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Saintly Church: Which takes care of the younger players in SAO.
Satiating Sandwich: Asuna's sandwiches are this for Kirito. In episode 25, he begs Asuna for a sandwich after she teases him with one. Just look at them!
Scenery Porn: OH YES! Several places of the game are deemed as such.
Schmuck Bait: A hidden door in a dungeon leading to an empty room with a single treasure chest at the end. Sweet, free loot! Lets just ahead and open it because nothing bad could possibly happen, right?
Scope Snipe: A sniper duel between Death Gun and Sinon results in the latter receiving this, while the former gets his rifle smashed. Luckily, Sinon moved her head to check the result of her shot, and narrowly missed Death Gun's bullet destroying her scope and where her head would have been. So did Death Gun.
Scrub: In-Universe. Any players with an attitude against Beta testers mentioned they saw them as unpunished cheaters who have an unfair advantage in terms of knowledge and getting a head-start can give off this vibe.
Secret Level: In-Universe: There is a dungeon below the first floor of Aincrad that houses incredibly powerful monsters that don't typically appear until the 90th floor. The leader of the Aincrad Liberation Front, Thinker, gets trapped in this dungeon because of a power-play by Kibaou, who used the dungeon to grind levels in secret.
Secret Test of Character:
- In ALO, while exploring the most dangerous region in the game where flying is impossible and raid-boss-level monsters abound, it's possible to encounter two raid-bosses fighting one another, with one boss clearly winning. Normal player behavior would be to watch and then either flee or attack and kill the bosses while they're preoccupied for their drops. However, should the player(s) choose to help the losing monster, it is revealed that it's actually a secret event and will carry the player(s) to another location, where it will drop them off and stop moving. Should the player(s) actually choose to defend it against other players hunting it, it will carry them and start flying above a tower, revealing the location of legendary sword Excaliber, the most powerful sword in the game.
- The second part of the quest line also has several events that tests the party's character:
  - They discover a beautiful NPC woman locked in a cage begging for help. Savvy players will note that the NPC has an HP bar, and thus there is a high chance that the NPC will turn hostile and betray the party. The NPC really is an ally and is necessary to successfully complete said quest.
  - Even after securing Ex caliber, it isn't added to the player's inventory, and is incredibly heavy. When the dungeon starts collapsing, the player finds that they cannot make the final jump to safety because Excaliber is too heavy, and is testing the player's greed and obsession about whether or not they're on this quest for the legendary sword or to save Alfheim.
Senseless Sacrifice: Recon does one in Episode 23. He casts a self-destruct spell which opens up a considerable gap between the guardians in an attempt to allow Kirito to break through. Unfortunately, the gap closes itself within moments, although to be fair they had no way of knowing that.
Serial Escalation: Each arc becomes manlier, gorier and darker than the last, with the exception of the side story arcs and Mother's Rosario, and introduces more villains who are really nasty, each worse than the last. To wit, the Big Bad of Aincrad is what amounts to a Psychopathic Manchild who traps several thousands of people to test out his game, Fairy Dance's Big Bad is a hedonist who wants to rape the protagonist's love interest, Phantom Bullet's Big Bad is a Serial Killer who has several accomplices to carry out his killings, and Alicization's Big Bads consist of a narcissistic caligula and a batshit insane sociopath with an obsession with souls who comes dangerously close to succeeding.
Sequel Hook:
- The first season ends with Aincrad being restored in ALO and everyone from both SAO and ALO that appeared in the series flying towards it in order to try and conquer it. This scene seems all but designed to have even those who have not read the Light Novels begging for a second season.
- Ordinal Scale ends with Shigemura being taken away by Seijiro Kikuoka to work for Rath, teasing at Alicization.
Sequence Breaking: After the battle to defeat the 75th level boss, Kirito confirms his suspicion that Heathcliff, leader of the Knights of Blood, is really Akihiko Kayaba. Kayaba notes that he eventually intended to reveal himself as the level 100 boss and decides that since the secret is out, he'll just head to the top now, but oh hey, he'll give Kirito the chance to fight him now, for all the marbles. Kirito wins, breaking the sequence, and the remaining 25 floors are never explored... until ALO!
Sexy Cat Person: The Alfheim Online game features a race of feline humanoids called the Cait Sith. The only two major characters of this race are both sexy girls.
