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When Do Sword Art Online War of Underworld Episodes Come Out

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The anime Sword Art Online Season 4 will be based on the Unital Ring arc of the SAO serial. — Pic credit: abec

The Sword Art Online Season 4 release date exist far offering over the horizon considering that the third season finished in September 2020 and the SAO: Unital Band book sequel hasn't been completed yet equally of the 5th book in the new series.

What'due south more than, the Sword Fine art Online: Progressive movie anime series that released in 2021 was a reboot of the original anime, non a direct sequel to Alicization'south catastrophe. (Please see the new article for details about the SAO: Progressive story.)

Simply announcements concerning the Sword Art Online: Alicization anime episodes and the Sword Art Online: Unital Ring light novel serial gives fans a glimpse into the future of Kirito, Asuna, Alice Schuberg, and other SAO characters.

What nosotros do know for certain is that Aniplex intends on adapting the entire SAO serial into anime. The third season adapted the entire Alicization arc and the directly book sequel to Alicization is already up to the fifth volume in the series. While Unital Ring probably won't exist longer than Alicization, it should be the terminal catastrophe of the entire SAO story.

What does Unital Ring mean for Sword Art Online Season 4? A-1 Pictures director Manabu Ono once stated in an official interview that he had spoken with Aniplex staff around the time the SAO: Ordinal Scale movie was being screen-tested and "they were planning to adapt the entire Sword Art Online serial."

While Ono did non specifically mention SAO: Unital Ring or the possibility of Sword Art Online Flavour 4, keep in mind that Kawahara had already publicly announced Unital Ring when this interview was published.

Therefore, it'due south not unreasonable to assume that a Sword Fine art Online: Unital Ring anime is in our futurity. The only question is when the fourth flavor will release and the answer is largely up to Reki Kawahara, the creator of the SAO series.

Sword Art Online Unital Ring Trailer Preview For Light Novel Books

The third flavour was streaming on Hulu, Funimation, Crunchyroll, and HIDIVE. The tertiary flavor was divided into four cours that suit the entire Alicization arc.

A cour is a 3-month unit of broadcasting time based on the physical seasons, and so four cours means the 4 quarters of a full year. But all four cours of Sword Art Online Season iii were not aired consecutively.

Anime studio A-1 Pictures released 47 episodes in total for the Sword Art Online: Alicization anime adaptation. The first half was 24 episodes while the second one-half, Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld, had 23 episodes.

The finale, Sword Art Online: Alicization War of Underworld Part 2 Episode eleven, released on September xix, 2020. The new SAO: Progressive anime was appear the same day.

  • Updated Feb 02, 2022: Added SAO Unital Band five info.
  • Updated December 9, 2020: Added SAO Volume 25 postscript note from the author. Changed release engagement predictions based on climax info.
  • Updated November 30, 2020: Added SAO Volume 25 illustrations.
  • Updated November 9, 2020: Added Sword Art Online Volume 25 cover art.
  • Updated September 27, 2020: Added SAO Volume 25 release date and SAO: Progressive Volume 7 release time frame.
  • Updated September xix, 2020: Sword Art Online: Progressive anime confirmed!
  • Updated September xiv, 2020: Added more SAO: Unital Ring details and restructured the story.
  • Updated June 8, 2020: SAO: Alicization final flavor release date confirmed!
  • Updated April 10, 2020: Sword Fine art Online: Alicization Last Season delayed! Added Unital Band three details.
  • Updated February 25, 2020: Added the exact date for the Sword Fine art Online: Alicization Final Season anime.
  • Updated Dec 28, 2019: Added fourth dimension frame for last season of Sword Fine art Online: Alicization – State of war of Underworld. Added more Unital Band volume news.
  • Updated October 14, 2019: Added SAO Season 3's number of episodes and Blu-Ray details.
  • Updated September 6, 2019: Added verbal release date for Sword Art Online: Alicization – State of war of Underworld.
  • Updated March 31, 2019: Added SAO Season 3 hiatus confirmation. Added War of Underworld trailer and other details.
  • Updated Dec 7, 2018: Added more Unital Ring spoilers, light novel image gallery, and Season 3 hiatus details.
  • Updated November 16, 2018: Added new Sword Fine art Online Season 4 spoilers, SAO Volume 21 cover art, and exact title name for Unital Ring one.

