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Originally Posted by Shinji103
Actually, no, the anime is following novel volume 1 perfectly. Novel volume 1 starts off with this introduction with Kirito and Klein, the announcement, and them parting ways.
Episode 1 covered chapters 1-3 of volume 1 and the very first sentence of chapter 4. (the 2,000 death toll note after the credits) Chapter 5 is just one long description of what has happened over the first two years and the current state of the game world, which will probably take all of 5 or so minutes at the beginning of episode 2. Chapter 6 moves on to......the main story, to avoid novel spoilers.  So none of this episode was anything not seen in volume 1. |
Nope. Chapter 1 begins with Kirito on floor 74, and then that slowly transitions into Chapters 2 and 3, which first episode covered. The moment on the 74th floor isn't very long, but it's still there. BT is down, but some other sites are still up.
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kokolores: It has been pointed out a few times that the author, Reki Kawahara, was very genre savvy when writing SAO, and wrote it almost as if it were a script for an anime.