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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, episode 2 is going to continue the story via the Aria in the Starless Night arc, basically telling the story of SAO in a chronological order, including whatever side stories they decide to include.
It's going to be quite a few episodes before they get back to chapter 4/5 in vol.1 of the novel.