This commodity provides everything that is known about Sword Fine art Online Flavour 4 (Sword Art Online: Unital Ring) and all related news. Every bit such, this article will be updated over time with news, rumors, and analysis. Meanwhile, allow's delve down into what is known for certain.

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Special SAO fine art released by light novel illustrator abec to celebrate the Sword Art Online: Alicization ending. Moving picture credit: abec

Sword Art Online Season 4 release appointment: Unital Ring anime possible by 2023?

As of the terminal update, Aniplex, A-1 Pictures, or any company related to the production of the anime has non officially confirmed the Sword Art Online Flavour four release engagement. Nor has the production of an anime sequel been announced.

Once the news is officially confirmed this article volition be updated with the relevant data. In the meantime, information technology's possible to speculate nearly when, or if, the Sword Art Online Season 4 premiere date will occur in the futurity.

Predicting the Sword Art Online Season 4 release date is a bit hard since the number of volumes for Unital Ring is unknown. The one thing we know for certain is that Kawahara has strongly stated that he hopes it will be shorter than Alicization, which was x books long.

SAO Book 21: Unital Band 1 released on December 7, 2018. Volume 22, which released on October 10, 2019, was four side stories while Book 23, which released on December 10, 2019, was the direct continuation of the Unital Band story. Sword Art Online Volume 24: Unital Ring three was released in May 2020, while Unital Ring 4 came out on December x, 2020, and Unital Ring 5 on Oct 8, 2021.

Assuming that Unital Ring is shorter than Alicization, Reki Kawahara could conceivably be washed with viii books by 2023 at the absolute earliest. And that'southward assuming he begins pushing himself by releasing two books per yr on average.

But it's possible the SAO: Unital Ring story will be much shorter than Alicization. In the SAO: Unital Band 4 (Book 25) postscript notes, Kawahara provided a minor spoiler and then indicated that the Sword Fine art Online: "Unital Ring Arc" climax was approaching. And Unital Band v certainly does offer a climactic moment.

That could mean that Unital Ring could be less than even 8 books. Assuming that's the example, information technology'southward possible Sword Art Online: Unital Ring half dozen (Volume 27) could be the terminal ending, which means the volume series could be over by late 2022 or early 2023.

Anime projects take years to develop, then the earliest probable premiere date for SAO Season 4 is between belatedly 2023 and 2025.

Of course, information technology's also possible that Kawahara could release only one new Unital Band-focused book a year, which would mean the wait for the SAO: Unital Ring anime could be quite long indeed if he's targeting SAO Volume 29 for the ending.

As discussed later in this article, creating a Moon Cradle movie makes sense, but another pick would be to adapt Moon Cradle as a single-cour Sword Art Online Season 4. That would mean Unital Ring would exist Sword Art Online Season 5.

In combination with the SAO: Progressive anime, creating a Sword Art Online: Moon Cradle movie makes sense since information technology would fill in the long gap between the third season's finale and the completion of Unital Ring.

Sword Art Online: Alicization low-cal novels compared to the anime

The story for the SAO anime is written past Japanese author Reki Kawahara. SAO spin-offs like Gun Gale Online and SAO: Clover's Regret have a different author.

SAO started life as a novel contest entry for Dengeki Novel Prize that ended upward being self-published online as a web novel considering the story was too long. From 2002 through 2008, Kawahara published on his ain website a series of side stories and a direct sequel that built on the success of the original premise.

The series was eventually picked up Kadokawa'south Dengeki Bunko banner and adapted into a light novel series starting in 2009. (Unfortunately, the web novel is no longer available online.)

