

In the first Sword Art Online opening (LiSA - Crossing Field), there is a
scene right before the chorus that shows the hands of three different (I'm
assuming they're different) individuals raising their hands toward the sky.
The last appears to be Kazuto Kirigaya, aka. Kirito, and this is semi-
confirmed when the scene directly afterwards shows him falling through the
ground. _Is this a correct assumption, and who are the other two hands before
him?_


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Whose hands were shown in Sword Art Online opening 1?


I believe it's Kirito, Asuna and again Kirito

[_Sword Art Online_ OP 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q9RzAaru40&t=33s)

Starting with the 3rd hand

[![SAO Opening - 3rd
Hand](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PQEjI.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PQEjI.jpg)

this looks to be Kirito's arm from the first episode. it would make sense as
the next few frames show the sky becoming how it was when Kayaba appeared to
announcxe the Death Game

[![Kirito Episode 1 -
Running](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OStG8m.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OStG8.jpg)[![Kirito
Episode 1 -
Attacking](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EVucNm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EVucN.jpg)[![Kayaba
Episode 1 -
Announcement](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kQ0xbm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kQ0xb.jpg)

Next 1st hand

[![SAO Opening - 1st
Hand](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XkNVI.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XkNVI.jpg)

This hand i also believe is Kirito's because it's the same style of sleeve and
glove. the change of colour i'm going to say is because of lighting

Finally, the 2nd Hand

[![SAO Opening - 2nd
Hand](https://i.stack.imgur.com/E7sdh.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/E7sdh.jpg)

I believe this is Asuna. aside from my personal opinion that the hand looks
more feminine we can see that before the timeskip where Kirito didn't have his
Coat of Midnight and Asuna wasn't in the Knights of the Blood and thus wearing
their uniform Asuna has a long sleeve of a similar style. the rim can be
explained by lighting but i can't exactly explain the lines or color

[![Asuna and
Kirito](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OLqjC.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OLqjC.jpg)

the hands being Kirito and Asuna would make sense as they are the 2 main
characters

also it is possible that one of Kirito's hands could be of when he was using
his original Closed Beta Avatar that we see Kirito as before Kayaba forced all
characters to have the appearance of their user. Kirito's Beta Avatar looked
older than him and the 1st and 3rd hands look different in age

> Kirito described the appearance of his avatar at the beginning of the game
> and the beta-testing phase as having the appearance of a ridiculously
> handsome protagonist from some fantasy animation, **looking noticeably older
> than he actually was.**

Source: [Kirigaya Kazuto > Appearance > Real World / Sword Art Online /
Project Alicization (1st
Paragraph)](https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/Kirigaya_Kazuto#Appearance)

and the older one being third would also fit into how that part is playing our
similar to when Kayaba appeared which at that moment Kirito's appearance was
his Beta Vatara

* * *

to dispel that any of the hands could be Sachi as that was my initial thought.
while her coat in the OP is about the same color as the sleeve of the 1st hand
and as the lines of the 2nd hand, as we can see bellow in the OP and Hollow
Fragment (which didn't alter her appearance), Sachi wears a glove that extends
down her arm. while it has lines in it like the 2nd hand, the 2nd hand clearly
isn't wearing any glove while the 1st hand the glove and sleeve are separate,
not to mention there is no band/ring on it as per all 3 hands

[![Sachi in the
OP](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l1uMom.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l1uMo.jpg)[![Sachi
in Hollow
Fragment](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCYC7m.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCYC7.jpg)


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