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Welcome to the Sword Art Online Wiki
This wiki covers the Sword Art Online light novels and related media.
«Wiki Announcement»
In the latest news, Sword Art Online Volume 29 has been announced for an April 10, 2026 release later this year, following a two-and-a-half-year gap since the previous volume. On that note, the latest entry in the Progressive light novel series (Volume 9) was released on March 7, 2025. This volume is the first part of a multiple-volume-long story, Nocturne of the Blue Reflected Moon, which has so far taken place on the 4th Floor of Aincrad.
On the topic of anime, a brand new original Sword Art Online movie was announced on Nov 6. 2022, during the Sword Art Online -FullDive- event that took place in Tokyo. No further details regarding the movie have been disclosed as of today.
On the SAO game front, Sword Art Online Last Recollection was released on October 5th, 2023. Ending on a sad note, the mobile game Sword Art Online: Variant Showdown concluded its global service on October 30 at 1:00 p.m. JST. Following the game's shutdown, the official team released an offline version of the game, along with a web novelization of the story.
«Introduction»
A huge castle made of stone and steel floating in an endless sky. That was all this world was.
It took a vagarious group of craftsmen one month to survey the place; the diameter of the base floor was about 10 kilometers — large enough to fit the entirety of Setagaya-ku within. Above, there were 100 floors stacking straight upwards; its sheer size was unbelievable. It was impossible to even guess how much data it consisted of.
Inside, there were a couple of large cities along with countless small scale towns and villages, forests and plains, and even lakes. Only one stairway linked each floor to another, and the stairways existed in dungeons where large numbers of monsters roamed; so discovering and getting through was no easy matter. However, once someone made a breakthrough and arrived at a city of the upper floor, the «Teleport Gates» there and of every cities in the lower floors would be connected making it possible for anyone to move freely through these levels.
With these conditions, the huge castle had been steadily conquered for two years. The current front line is the 74th floor.
The name of the castle was «Aincrad», a world of battles with swords that continued floating and had engulfed approximately six thousand people. Otherwise known as...
«Featured Article»
The «Ocean Turtle» (オーシャン・タートル, Ōshan Tātoru?) is a mega-float located in the Pacific Ocean, at a place near Izu Islands about 250 kilometres away from Tokyo, that is run by Rath and acts as a government research facility for «Project Alicization», an effort to create a highly adaptive Artificial Intelligence.
«Helping Out»
Feel free to contribute to the wiki, just remember the following:
- Light Novels take precedence over other forms of media.
- Novels & Material Editions > Anime > Manga > Other
- For people who want to upload images, please read our Image Guideline first.
- If you are uploading light novel or manga screenshots please include page and volume number in the title.
- Fan content (including fan art, fan fics etc.) is not to be used in the content of official pages. However, they may be freely used on personal user pages or blogs, so long as the Unofficial Image and Personal Photo categories are added to any unofficial image.
- Do not forget to add appropriate categories to any page you might be creating.
- Be articulate.
- Remember to use {{Nihongo}} for names and terms.
- Always add appropriate infoboxes when creating articles.
- If you use content from other websites, it is best to obtain permission. We do not want angry villagers with torches and pitch-forks.
- A page can only be linked once per article. The first mention should be linked to the said article. For example, the first mention of Kirito in an article should be linked, while the second mention of Kirito shouldn't be.
- For the full list of SAO names see Official Naming, here is a common used name list
- Kirito
- Asuna
- Klein
- Agil
- Lisbeth
- Silica
- Kuradeel
- Leafa
- Heathcliff
- Sinon
- Additionally, if you are looking for work on the wiki, check out our community page for some useful links and suggestions on what to work on.
- If you ever encounter an issue that you as an editor can not fix, the Admin Support may be able to address your problems. Just contact one of our admins through the convenient threads already in place.
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«Latest Episode»
Unanswered//butterfly
Released May 9, 2026
«Latest Novel»
Sword Art Online Progressive 9
Released March 7, 2025
ISBN 978-4-04-916182-3
Sword Art Online 29 - Unital Ring VIII
Released April 10, 2026
ISBN 978-4-04-916930-0
Sword Art Online Alternative Gamblers Honor
Released May 9, 2026
ISBN 978-4-04-915275-3
