Will There Be a Sword Art Online Season 4

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

The Sword Art Online Flavor 4 release date be far offer over the horizon considering that the tertiary flavour finished in September 2020 and the SAO: Unital Ring volume sequel hasn't been completed nonetheless every bit of the fifth book in the new serial.

What'southward more, the Sword Art Online: Progressive motion picture anime series that released in 2021 was a reboot of the original anime, not a direct sequel to Alicization's ending. (Please encounter the new article for details about the SAO: Progressive story.)

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

What we exercise know for sure is that Aniplex intends on adapting the unabridged SAO series into anime. The third season adapted the entire Alicization arc and the direct book sequel to Alicization is already upwards to the 5th volume in the series. While Unital Ring probably won't be longer than Alicization, it should be the last ending of the unabridged SAO story.

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

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

Therefore, information technology'southward not unreasonable to presume that a Sword Art Online: Unital Ring anime is in our future. The only question is when the fourth season will release and the answer is largely upwards to Reki Kawahara, the creator of the SAO serial.

Sword Art Online Unital Band Trailer Preview For Light Novel Books

The 3rd season was streaming on Hulu, Funimation, Crunchyroll, and HIDIVE. The third flavour was divided into iv cours that adapt the entire Alicization arc.

A cour is a iii-month unit of broadcasting fourth dimension based on the physical seasons, and then iv cours means the iv quarters of a total year. But all iv cours of Sword Art Online Season 3 were not aired consecutively.

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

The finale, Sword Fine art Online: Alicization War of Underworld Function ii Episode eleven, released on September 19, 2020. The new SAO: Progressive anime was announced the same day.

  • Updated Feb 02, 2022: Added SAO Unital Band five info.
  • Updated December 9, 2020: Added SAO Volume 25 postscript notation from the author. Changed release date predictions based on climax info.
  • Updated November 30, 2020: Added SAO Volume 25 illustrations.
  • Updated November nine, 2020: Added Sword Art Online Volume 25 cover art.
  • Updated September 27, 2020: Added SAO Volume 25 release engagement and SAO: Progressive Book 7 release fourth dimension frame.
  • Updated September 19, 2020: Sword Fine art Online: Progressive anime confirmed!
  • Updated September 14, 2020: Added more SAO: Unital Ring details and restructured the story.
  • Updated June viii, 2020: SAO: Alicization final season release appointment confirmed!
  • Updated April 10, 2020: Sword Art Online: Alicization Final Season delayed! Added Unital Band three details.
  • Updated Feb 25, 2020: Added the verbal date for the Sword Art Online: Alicization Final Season anime.
  • Updated December 28, 2019: Added time frame for concluding season of Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld. Added more Unital Ring volume news.
  • Updated October xiv, 2019: Added SAO Season three's number of episodes and Blu-Ray details.
  • Updated September 6, 2019: Added exact release date for Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld.
  • Updated March 31, 2019: Added SAO Season 3 hiatus confirmation. Added War of Underworld trailer and other details.
  • Updated Dec vii, 2018: Added more than Unital Ring spoilers, lite novel image gallery, and Season iii hiatus details.
  • Updated Nov xvi, 2018: Added new Sword Art Online Season 4 spoilers, SAO Volume 21 encompass art, and verbal championship name for Unital Band i.

This commodity provides everything that is known about Sword Art Online Season iv (Sword Art Online: Unital Ring) and all related news. Equally such, this article will exist updated over time with news, rumors, and analysis. Meanwhile, permit's delve down into what is known for certain.

Kirito and Asuna
Special SAO art released past light novel illustrator abec to celebrate the Sword Art Online: Alicization catastrophe. Pic credit: abec

Sword Fine art Online Season four release date: Unital Band anime possible by 2023?

As of the last update, Aniplex, A-i Pictures, or any company related to the product of the anime has not officially confirmed the Sword Art Online Season 4 release date. Nor has the production of an anime sequel been announced.

Once the news is officially confirmed this article will be updated with the relevant information. In the concurrently, it'southward possible to speculate about when, or if, the Sword Art Online Season iv premiere date will occur in the future.

Predicting the Sword Fine art Online Flavour four release date is a bit difficult since the number of volumes for Unital Ring is unknown. The one thing we know for sure is that Kawahara has strongly stated that he hopes information technology volition be shorter than Alicization, which was 10 books long.

