The new game world, called Underworld, is set in an era where science is first being discovered and technology is mostly medieval. The Excalibur story arc is pulled from volume eight, and the Mother’s Rosario plot in the SAO Season 2 anime sets the stage for the Sword Art Online: Alicization Beginning light novel. To put things in perspective, the anime SAO Season 1 covered volumes one through four and one of the side stories of volume eight, while the Gun Gale Online story arc from Sword Art Online Season 2 covers volumes five through seven. Writer Reki Kawahara has released 15 SAO light novels so far, and about half of them focus on alicization, so you know it will be a long term plot point.
But in the process of explaining Project Alicization, much of the plot can probably be guessed in advance, so you’ll be left with very little surprise when the anime comes out. To begin, this spoilers guide is not intended to give a point-by-point description of the SAO light novels, so you will still have plenty of surprises left when the Sword Art Online Season 3 release date is upon us. In a related report by the Inquisitr, the Sword Art Online Season 2 English dub of the anime has a release date for North America that’s practically around the corner.
For those looking for limited information on the Sword Art Online Season 3 release date we’ve already provided some minor spoilers, but now we thought it’d be best to explain what this “alicization” process means for SAO Season 3, and perhaps even Sword Art Online Season 4. The anime releases of Japanese manga and light novels never seem to come fast enough.