(L) Sword Art Online - Light Novel Discussion

[l.kostas]

Originally Posted by omimon

Isn't Kirito like super smart and is planning to go to the states to learn VR?

He is super good in computer technology, from the SAO wikia:
"Due to his aunt's influence as an editor for a computer systems magazine, Kazuto fell in love with computers and dropped kendo after two years.
Kazuto has immense skill as a programmer, managing to build a computer from parts during elementary school, finding his erased records in the national registry at the age of ten, as well as managing to stop the SAO server from deleting Yui by converting her program into an object and storing her into his NerveGear as environmental data."

About going to the states, since he talked about this with Asuna a BUNCH of things happened and towards the end of the Alicization arc(from Flere's spoiler)

Spoiler for Kiroto's studying plans Alicization end:

Kirito’s father brought up the topic of Kirito’s schooling and his future, and Kirito mentioned he gave up on his plan to go overseas to US for university. Kirito plans to stay in Japan for his computing degree, and after that go to work for Rath’s public company that’s taking care of UW.

[bdim310]

Originally Posted by l.kostas

He is super good in computer technology, from the SAO wikia:
"Due to his aunt's influence as an editor for a computer systems magazine, Kazuto fell in love with computers and dropped kendo after two years.
Kazuto has immense skill as a programmer, managing to build a computer from parts during elementary school, finding his erased records in the national registry at the age of ten, as well as managing to stop the SAO server from deleting Yui by converting her program into an object and storing her into his NerveGear as environmental data."

About going to the states, since he talked about this with Asuna a BUNCH of things happened and towards the end of the Alicization arc(from Flere's spoiler)

Spoiler for Kiroto's studying plans Alicization end:

Kirito’s father brought up the topic of Kirito’s schooling and his future, and Kirito mentioned he gave up on his plan to go overseas to US for university. Kirito plans to stay in Japan for his computing degree, and after that go to work for Rath’s public company that’s taking care of UW.

Spoiler for schooling:

Asuna also promised him that she would go with him anywhere. Also, does that mean that Kirito is done with mmo's?

[omimon]

Originally Posted by bdim310

Spoiler for schooling:

Asuna also promised him that she would go with him anywhere. Also, does that mean that Kirito is done with mmo's?

I think he had his fair share of MMO after god knows how many centuries in UW.

[Parousia]

Sorry to interrupt, but I want to know if what do you guys think when will the Mother's Rosario arc start?

[omimon]

Originally Posted by HolySin

Sorry to interrupt, but I want to know if what do you guys think when will the Mother's Rosario arc start?

Episode 13 maybe?

[Zangor17]

time wise canonically Calibur would come first they will probably adapt that before Mother's Rosario to give Sinon a little more screen time.

[haseo0408]

Hey guys, sorry if I am a little ignorant here but is Asuna going to show up in Uderworld any time soon? I can´t read japanese so I don´t know what the original web novel says about it.

[Parousia]

Originally Posted by Zangor17

time wise canonically Calibur would come first they will probably adapt that before Mother's Rosario to give Sinon a little more screen time.

True, but Mother's Rosario might end up getting cramped in the remaining episode if they want to include Calibur(or Caliber?).

Although it might be possible that Calibur might end up as an OVA.

Originally Posted by haseo0408

Hey guys, sorry if I am a little ignorant here but is Asuna going to show up in Uderworld any time soon? I can´t read japanese so I don´t know what the original web novel says about it.

You can search for English Translated volumes, but if you want to know,

Spoiler for Answer:

IIRC yes, she appears in the Underworld using one of the account or character of the pioneers of the game.

[bdim310]

Originally Posted by haseo0408

Hey guys, sorry if I am a little ignorant here but is Asuna going to show up in Uderworld any time soon? I can´t read japanese so I don´t know what the original web novel says about it.

Spoiler for asuna:

yes she does! She uses an admin account to go in to save kirito and retrieve Alice. Expect to see some badass moments from her in a volume or 2! Well worth the wait for her return.

[Proto]

True, but Mother's Rosario might end up getting cramped in the remaining episode if they want to include Calibur(or Caliber?).

Mother Rosario is only one volume compared to SAO,ALO, and GGO's two though.

[c933103]

Information with source unknown state that GGO would get 15 episodes. And no matter it is true or not, we would still have the Caliber story first, most probably

[l.kostas]

On August 22 Kawahara started putting on his site, wordgear, the new story that will be on Progressive 3. There are updates every day. According to the wikia the title is 泡影のバルカローレ (Barcarolle of Transience). It starts after they won the 3rd floor boss. There is a prologue where Kirito and Asuna go to the 4th floor and part 1 starts like this:
12/21/2022 on Wednesday, 1:32 PM.
In front of the door despite the loss of just a few minutes, I the level 16 one-handed sword swordsman, with my partner level 15 fencer Asuna, we are ahead of all the players reaching the fourth floor of the floating Castle Aincrad.