SAO Book 21: Unital Ring ane released on Dec vii, 2018. Volume 22, which released on Oct x, 2019, was 4 side stories while Volume 23, which released on Dec 10, 2019, was the straight continuation of the Unital Band story. Sword Art Online Volume 24: Unital Ring 3 was released in May 2020, while Unital Ring 4 came out on Dec 10, 2020, and Unital Ring 5 on Oct 8, 2021.

Assuming that Unital Ring is shorter than Alicization, Reki Kawahara could conceivably be done with viii books by 2023 at the absolute primeval. And that's bold he begins pushing himself by releasing ii books per twelvemonth on average.

But it'southward possible the SAO: Unital Ring story volition be much shorter than Alicization. In the SAO: Unital Ring 4 (Volume 25) postscript notes, Kawahara provided a modest spoiler and then indicated that the Sword Fine art Online: "Unital Ring Arc" climax was approaching. And Unital Ring 5 certainly does offer a climactic moment.

That could hateful that Unital Band could be less than even 8 books. Assuming that'due south the case, it's possible Sword Fine art Online: Unital Ring half-dozen (Volume 27) could be the last ending, which means the book series could be over by late 2022 or early 2023.

Anime projects have years to develop, and then the earliest probable premiere date for SAO Flavor four is between late 2023 and 2025.

Of form, it's also possible that Kawahara could release merely one new Unital Ring-focused book a year, which would mean the await for the SAO: Unital Ring anime could be quite long indeed if he's targeting SAO Book 29 for the catastrophe.

As discussed later in this article, creating a Moon Cradle movie makes sense, but another option would be to adapt Moon Cradle as a unmarried-cour Sword Art Online Flavour 4. That would hateful Unital Ring would exist Sword Art Online Flavour five.

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

Sword Art Online: Alicization light novels compared to the anime

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

SAO started life equally a novel competition entry for Dengeki Novel Prize that concluded up being self-published online as a web novel because the story was too long. From 2002 through 2008, Kawahara published on his own 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's Dengeki Bait-and-switch imprint and adapted into a lite novel series starting in 2009. (Unfortunately, the web novel is no longer available online.)

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

Kawahara relied on many fourth dimension gaps in the original SAO story because the writing competition 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 first two volumes as a spin-off called 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 upward to floor 6. The Sword Art Online: Progressive Volume 7 release date is scheduled for Spring 2021.

The English language translation of the SAO lite novel serial is being published by Yen Press. By the fourth dimension the last part of the third season of the SAO: Alicization anime began airing, the English calorie-free novels were but up to Sword Fine art Online: Moon Cradle, which released on April 21, 2020.

The English Volume 21, Sword Art Online: Unital Ring, released on January 19, 2021, with the English edition chop-chop catching up.

In addition, there are several active fan translation projects that are already upward to Volume 18, which is the catastrophe of the Alicization story arc.

The third season of the anime adaptation is based on the Sword Art Online: Alicization arc, which is the longest story arc thus far. Co-ordinate to the author's afterword in light novel Volume 18, Kawahara actually wrote the entire Alicization story in web novel format starting in January 2005 and finishing in 2008.

Years later, Kawahara wrote a web novel called Cradle Of The Moon, which is an Underworld side story that takes place shortly earlier the ending of Alicization during the fourth dimension gap when the fluctlight acceleration was maxed out. The Alicization story was adjusted into light novel volumes 9 through xviii, while volumes 19 and twenty were called Moon Cradle role i and 2.

The third season of the anime accommodation adapted the unabridged Alicization arc. The pacing was a bit faster in comparison to previous seasons since there were x books to cover in comparison to the viii books adapted by the beginning two seasons.

As might be expected, many details from the calorie-free novels were condensed for the anime adaptation. For example, Kawahara noted on Twitter that the anime'southward opening episodes skimmed over the "reason why the electric current bogus Fluctlights cannot be used every bit weapons."

"In animation, it is necessary to shrink explanation parts greatly, and we tin can not convey all the logic," he tweeted.

Already, fans are starting to make comparisons betwixt the calorie-free novel and the anime. The biggest difference in Episode i was the action scene gear up in Gun Gale Online, which showed off a GGO Asuna. That scene was completely anime original, but it was a nice addition which gave a pause from the info dumping that took identify in the latter one-half of Episode one.

Fans also noticed that the TV show seemingly skipped the Zakkaria Sword Arts Tournament of Volume 10, Chapter 3 so Kawahara offered an amends.

