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Based on the popular light novels by Reki Kawahara, Sword Art Online is 1 of the best-known anime of the past decade. The fantasy sci-fi series has captured the imaginations of viewers across the globe with its adventures through dissimilar game worlds and often blurs the lines between virtual reality and real life.

As the series continues to grow, it tin can be intimidating to newcomers with its unique timeline and lengthy titles for story arcs and films. Here'southward a breakup of the full SAO timeline and the best order in which to picket it.

Season 1: Sword Art Online (Aincrad/Fairy Trip the light fantastic)

The start flavour that started it all is carve up into ii arcs: the "Aincrad" Arc and the "Fairy Dance" Arc. "Aincrad" introduces protagonist Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya, who in November 2022 is trapped, forth with ten,000 other players, inside the VR world of Sword Art Online. The threat is real: anyone who dies in the game dies in real life, and all 100 floors must exist cleared in order to escape the game and return to the real world. It'south filled with exciting battles and heartbreaking deaths — love fifty-fifty blossoms in the midst of the life-or-death struggle.

"Fairy Dance" begins 2 months after the end of "Aincrad." 300 players from the SAO incident remain trapped for reasons unknown, including Kirito's honey girlfriend Asuna. She remains unconscious and extremely frail in the real world every bit Kirito finds out she is being held earnest in another VR game, ALfheim Online. The world and cast offset to aggrandize here as Asuna'south family and connections are introduced, along with a mysterious government representative whose influence grows with each successive flavour.

This short movie features Kirito giving a full recap of Flavor 1's events to government official Seijirou Kikuoka. There'due south too some brand new content as the girls have a swimming adventure in the real earth and the full cast finally enjoys a non-life threatening quest in ALO.

Season 2: Sword Art Online II (Phantom Bullet/Calibur/Female parent'southward Rosario)

Flavor 2 begins with the "Phantom Bullet" Arc, a full year after the SAO incident. Every bit the new shooter VR game Gun Gale Online grows in popularity, two mysterious incidents involving a player named Death Gun alarm the authorities. When Death Gun shoots a player's avatar, that actor too ends upwardly dying in the existent globe. Due to Kirito'due south gaming knowledge and expertise, he is asked to dive into GGO and investigate. He teams upwardly with sniper extraordinaire Shino "Sinon" Asada and learns the antagonists are more familiar than he realized.

The "Calibur" Arc is a short but fun filler gamble for the full cast — now including Sinon — back in ALfheim Online. A lighthearted story that sits in betwixt two significantly heavier ones.

"Mother's Rosario" is an emotional story that gives Asuna her long-awaited plough in the spotlight. Back in ALO, she hears of an skillful sword fighter named Zekken who is undefeated in one-on-one battles, including a victory over Kirito. Asuna and Zekken, real proper noun Yuuki, get fast friends and Asuna joins her society for a time. Reality, however, isn't and then lighthearted every bit Yuuki carries a devastating real-world burden continued to her desire to compete in ALO. Have tissues at the ready.

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online

SAO Alternative is a separate serial with a whole dissimilar cast of characters. Based on the light novels past Keiichi Sigsawa, the only similarity to the main serial is that it takes place in the already-established earth of Gun Gale Online. It can exist viewed completely on its own, although a couple of easter egg references to Sinon and Kirito might exist missed without watching the "Phantom Bullet" Arc outset.

Shy college pupil Karen Kouhirimaki struggles with socializing and making friends due to her exceptionally tall height. She decides to try VR games as an escape and comes to dearest the thrill of Gun Gale Online, which also allows her to create her own avatar and go the curt, pink-clad girl she always wanted to be. At present total of confidence as Llenn, she guns down all who stand in her way equally she competes in a tournament that means life or expiry for one particular player.

Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale (Motion picture)

Back in the main timeline, theOrdinal Scale pic takes place a few weeks after the stop of the "Mother's Rosario" Arc. It also has the distinction of being an anime-exclusive story, not appearing in author Kawahara'south lite novels.

A new augmented reality device called the Augma is all the rage, with a combat-based game chosen Ordinal Calibration becoming the showtime ARMMORPG. Kirito shows little interest in AR until Asuna and the others tell him that boss monsters from the original Sword Art Online game have started appearing. The mysteries compound when the game'south second-ranked player, Eiji, purposely injures Klein and his gild, leaving them in the infirmary. Multiple SAO survivors who collaborate with Eiji, including Asuna, brainstorm to lose the memories of their fourth dimension in SAO.

Season three: Sword Art Online - Alicization (Alicization/War of Underworld)

The third and still-ongoing flavor of SAO is its longest and most expansive so far. Dissever into three arcs — "Alicization,""War of Underworld" Part ane" and "State of war of Underworld Part ii" — it begins a few months after the events of Ordinal Scale.

"Alicization" sees Kirito working with the top secret government-run company Rath to test a new experimental total-dive machine chosen the Soul Translator (STL). Afterward existence attacked in the real world by a member of the Death Gun plot from Season 2, Kirito suffers significant brain damage and is only kept alive thanks to the STL. Every bit Kirito wakes upward in the Underworld with his real-earth memories intact, he must effigy out how to survive in a much more than realistic VR world than ever earlier while Rath'southward true goals for the STL become clear.

The subsequent "War of Underworld" arc continues the events of Alicization as a world-spanning war breaks out in the Underworld with major international consequences for the existent world as well. "Office 2" is currently airing and bachelor to stream on Crunchyroll.

Information technology can be disruptive, merely the SAO anime's chronology does fit in a proper order — though Culling tin can be viewed independently —even though many of the stories begin very before long later their preceding arcs. Seems Kirito and friends go even shorter spans of peace and tranquility than the Dragon Brawl bandage.

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