phantom Bullet arc, and Yuuki, a character in Mother's Rosario arc in addition to other SAO and ALO characters. And do note that currently the anime official site only have 4 sections, which are Aincrad, Fairy Dance, Extra Edition, and Phantom Bullet without anything else.

Will there be season three after upcoming season two? Even god won't know it yet.

Will there be more screen time for Lisbeth/Silica than as in novel like the case of season 1? Depend on anime production company. Not that in the fourth available PV (CM3) there're images for them appearing.

Will quality of the anime improve over the first season? Not known yet, optimistically you can think the high income given from the show to production company must let them realize the profitability of the show and thus would have invest more on it, but pessimistically you can also think that as season II's production company is the same and most staffs are same as season 1's, and Extra edition's quality also doesn't have much improvement over season 1, thus things won't change. But you'd notice some tiny improvement in some later PV so things might be better slightly.

Will there be many action scene in season II which the production company is weak to handle? Most probably.

Will we see Kirito using guns in the episode? Short answer: yes. You can read the original novel to see how it work.

Any information regarding season 2 of sister series Accel World announced so far? No, and Accel World is actually produced by a different studio from SAO.

Could I skip season 1 TV anime and directly watch the season 2 after its release? Highly unrecommended, but if you really really want to save time, there're a summary episode called Sword Art Online: Extra Edition which its first 80 minutes would be the summary of the first season. But you're warned that by watching this summary episode instead of the actual season 1 at first, you'll lost a lot of fun and interest.

Is there any manga adaption for content that will be made into season 2 exist? Yes, but yet to be translated.

Another Harem? IMO, the plot would not be harem to me but some might hold alternative opinion.

Why we have guns in Sword Art Online? Well, we already have a swordless magic world in the second half of season 1, so why not gun?

Who is the one on the bottom right corner of season 2 announcement poster? Kirito.

Who is the one on the first promotional video? Sinon.

Will there be male lead in Season 2? Depend on your definition.

Will Kirito be (again-depend on opinion) over-powered? Depend on your definition of overpower

Will the anime's atmosphere going more and more soft as indicated from the trend of Aincrad arc to Fairy dance arc then Extra Edition? No.

Will the season season related to the extra edition? Most likely only related to the tiny little bit of video footage appear after the extra edition's ending song.

I am very excited about this news, how can I express it? Read/re-read the novel as a pre-show exercise. Don't vandalize/spam everywhere on the internet about this news to further reduce reputation of fans of SAO.

Who obtained season 2 oversea license of SAO? Aniplex USA had it, others not know yet, but probably platform/channel streaming/broadcasting season 1/extra edition will also stream season 2.

Will there be original content? Not know yet

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