Sword Art Online - Aincrad Volume 01 (manga)

Sword Art Online - Aincrad (ソードアート・オンライン アインクラッド) is a manga adaptation of the light novel series by Kawahara Reki. This manga covers Volume 1 and some of the side stories in Volume 2 of the light novel series, and is illustrated by Nakamura Tamako. The Japanese version of this manga was published in two volumes, each consisting of 6 stages (chapters), while the American version of the manga will publish all 12 stages in one book.

Stage.001
During a battle with The Gleam Eyes, many members of The Army die. Kirito and Asuna are there at the scene and they also join the fight. The scene ends there with Kirito manipulating a skill window.

Two years ago, at the official opening of the game Sword Art Online, Kirito met Klein. Klein asked for Kirito's guidance after he realizes that Kirito was one of the Beta testers. After Klein successfully defeats a «Frenzy Boar», he tried to log out. Failing to find the logout button, Kirito and Klein discussed whether it was a bug. Without warning, they were both teleported to the central plaza of «Starting City». The GM informed them that the only way to logout is by clearing all one hundred floors of the floating city of «Aincrad». Their appearance were also changed to their real identity in the real world.

Adaptation Notes

 * In stage one, Klein performs the sword skill before Kirito explains it.
 * The mirrors appear in the players' hands and the avatars of the players are transformed to look like their real life bodies before Kayaba appears during the tutorial; in the Light Novel Kayaba Akihiko appears first and the mirrors appear in the players' inventories.
 * In the novel, only three members of the Army died to The Gleam Eyes.