Reki Kawahara (Author)

In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online-a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other-opens its virtual doors, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in the game world by manipulating their brain…

Even in the future, all the advances and innovation in the world can’t change the dynamics of the school playground. And for Haruyuki Arita, a fat kid in junior high, that means he’s destined to always be at the bottom of the food chain, prime pickings for the school bullies. But when he encounters the…

Kirito decides to retire from Ordinal Scale. When he starts initializing the data, he gets a message from Yuna for his desktop mascot app. Kirito opens the message and installs the content to say goodbye to the AR idol, but she says “Kirito, help me” with strange gestures. Is this a new gimmick for the…

Hopeful Chant (ホープフル・チャント, Hōpufuru Chanto) is an extra story written by the author of the Sword Art Online light novel, Kawahara Reki.[1] The story was distributed as a present to visitors of Sword Art Online The Movie -Ordinal Scale- in Japan in the third week of the official cinema release between March 4 and March…

One month after Akihiko Kayaba’s game of death began, the death toll continues to rise, two thousand players having already lost their lives to the ultra-difficult VRMMO world of Sword Art Online. On the day of the strategy meeting to plan out the first-floor boss battle, Kirito, a solo player who vows to fight alone…

A 183cm tall female college student, Kohiruimaki Karen, has a complex about her tall figure and has a poor social disposition because of it. This was changed by the VRMMO game «Gun Gale Online» (GGO). In the game, Karen obtained a dream “chibi” avatar less than even 150cm in height, put on a full-body pink…

«Asuka Empire». A long-living Japanese-style VRMMO game that started service in the midst of the SAO Incident. This game, where Yuuki, Ran and the others formed the «Sleeping Knights» guild, also had a hidden story―― The Battle Miko Nayuta and the ninja Koyomi. The two girls who met in «Asuka Empire» by chance and became…

Minoru Utsugi, a teenager who was living a peaceful (if boring) life with his sister-in-law, finds his life changed when extraterrestrial contact grants his dearest wish, leaving him with the power of “The Solitude.” But the ability to realize absolute isolation only plunges Minoru into a battle he never wanted to fight. As his old…

If You Were Here is an Alicization what-if story, answering the question of what would have happened if Raios and Humbert hadn’t been around to force Eugeo and Kirito into breaking the Taboo Index. The story was released as a bonus with the 8th BD/DVD volume of the Alicization cour 1-2 Blu-Rays/DVDs and is based…