Sword Art Online: Progressive

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English: Sword Art Online: Progressive

Synonyms: SAO Progressive

Japanese: ソードアート・オンラインプログレッシブ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 7

Chapters: 47

Status: Finished

Published: Jun 29, 2013 to Feb 28, 2018

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Game, Romance, Sci-Fi

Authors: Kawahara, Reki (Story), Himura, Kiseki (Art)

Serialization: Dengeki G's magazine

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Popularity: #734

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MangaDengeki G's magazineKawahara, Reki (Story), Himura, Kiseki (Art)

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Synopsis

"This game is impossible to clear. It's just a matter of when, where and how you die."

Kayaba Akihiko's death game has been up for one month. This incredibly difficult VRMMO has already claimed 2000 victims. It's the day of the 1st floor boss strategy meeting. The solo player Kirito, who's decided to only strengthen himself, meets a rare female player on the current front lines, while heading to the meeting around noon. Fighting alone against the strong monsters, she was like a meteor cutting the night sky.

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Sword Art Online: Progressive has been published in English by Yen Press since January 5, 2015.

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Kirigaya, Kazuto

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Yuuki, Asuna

Main

Mills, Andrew Gilbert

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Argo

Supporting

Kizmel

Supporting

Diabel

Supporting

Mito

Supporting

Morte

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Lind

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Kibaou

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Sep 11, 2019

47 of 47 chapters read

Overall Rating: 5

ApacheSnow69 (All reviews)

16 people found this review helpful

To start out my review for this manga. I'm a big fan of SAO(collecting all the light novel/manga), and you can see this on my profile that I'm a huge fanboy. This adaptation of Progressive from the light novel into manga format was absolutely dreadful.

For the positive, The art style resemble like abec illustrator, which is a plus one for me.
But, the story as whole, divergence from it original source material in the early chapter. Asuna in the original was 10x better than the manga. I know that manga adaptation allow numerous perspective to be added in and allow original content. I personally unwilling read more

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Sep 30, 2020

47 of 47 chapters read

Overall Rating: 7

PkBuzios (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

I looked for the Progressive manga after learning that the next Sword Art Online anime will be based on it.

The story focus on Asuna this time showing a bit of her life before and how she got into the game. The manga doesn't take itself very seriously, as the story is very simple.
It has a lot of action, comedy, some ecchi content and a lot of pantyshots.

The art is good character-wise, certainly better then the previous SAO manga. But not very detailed and it can be a let down if you are expecting to see some Aincrad scenery.

Overall it is a good and easy read. read more

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Sep 20, 2014

10 of 47 chapters read

Overall Rating: 7

Silo-hime (All reviews)

32 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

The manga is still ongoing but I enjoyed it from the start. I've seen the Sword Art Online anime adaptation and though the story is okay, it felt rushed. The story was jumping from one experience to the next so I wasn't pretty satisfied after it ended. However, this manga showed the nitty-gritty of the life within the game. It shows more personality among the players especially Asuna and Kirito.. Especially Kirito. Kirito was more or less unemotional for the most part of the anime until he suddenly got together with Asuna. There was no development between his feelings. In this manga, Kirito has read more

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Feb 19, 2017

47 of 47 chapters read

Overall Rating: 8

Master10K (All reviews)

20 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

Set in the not-so distant future, of advanced virtual reality and augmented reality. Sword Art Online has become a bit of a phenomenon within our cultural sphere, spawning numerous adaptations from: anime series, to movies, to video games and several manga titles. With its popular status, SAO has attracted a ton of scrutiny, the bulk of which being some form of "WTF! Why rush through the Aincrad arc?!" Well I guess the author, Reki Kawahara took a lot of the criticisms to heart, as he strives to reboot the Aincrad Arc of the franchise, with this latest iteration Sword Art Online: Progressive.

Not so much in this Manga adaptation.

Which immediately skips over any sort of prologue and thrust the reader and main character, right into the thick of it. So even those who have watched the series and or read the light novels will still be gifted with something fresh & different. As it begins from the perspective of the intelligent, yet dissatisfied highschool girl, Asuna. Who so happens to wind up trapped in a new VRMMORPG, with little to no knowledge of even the most basic of game mechanics. After being saved from perma-death, by the solo swordsman Kirito and his sly informant Argo; Asuna gradually learns about the death game she has gotten herself stuck in and the people she will eventually call friends. And from these few available volumes, I can tell that the author is putting much greater thought into the story, even with a fair amount of skipped content from the LN version. It still finds time to flesh out the world, the game mechanics and the nuanced characters.

Characters like Asuna, I feel are the right choice for main character, since she is as ignorant as some of us readers, on the new world she's found herself stuck in. Of course I am aware this is a rudimentary method of providing exposition, but it does allow this story to become more of a journey than a power fantasy. What makes the characters interesting in this iteration is that there's a great deal more context to their actions. And it achieves that without bogging down the story with numerous flashbacks and monologues, beyond the initial volume.

When it comes to the artwork of SAO: Progressive, only one word comes to mind... "clean". The artwork is just very clean, with simple panel arrangements making it easy to follow the flow of action. But that's not to say that detail isn't put into those panels, as a great deal of it is put into emphasising how menacing the bosses are. Then again what really made me fall in love with the artwork of this manga has to be with how it's able to express so much without dialogue. "Show, don't tell". So many examples of this are littered throughout the manga. With no dialogue it's able to express to the reader just how much Asuna has developed as a character.

So in other words this manga adaptation does actually have its own merits, which a lot of other LN - to - Manga adaptations fail to have. But mind you there are still flaws with this iteration of the story, most notably being the random tonal shifts, whereby the needless jokes are forced into intense battles. And the fact that it only tells the story of the first 3 Floors of Sword Art Online's Aincrad Arc.

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