Talk:Sword Art Online Light Novel Volume 01

Chapter 16.5
If you cannot report on the true nature of an actual chapter from the original work that was written by the original author due to your own moral predilections, I don't feel you have the right to call your website a wiki. Please reconsider your stance in the spirit of fair and unbiased reporting on this wonderful franchise. 71.194.176.70 17:36, January 2, 2013 (UTC)


 * Well the fact that it includes sex between character, in a hentai format, and while it was declared non-canon, while I agree that unbiased has its place there is also a matter of decency and profane which will either detract from our position as a proper wiki or open it up to a looser standard wiki. Of course if you could come up with a acceptable summary for the chapter that isn't explicit then I will happily include it, since I can not come up with one my stance will remain unchanged.


 * You mean Reki himself said it was non-canon? A long time ago I had a conversation on the canonicity of the chapter but I don't remember some of the details & don't see them in this section. Oh & was anything else in the fanfiction section? Another page calls the section "hidden" what is meant by that?


 * 16.5 work in this way: First, SAO was a web publication many years before it being printed into book. Second, On the author's site where SAO is originally serialized, it is divided into different sections, including a region for serialization, a region for other's doujin on his own series, a region for BBS, and there's also a hidden region in the site that include doujin creation with mature content and that part of the site can only be entered by directly typing the URL instead of clicking hyperlinks on the ordinary site, and 16.5 is included in that hidden part, so they are separate from the main web serialization. It is also written by different time compare to the original web series which started writing in year 2001. And in fact, after the publication of SAO novel, the part in the original chapter 16 of the web novel that have the possibility to lead to chapter 16.5 development had also been deleted from the published version together would many other more significant changes. So It would not be canon nor would it fit in to the published ver of SAO.
 * And his response to that had been made in a Sakura-Con panel.c933103 (talk) 05:42, June 27, 2014 (UTC)