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Sword Art Online is a popular series written by Reki Kawahara that his spawned 25 light novels , three anime seasons and a movie. The story is based on a young teen named Kazuto kirigaya who dives in a virtual MMO video game. He soon realizes that the game doesn't have the logout feature. The GM reveals that the only way to escape is to beat the game. There is only one catch if you die in the game you lose your life in the real world.
The series has six different arcs one containing nine light novels. The most recent one Unital Ring is half way done. The anime covered five of the six arcs following Kirito and Asuna on their path to development. The series does emphasize a lot on artificial intelligence and virtual technology showing their audience the difference between VR and real life.
Out of all the arcs the first one was the most popular because it tells the story on the death game. This arc is called the Aincrad arc which explains how Kirito and friends escaped SAO without dying. Due to its popularity the author decided to release a side story series going in deep to explain the arc. This side story series was named Sword Art Online Progressive explaining everything that got cut out in the first arc and anime. It dives deeper into relationship between the main characters and it tells the story from different point of views.
A1 Pictures announced the release of a movie focusing on the progressive series. This movie covers the Aria Of A Starless Night story going back to the beginning telling the story from a different point of view. This includes adding original characters and showing brand new animation. Sword Art Online Progressive the movie has been announced for this fall season. Time to go back to the beginning and unlock the secrets on Aincrad that have been hidden for so long.