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List Of Sword Art Online Light Novels
''Sword Art Online'' is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara with accompanying illustrations drawn by abec. The series takes place in the near-future and focuses on various virtual reality Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MMORPG worlds. Originally self-published online under the pseudonym Fumio Kunori,Afterword of the first light novel volume. ASCII Media Works began publishing the novels on April 10, 2009 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint (trade name), imprint. The series has since grown to 28 volumes as of June 7, 2024. Yen Press began publishing the novels in English in North America and the United Kingdom with the first volume on April 22, 2014. With more than 30 million copies in print worldwide, the novels are also published in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Brazil, Russia, Germany, Poland, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Kawahara also began writing a parallel series of light novels titled ''Sword Art Online: Progressive'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirito (Sword Art Online)
, born as , is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ''Sword Art Online'' series of light novels written by Reki Kawahara. Known by a portmanteau of his name, which is his user name in the ''Sword Art Online'' video game which the series are partially set in. Kirito is a teenager who was chosen as one of 1,000 beta testers for a new virtual reality video game: ''Sword Art Online''. After the game is released to the general public, he and the rest of the 10,000 players discover that they are unable to log out and are trapped in the simulation unless they manage to beat the game. In the anime adaptation, Kirito is voiced in Japanese by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and in English by Bryce Papenbrook. Creation and conception In an interview with ''Sword Art Online'' series creator Reki Kawahara, they wrote the series to change popular opinion of online gaming; viewing it not a social ill or just an escape from real life, and thus decided to show games in a more positive light i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
