Get More Familiar With 'Sword Art Online' As Needed
(Extracted from #60 (closed).)
There may be some aspects of Sword Art Online that I'll need to become more familiar with for this project; here's what I'm fully familiar with so far:
(Note: The main story's and side stories' light novel, manga, and anime iteration continuities each go together.)
Main Story
- Original storyline continuity:
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Web novel iteration continuity: I haven't looked into it at all.
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Light novel iteration continuity: I haven't read it or any of its side stories.
(Note that enough changed between this and the web novel iteration that it can't really be called an adaptation.)
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Manga adaptation/iteration continuity: I haven't read it.
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Anime adaptation/iteration continuity: I've watched:
- Sword Art Online season 1.
- Sword Art Online: Extra Edition
- Sword Art Online Ⅱ (season 2.)
- Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale
- Sword Art Online: Alicization, including both parts of War of Underworld.
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Progressive continuity:
- Light novel iteration continuity: I've read:
- From volume 1:
- 'Aria of a Starless Night'
- 'Intermission — The Reason for the Whiskers' (As the relevant part of this chapter's title suggests, this is an interlude.)
- From volume 1:
- Manga adaptation/iteration continuity: I haven't read it.
- Movie adaptation/iteration continuity:
- Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night: Ive watched it.
- Light novel iteration continuity: I've read:
Side Content
Presumed to fit with either the original or Progressive continuities unless or until determined otherwise.
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online
- Light novel iteration continuity: I haven't read it.
- Manga adaptation/iteration continuity: I haven't read it.
- Anime adaptation/iteration continuity: I've watched what's currently its only season.
Other
- Sword Art Online Alternative: Clover's Regret (Light novel iteration continuity only:) I haven't read it.
- Sword Art Online — Girls Ops (Manga iteration continuity only:) I haven't read it.
Video Game Iteration Continuity
I haven't played any of them, but this consists of:
Console/PC Games
These all appear to constitute a single continuity.
- Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment
- Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment
- Sword Art Online: Lost Song
- Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
- Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
- Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
Mobile Games, Ignoring Region-Exclusive Titles
It isn't clear if they are, but these may well not share continuities with either the console/PC games listed just above or each other.
- Sword Art Online: Memory Defrag
- Sword Art Online: Integral Factor (Also has a tie-in prologue comic.)
- Sword Art Online: Alicization Blading, localized into English as Sword Art Online: Alicization Rising Steel.
References/Sources
TO DO.