Sword Art Online Progressive 1 (Light Novel) - Paperback

SAO Progressive light novel volume one restarts Aincrad from floor one, retelling the first month of the death game in far closer detail.

Two thousand people are already dead when the book opens. Kirito and Asuna both intend to clear the game alone, and this is largely about why that stops being possible.

Which format this is

The prose novel, not the manga adaptation. Readers who ordered expecting comics have said so in reviews, and the two run under nearly identical covers.

Who it's for

Viewers who finished the anime and want the floors it skipped, and readers who found the original series too fast on its early arc.

From the publisher

"There's no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die..." One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead. Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone.

Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, the surviving players of Sword Art Online are starting to get desperate, and desperation makes them dangerous to loners like Kirito and Asuna.

As it becomes clear that solitude equals suicide, will the two be able to overcome their differences to find the strength to believe in each other, and in so doing survive?

Sword Art Online: Progressive is a new version of the Sword Art Online tale that starts at the beginning of Kirito and Asuna's epic adventure--on the very first level of the deadly world of Aincrad!