Oh yes! They're finally making a Sword Art Online anime! If you can't tell, I'm really excited about it right now. I've been hoping to see an anime version of SAO ever since I read the first light novel a couple of years back.
No doubt SAO will remind people of the .hack franchise as both stories take place in a fantasy world inside an MMO (that and the inability to log out being the game's "bug"), but the similarities end there. The mood and setting in SAO are considerably different and darker just because of the fact that the players could lose their lives in reality when their characters die in the game.
I just wish they had mentioned a release date to go along with the anime announcement though. If we're lucky, we could see it coming out spring 2012, perhaps? The author's, Kawahara Reki's other light novel series Accel World will also be animated. You can read the English translation for the first 4 volumes of Sword Art Online at Baka-Tsuki, where I stole the following synopsis from:
"Escape was impossible until it was cleared; a game over would mean an actual "death". Without knowing the "truth" of the mysterious next generation MMO, 'Sword Art Online (SAO)', approximately ten thousand users logged in together, opening the curtains to this cruel death battle. Participating alone in SAO, protagonist Kirito had promptly accepted the "truth" of this MMO. And in the game world, a gigantic floating castle named 'Aincrad', he distinguished himself as a solo player. Aiming to clear the game by reaching the highest floor, Kirito riskily continued alone. Because of a pushy invitation from a female warrior and rapier expert, Asuna, he teamed up with her. That encounter brought about an opportunity to call out to the fated Kirito."
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