Sword Art Online Extra Edition

Sword Art Online Extra Edition (ソードアート・オンライン Extra Edition) is a special recap episode that aired on December 31, 2013 on Tokyo MX, BS11 and Niconico Douga and featured new footage for the series. The episode was streamed worldwide at midnight (UTC +9) on January 1, 2014 on Crunchyroll and Daisuki. This episode features a new ending theme song called Niji no Oto, sung by Aoi Eir.

Plot
To fulfill Yui's wish of seeing a whale, Kirito accepts an underwater quest, but they find out that Leafa - Suguha has a difficult time dealing with water. Therefore, Asuna, Keiko and Rika start swimming training for Suguha. Meanwhile, Kirito goes to the counselors office for an "emergency meeting", which was a trick by Kikuoka Seijirou to meet him, and talk to him about his time in Sword Art Online.



The episode begins with Kirito and Suguha arriving at the SAO survivor school on his motorbike. After meeting up with Asuna, Rika and Keiko, Kirito leaves to attend emergency counseling, while the girls head off to use the changing rooms to change into swimsuits.

In the locker room the girls compare their respective styles. Kirito arrives at the office to find the counseler and Kikuouka Seijiou waiting for him. The counselor leaves, and Kikuouka dumps a pile of snacks onto the table and places a recorder to discuss Kirito's experience in Sword Art Online to determine why Kayaba did what he did. Then there is a flashback to when Kayaba first announced the true nature of Sword Art Online was to create a setting of a death game, and how Kirito later left Klein in Starting City to become a solo player.

At the swimming pool, the girls are playing in the water, with Suguha getting in with a bouyancy ring, which Rika releases the air out of and teases Suguha about her breasts being able to keep her afloat, however Asuna stops her, and then tells Suguha that they'll start teaching her how to swim by having her hold her head underwater. Back at the counselors office, Kirito recounts the fight with Illfang, and the reason as to why he became a solo player, and taking on all the hate towards Beta Players so that they wouldn't be discriminated by other players.

At the pool, Asuna is guiding Suguha along the pool as she slowly learns to swim with her head underwater. The girls then take a break, when Suguha asks them how they all met her brother. Silica tells them how Kirito saved her, and then helped her bring Pina back. Lisbeth then tells them that her first meeting with Kirito wasn't as dramatic as Silica's. A flashback then occurs, and starts where Lisbeth met Kirito in her blacksmith shop. Lisbeth then recounts to the girls how Kirito had jumped into the Dragon's nest to save her, and later getting them out of there, as she finishes telling them, both Suguha and Asuna apologise for Kirito's actions. At the couselors office, Kirito explains to Kikuoka about Boss raids, and how dangerous they were to the players, and how players were even more dangerous then the monsters.



Known Monsters

 * Giant crab

Named Monsters

 * Armachthys

Named Bosses

 * Kraken the Abyss Lord

Named NPCs

 * Nerakk (Kraken's NPC form)
 * Leviathan the Sea Lord

Spells

 * «Water Breathing»
 * Unnamed Sylph Party Buff

Location

 * «SAO Survivor School»
 * «Turtle Island»
 * «Yggdrasil City»
 * An undersea dungeon in ALO to the south of Swilvane

Errors

 * When Kirito accepted the quest from Nerakk, Nerakk's quest icon mispells "Quest Accepted" as "Qest Accepeted" and after when they listen to Nerakk, "Quest In Progress" is mispelled as as "Qest Progress"
 * On Kirito's phone screen, Asuna's name is written as Yuuki Asuna (結城 明日菜) instead of Yuuki Asuna (結城 明日奈).
 * Leafa is still being written as Leefa in system menu in ALO in this episode.
 * The phone Leafa using is shown as with a earphone jack cap when viewing from the back of the phone, but that's not drawn when viewing from the front of the phone.

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