Sexy Discretion Shot: Kirito and Asuna are about to have sex in chapter 16^*.5 and at the end of Episode 10. The scene is cut off by a Fade to Black in both the officially published novels and the anime. However, there is an infamous chapter detailing the scene in graphic detail... and questionable quality.
- They make love again in Chapter 16.6, the difference this time being that the author opts not to describe the scene.
Sex for Solace: Happens twice throughout the saga:
- The first time is played heartwarmingly straight after Kirito and Asuna survive being murdered by a Laughing Coffin agent who has infiltrated the Knights of Blood, and the two warriors' emotional bond is cemented that night as husband and wife.
- A decidedly darker variation of this occurs in Alicization, wherein Quinella seduces Eugeo in his Moment of Weakness, stripping naked and offering tender unconditional love and kindness, allowing her to coldly brainwash him into an Integrity Knight as they made "love."
"Shaggy Dog" Story: After Sachi dies, Kirito learns of a resurrection item and goes through a lot of trouble to get it, with Furinkazan's help... and finds that the item has to be used within ten seconds of death. Sachi died six months ago. He ends up giving it to Klein, and resolving to never join a guild again.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Kirito, despite being good at hiding it. Not only does he still blame himself for the deaths of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, but he also harbors quite a bit of guilt over killing three Laughing Coffin members in self-defense.
Show, Don't Tell:
- The treasure room that the Black Cats guild finds themselves in during Episode 3 of Season 1. They all find out that their teleportation crystals don't work in the room. This has implications later for when Kirito, Asuna, and Klein's guild find the Army trying to fight the level 74 boss in a room that they also can't escape from. Asuna then rushes into the room in a vain effort to try and save the surviving members, which draws Kirito and Klein into the room as well.
- The cowboy game played in Episode 4 of Season 2. Though Sinon explains the basics to Kirito, another player happens to try it out at the time, so he's able to watch said game in action. With Sinon's explanation and watching the game, Kirito is able to win it.
- In episode 9 of season 2, Pale Rider, one of the contestants in the BoB tournament, is seen getting hit with paralyzer dart by Death Gun, then suffering a hit from the latter's signature gun. The shot takes about a quarter of his health off, then he gets back up and points his shotgun at Death Gun. However, he then drops the gun and grasps his chest as if suffering a heart attack, then is disconnected from the game. Sinon then also suffers from this same attack at the end of the episode, and a gunshot is heard as the episode ends with Death Gun using her as a sacrificial lamb to find out if the Kirito in this game is the same as the Kirito from SAO by seeing if her death will launch him into an Unstoppable Rage.
"Shut Up" Kiss: Kirito does this to Asuna after his near-death experience with Kuradeel. She was in the middle of explaining why she needed to stay away from him for his sake, and this proves to be an effective counterargument.
Signature Move: In ALO, sometime after Sword Skills are implemented, Original Sword Skills are introduced where a player makes their own Sword Skill. The most notable OSSs are Salamander General Eugene's 8-hit "Volcanic Blazer," Asuna's 5-hit "Starry Tear," and Yuuki's 11-hit "Mother's Rosario", which she teaches Asuna. Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax sees the move done by both Asuna and Yuuki, reflecting the latter being the move's creator.
Single-Attempt Game: The titular game is the world's first Virtual Reality MMORPG in which the creator tries to increase its realism by taking out magic and also adding the fact that if you die in game, your headset will microwave your brain making death final. The story ends with about 4000 people dying. The protagonist survives due to having been a part of the non-lethal beta tests and therefore has more experience than most everyone else.
Single-Stroke Battle: Kirito does this to a wolf at the end of the first episode when he rushes off to the next village shortly after Kayaba tells the players they're stuck in the game. He also does this consecutively to two Salamanders right after he first arrives in ALfheim Online.
Skewed Priorities: Back in SAO, it seemed as though most of the veteran MMO players, even Kirito at times, suffered this to an extent. Despite the clearly outlined life-or-death stakes at play, that didn't stop many players from applying regular gaming habits or mentalities towards their situation even when it proved impractical. This can include guilds opting to compete as opposed to work together on clearing the game, an obsession with being the strongest further igniting these impractical competitive tendencies, obsessing over owning rare items even if they wouldn't be able to make good use of it or if it would require them to risk their lives or attack other players, and even doing quest events that would leave you completely vulnerable to PKers.
