For him, playing video games is not an illness for social life or just a way to escape reality. Originally published on a secret section of the old website, Kawahara later claimed it wasn’t canon.Īccording to Reki Kawahara, he wrote the Sword Art Online series because he loves video games.
The infamous chapter 16.5 is also one of the things many SAO fans mention when talking about the series. The first volume came out on April 10, 2009. Kawahara won the grand prize this time, and as a result, ASCII Media Works published light novel versions of Sword Art Online and Accel World. In 2008, he joined the competition again by writing the Accel World, which takes place in the same universe of the Sword Art Online series. The first arc of the series is titled Aincrad. As time went on, he added three more main arcs ( Fairy Dance, Phantom Bullet, Alicization), and some short stories ( mainly the compilation of the light novel’s 8th volume). Instead, he just published it as a web novel under the pseudonym Fumio Kunori.
However, the series surpassed the page limit, so he didn’t submit it. Kawahara initially planned to write the series as a competition entry for the 2002 ASCII Media Works Dengeki Game Novel Prize. The Birth of Sword Art Online Light Novel Series
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