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Sword Art Online Season 2 Airing July + New Visual

The Dengeki Games Festival 2014 held a Sword Art Online panel over the past weekend, where it announced that the second season of the anime will air in July this year. In addition to this announcement, a new visual for the second was release on the anime’s official website.

Sword Art Online Season 2 Airing July + New Visual Image

Sword Art Online is a light novel series written by Reki Kawahara, who also is the author of Accel World. The light novel series began in 2009 and has sold millions of copies, topping the charts in 2012. Additionally in 2012, an anime adaptation was released. The Sword Art Online anime aired in July 2012 and was produced by A-1 Pictures, which received a large reception. Since then, the series has appeared on a plethora of media from handheld and browser video games, to spin off mangas and international merchandise. The latest canonical light novel, the thirteenth in the series, was released in Japan on August 10th 2013. In addition, Kawahara has relaunched the series as Sword Art Online: Progressive, a re-release of the light novels with additional content. The second issue of Sword Art Online: Progressive launched in October 2013.

If you haven’t seen or read the series, here is a synopsis from MAL:

In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game’s tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now…

Sword Art Online II will be airing in the Summer 2014 season. The anime will animate the 5th and 6th light novels. More information on the show, videos, images and cast, will be revealed in the near future.

In the meantime you can visit the series’ official website: http://www.swordart-online.net/
 
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