Slasher Smile: Kuradeel has one in Episode 10 as he hacks away at Godfrey and then slowly stabs Kirito in his arms and legs to prolong the suffering.
Sleep Cute: Volume 7 opens with Yui sleeping on top of Pina, who is curled up and sleeping on top of Kirito's chest, while he's sleeping in his rocking chair. The scene is so d'aww, Asuna and every other girl in the room feels sleepy and thinks of joining them.
- Also, Asuna sleeping next to Kirito in "A Murder Case in the Area".
Small Girl, Big Gun: Sinon is described as having a doll-like avatar. She wields a 'PGM Ultima Ratio Hecate Ⅱ.'
Snow Means Love: It's snowing during Kirito and Asuna's first meeting in the real world.
Solid Gold Poop: A particular in-game dragon dropping is a rare ore used to make very good weapons.
Something Only They Would Say: Leafa/Suguha figures out Kirito is Kazuto when he finally mentions the person he's trying to save is Asuna.
Spared by the Adaptation: In the Lost Song video game, at the end of Asuna's quest, we find out Yuuki's condition is starting to improve and instead of dying in a few months, she'll be in her own words "around for quite a while to come" and she'll be attending school regularly thanks to the interface on Asuna's shoulder. This carries on to the sequels, where Yuuki is a party member, and her health is no longer a concern.
Special Occasions Are Magic: During the Aincrad Arc, a unique boss appears during the Christmas event (explicitly stated to be because it's Christmas), rumored to drop an item that can revive players killed in The Most Dangerous Video Game. Kirito goes after it and slays it, hoping to revive members of his former guild who were killed in a dungeon ambush, but discovers to his disappointment that the item will only bring back a player whose HP was reduced to zero in the last ten seconds.
Spell My Name with a "The": In SAO, Boss monsters have "The" in their name.
Spider-Sense: In SAO, there is a hypothetical Outside System Skill called Hypersense, or feeling the presence of an enemy before you can actually see or hear them. It's hypothetical because since the skill is not listed in the database, no one can prove that it even exists. However, numerous characters have been shown to possess it, including Kirito, Klein, and XaXa.
Spinoff:
- Sword Art Online — Girls Ops, which takes place during the Phantom Bullet arc. While Kirito and Asuna are busy dealing with GGO, the events of this story focuses on the adventures of Lisbeth, Silica, Leafa, and a new character called Lux.
- Sword Art Online Alternative — Gun Gale Online, which takes place in GGO, but with completely different characters that are unrelated and unaffiliated with Kirito at all.
Spiritual Successor: Fatal Bullet has been described, gameplay-wise, as Freedom Wars but with more emphasis on guns and RPG Elements.
Spoiler Opening:
- Lots and lots of info is revealed in the anime's opening, like Kirito's Dark Repulser and his eventual relationship with Asuna.
- The opening for Sword Art Online II reveals Kirito's GGO avatar and his use of a beam saber and foreshadows Death Gun's true identity (one of them at least).
- The opening for the Mother's Rosario arc hints at the fact that Yuuki had a twin sister.
Squee: Kirito's reaction to getting Excaliber, first when Shino manages to trickshot it into her hands, and then when he officially gets it as a quest reward.
Stalker with a Crush: Asuna attracts a lot of these, all of whom are very dangerous. Shino has Kyouji.
Standard Female Grab Area: Asuna is unfortunately subjected to this by the hands of Kuradeel. She is tougher than him, and likely could have broken free without help; Kirito simply intervened before this happened.
Star Scraper: Castle Aincrad is so big, it's essentially a world within a world (though it's actually the entire playable world of the in-universe SAO game). The largest floor is 10 kilometers in diameter, and each one is 100 meters high. Given that there are 100 floors, that makes it 10 kilometers high.^note But then, that's not counting the fact that it all floats in the sky. The anime also depicts a massive structure extending almost as far down, below the first floor.
Stating the Simple Solution: In the prologue of the Alicization arc, a kid being trained for the task of spending his entire life trying to cut down an enormous tree asks the elders why their ancestors bothered founding a village in a place where an enormous tree that they had every reason to believe would take centuries to cut down was blocking expansion and casting shade over most of the places they could grow crops. Rather than thinking about moving the village to someplace where the tree wouldn't be a problem, they reprimand the kid and continue the way they always have.