Kawahara had many ideas too SAO. From 2004 through 2009, he wrote a spider web novel called The Isolator (Zettai Naur Kodokusha), which told the story of a teenager named Utsugi Minoru, who was given a superhuman ability when various extraterrestrial life forms come into contact with the human species. He as well entered the Dengeki Novel Prize contest again with the Accel World story and won.

Kawahara relied on many fourth dimension gaps in the original SAO story because the writing contest required that he had a solid ending, not a cliffhanger or a "to be continued" ending. Non satisfied with the way that the Aincrad story arc turned out, he rebooted the showtime 2 volumes equally a spin-off chosen Sword Art Online: Progressive (which also has a manga adaptation). Progressive follows Kirito and Asuna as they cleared Aincrad one floor at a time.

Volume 6 released in May 2018 and it told the story up to flooring 6. The Sword Art Online: Progressive Book 7 release appointment is scheduled for Bound 2021.

The English translation of the SAO lite novel series is being published by Yen Press. By the time the final part of the third flavour of the SAO: Alicization anime began airing, the English light novels were only upwardly to Sword Art Online: Moon Cradle, which released on April 21, 2020.

The English Book 21, Sword Fine art Online: Unital Band, released on January nineteen, 2021, with the English edition quickly catching up.

In add-on, there are several active fan translation projects that are already up to Book eighteen, which is the ending of the Alicization story arc.

The third flavor of the anime adaptation is based on the Sword Fine art Online: Alicization arc, which is the longest story arc thus far. According to the author's afterword in light novel Volume xviii, Kawahara actually wrote the entire Alicization story in web novel format starting in January 2005 and finishing in 2008.

Years afterwards, Kawahara wrote a web novel called Cradle Of The Moon, which is an Underworld side story that takes place shortly before the ending of Alicization during the time gap when the fluctlight acceleration was maxed out. The Alicization story was adapted into calorie-free novel volumes 9 through 18, while volumes xix and 20 were called Moon Cradle part 1 and 2.

The third flavor of the anime accommodation adapted the unabridged Alicization arc. The pacing was a bit faster in comparison to previous seasons since in that location were x books to cover in comparison to the 8 books adapted by the first two seasons.

As might be expected, many details from the low-cal novels were condensed for the anime adaptation. For example, Kawahara noted on Twitter that the anime's opening episodes skimmed over the "reason why the electric current artificial Fluctlights cannot be used as weapons."

"In blitheness, it is necessary to compress caption parts greatly, and we can not convey all the logic," he tweeted.

Already, fans are starting to make comparisons betwixt the light novel and the anime. The biggest deviation in Episode i was the action scene set up in Gun Gale Online, which showed off a GGO Asuna. That scene was completely anime original, merely it was a overnice addition which gave a pause from the info dumping that took place in the latter half of Episode ane.

Fans also noticed that the Tv show seemingly skipped the Zakkaria Sword Arts Tournament of Volume 10, Chapter iii then Kawahara offered an apology.

"I'm sorry that the Zakkaria Arc was handled through flashback only, only it is necessary to be selective with episodes even though the season is iv cours equally there are x books," Kawahara said. "I recollect 2 books per cour is the limit if yous desire to do the adaptation faithfully, but I think Zakkaria was the biggest cut."

By Episode 24, the anime had finished the ending of Volume 14. The SAO: Alicization Episode 25 of the War of Underworld story arc opened with the story events of Volume 15.

The ending of the anime's story shifted back to the real earth and testify what happened leading up to events on Bounding main Turtle. Sinon was competing against a role player named Subtilizer in the fourth Bullet of Bullets tournament of the Gun Gale Online game. It turned out Subtilizer was connected to everything happening.

Episode 47 finished by adapting the ending of Book eighteen: Alicization Lasting.

SAO Alicization Episode i Accommodation Comparing: LN vs Anime

The bad news is that Kawahara currently has not released enough books for Sword Art Online Season 4 to be produced immediately post-obit the third season. The good news is that he'south hard at work on the sequel.

Will in that location be a Sword Art Online: Moon Cradle picture show?

