In the year 2022, the Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG), Sword Art Online (SAO), is released. With the Nerve Gear, a virtual reality helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds.
On November 6, 2022, all the players log in for the first time, and subsequently discover that they are unable to log out. They are then informed by Kayaba Akihiko, the creator of SAO, that if they wish to be free, they must reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if their avatars die in-game, their bodies will also die in the real world. The story follows Kirito, a skilled player who is determined to beat the game. As the game progresses for two years, Kirito eventually befriends a female player named Asuna with whom he ultimately falls in love. After the duo discover the identity of Kayaba's avatar in SAO, they confront and defeat him, freeing themselves and the other players from the game.
Upon returning to the real world, Kirito learns that Asuna and a small group of SAO players have still not awakened yet. Following a clue about Asuna's whereabouts in another VRMMORPG called Alfheim Online (ALO), Kirito also logs in there. Helped by his sister Suguha, he learns that the trapped players in ALO are part of a plan devised by Nobuyuki SugÅ to perform illegal experiments on their minds to put them under his control, including Asuna, whom he intends to marry in the real world in order to take over her family's company.
Sword Art Online Episodes :
1. Sword Art Online 1: World of Swords
2. Sword Art Online 2: Beater
3. Sword Art Online 3: The Red-Nosed Reindeer
4. Sword Art Online 4: The Black Swordsman
5. Sword Art Online 5: A Crime Within the Walls
6. Sword Art Online 6: Phantom Avenger
7. Sword Art Online 7: Warmth of the Heart
8. Sword Art Online 8: Black & White Sword Dance
9. Sword Art Online 9: Blue-eyed Demon
10. Sword Art Online 10: Crimsom Killing Intent
11. Sword Art Online 11: Morning Dew Girl
12. Sword Art Online 12: Yui's Heart
13. Sword Art Online 13: Edge of Hell's Abyss
14. Sword Art Online 14: The End of the World
15. Sword Art Online 15: Return
16. Sword Art Online 16: The Land of Fairies
17. Sword Art Online 17: The Captive Queen
18. Sword Art Online 18: To the World Tree
19. Sword Art Online 19: The Lugru Corridor
20. Sword Art Online 20: General of the Blazing Flames
21. Sword Art Online 21: The Truth about ALfheim
22. Sword Art Online 22: Grand Quest
23. Sword Art Online 23: Bonds
24. Sword Art Online 24: Gilded Hero
25. Sword Art Online 25: The World Seed