New Anime Releases 30/03/2014

“Computers are stupid. They can only give you answers.” – Pablo Picasso For many the first edition of Sword Art Online was rather slow. The episodes themselves were primarily individual stories and thus there was no real indication of where the plot was going. Luckily, this second collection more than makes up for the faults of … Continued

‘In this world, ‘Game Over’ is equivalent to death in the real world.’ Thousands of keen players  – including young Kirito –  who have logged into Sword Art Online, the world’s first VRMMORPG, are horrified to hear this grim pronouncement from Akihiko Kayaba, the game’s developer. Kayaba tells them that they are trapped in his game until … Continued

“You should treat a muse like a fairy.” – Paulo Coelho At the end of Part 2 we witnessed the video game “Sword Art Online” being completed and coming to an end. Now the series moves onto a different game, with different features, and different challenges for Kirito. Part 3 starts with him recovering from … Continued

“As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree’, probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.” – Woody Allen The fourth and final release of SAO sees the conclusion of the “ALfheim” story, set in a virtual world in which people play flying fairies and are attempting … Continued

It looks like Kirito may finally be putting his amusphere to one side and taking his beloved Asuna to the cinema – at least in one way. At the Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival this week, the publisher of the franchise’s original light novels announced that the animation production company A-1 Pictures are now working on … Continued