The biggest question mark is what Aniplex plans on doing with the two book volumes related to Sword Art Online: Moon Cradle. Although Moon Cradle takes place chronologically before the finish of the Alicizationarc, the Alicization anime will non be adapting the Moon Cradle arc.

In writing the story, Kawahara said the Moon Cradle web novel was originally "structured to be readable as an independent fantasy story with some grapheme names in common (with the original works)." Therefore, adapting the low-cal novels in chronological order would seriously disrupt the menses of the story in the Alicization anime.

Without getting into major spoilers, Moon Cradle involves multiple SAO characters spending many years worth of virtual time within Underworld. The plot is self-contained and only indirectly relevant to Unital Ring then far (encounter the spoilers department below for more details).

But how exercise so many years transpire? In Episode 1 of SAO: Alicization, Kirito explained the concept of Fluctlight Acceleration, which allows a homo FullDiving via the Soul Translator to experience time at an accelerated rate. This time dilation factor is usually maxed out at 1,500 in social club to avoid filling up the Fluctlight retentiveness, but nigh the end of Alicization, the Fluctlight Acceleration is cranked up way, style past the safety limits.

Before certain SAO characters are ejected from Underworld, Rath decides to delete all memories accumulated later on the Fluctlight Acceleration rate was increased. That means Moon Cradle is a story near a lifetime of memories spent in Underworld that the characters no longer recall one time they're in the real world.

Moon Cradle is similar to Ordinal Scale in that information technology's not necessary to picket the latter moving-picture show to empathize the plot of the main anime series. Therefore, it would make sense for Aniplex to adapt the story as a Moon Cradle moving-picture show since it would requite audiences something new to scout until Sword Art Online Season 4 is released.

Sword Art Online Moon Cradle Volume 20 Cover
The cover for Sword Art Online: Moon Cradle features two SAO characters named Ronye and Tiese, both of whom are introduced during the Alicization arc. — Pic credit: abec

Sword Art Online: Unital Band sequel began releasing in 2018

In early on 2017, Kawahara had promised "one more big arc" that will go "back to the real globe." Starting with Sword Art Online Volume 21, the author plans on developing a new blazon of game thought that'south different from The Seed games (Alfheim, GGO, etc.), Underworld, and the augmented reality Ordinal Scale.

This means the new story arc requires that Kirito, Asuna, and all the other SAO characters start over. The story is also new footing entirely because it's the first SAO story arc that is non based on a web novel.

Kawahara as well left a message at the end of the Cradle of the Moon spider web novel which stated that the "battles of Kirito and Asuna, Leafa, and Sinon and others, and Alice will exist continued" when "they are their descendants once again take upwards swords" in the "last, greatest battlefield: The War of Intelligence Infinite." Whether or not that was a hint about the upcoming story arc remains to exist seen.

Sword Art Online Alice Short Story The End of the Summer and the Straw Hat
Bikini Alice goes to the embankment along with Asuna and the other girls. — Moving-picture show credit: abec

Bikini Alice goes to the beach along with Asuna and the other girls. — Motion picture credit: abec

Kawahara eventually announced that the new story arc will exist called Sword Fine art Online: Unital Ring i and that it will exist a direct sequel to Alicization. The author explained that Unital Ring's title is similar Ordinal Scale because both titles are a reference to a mathematical term, but that doesn't mean the two story arcs are linked in whatsoever manner.

When fans asked if SAO: Unital Band will exist longer than Alicization, he replied, "Oh… I strongly promise not." In recent interviews, Reki implied that Unital Band might be the last ending when he declared, "If the anime is going to continue, my light novel will be over later Alicization."

For Dengeki Choukansha Fair 2018, a bonus brusk story called The End of the Summer and the Harbinger lid was released. (Warning: This story is set in-between Alicization and Unital Ring 1 and it contains 1 major spoiler apropos Alice.)

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The release date for SAO Book 21 happened on December seven, 2018. SAO Volume 23: Unital Band ii released on Dec ten, 2019, while SAO Volume 24: Unital Ring 3 released on May 9, 2020, and SAO Book 25: Unital Ring 4 on December ten, 2020.