The Stinger:
- After the credits roll in the first episode, a list of names is shown. Some are them are gradually crossed out, while a text reads that two thousand players died in the first month alone, and floor 1 had yet to be cleared. The name under Kirito's is then crossed out.
- At the very end of Extra Edition, Kazuto's phone gets a call from Kikuoka, most likely concerning the Phantom Bullet case.
- The credits for Ordinal Scale have still images that recap the movie, but there are also a few more images. Also, there is a scene at the end of the credits.
Suggestive Collision: In episode 8, Asuna falls on top of Kirito after teleporting into his zone, quickly resulting in a Thanks for the Mammary moment.
Super Prototype: Nerve Gear is noted by former SAO players to be able to create a much more realistic virtual world than AmuSphere. This is due to the numerous safety precautions that were added to AmuSphere's design.
Super-Reflexes: Kirito has the best reflexes in SAO, which Kayaba explains is why he received the Dual Blades skill. This carries on into other games using The Seed (SAO's engine): in GGO, for example, he can dodge bullets.
- Zekken Yuuki has even faster reflexes than Kirito; he suspects that if she'd been in SAO, she would have gotten the Dual Blades skill instead of him.
Super-Speed: Kirito can move very fast, as his enemies find out. Asuna can even exceed that, as she isn't called "Lightning Flash" for nothing. Yamikaze in GGO is known as the "Run 'n Gun Devil" because of how fast he can run. Alice can snap from one spot to another so quickly it looks like a Flash Step.
Supernatural Gold Eyes:
- Happens a few times to Kirito in the anime, usually as a means to showcase how absolutely committed he is to a task (coming Back from the Dead to kill Heathcliff, or trying to reach the top of the World Tree amidst the Guardians' attacks).
- Yui gains one when using her ability as a Navi Pixie in her Human form after getting through the door in The World Tree.
Supreme Chef: Asuna in SAO. She tries to replicate real world tastes in-game, since the in-game food is mostly horrible. And succeeds in taking weird ingredients and putting them together to create delicious food. In Episode 9, she mentions combining abilba seed, sagleaves, and oola fishbone to create something that tastes exactly like soy sauce. Ratsel Feinschmeker would approve.
Supporting Harem: Thanks to Kirito and Asuna being the Official Couple from the first volume/first half season 1, all of the feelings of Kirito's other admirers remain unrequited.

Survivor Guilt:
- Kirito, the only survivor of the Black Cats of the Full Moon guild. Made worse because as a Clearer, he knew the area well enough that he could have prevented it just by warning them. The only thing that held him back was the fear of being hated for being a Beater.
- This becomes a critical plot point when Asuna asks Kirito why he was always a solo player up until this point. He talks about the deaths he could have prevented of his previous guild, and how after that incident he felt that it was easier on his own. He does admit that he is reaching the limits of what a solo player can accomplish, so joining her guild isn't all bad for him.
- Shiune of the Sleeping Knights ends up making a miraculous recovery and laments on being unable to keep her promise with Yuuki, Yuuki's sister, and her friends, that they will always be together.

Taking You with Me: How Shino ends the BoB tournament in episode 13 of season 2. She hands Kirito a live grenade, then hugs him so it will blow them both up. They die simultaneously and so both end up being the winners of said tournament.
Talking Is a Free Action: Very blatant near the end of the Alicization arc, where both the heroes and the Big Bad are apparently willing to let each other power up attacks and monologue for minutes on end despite supposedly trying to kill each other.
Tempting Fate: Episode 3 is filled to the brim with this. When talking to Sachi, Kirito keeps saying, "you'll survive," "you won't die," "you'll get out," and even when they're in the dungeon, one party member mentions how this will be a piece of cake. Cue Total Party Kill.
- After Kirito joins the Knights of the Blood Oath, Godfree takes him an Kuradeel on an assessment for the beater's "reaction to danger". Kuradeel turns out to be Laughing Coffin, and paralyzes them so they can't react to danger — namely, the danger of being hacked to death by a "red player".
Thanatos Gambit: Kayaba expected everything in the game and also that he would be defeated by the player Dual Sword Skill user, but never imagined that Kirito would catch up to his Heathcliff disguise quite so early on.
Theme Music Power-Up:
- Invoked any time "Swordland" or any of its remixes play.
- Asuna has her own theme in the form of "Luminous Sword", which noticeably returns (albeit remixed) in her battle against Yuuki.
