Review of Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2
A little story on how Sword Art Online started. Reki Kawahara written SAO in Fall 2001 to participate in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize, but he exceeded the page limit. According to him, he had no idea or will to trim it down, so he end up forfeiting and instead published it online. This manuscript he wanted to use to take part on the competition is the very known first arc "Aincrad arc", a death game story that take place in a floating castle inside a Virtual World, because of continues support from readers he wrote the sequels arcs and spinoffs. SAO was later publishedofficially into Light Novel around 2008 then adapted into anime on 2012, at the right time it exploded in popularity, with varying receptions to its fan, haters and critics. As well as at that time, the boom of isekai from light novels had begun. The author's wish to take part into a light novel competition was now unexpectedly adapted into anime continuously with new seasons and other media as well