The Sword Art Online Volume 26 release appointment was Oct 18, 2021. It was titled Sword Fine art Online: Unital Ring 5.

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The book cover art for Sword Fine art Online Volume 25 (Unital Ring 4). Film credit: abec

Sword Art Online: Unital Band anime spoilers

The twelvemonth is 2026 and it has been one-half a year since the Ordinal Scale incident. Kirigaya Kazuto (existent-life proper name of Kirito) was attacked past Johnny Blackness, a former member of the Laughing Coffin murder guild, at the end of June earlier Summer Break. Although Kirito spent years of virtual time in Underworld, he woke from his blackout in the real earth on Baronial 1, 2026.

After a long recovery, Kirito returned domicile and it's now just ten days abroad from him becoming 18 years one-time on October 7th. (Coincidentally, the Alicization anime premiered on Kirito'southward birthday.)

The prologue for SAO Book 21 makes a large deal about highlighting the respective birthdays of Kirito and Asuna, likewise as Kirito'due south musings almost how his life could accept gone differently if his parents had not died in a car accident when he was a baby. Since his real name was Narusaka Kazuto before he was adopted, Kazuto comically believes he may take used the gamer character named Naruto instead of Kirito.

Asuna will also be 18 soon, as well. Since both main SAO characters volition presently be of legal historic period, it would not be surprising if the Unital Ring story arc features a Kirito and Asuna nuptials. Although, Alice may have something to say near that since she and Kirito grew very close during their fourth dimension in Underworld.

Sword Art Online Unital Ring SAO Volume 21 release date confirmed for the light novel sequel to the Alicization story arc
Kirito finally returns for the Sword Fine art Online: Unital Ring arc of the light novel series. — Pic credit: abec/ASCII Media Works

Since emerging from Underworld, Alice has lived in the real world with a humanoid mechanical trunk complete with schoolgirl clothing. When Alice met Kirito'southward parents she treated them equally if she were Kirito's wife in the mode she addressed them.

Asuna was incensed and threw downward the gauntlet, promising to finish the dearest feud ceasefire they'd established in Underworld. All poor Kirito could practise was try to hibernate from the 2 girls chasing him down.

Kirito and Asuna had many of their memories of Underworld suppressed merely not completely forgotten. While Kirito is upset that he can just remember mere fragments of memories from Underworld, Asuna quips that she'southward okay with losing some memories since she believes he was busy getting into trouble with other women. Needless to say, Kirito probably wishes he could reboot his love relationships, not simply his memories.

Sword Art Online Volume 18 Kirito Asuna Alice
Art from Sword Art Online Book 18 shows how sparks wing whenever Asuna and Alice are in the same room together. — Film credit: abec

Back in the real earth, Kirito and his virtual daughter Yui are discussing what sort of birthday nowadays to purchase for Asuna. Since existence designed by Kayaba Akihiko, creator of SAO and The Seed, Yui has grown greatly as a self-aware top-downwardly bogus intelligence. Information technology's even hinted that Yui's capabilities may take grown to the betoken that she's in command of Japan'southward supercomputers.

Kirito eventually decides to dive into New Aincrad, the recreation of the floating castle. Maintained in Alfheim Online, the floors are at present open up upward through Floor l and players are slowly working their way upwards to the pinnacle. But Kirito desires quiet so he can focus on catching up on schoolhouse homework and so he transports to the small log motel that he and Asuna originally built on Floor 22.

Nigh finishing upwardly on his study, Kirito hears the sound of footsteps and mistakenly thinks the blue-haired Asuna has entered. Instead, it'south the blonde-haired Alice, who has go a Caith Sith true cat knight in Alfheim because it was the easiest manner to become a dragon-flying Dragon Knight.

Alice had announced herself to the world in a grand speech at a press briefing and now she's advocating human rights for AI. She'd gained notoriety with gamers for the way she chewed out PKers for the fashion they behaved. But she also enjoyed relaxing in Alfheim since information technology was similar to Underworld.