"I'thou sorry that the Zakkaria Arc was handled through flashback only, but it is necessary to exist selective with episodes fifty-fifty though the season is four cours equally there are 10 books," Kawahara said. "I think 2 books per cour is the limit if you desire to exercise the accommodation faithfully, but I call back Zakkaria was the biggest cut."

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

The ending of the anime's story shifted back to the existent world and prove what happened leading up to events on Ocean 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 continued to everything happening.

Episode 47 finished past adapting the ending of Volume eighteen: Alicization Lasting.

SAO Alicization Episode 1 Adaptation Comparing: LN vs Anime

The bad news is that Kawahara currently has not released plenty books for Sword Art Online Season 4 to exist produced immediately post-obit the third flavour. The practiced news is that he'southward hard at work on the sequel.

Volition in that location be a Sword Art Online: Moon Cradle motion-picture show?

The biggest question marking 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 end of the Alicizationarc, the Alicization anime will not be adapting the Moon Cradle arc.

In writing the story, Kawahara said the Moon Cradle spider 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 light novels in chronological guild would seriously disrupt the flow 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 and so far (see the spoilers section below for more details).

But how do so many years transpire? In Episode i of SAO: Alicization, Kirito explained the concept of Fluctlight Acceleration, which allows a man FullDiving via the Soul Translator to feel fourth dimension at an accelerated charge per unit. This time dilation factor is usually maxed out at ane,500 in order to avoid filling up the Fluctlight memory, but most the end of Alicization, the Fluctlight Acceleration is cranked up manner, mode past the rubber limits.

Before certain SAO characters are ejected from Underworld, Rath decides to delete all memories accumulated after the Fluctlight Acceleration rate was increased. That means Moon Cradle is a story about a lifetime of memories spent in Underworld that the characters no longer retrieve once they're in the existent world.

Moon Cradle is like to Ordinal Scale in that it's not necessary to watch the latter film to understand the plot of the main anime serial. Therefore, it would make sense for Aniplex to adapt the story as a Moon Cradle film since information technology would give audiences something new to sentry until Sword Fine art Online Season iv is released.

Sword Art Online Moon Cradle Volume 20 Cover
The cover for Sword Art Online: Moon Cradle features ii 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 2017, Kawahara had promised "one more big arc" that will go "back to the existent world." Starting with Sword Art Online Volume 21, the writer plans on developing a new type of game thought that'due 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 too new footing entirely considering it'south the first SAO story arc that is not based on a web novel.

Kawahara as well left a message at the terminate of the Cradle of the Moon web novel which stated that the "battles of Kirito and Asuna, Leafa, and Sinon and others, and Alice will be continued" when "they are their descendants in one case once more take upward swords" in the "final, 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 beach forth with Asuna and the other girls. — Pic credit: abec

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

Kawahara somewhen announced that the new story arc will be chosen Sword Art Online: Unital Band 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, simply that doesn't mean the two story arcs are linked in any manner.

When fans asked if SAO: Unital Band will be longer than Alicization, he replied, "Oh… I strongly hope not." In recent interviews, Reki implied that Unital Ring might be the concluding catastrophe when he alleged, "If the anime is going to proceed, my calorie-free novel volition be over afterward Alicization."

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

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The release date for SAO Book 21 happened on Dec 7, 2018. SAO Volume 23: Unital Ring 2 released on December 10, 2019, while SAO Volume 24: Unital Ring iii released on May ix, 2020, and SAO Volume 25: Unital Ring 4 on Dec 10, 2020.

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

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

Sword Art Online: Unital Band anime spoilers

The yr is 2026 and information technology has been half a year since the Ordinal Scale incident. Kirigaya Kazuto (existent-life name of Kirito) was attacked by Johnny Black, a former member of the Laughing Coffin murder society, at the stop of June earlier Summer Break. Although Kirito spent years of virtual time in Underworld, he woke from his blackout in the real world on Baronial one, 2026.

Afterwards a long recovery, Kirito returned habitation and it's now but ten days abroad from him condign xviii years old on October seventh. (Coincidentally, the Alicization anime premiered on Kirito'due south birthday.)

The prologue for SAO Volume 21 makes a big deal about highlighting the respective birthdays of Kirito and Asuna, equally well as Kirito'due south musings about how his life could take 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 have used the gamer grapheme named Naruto instead of Kirito.