[omimon]

Originally Posted by l.kostas

On August 22 Kawahara started putting on his site, wordgear, the new story that will be on Progressive 3. There are updates every day. According to the wikia the title is 泡影のバルカローレ (Barcarolle of Transience). It starts after they won the 3rd floor boss. There is a prologue where Kirito and Asuna go to the 4th floor and part 1 starts like this:
12/21/2022 on Wednesday, 1:32 PM.
In front of the door despite the loss of just a few minutes, I the level 16 one-handed sword swordsman, with my partner level 15 fencer Asuna, we are ahead of all the players reaching the fourth floor of the floating Castle Aincrad.

Is progressive pure SAO with no indication of anything afterwards?

[HasuMasu]

I fear Reki might not even live to finish Progressive...

[c933103]

well there're some cross reference from UW part back to SAOP...

[l.kostas]

About the title 泡影のバルカローレ (Barcarolle of Transience).
From wikipedia:
A barcarole is a folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers, or a piece of music composed in that style. A barcarole is characterized by a rhythm reminiscent of the gondolier's stroke.
What does it have to do with Progressive 3.

Spoiler for Progressive 3:

In the work Reki is creating at his site, wordgear, in the prologue it is mentioned that on the door of each floor after you climb the stairs from the previous floor there is something that shows the theme of the new floor. On the door of the 2nd floor there was a cow head and on the door of the 3rd floor there were two warriors looking at a forest. On the 4th floor door there is a gondola:

そしていまの眼前にそびえる第四層の扉の中央には、ゴンドラのような小舟を漕ぐ旅人のレリーフが見て取れる 。

In this part in wordgear: 2014年08月25日(月) 夏休み企画　泡影のバルカローレ　5
When Asuna and Kirito went into the main city to open the gate they had to travel by a boat and there was an NPC boatman. Asuna said when she saw that "Wow! So nice, like a gondola in Venice!"

街の正門となる巨大なゲートをくぐると、視界に【INNER　AREA】の表示が現れる。　その先で俺たち を待っていたのは、横幅三十メートルはあろうかという船着き場と、NPCの船頭を乗せた大小幾つもの小舟だ った。
「わあ、ゴンドラがこんなにいっぱい!　すてき、ベネツィアみたい!」

Edit:

Spoiler for Progressive 3:

They accept a quest by an NPC and they fight this monster:

呟くと同時に、熊っぽいが断じて熊ではない巨大獣の頭上に、深紅のカラー・カーソルが出現した 。表示された 名前は、【Magnatherium】――マグナテリウム、だろうか。

Then the NPC builds them a gondola Kirito and Asuna own together as party nembers and Kirito is the gondolier.

[bdim310]

Did anyone read volume 15 yet? If so, how does it end, how does it differ from the WN?

[Rageth]

Originally Posted by bdim310

Did anyone read volume 15 yet? If so, how does it end, how does it differ from the WN?

I can't read much at all japanese, but I do have the book.

Spoiler:

It starts off with a chapter that in the web novel was shown earlier (like Web chapter 5 or so) but hasn't been in the LN yet. Chapter 14. Subtilizer.
Don't know what's going on in it, but there are mentions of the NSA (oh boy)
It's about 25 pages, before opening up into Chapter 15, "In the Northern Territory", which from the illustrations is the Interlude that was between Web Ch 7 and 8. But it also includes parts of Chapter 8.

Actually, it looks like Volume 15 organized the events of the web novel by where they happened.

In the web novel, Kawahara alternated between Alice & Kirito, The Real World, and then Vector.
In Volume 15, it's:
Chapter 15 - "In the Northern Territory" - Alice & Kirito scenes
Chapter 16 - "Attack on the Ocean Turtle" - Real World
Chapter 17 - " Dark Territory" - Vector stuff, but then it switches back to Alice, once she's joined the other Knights at the eastern wall.

Also, decided to check right now; Asuna's "I will kill you" comment to Higa was changed to "I will never forgive you."

[Sacredus]

So... We will get a spinoff of GGO by Kino's Journey author.

Kohiruimaki Karen is a college student with a height of 183cm.
Always suffering from a complex because of her height since puberty, she could never socialize in the real world. What changed her life was the VRMMO Gun Gale Online, a game that gained popularity after the "SAO Incident".
With her ideal virtual chibi avatar, that doesn't even have a height of 150cm, Karen wears a pink combat armor and runs around the world of Gun Gale Online as the player "Ren".
In front of Ren suddenly appears a beautiful female player with dark skin called "Pitohui" - but when she thinks she has found a friend in GGO, where female players are extremely rare...

One day, the Squad Jam, a battle royal tournament based on BoB, catches Pitohui's attention...

Well... why not.

[Kazu-kun]

^ Already sounds much better than Kirito's cyber Jame Bond hijinks. I hope someone will translate it.