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Sword Art Online: Progressive

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: SAO Progressive, Aria in the Starless Night, Hoshinaki Yoru no Aria
Japanese: ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ
English: Sword Art Online: Progressive
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Information

Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Oct 10, 2012 to ?
Genres: Action Action, Adventure Adventure, Fantasy Fantasy, Romance Romance
Theme: Video Game Video Game
Serialization: Dengeki Bunko Magazine
Authors: BUNBUN (Art), Kawahara, Reki (Story)

Statistics

Score: 8.251 (scored by 74377,437 users)
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Ranked: #3652
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Popularity: #846
Members: 22,773
Favorites: 790

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Synopsis

One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead.

Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone. Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, the surviving players of Sword Art Online are starting to get desperate, and desperation makes them dangerous to loners like Kirito and Asuna. As it becomes clear that solitude equals suicide, will the two be able to overcome their differences to find the strength to believe in each other, and in so doing survive?

(Source: Yen Press)

Background

Sword Art Online: Progressive is a retelling of the Aincrad story arc.

The series has been published in English by Yen Press under the Yen On imprint since March 24, 2015. It has also been released in Polish by Kotori since June 28, 2019; and in Spanish by Planeta Cómic since November 17, 2020.

Characters

Kirigaya, Kazuto
Main
Yuuki, Asuna
Main
Mills, Andrew Gilbert
Supporting
Argo
Supporting
Kizmel
Supporting
Diabel
Supporting
Morte
Supporting
Shivata
Supporting
Kibaou
Supporting
Robacca
Supporting

Reviews

Sep 13, 2015
Preliminary (22/? eps)
Sword Art Online: Progressive is an alternative version of the main SAO story. It attempts to cover all the events that happened in SAO in the order that it happened from the 1st floor all the way up to when they finally clear the game. Luckily, the book is also written in a way that allows you to jump in at any point.

The story in SAO: Progressive is exactly the same as the original. Kirito is one of 10,000 players trapped in a game called "Sword Art Online" and in order for the players to escape, they must go to the 100th floor and beat ...
Jul 17, 2012
Preliminary (20/? eps)
Mode Note: This review was written for the first volume, Sword Art Online: Hoshinaki Yoru no Aria.

Quite surprising no one has reviewed this novel yet.
It's surprising because the story takes place one month after the SAO incident, tells you about the premature condition of the main characters in SAO.
Well, i have to say the story has a quite surprising turn, Kawahara Reki has a very brave decision to tell us the condition one month after the SAO incident.

The surprising part is, level 1 hasn't been cleared.

Those who have read the main story must receive a quite strong shock in their brain.
The story setting gave a ...
Jun 7, 2022
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (26/? eps)
Sword Art Online Progressive Volume 8
(continuation of volume 7, Casino Floor, Published in English on June 7th. 2022.).

This is the 10th. Anniversary of the Sword Art Online franchise. It actually turns out that this year 2022, 10,000 players will get stuck into a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), called Sword Art Online, SAO, (on Nov. 4th. 2022). It is called a Death-Game by its author because the players must finish it or die trying…Without any pomp or circumstance, the author and his team (publisher, anime producer, etc.) have not really prepared anything special to celebrate the date in which the ...

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