Asuna will also be 18 soon, too. Since both main SAO characters will soon be of legal age, it would non be surprising if the Unital Ring story arc features a Kirito and Asuna wedding. Although, Alice may accept something to say about that since she and Kirito grew very close during their time 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 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 body complete with schoolgirl wear. When Alice met Kirito's parents she treated them every bit if she were Kirito's married woman in the way she addressed them.

Asuna was incensed and threw downward the gauntlet, promising to end the love feud ceasefire they'd established in Underworld. All poor Kirito could exercise was endeavor to hide from the two girls chasing him down.

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

Sword Art Online Volume 18 Kirito Asuna Alice
Fine art from Sword Fine art Online Volume eighteen shows how sparks fly whenever Asuna and Alice are in the same room together. — Pic credit: abec

Dorsum in the real earth, Kirito and his virtual girl Yui are discussing what sort of birthday nowadays to buy for Asuna. Since being designed by Kayaba Akihiko, creator of SAO and The Seed, Yui has grown profoundly as a cocky-aware top-downwardly bogus intelligence. It'due south fifty-fifty hinted that Yui'southward capabilities may take grown to the point that she's in command of Nippon's supercomputers.

Kirito somewhen decides to dive into New Aincrad, the recreation of the floating castle. Maintained in Alfheim Online, the floors are now open up up through Floor 50 and players are slowly working their manner up to the top. But Kirito desires quiet and then he tin focus on catching up on school homework so he transports to the small log cabin that he and Asuna originally congenital on Floor 22.

Almost finishing upwards on his report, Kirito hears the audio of footsteps and mistakenly thinks the blue-haired Asuna has entered. Instead, it'south the blonde-haired Alice, who has become a Caith Sith true cat knight in Alfheim considering it was the easiest way to become a dragon-flight Dragon Knight.

Alice had appear herself to the world in a yard spoken language at a press briefing and now she'southward advocating man rights for AI. She'd gained notoriety with gamers for the manner she chewed out PKers for the way they behaved. Just she also enjoyed relaxing in Alfheim since it was similar to Underworld.

Sword Art Online Unital Ring SAO Volume 21 Light Novel Cover Art Kirito Armor Cat Ear Alice Asuna
The low-cal novel cover art for Sword Fine art Online: Unital Ring i shows the new character designs as well as a crumbling New Aincrad. On Twitter, Kawahara said that "the impact of the metallic armor Kirito is as big as the Cat Ears Alice." — Movie credit: abec

Due to Fluctlight Dispatch, 200 years had already passed in Underworld since Integrity Knight Alice Synthesis Thirty had vanished. When Kirito, Asuna, and Alice last snuck intoUnderworld, the technology had adult to the point that people were living in infinite colonizing planets and Pilots, non Integrity Knights, were flight mechadragons. All three characters were regarded nigh every bit a fable by the newest generation of AI humans living in the Human being Empire.

Fluctlight copies of Kirito and Asuna had lived on in this earth (the events of Moon Cradle). They became Underworld's "Rex and Queen of the Stars" and Kirito believes his virtual counterpart had died 30 years agone in virtual time. But the Rath corporation had reset the Fluctlight Dispatch so that time in Underworld was running at the same pace every bit reality.

Despite being asunder from Underworld for then long, Alice hoped to resurrect her sis, Selka Zuberg, who survived in Deep Freeze inside the Fundamental Cathedral. Alice also hoped to re-hatch the dragon siblings and raise them again.

Somewhen, Asuna logs in and joins Kirito and Alice inside the log cabin. Alice and Asuna are outwardly civil toward each other just Kirito definitely notices the mood modify when the ii women are in the aforementioned room together.

Without warning, Kirito's wooden motel is shaken by a massive earthquake, which should exist impossible in the virtual realm. Anybody is shocked when the heaven turns crimson with a hexagonal design that perfectly mirrors the system-wide consequence that trapped everyone in Sword Art Online.

Sword Art Online Unital Ring Argo Volume 21 Light Novel
"It'south been a while, Kiibou." Argo returns! And in existent life sans whiskers! Volume 21 ends by bringing back the popular rat girl from the Progressive serial and it appears she'southward transferring into Kirito'due south SAO survivors schoolhouse. – Moving picture credit: abec

Of a sudden, Aincrad begins aging and the chunk of country containing Kirito and Asuna's loghouse plummets towards the basis. Kirito remembers the OrdinalCalibration incident and how Professor Shigemura recovered the original Aincrad on the old SAO server in Argus' basement. This original Aincrad serves as Yuuna's grave now, but since information technology's difficult to access that server Kirito decided to focus on making the loghouse in the ALO Aincrad their one truthful dwelling.