- Sword Art Online: Extra Edition uses Season one's second opening theme, "INNOCENCE", as this for the Big Damn Heroes moment during Kirito's second attack on the World Tree.
There Are No Therapists: Played with. The AI that controls Aincrad created a program to monitor and repair the players' psychological states. However, said program was then forbidden from interacting with the players in any way. On launch day, when the creator announced that they were all trapped, and anyone who died died for real, the conflict between the program's core programming to help the players and the orders to not interfere created errors. She eventually appeared in the game as a little girl named Yui, in order to become the daughter of two of the only happy players in the entire game: Asuna and Kirito.
There Is Only One Bed:
- Kirito has to sleep on the floor while Silica gets the bed.
- Strangely played straight AND subverted in Episode 3 with Sachi. Both of them get in the same bed, but absolutely nothing happens. However, Kirito didn't know anything could happen. This was over a year before he found out about the option to turn the Ethics Code off.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Kirito shrugs off his wounds during his first assault on the World Tree until he gets a greatsword thrown through his chest. And then four more.
The Talk: Played hilariously straight in the adorable Blu-Ray/DVD gag short Sword Art Offline Episode 4, where Yui innocently asks Kirito, Asuna and Kline "Mommy said she wanted lots of children; how do you make children?" Asuna tried to be frank ("You see dear, when mommies and daddies want babies they go to the bottom of the menu and turn off the Morality-Code..."), to be bluntly stopped by Kirito ("When Mommies and Daddies get married, it unlocks a quest where the stork brings a baby from the cabbage patch"); when Yui starts crying that she's not really Kirito and Asuna's daughter, Klien dodges the bullet by telling her "Actually Yui, we're all really just cabbage people", which to the trio's relief she happily accepts.
13 Is Unlucky: As shown in a Freeze-Frame Bonus of the Aria of A Starless Night Motion Picture, the exact fateful moment that Asuna logs into Sword Art Online (as shown in her HUD interface) is 13 Minutes Past 1, or more ominously in 24-hour-time, 13:13 Hours.
- Having survived the death-game and emerged from it two years later married to the love of her life, as a mother to a kind and adorable littler daughter no less, Asuna for her part considers this accident to be the luckiest thing that has ever happened to her.
This Is Unforgivable!: Kirito says this when he discovers that the quest in ALO for granting unlimited flight is a lie and Leafa/Suguha's dream would not come true.
Three-Point Landing: Kirito as a Spriggan fairy in ALO, complete with Badass Longcoat, pulls one off as he assaults the World Tree for the first time as shown in the anime adaptation.
Three-Strike Combo: The One-Handed Sword Skill "Savage Fulcrum", whose strikes resemble tracing the number "4"^note.
Those Two Guys: The "couple" that wound up being a pair of guys (one of whom was cross-playing and the other having lied about his age) are subsequently seen in a number of background shots in the anime, including being among the 300 players whose brains had been hijacked for Sugou's experiment.
Time Skip: Between different arcs.
Title Drop
- The series is named after the first VRMMORPG featured in the series.
- Phantom Bullet: Kirito describes the prediction line from Sinon's rifle, used to distract Death Gun and give Kirito the advantage needed to defeat him, as a "phantom bullet".
- Calibur: At the end of the arc when the gang are discussing the Excalibur sword, Sinon remembers reading about the mythology of the sword where it was named "Calibur".
- Mother's Rosario: Yuuki names her Signature Move "Mother's Rosario" before passing it on to Asuna.
- Memory Defrag: The conclusion of the "Eternal Bond: The Story of the Stars" quest campaign involving Alice and Eugeo in ALO, finally reveals the origin of the phrase. After a long campaign of collecting the Divine Objects under instructions from Urdr, the Gods of Alfheim took the Divine Objects and merged with them. Now empowered to unbeatable levels, they proceeded to rampage across Alfheim seeking to kill every player, in an attempt for Cardinal to perform a "memory defrag" that resulted from Alice and Eugeo's foreign presence in the system.
Title In: Literally every episode (and this goes double for the opening of arcs) of the Anime contains an example of this, usually to establish the series as properly 20 Minutes into the Future. Used explicitly with an Establishing Shot.
