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 Q10: There were a few things such as the "Underworld" arc in Alfheim Online (ALO) and during “Murder Case in the Arena” epilogue that was heavily truncated. A lot of that was foreshadow for later events in the anime. Do you feel anything was missed because of these that were not included? When "Progressive" arc is completed, would you want them to include those scenes if you have the opportunity to do so?

 Kawahara:  Are you talking about where Leafa and Kirito enters the Underworld?

 -- They left the joke afterwards where Suguha slips snow down the back of his [Kirito] shirt which is payback for him unknowingly doing that to her. And also foreshadowing during murder case where Kirito storms in with his horse, which leads to an appearance in the GGO arc.

 Kawahara:  The root behind that scene was when I was originally serializing it on my home page that scene didn't exist, but when it was novelized, we didn't have enough pages, so I kind of tacked that on. So when it was going to be animated, the scene feels added on [afloat], so I think it should be taken out of the animation and that was the choice I've made.

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 Q23: In the “Project Alicization” arc for Sword Art Online there is a concept where time is set by a thousand and willpower is key to everything. You said that there was no direct connection between Accel World and Sword Art Online, but wasn’t the technology used in “Project Alicization” arc the same concept?

 Kawahara:  In terms of technology, the "Soul Translator" technology in “Project Alicization” could be or is the foundation of the technology used in Accel'' World. ''At this point, as I said before, it might be a similar technology having a technological chain, but it hasn't been made clear that it is in fact the same world. The two worlds could just have similar technological advances.

If I said that the two worlds are the same right now, there would be numerous problems that would need to be solved leading up to ten times the problem that I can even hope to do right now. I really admired how the creative staff of The Avengers, managed to weave multiple storylines into a cohesive one.

 -- The changes made in “Project Alicization” arc, where it focuses on willpower rather than skill, was that meant to bring Kirito down to more human level compared to his overpower god-like form like in the other arc?

 Kawahara:  It is true that the decision might of been to make Kirito, as you put, less "god-like." But at the end of the “Project Alicization” arc, all of that work would have been for not, considering what happens to him.



Source: http://www.t-ono.net/sakura-con-2013/Reki-Kawahara-Press-Conference-Sakura-Con-2013.html