[Utsuro no Hako]

Originally Posted by kyp275

because RNR was not written when SAO vol.1 was?

Maybe not for the original web novel, but it existed when the physical book was published,didn't it?

Originally Posted by Arkard

Now that I think about it, I wish they had expanded on how it was explained in the LN that people on the outside are arranging for hospitals and such for the SAO players and that there's a short grace period for having no electricity or being disconnected from the system before the NerveGear zaps your brain.

I'm sure they will eventually, but there's no room in the first episode. Though it does annoy me that one of the ANN reviewers cited that as a plot hole.