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Sword Art Online: Progessive anime announced
- Thread starter Lord Arcadio
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What more story can you BS out of SAO!?
Gary Stu became a videogame god and got to spend 200 years with his waifu before returning to the real world with Zero consequences.
This is Aincrad. An expanded retelling of Aincrad.
This is before that lmao
This is a retelling of the Aincrad arc going floor by floor rather than skipping large parts like the original ln/anime.
Re-telling....?
So its like a recap?
Oooh, so a "brotherhood" treatment.
Sword Art Online Progressive is both a partial re-do of Aincrad, as well as a completely new story covering the missing gaps of what happened in the game. Given the fact that the next arc has only began as of a few years ago (prior to this, the anime was keeping behind to wait for the light novel versions of the web novel to adapt from) and is still on-going, it was either this or effectively nothing for awhile. So I'm not shocked.
From what I've heard, Progressive is a LOT better written than anything he wrote during the self-published days. I've not read it myself, so I'm hoping that's the case.
From what I've heard, Progressive is a LOT better written than anything he wrote during the self-published days. I've not read it myself, so I'm hoping that's the case.
No. The novels are recent. They are a separate series.
The first season of the Anime used everything there was for Aincrad in the main novels.
Interesting, will check it out. I like Aincrad....as long as they stay away from the Gun Gale Online and stuff like that....
It's not like writing something better as SAO is a hard task but if that's true I will at least keep my eyes on it.
In a way. It fills in the missing gaps of time that the original Aincrad arc skips.
I mean, his newer work is better. He actually hates his early writing.
Oh nice, i really enjoyed the first season, will definitely watch this. When is this supposed to release? Probably next year, right?
I wonder if they'll aim for Progressive LNs or the Progressive manga viewpoint.
Personally, I'm hoping more for the Asuna POV from the manga.
It just started though, so will probably take years before the anime version.
Personally, I'm hoping more for the Asuna POV from the manga.
There's another arc after Alicization.
It just started though, so will probably take years before the anime version.
No, Progressive isn't so much a retelling of the first arc of SAO as it is a wholly new story entirely built around Aincrad. The original Aincrad arc was covered by two light novels: one that picked up on the 70th floor or so and covered the end of the arc, and then a collection of short stories that fleshed out the earlier story arcs like meeting Lizbeth and such.
So far (as I have read at least), Progressive is going at a rate of one whole light novel per floor of Aincrad. They are on floor five as of the fourth novel. As a result, the series has built up a completely new cast of characters who didn't appear in the original story.
So in practice, Progressive is a complete reboot of Sword Art Online that starts over from the beginning. The author claims that Progressive will lead into the familiar events, but I find that hard to believe. It feels impossible for the story to not diverge from the original version already.
That's not true at all lol. Have you seen E. L. James' shit?
Not saying it's the case with Kawahara here since I never read Progressive tho.
True my bad, should have said "writers that at least try"
With any luck, this should be to Sword Art Online what Brotherhood was to Fullmetal Alchemist.
Retelling the Aincrad story more proper, with the floor by floor storytelling of Progressive, and all of the details they left out previously.
There's more than enough content for a 24 episode Aincrad arc now.
Retelling the Aincrad story more proper, with the floor by floor storytelling of Progressive, and all of the details they left out previously.
There's more than enough content for a 24 episode Aincrad arc now.
As someone that detests SAO, for the longest fucking time I've been firm that SAO had a massive amount of wasted potential due to not focusing the entire story on the actual SAO anime. So to hear that there's actually a retelling that will do just that honestly has me intrigued.
To give you an idea, at the time in 2012 they adapted:
- Sword Art Online Volume 1 (the original Aincrad novel)
- Sword Art Online Volume 2 (side stories)
- Some of Sword Art Online Volume 8 (A Murder Case in the Arena side story)
- A poor man's version of the first Progressive story line (Aria in the Starless Night.)
- Sword Art Online Progressive (six volumes of story lines)
- Hopeful Chant (side story that takes place on the 40th floor)
- The Day Before (side story)
- Sugary Days (side stories that takes place before Kirito and Asuna found Yui)
- First Day (side story that was in Volume 8 detailing Kirito after he left the starting town, but wasn't added to the anime for some reason...)
Assuming they go the whole distance, they have enough content easily for a two cour (24 episode) series revolving entirely around Aincrad. This should make this the definitive way to watch SAO.
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It's just using the literal meaning of it " happening or developing gradually or in stages; proceeding step by step. " to refer to how the series is working on basically adapting a floor a book.
no I get it but given this show's history and infamous treatment of the women (something it clearly shares with a lot of anime in and out of its lane) I can't stop the chuckles.
They are going to remake the original series and make it LONGER? That's what they thought the problem was?
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Finished watching the final episode of Alicization which just released. That sure was something lmao. Cant believe the first episode of it came out Oct 2018. Two years of this arc.
I'm ready to go back to Aincrad now.
I'm ready to go back to Aincrad now.
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Seriously?
We don't need discussion of a lewd fan-fiction.
Actually somewhat hopeful for this. SAO has had its (imo rare) moments, but the most consistently enjoyable stuff in the series was probably very early on during Aincrad before they very abruptly resolved its plot. I actually really liked those first few episodes of world-building (that I think I read were adapted from some side chapters or something? I don't remember). I think a more deliberately paced Aincrad could be enjoyable.
The progressive novels are by far the best material in the series. I know that's not saying much for most people, but it adds a lot of depth and characterization to characters that were previously much more rote or didn't get the same chance to shine.
Really been enjoying the light novels.
Really been enjoying the light novels.
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This is what I need. Before I knew that the story in the anime adaptation was stitched together from different novels, I was shocked that it was so strangely paced. As bad the arcs after Aincrad are, they feel more coherent. I'm sure the adaptation could have done more to make Aincrad flow better, but having a new source that just starts from the beginning and goes from there will help a lot.
But from most reviews I saw even Alicization was a giant flaming turd as well and that's supposed to be the point where SAO is supposed to get better?
To put it in simple terms, yes.
I think what confuses a lot of people is that there's two sets of SAO content. The stuff that was written between 2002 and 2008 for the web novel series, and the stuff that's come out after that now that Kawahara's a professional writer.
Most of what has been adapted so far is the Light Novel versions of that web novel content, which includes Alicization. The stuff that just aired on TV is largely 12 years old now.
Progressive is newer content that fills in the gaps in the Aincrad arc, and started in 2013, with the latest volume (Volume 6) having come out in 2018. It is essentially a soft reboot or retelling of sorts. We will most likely see another volume at least before this anime starts too.
Hmm. Maybe I'll check this series out - going by this thread, it seems that it may be a decent entry point into the Sword Art universe (seems to be a retelling of the first major arc?). I've been on a pretty big anime kick since lockdown/work from home started. I saw a couple of trailers for Alicization that piqued my interest a bit...