Sword Art Online Unital Ring SAO Volume 21 Light Novel Cover Art Kirito Armor Cat Ear Alice Asuna
The light novel comprehend fine art for Sword Fine art Online: Unital Ring 1 shows the new character designs as well as a aging New Aincrad. On Twitter, Kawahara said that "the bear upon of the metal armor Kirito is every bit big as the True cat Ears Alice." — Pic credit: abec

Due to Fluctlight Dispatch, 200 years had already passed in Underworld since Integrity Knight Alice Synthesis 30 had vanished. When Kirito, Asuna, and Alice last snuck intoUnderworld, the technology had developed to the point that people were living in infinite colonizing planets and Pilots, not Integrity Knights, were flight mechadragons. All three characters were regarded almost equally a legend past the newest generation of AI humans living in the Man Empire.

Fluctlight copies of Kirito and Asuna had lived on in this world (the events of Moon Cradle). They became Underworld'due south "King and Queen of the Stars" and Kirito believes his virtual counterpart had died 30 years ago in virtual time. But the Rath corporation had reset the Fluctlight Acceleration so that fourth dimension in Underworld was running at the same pace as reality.

Despite being disconnected from Underworld for so long, Alice hoped to resurrect her sis, Selka Zuberg, who survived in Deep Freeze inside the Primal Cathedral. Alice also hoped to re-hatch the dragon siblings and heighten them once more.

Eventually, Asuna logs in and joins Kirito and Alice within the log cabin. Alice and Asuna are outwardly civil toward each other but Kirito definitely notices the mood change when the 2 women are in the same room together.

Without warning, Kirito's wooden motel is shaken past a massive earthquake, which should be impossible in the virtual realm. Everyone is shocked when the sky turns ruddy with a hexagonal pattern that perfectly mirrors the organisation-wide event that trapped everyone in Sword Fine art Online.

Sword Art Online Unital Ring Argo Volume 21 Light Novel
"It's been a while, Kiibou." Argo returns! And in real life sans whiskers! Book 21 ends by bringing back the pop rat girl from the Progressive serial and information technology appears she's transferring into Kirito's SAO survivors school. – Film credit: abec

Suddenly, Aincrad begins crumbling and the chunk of state containing Kirito and Asuna'south loghouse plummets towards the ground. Kirito remembers the OrdinalScale incident and how Professor Shigemura recovered the original Aincrad on the onetime SAO server in Argus' basement. This original Aincrad serves as Yuuna's grave now, just since information technology's difficult to access that server Kirito decided to focus on making the loghouse in the ALO Aincrad their 1 true abode.

In lodge to protect the loghouse, Asuna suggests using their wings to the change the trajectory of the falling landmass and so that it lands in a river. They succeed and the newly created loghouse isle bounces around in the river until it enters a wood.

The warnings from the red hexagonal heaven disappear and simply equally all of a sudden Kirito, Asuna, and Alice all lose the ability to wing. Kirito tries in vain to pull up the assistant flight controller only to crashland into the river while curled upwards in a ball and he loses half his health points.

Sword Art Online Unital Ring Kamura Shikimi Volume 21 Light Novel
New SAO girl Kamura Shikimi is a direct link to Accel Earth since that's the aforementioned proper noun as Kuroyukihime'south mother. The Kamura visitor as well every bit RECT caused the Soul Translator (STL) tech later the Alicization incident. Movie credit: abec

When all 3 swim to the surface of the water, they discover that Kirito and Asuna take lost their elf ears simply true cat ears Alice is here to stay. With all three no longer capable of flight, they swim to the shore in search of the loghouse. That's when they noticed they remained moisture, which was unusual since wet clothing usually dried within seconds in ALO.

With a sinking feeling, Kirito tried summoning the menu system multiple times – even trying with his other hand – just the menu didn't appear. Instead, he discovered he needed to draw a circle clockwise with his right index and centre finger.