Too Awesome to Use: In the manga and light novel, everyone is shocked when Heathcliff casually uses a Corridor Crystal to open a portal to the 75th floor boss. A Corridor Crystal is an incredibly rare item that can only be found in dungeon chests or a monster drop; it's not something to be wasted. This is one of the clues that Heathcliff is actually Kayaba, since as the GMPC, he can call forth any item and thus cannot understand the true value of the item he just wasted.
Too Dumb to Live:
- Korbatz. He decides to take on a boss with his exhausted army, despite being warned against it. Even while being beaten by it, he refuses to retreat. He predictably dies from his stubbornness.
- The Virtual Ghosts AI called "Fluctlights" will not kill no matter what. The project staff which created them try to induce famines and diseases in an attempt to stimulate violence and are baffled when the A.I.s are such Perfect Pacifist People that they would rather let entire populations die off than sacrifice some to save others. Subverted in that this isn't (solely) because of their own choice; one of the project staff secretly implemented Code:871 to inflict petrifying pain on anyone who tries to violate the "Taboo Index" and killing anyone for any reason is forbidden thereby.
Took a Level in Badass: Well, it is an RPG, and everyone's basically fighting for their lives.
- Asuna goes from being a scared girl who hides in an inn to the second-in-command of the strongest guild in Aincrad.
- Klein starts the game as a helpless noob who can't kill the weakest in-game enemy, but over time turns into the leader of a Badass Crew.
Tournament Arc: Volumes 6 and 7, the Phantom Bullet arc, is one giant tournament arc where Kirito enters the Bullet of Bullets.
Tragic AIDS Story: The "Mother's Rosario" arc is about Yuuki Konno, a girl who was born with AIDS due to an infected blood transfusion given to her mother before she was born. Her whole family contracted HIV and had passed away, leaving her as the only one left alive (which included losing her twin sister). She goes on to form a guild called the Sleeping Knights with several other kids who are also terminally ill, where they go on to play lots of VRMMOs together with their numbers dwindling as they succumb to their illnesses. When Yuuki debuts in the story, she and her friends decide to join the most fantastical game they can find (ALFheim Online) and permanently leave their mark. While there Yuuki made gained fame as the World's Best Warrior and recruited Asuna to help them defeat a Boss for a highscore. Upon succeeding, Asuna finally manages to discover the truth behind Yuuki and finds her in the clean room of a hospital using a medicuboid VR device 24/7. No longer able to keep it a secret, Yuuki confesses her last wish is to attend a normal school, which Asuna arranges via a portable probe that allows her to see the real world without having to leave the hospital. Eventually Asuna is informed that Yuuki's condition has deteriorated and log into ALO one last time. Yuuki passes on her Original-Sword-Skill as a parting gift before collapsing into Asuna's arms, as thousands of players come to visit her and honor her last moments.
Trailers Always Spoil: A variant. The opening shows Kirito and Asuna beating the monster they're shown fleeing in terror from in Episode 9.
Tranquil Fury: Kirito, once he gains administrator privileges in ALfheim Online, proceeds to off on Sugou with application, remaining perfectly calm, until the very last blow.
Trapped in Another World: While this series isn't technically an Isekai, most pieces of media that run on the trope nowadays take cues from how this series handled something akin to it. To that end, this series can be considered the Trope Codifier, and this series' success is largely considered to be one of the biggest factors to the popularity of the Isekai genre. Though the scenarios of the Aincrad and Alicization arcs do resemble this trope quite a bit, as Kirito is stuck in SAO/Underworld respectively.
Truce Zone: You can’t hurt anyone fatally in towns in SAO. This generally serves to prevent player kills, though it's still possible to knock people out if specific circumstances are met. The only exception is if both players agree to a Duel to the Death.
- Asuna's wooden house on level 22 of the revived Aincrad is unofficially this for ALO players. Which causes some awkwardness when the leaders of opposing factions drop in for dinner...
True Companions: Kirito and his friends became this after the SAO arc.
- The Sleeping Knights all met in the Serene Garden, which is a VR hospice for terminally ill patients, and partied together from VR game to game afterwards.
20 Minutes into the Future: The series is certainly this, though when the novel was written this future was more distant — as of late 2014 virtual reality technology is steady in development, and while Full Dive technology might not be available within the next decade it's becoming increasingly more feasible — it isn't unreasonable to assume the development of technology on the timescale the show provides, granted we make a few significant breakthroughs before 2022.
Two Girls and a Guy: Kirito, Asuna, and Suguha.

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