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Sword Art Online Light Novels About Virtual MMO Get Anime

posted on by Egan Loo
Reki Kawahara's story of genius programmer who plays deadly virtual-world MMO

Pictures of bags that will be distributed at the Accel World, has an anime as well.

The story of Sword Art Online revolves around a genius programmer named Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya who enters a virtual-reality, massively multi-player online (MMO) world called "Sword Art Online." There is no escape from this world unless the player clears the game, but "game over" means the death of the player.

Kawahara launched the light novels with illustrations by Kadokawa's Dengeki Bunko imprint has scheduled a 2:00-2:40 p.m. event at Sunday's festival to announce new works in different forms of media.

The 2011 edition of the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! guidebook by Ben-To. The only one without anime until now was Sword Art Online.

[Via Yaraon!]

Update: More information added.


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