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Never mind found out it is in the afterword of AGGO vol 1 to quote a few lines (Sorry about the lenght of this) extra notes at bottom

When I, a gun maniac, finished reading the 『Phantom Bullet story』 in August 2010, I felt so, so frustrated and engulfed in agony.

“Kuhaa, that was so entertaining! And…… Why didn’t I come up with such a setting! With such a setting, wouldn’t I be able to write as many gun action stories where people don’t die as I wanted! Moreover, I could use a real world Japanese person as the protagonist!”

After some time of loudly expressing my regret with all my energy, I suddenly had an idea.

“I want to write a derivative novel that uses the SAO world, and GGO, as its stage! I seriously want to write one! If I do, I want to publish it! Even if I had to do it as a doujinshi, though, if possible, I would prefer to get the proper consent and release it via Dengeki Bunko with Kuroboshi Kouhaku-san as the illustrator!”

While doing my job as the supervisor,

“This timing, greatly affected by SAO is my only chance to make the GGO spinoff that I’ve always harboured the aspiration for! Now’s the time! I am seriously going to write it, so please allow me to make one!”

I haughtily shared my once-in-a-lifetime request with my supervising editor, Kawahara Reki-san, and Kawahara Reki’s supervising editor——

And now you are reading this „afterword“!

That is the grand history drama behind the publication of this book. Well, looking back at it, a lot did happen.

I believe that this is perhaps the first attempt at a „Dengeki Bunko work that is based on another Dengeki Bunko work“.

I’ll borrow this place to thank Kawahara Reki-san, who gave consent for this work and became its supervisor, from the bottom of my heart.

Truly, thank you very much!

As for the work itself,

“Won’t people not understand it if they don’t know SAO?”

I was very frequently asked this on Twitter right after the announcement and figured I’d give a serious answer to it here as well.

To conclude, the book is written in a way that it could be enjoyed even by people who have not read the entirety of the existing SAO series, or even by people who have not watched the anime.

But hold on! I believe that people who have read up to volume six, the 『Phantom Bulletstory』, of the original SAO novel, or have watched the entirety of the first season and up to episode fourteen of the second season, the『Phantom Bullet story』, of the anime will enjoy it even more! SAO is entertaining, I recommend it!

so yeah a few things

1 He thinks the SAO series is entertaining and loved the setting of GGO

2 He seems to really like and respect Reki Kawahara

3 He even says that AGGO will more enjoyable to people have seen atleast up Phantom Bullet

4 He Actually recommends the main series

so all in all yes He is a fan of SAO a big one by the sounds of it and to answer my own questions no He has been picking any faults in main series SAO at all He's just been referencing the main series

and The Anime Man is just being a bandwagon hater. by the way I don't dislike The Anime Man but like so many other youtubers his bandwagon hate for SAO is annoying and ridiculous at this point.