Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32397673-20170626124121/@comment-29759785-20171231075147

For your information, there won't be any novelization of Ordinal Scale. The movie has been made canon even for LN timeline, so we can (probably) treat it as a slight retcon to the published version of the light novel.

Secondly, I don't understand how an opinion of a youtube reviewer could be used as an argument here - is he reliable source? Does he have contact with the author/anime studio? (highly unlikely).

Lastly, it is as Gsimenas said, we already know what is going to happen in the next arc, and no, there is nothing about them being engaged/married etc.

To sum up, as of current situation (in both anime and light novel), Kirito and Asuna are not either officialy engaged nor marred IRL. The ring is a promise ring that symbolizes their feelings for each other and planning their future togehter. Yes, it is a great hint that they will be married sooner or later, but not at this point of the story.

Hope all misunderstasing are now cleared and this false fact about "marriage/engagement" in the movie will just fade away.