aka the first light novel book of sword art is a lot more cut down, is a good read in general, and goes way more into the mechanics of the game than the anime does. A weakness in his writing that he openly admits.īut yeah yui isn't in the first book either, that is totally the second book side story. Just the first boss stuff and then a jump to when he meets asuna again.Įven better the author originally intended the second book to be nothing but side stories to the point where kirito wouldn't be involved, but once he started writing them he just couldn't help but get kirito involved. The first book is actually just the entire sword art online story without any of the extra girls. The first few episodes of the anime are actually from the second sword art online book as all of the extra girls are in that book.
