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Sword Art Online: 10 Differences Between The Anime & Light Novel Although the anime adaption of Sword Art Online does a great job, there a few glaring differences between the light novel & its many adaptions.

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Anime fans either hate or love the Sword Art Online seriesーand there is no in-between about it. Despite the hate it garners from fans, its popularity is undeniable. It is one of the highest-selling light novels in Japan, as well as one of the most popular cash cows for Kadokawa và A-1 Pictures.

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Despite all of this & the many anime adaptions, there are a few differences between the anime và light novels. No anime perfectly adapts the source material, và some changes were made for the better. However, some were not. Here are ten differences between the Sword Art Online anime and light novels.

Sword Art Online has a lot of light novels that contain extra stories after the main arc is finished. There are even side stories that feature other supporting characters such as Silica & Lisbeth.

Some side stories also fill in some story between light novels, such as a Sword Art Online: Alicization side story when Kirito and Asuna were stuck inside the world for 200 years. It detailed their lives, as well as the fate of the other characters.

Perhaps because they are a series of books, the light novels have noticeablely slower pacing than the anime. This makes for a snapneck pacing at some places, và a snail"s pace in others.

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Sometimes, even nội dung is skipped and cut lớn fit the time requirements for the anime, such as some battles and lines.

to fit time restrictions, sometimes decisions have to lớn be made. This is the case with the anime adaption, which happens to cut a considerable amount of lines và phrases.

The light novel has a lot of speaking in it, from character quips to lớn information. However, the anime cut down on this, instead focusing on showing, not telling. This is especially noticeable at the over of the first season of Sword Art Online when Kirito fought against Heathcliff.

7 The Anime Skipped Content

Fans were especially upset when Sword Art Online: Alicization skipped two volumes worth of content from the original light novel. In the light novel, it detailed the school life of Kirito và Eugeo learning from their teachers.

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However, this was only displayed as flashbacks in the anime. Because of thisーas well as time restrainstsーit made for an upsetting happening that even caused the author, Reki Kawahara, khổng lồ apologize.

Since Kirito is the protagonist of the story, it is told from his perspective. Because of this, his thoughts are more transparentーonly in the light novel, though.

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From how he first thought of being trapped in the trò chơi world to lớn his interactions with the other girls & Asuna, his thoughts are laid out bare. This actually makes him more relatable và interesting in the light novel.

5 The Light Novel Adds Story

Because Sword Art Online was originally a website novel, some bits of the story was not added into the finished light novel.

However, since the author wished to địa chỉ cửa hàng in more story at times, some bits of information would be added in throughout arcs. This would lead khổng lồ some confusion among readers at times.

While terms lượt thích "fluctlight" are said frequently and only explained once, there are way more explanations about them in the light novel.

Instead of one offhanded remark about a certain term, characters go in-depth about it. This is especially true in the Alicization arc, as there are a lot of new terms khổng lồ learn.

3 The Anime Has More Fanservice

This may come as a surprise lớn some fans, but the anime contains way more tín đồ service than the light novels. This is true khổng lồ characters such as Suguha, and the antagonist Quinella who walks around naked half the time she"s shown in the anime.

Although in the light novel Quinella walks around naked all the time, the anime makes it worse by actively trying to lớn hide certain parts of her toàn thân with her long hair.

The light novels don"t exactly pan everything out in chronological order. For instance, despite the Aincrad arc ending, the light novels sometimes go back to a past instance and recap the reader.

This is a bit frustrating at times, as it flip flops between the past and current events that are taking place in an arc. The added-in bits of story are also confusing khổng lồ keep track of when looking back at past events và incidents.

1 Sword Art Online: Progressive

Sword Art Online: Progressive is a light novel that focuses on what happens between the floors of the first arc of the series, Aincrad. However, it takes place From Asuna"s perspective moreso than Kirito"s, which makes for an interesting twist.

Some say Progressive is more detailed in its retelling, & this is true as it details some plot holes that were not touched up upon before in the original series. Luckily, fans will receive an anime movie adaption of the novels in 2021 animated by the original studio, A-1 Pictures.

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Brianna Albert is an author, writer, reader, & seasonal anime watcher. She has been watching anime since before na-ru-to became Hokage và trying to lớn figure out how to lớn bend air since she was in kindergarten. She now works for Valnet, Inc, writing anime lists on Comic Book Resources, writing about television on Screenrant, as well as editing as a Junior Editor. In her spare time, she writes romance novels, works as a freelance Japanese translator, catches hearts in otome games, và binge watches K-Dramas. You can follow her và her witty tweets at