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“Trapped in VR game Sword Art Online, players must clear 100 deadly floors or die in real life.”
Sword Art Online
ソードアート・オンライン
7.96
930 rank · 65,845 readers · 3,550 favorites
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Synopsis
Trapped in VR game Sword Art Online, players must clear 100 deadly floors or die in real life.
In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online-a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other-opens its virtual doors, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in the game world by manipulating their brain waves to create a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for all its amazing features, SAO is missing one of the most basic functions of any MMORPG-a log-out button. Now trapped in the virtual world of Aincrad, their bodies held captive by NerveGear in the real world, users are issued a chilling ultimatum: conquer all one hundred floors of Aincrad to regain your freedom. But in the warped world of SAO, "game over" means certain death-both virtual and real... (Source: Yen Press)
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Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
9.3
/10
What 11 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 0.75
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.75 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.73
Running avg · Apr 2012 → May 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Let me just say I am not reviewing the entirety of the light novel series. Although I have read almost all of them, I am writing primarily on the fourth arc of the LN; Aliciziation. Most people...”
- 10 “As a native speaker of mandarin, i am lucky enough to enjoy the novels without needing to wait the long translation time or the english translation of the book. Although the first story about...”
- 10 “Note: I will only be talking about Project Alicization arc (volume 9 to 18), which isn't in the anime. I found the previous 8 volumes not much different from the anime. Story (10): The setting is...”
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Medium · 36%
Long · 64%
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A Light novel Publication
- Published Apr 2009 – ongoing
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M13532 catalog