Kirito and Eugeo realize Selka has taken off to the End Mountains alone, and decide to chase after her. As they enter the cave, they encounter goblins, presumably from the…

In the real world, Kazuto Kirigaya lies unconscious. At Kikuoka’s request, Kazuto is moved to a well-equipped hospital, but when Asuna and Suguha try to visit, they’re turned away. Suspicious,…

Asuna infiltrates Rath, the research lab in the Ocean Turtle, where she relentlessly grills Kikuoka about Kazuto’s whereabouts. Kikuoka reveals that behind the development of the Soul Translator is a…

Kirito, along with his childhood friend, Eugeo, has been tasked with cutting down a colossal tree called the Gigas Cedar. They’re swinging their ax when their friend Alice arrives with…

Kirito wakes up to find himself inside a mysterious world evoking a fantasy game. His memory fuzzy, he tries to log out, but is unable to return to the real…

Kirito makes up his mind to journey to Centoria. Since he’ll need Eugeo’s help, he also decides to fell the Gigas Cedar. Meanwhile, Alice’s little sister, Selka is worried about…

Getting to experience the outside world, Yuuki’s days are more satisfactory than ever before. In ALO, the players have a barbecue and end up on a quest. In the real…

Asuna is asked to help the guild “Sleeping Knights,” which has decided to disband soon due to the members’ circumstances. Before they do, they want to defeat a Floor Boss…

While Kirito and Klein take on the raid party reinforcements by themselves, Asuna and the Sleeping Knights fight their way through the raid party blocking the boss room. Inside the…

A few days have passed since Yuuki suddenly disappeared from in front of Asuna, and she still hasn’t logged in to ALO. Later, Asuna meets Kazuto on the school roof,…

As a tester for the world’s first medical-use Full-Dive device, Yuuki has been diving into virtual worlds from the hospital. Unable to leave her hospital room, she longs to go…

It’s reported that the Holy Sword Excalibur has been discovered inside ALO. Hearing the news, Kirito and Leafa decide to take possession of Excalibur before other players get to it…

At the entrance to Thrymheim, the group is determined to succeed in the quest in order to prevent Thrym from invading Alfheim and causing the cataclysmic event Ragnarok to happen….

Kirito and the others are taking on Thrymr, the Boss lurking at the bottom level of the dungeon. But unable to make much of a dent in Thrymr’s HP, they…

In an upcoming update of ALO, Floors 21-30 of New Aincrad will be unlocked. Asuna, Kirito and Yui revisit their dream of once again living together in their log cabin…

Hearing rumors about a brilliant player known as Zekken, Asuna decides to mount a challenge. But when Asuna logs out, she is told by her mother to take an exam…

After escaping from Death Gun, Kirito and Sinon lay low in a desert cave. There, Kirito speculates on how Death Gun murdered other players. In doing so, he hits upon…

With twenty-four players dead and five players alive, Kirito speculates that there may be more accomplices of Death Gun who are committing murder in the real world. Kirito and Sinon…

Recalling a debriefing before the raid against Laughing Coffin in SAO, Kirito finally recognizes Death Gun as Red-Eyed XaXa, formerly second-in-command of Laughing Coffin. Sinon creates a bullet path as…

Kyouji attacks Shino, saying he’ll kill himself after she’s dead. Kazuto saves her at the last second by jumping Kyouji. During the fight, Kazuto is hit with Kyouji’s poison syringe,…

At home, Kazuto’s sister Suguha Kirigaya shows Kazuto a news article about the BoB, in which Suguha has already found out from Asuna that Kazuto converted from ALO to GGO….

Kirito believes that Death Gun will be under the guise of an alias and use the tournament to stage another murder. Sinon later explains to Kirito the rules and regulations…

Sinon attempts to shoot Death Gun, but he dodges the bullet and kills Pale Rider with his pistol. Asuna, Leafa, Klein, Silica, Lisbeth and Yui also realize that Death Gun…

Sinon is attacked from behind by Death Gun and paralyzed. He’s using a Black Star Type-54, ironically the same gun that Sinon used to shoot the robber. Her memories of…

Shino Asada, real-life persona of Sinon, is ridiculed by schoolmate Endou, who then is warned away by Shino’s friend Kyōji Shinkawa. After hanging out with Kyōji at a restaurant, Shino…

Kikuoka has recruited Kirito to investigate GGO, and so he logs in. To lure Death Gun into targeting him, he hopes to enter Bullet of Bullets (BoB), a tournament to…

To register for BoB, Kirito starts entering the required information into a terminal, but is astounded to see that the form includes columns for his real-world name and address. He…

A man in a beat-up cloak watches Kirito fight his first battle and demands to know if he’s “the real thing”. The man has the tattoo of Laughing Coffin, a…

A year has passed since SAO was cleared. Summoned by Kikuoka of the Virtual Division at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Kazuto learns of a series of bizarre…

GGO player Sinon snipes a boss in an underground dungeon in SBC Glocken, managing to defeat it with her FR F2 sniper rifle and receiving a PGM Hécate II as…

In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a…

Leafa tries to stop kirito as he dashes for the lower branches of the world tree only to be stopped by the new barrier that had been “patched” into the…

Kazuto thinks back to the time when he was ten years old and learned that he was not related to Suguha, which resulted in him becoming detached from his family…

Arriving at the top of the World Tree, Kirito and Yui finally reunite with Asuna. However, they are suddenly hit by high gravity magic, which forces Yui to retreat, and…

Kirigaya Kazuto has beaten death twice but there is one more thing he must do.

Something isn’t right; Recon has sent Leafa a message “I was right. Be careful. S.” What does he mean and will Leafa and Kirito have the time to figure it…

Kirito and Leafa interrupt the attack from happening, in which Kirito rushes forward and addresses Eugene, the general of the Salamanders. Kirito bluffs his position as an ambassador for the…

Kirito and Leafa reach Arun, the capital of Alfheim, located directly beneath the world tree. However a sudden announcement of an emergency shutdown for server maintenance prompt the two to…

Two months later, Kazuto Kirigaya aka Kazuto Narusaka and his adoptive sister Suguha Kirigaya have a kendo match, but he loses due to his sword stance and fighting style being…

A new MMO allows users to fly and encourages player killing. Kirito has joined this new game in search of Asuna and is pleasantly surprised with what he finds.

Lyfa thanks Kirito for saving her and teaches him how to fly properly. They then travel to the Sylph Territory (Sylvein) where they meet one of Lyfa’s party members, Recon….

After recalling how she got into VR gaming, Suguha meets up with Recon’s real life persona, Shin’ichi Nagata, informing him that she will be quitting their party to join Kirito….

Yulier, second in command, of the Liberation Army has approached Kirito and Asuna for help saving her friend and her guild.

While enjoying a fishing tournment Kirito receieves an urgent e-mail from the leader of the guild requesting their return.

Game over.

Kirito and Asuna flee the boss room upon seeing the Gleam Eyes, the boss in the form of a chimera. The two encounter and greet Klein and his guild, Fuurinkazan….