

So yesterday I way talking to my mom about SAO. I'm really bad at explaining
stuff so I think I might have confused her when I was talking about it. I was
also jumping around from the story. For example I was talking about the
beginning then went to the end, then to the middle, back to the end, then back
to the beginning. After struggling to explain it to her I tried to summarizing
it, but I'm also bad at that so I had a hard time doing that too.

Can someone please summarize it for me like that I can explain it better to my
mom. I told her the main point of the first season, Sword Art Online 1, which
was that people got stuck in a game and to get out they had to clear out
levels. I also told her that if you die in the game you die in real life. I
pretty much told her the main point of the the first season, but didn't get
that into the second one.


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How to summarize the whole SAO, Sword Art Online, franchise?


Hereby an attempt for a simple summary of the franchise for somebody that does
not usually read/watches manga or anime, in a simple yet understandable way.

_All though it is a short summary, it does contain implicit spoilers, read at
your own discretion._

> In the year 2022 A gamer named Kirito gets stuck in a very anticipated
> Virtual reality game called Sword art online, or SAO for short. Due to a
> evil twist of the game developer, players can no longer log out and have to
> for their lives as death in game means death in real life.
>
> The story revolves around Kirito as he struggles to survive, together with
> the friends he made and lost on the way to finding a way out.
>
> The story is followed up by other games called Alfheim online(alo) gungale
> online (GGO) and underworld (UW). The story progresses from Kirito the
> gamer, to Kirito the developer. As his interests shift more and more towards
> the virtual reality hard and software.


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It's difficult to summarize the entire franchise (through season 2) in a
single sentence, so I'll split it up by arcs, ignoring the small arcs. These
may have slight spoilers, but I try to keep it limited to the introduction
elements of each arc. It's not as short as Dimitri's, but it helped when I was
convincing my friends to watch. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

Season 1, Arc 1:

> A technology has been developed that allows users to fully insert themselves
> into a video game to the point where they cannot sense the outside world at
> all. During the first release and testing of this technology, the developer
> changes the program so that the players are trapped and the game becomes
> their life. In order to leave, they must beat the game but with one deadly
> twist: if they die in the game, they die in real life.

Season 1, Arc 2:

> At the end of season 1, the game is completed and most players are released,
> but some of the players have still not woken up from their game-induced
> coma. The main character from the first arc (Kirito) notices that Asuna
> (another teammate from the game) is one of those who hasn't woken. More
> games are created using the same immersion technology, and eventually a
> picture circulates for one of the more popular ones. In this picture, there
> appears to be a girl trapped in a cage. Kirito believes that girl to be
> Asuna and joins the game to save her.

Season 2, Arc 1:

> Another immersion game goes wrong. A player appears to have the ability to
> kill players in the game and to have them die in real life. Kirito, with his
> vast experience with these games, is asked to join the game to do
> reconnaissance and to try and stop the killer.

Season 2, Arc 2:

I really need to rewatch this one, and it's my favorite, so I don't want to
spoil anything.


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