Sword Art Online - Sword Art Online (2012)

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25 Episodes

S1 E1 - The World of Swords

S1 E2 - Beater

S1 E3 - The Red-Nosed Reindeer

S1 E4 - The Black Swordsman

S1 E5 - Murder in the Safe Zone

S1 E6 - Illusionary Avenger

S1 E7 - The Temperature of the Heart

S1 E8 - The Sword Dance of Black and White

S1 E9 - The Blue-Eyed Demon

S1 E10 - Crimson Killing Intent

S1 E11 - The Girl of Morning Dew

S1 E12 - Yui's Heart

S1 E13 - Edge of Hell's Abyss

S1 E14 - The End of the World

S1 E15 - Return

S1 E16 - Land of the Fairies

S1 E17 - Captive Queen

S1 E18 - To the World Tree

S1 E19 - The Lugru Corridor

S1 E20 - General of the Blazing Flame

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Synopsis

In the year 2022, a massive online role-playing game called Sword Art Online (SAO) is launched. With the aid of "NerveGear" technology, players can control their avatars within the game using nothing but their own thoughts. Kazuto Kirigaya is among the lucky few who get their hands on the first shipment. He logs in to find himself, with ten-thousand others, in the scenic and elaborate world of Aincrad. However, in a cruel turn of events, the players soon realize they cannot log out; the game's creator has trapped them in his new world until they complete all one hundred levels of the game. In order to escape Aincrad, Kirito will now have to interact and cooperate with his fellow players. Some are allies, while others are foes. Sword Art Online is not all fun and games: if they die in Aincrad, they die in real life. Kirito must adapt to his new reality, fight for his survival, and hopefully break free from his virtual hell.

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Tomohisa Onoue, Tsuyoshi Tobita, Takashi Sakuma, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Michiru Itabisashi, Shunsuke Nakashige, Takehiro Miura, Ho Pyeon-gang, Hidetoshi Takahashi, Makoto Hoshino, Tatsumi Fujii, Yasuto Nishikata, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Yuki Ito, Shinya Watada, Kazuma Satou, Takahiro Shikama, Shigetaka Ikeda, Takayoshi Morimiya, Kazuhisa Oono, Hironori Aoyagi, Daisuke Takashima, Kosaya, Saori Den, Ken Takahashi, Yusuke Maruyama, Koji Kobayashi, Hirokazu Yamada, Tamaki Nakatsu, Takuma Suzuki, Tomonari Tanaka, Shigeki Kawai, Naomi Nakayama, Tomohiko Ito, Kenji Seto, Yuya Horiuchi, Hirotaka Tokuda, Hiroshi Kimura, Hiroki Hirano, Satoshi Saga, Shunsuke Machitani, Hideya Takahashi, Koichi Kikuta, Yasuyuki Fuse, Manabu Ono, Akira Yamada, Masakazu Obara, Toru Hamasaki, Yoshihiko Iwata, Shu Watanabe

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