Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-112.198.212.67-20130812030552/@comment-1173941-20130812031339

Well, the Anime is based off of the books. Really, Volume 1 was the first day events, followed by a two year time-skip, (starting where Kirito got that Rabbit)

Everything in between that time-skip was mostly covered by short-stories published later. The Anime contained most of the short-stories that were published onto the Light Novels, (plus 1)

Unfortunately, because of how the Author published the story, there's a giant hole in the story, that's only partially filled. Though, he has started a different line of books, called "Sword Art Online: Progressive" which is going floor by floor, or so.

In short, it would be nice, but i don't see it happening.