Sword Art Online
Japanese light novel series and its adaptations
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| 2024 | Kirito is mortally wounded by Johnny Black and placed back into the STL to preserve his mind. During this time, he befriends Eugeo and helps him on a quest to save Alice Zuberg. |
| 2024 | Kirito is recruited to test the Soul Translator (STL) experimental FullDive machine to help develop an AI named A.L.I.C.E. in the Underworld virtual reality. |
| 2024 | Kirito battles and defeats the Administrator of the Axiom Church in the Underworld, with Eugeo dying during the conflict. |
| 2024 | Kirito and Asuna spend 200 years in the Underworld (about 2 weeks in real time), with their memories of this period later removed. |
| 2024 | American forces raid RATH's Ocean Turtle facility to capture A.L.I.C.E. Kirito, with help from friends, stops the attackers and safely extracts A.L.I.C.E., who gains a physical body. |
| 2024 | Kirito, Asuna, and others have their accounts migrated to Unital Ring, a new VRMMORPG incorporating locations from previous virtual worlds. |
| 2024 | Kirito investigates murders in Gun Gale Online (GGO), participating in the Bullet of Bullets tournament with Sinon and capturing two suspects related to a former SAO player-killing guild. |
| October 4 2024 | Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream video game released. |
| 2023 | Kirito learns about 300 SAO players still trapped, including Asuna, and discovers a plot by Nobuyuki Sugou to perform illegal mind control experiments and marry Asuna. |
| October 6 2023 | Sword Art Online: Last Recollection video game released worldwide, with theme song 'VITA' performed by Reona. |
| 2022 | The Sword Art Online series sales reached 30 million copies. |
| 2022 | Sword Art Online: Variant Showdown mobile game released to coincide with the anime's 10th anniversary. |
| 2022 | Kirito and Asuna discover Kayaba's in-game identity as 'Heathcliff', confront and defeat him, freeing the players from SAO. |
| 2022 | Kazuto Kirigaya (Kirito), a former beta tester, becomes a solo player known as a 'beater' and eventually befriends and marries Asuna Yuuki in-game. |
| November 6 2022 | 10th anniversary commemorative event 'Sword Art Online: Full Dive' is held, featuring a special theme song. |
| November 6 2022 | Sword Art Online (SAO) game launches, with 10,000 players logging in and discovering they are trapped by Akihiko Kayaba, who declares they must complete all 100 floors of Aincrad or face real-life death if they die in-game or remove the NerveGear. |
| October 22 2022 | Second Progressive film, Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night, premieres. |
| 2021 | The Sword Art Online series expanded to 26 million copies in print. |
| October 30 2021 | Anime film Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night premieres. |
| 2020 | In the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! edition, Sword Art Online was voted as the best light novel series of the 2010s, ranking first with 1,728.95 points. |
| November 8 2020 | Second cour of the second part of the series premiered on Toonami. |
| September 2020 | Sword Art Online: Alicization concludes its run. |
| September 20 2020 | The second half of the War of Underworld series concluded. |
| July 2020 | Sword Art Online was removed from Books Kinokuniya in Australia due to claims of promoting child pornography. |
| July 12 2020 | The second half of the War of Underworld series began airing, after being delayed from the original April 26, 2020 schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| July 10 2020 | Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris released, delayed from its original May 2020 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| April 5 2020 | First cour of the second part of the series concluded on Toonami. |
| January 19 2020 | First cour of the second part of the series began airing on Toonami. |
| December 29 2019 | The second part of Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld concluded its initial run. |
| October 13 2019 | The second part of the series, Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld, premiered. |
| October 6 2019 | Recap episode summarizing the first part of the series aired. |
| October 6 2019 | A recap episode summarizing the first part of Sword Art Online: Alicization aired. |
| September 6 2019 | Material Edition: Remix published. |
| July 14 2019 | First English-dubbed run on Toonami concluded. |
| May 12 2019 | Material Edition volume 29 released. |
| March 31 2019 | The first part of the Sword Art Online: Alicization anime series concluded its initial run. |
| March 19 2019 | First Sword Art Online arcade game, Sword Art Online Arcade: Deep Explorer, released in Japanese arcades. |
| February 10 2019 | English-dubbed version began airing on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block. |
| December 7 2018 | Volume 21 released, beginning the Unital Ring story arc, which is the first arc not based on the original web novel. |
| October 7 2018 | The first part of the Sword Art Online: Alicization anime series premiered. |
| September 15 2018 | Sword Art Online: Alicization had a one-hour world premiere simultaneously in Japan, the United States, Mexico, Australia, France, Germany, Russia, and South Korea. |
| April 2018 | Spin-off anime series Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online premieres. |
| February 2018 | The live-action Sword Art Online series was sold to Netflix for development. |
| February 23 2018 | Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows. |
| 2017 | The Sword Art Online series reached an estimated 20 million copies in print worldwide. |
| 2017 | Third season (Sword Art Online: Alicization) and spin-off anime (Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online) were announced. |
| December 2017 | Sword Art Online: Integral Factor free-to-play MMORPG released for Android and iOS in Japan. |
| July 7 2017 | Accel World vs. Sword Art Online crossover game released for western audiences on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Windows. |
| March 9 2017 | Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale is released in the United States. |
| March 4 2017 | Hopeful Chant, a 100-page prequel novel to Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale, released to film viewers in Japan. |
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