Different ALO's square carte du jour, this action called up a low-cal majestic band menu that showed him his status, skills, equipment, storage, quests, map, communication, and system. Old messages are deleted and their Friends List is empty then they tin can't message anyone. Kirito also cannot contact Yui even though she'due south technically his navigation pixie.

Sword Art Online Unital Ring Volume 21 Light Novel Kirito Asuna Alice Pants
Wait… is Kirito seriously trying to go into Alice and Asuna'south pants? When Kirito attempts to don his sword from storage it materializes on his back feeling similar information technology weighs as much equally a steel axle since he's at present only a level 1 grapheme. Kirito is about to fall back onto his backside then he latches onto something… which simply happens to be the girls' sword belts! Worse, when Kirito starts experimenting with his storage he accidentally becomes over-encumbered by his own armor and becomes stuck living in only his boxers!  – Moving picture credit: abec

All three quickly realize that they're listed equally Level i characters even though ALO does non have levels. Kirito looks in his storage simply to detect that everything is wiped out except the Holy Sword Excalibur and the Black Welt (the sword created by Lisbeth). The girls are similarly missing most of their items and Asuna theorizes that they simply were allowed to keep their ii most prized possessions.

With a huge sigh of relief, Kirito and Asuna find a door-shaped submenu for logging out. And so, while Unital Ring has changed the world, they're apparently not locked into a decease game similar before. But Kirito quickly realizes they're stuck in a survival game since the stats are tracking their thirst and hunger. It's at present up to Kirito and friends to observe out what is going on in both the virtual and existent world.

Note: For more details almost Kamura Shikimi and Argo delight the article about these new Sword Art Online: Unital Ring characters.

Sword Art Online Underworld Star King Kirito
A re-create of Kirito's soul becomes the Star Rex in Underworld. — Pic credit: Azuto

What does it all mean? The championship Sword Art Online: Unital Ring may be a reference to worlds uniting. Sword Fine art Online: Alicization blurred the lines between realities based on the way events transpired in both Underworld and Bounding main Turtle. In the example of Unital Ring, both the virtual earth and the real world may feel an event similar to the original SAO.

The offset of the prologue also offers a major hint, every bit well. What Kirito does non realize is that Higa Takeru, the chief developer of the Soul Translator, not only saved the physical bodies of Kirito and Asuna, he too saved a re-create of Kirito's 200-year-quondam soul.

This re-create of Kirito spent years living in Underworld and he startles Higa with a prophecy that the doors to reality would open. This Star King too makes this cryptic message:

"I'd be known in Underworld as the Star King, merely as Asuna would be known every bit the Star Queen. Kazuto and Asuna rediscovered all of Quinella's secrets, used them, reforged the globe, eliminated all barriers between civilizations, united the four kingdoms with the monsters living in the Night Territories… And and so conquered infinite itself."

Before the scientist can do anything Star King escapes the Body of water Turtle lab virtually, jumping onto the net and disappearing into the United States. Star King believes the futurity of Augmented Reality and VR lies in America and he's also trying to rail down a certain individual who displays real-world abilities similar to Accel Earth.

Why is this relevant? During the opening paragraphs of Sword Fine art Online: Unital Ring, Star King and the soul of Kayaba Akihiko apparently accept a virtual chat. They are discussing the time to come of the Nexus, the whole interconnected network of VR worlds that sprung along from The Seed. Merely interim every bit observers, Star King and Kayaba are uncertain whether the Nexus volition wilt and die or evolve to the next phase: Unification.

In add-on, volume publisher Kadokawa has confirmed that Unital Ring's story volition involve a new mysterious survival game that's set in a new earth. What's more, all of the virtual worlds congenital with The Seed program (Alfheim Online, Gun Gale Online, and many more) accept suddenly all merged, or unified, into a unmarried VR game earth!

Does that besides mean Unital Ring will have VR worlds and reality collide? Unfortunately, anime fans have quite the expect until Sword Art Online Season iv sees our reality. Stay tuned!

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