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

The warnings from the ruby hexagonal heaven disappear and but as suddenly Kirito, Asuna, and Alice all lose the power to wing. Kirito tries in vain to pull up the assistant flying 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 straight link to Accel Earth since that'southward the same proper name as Kuroyukihime'due south female parent. The Kamura visitor also as RECT acquired the Soul Translator (STL) tech after the Alicization incident. Pic credit: abec

When all three swim to the surface of the water, they discover that Kirito and Asuna have lost their elf ears but cat ears Alice is here to stay. With all iii no longer capable of flying, they swim to the shore in search of the loghouse. That's when they noticed they remained wet, 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 mitt – but the card didn't announced. Instead, he discovered he needed to depict a circumvolve clockwise with his right index and heart finger.

Different ALO'south foursquare menu, this action called upwards a light purple ring menu that showed him his status, skills, equipment, storage, quests, map, advice, and arrangement. Old letters are deleted and their Friends List is empty and so they can't message anyone. Kirito also cannot contact Yui even though she's technically his navigation pixie.

Sword Art Online Unital Ring Volume 21 Light Novel Kirito Asuna Alice Pants
Look… is Kirito seriously trying to become into Alice and Asuna's pants? When Kirito attempts to don his sword from storage it materializes on his back feeling like it weighs every bit much as a steel beam since he'due south now only a level 1 character. Kirito is about to fall back onto his backside and 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 simply his boxers!  – Pic credit: abec

All iii chop-chop realize that they're listed every bit Level i characters even though ALO does not have levels. Kirito looks in his storage just to discover that everything is wiped out except the Holy Sword Excalibur and the Black Welt (the sword created past Lisbeth). The girls are similarly missing most of their items and Asuna theorizes that they only were allowed to keep their two most prized possessions.

With a huge sigh of relief, Kirito and Asuna find a door-shaped submenu for logging out. And then, while Unital Ring has changed the globe, they're apparently not locked into a death game like earlier. But Kirito quickly realizes they're stuck in a survival game since the stats are tracking their thirst and hunger. It's now upwardly to Kirito and friends to find out what is going on in both the virtual and real world.

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

Sword Art Online Underworld Star King Kirito
A re-create of Kirito'due south soul becomes the Star King in Underworld. — Motion-picture show credit: Azuto

What does it all mean? The title Sword Art Online: Unital Ring may be a reference to worlds uniting. Sword 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 Band, both the virtual globe and the real world may feel an event like to the original SAO.

The start of the prologue also offers a major hint, as well. What Kirito does not realize is that Higa Takeru, the chief programmer of the Soul Translator, not only saved the concrete bodies of Kirito and Asuna, he also saved a copy of Kirito's 200-year-erstwhile soul.

This copy of Kirito spent years living in Underworld and he startles Higa with a prophecy that the doors to reality would open up. This Star King besides makes this cryptic bulletin:

"I'd be known in Underworld every bit the Star Male monarch, just equally Asuna would be known as the Star Queen. Kazuto and Asuna rediscovered all of Quinella's secrets, used them, reforged the world, eliminated all barriers betwixt civilizations, united the four kingdoms with the monsters living in the Dark Territories… So conquered infinite itself."

Before the scientist tin can do anything Star Rex escapes the Ocean Turtle lab virtually, jumping onto the internet and disappearing into the Usa. Star King believes the futurity of Augmented Reality and VR lies in America and he's too trying to track downward a sure individual who displays real-world abilities like to Accel World.

Why is this relevant? During the opening paragraphs of Sword Art Online: Unital Band, Star King and the soul of Kayaba Akihiko obviously have a virtual chat. They are discussing the future of the Nexus, the whole interconnected network of VR worlds that sprung along from The Seed. Just acting as observers, Star King and Kayaba are uncertain whether the Nexus will wilt and die or evolve to the side by side stage: Unification.

In addition, book publisher Kadokawa has confirmed that Unital Ring's story will involve a new mysterious survival game that'due south prepare in a new world. What's more, all of the virtual worlds built with The Seed program (Alfheim Online, Gun Gale Online, and many more than) have suddenly all merged, or unified, into a single VR game world!

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

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