"A year has passed since Kirito and Asuna's return from the Underworld. With them is Alice, who has been given a physical body. But their peace is quickly broken when the three are suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar game, Unital Ring. This new world is a survival MMO that fuses together every VRMMO created with the Seed program. As soon as it starts, Kirito finds himself with nothing but his underwear. Now, he's got to challenge a mysterious VRMMOSVG...

"Accel World volume 1 is written by Reki Kawahara. Even in the future, all the advances and innovation in the world can't change the dynamics of the school playground. And for Haruyuki Arita, a fat kid in junior high, that means he's destined to always be at the bottom of the food chain, prime pickings for the school bullies. But when he encounters the beautiful Kuroyukihime, an avatar in the virtual world where he relaxes, Haruyuki's life is turned...

In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for...

"Seiji Nomi is a mysterious new student whose skillful use of Brain Burst abilities in the real world has boosted him to astonishing heights of achievement (not to mention astonishing heights of jerkitude). When Haruyuki's wings are stolen by Seiji's cunning and ability, Haruyuki suffers a crushing defeat. Stripped of his greatest ability, will Haruyuki ever be able to rise again...?"--[page 4]Cover.

"When Haruyuki hears that the social camera network has been expanded to include the Hermes' Cord space elevator, he realizes that the next level in Accel World will be space, while Sky Raker and Kuroyukihime have become a force to be reckoned with."--

"In a deadly virtual world where the players are trapped and the violence is real, loners Kirito and Asuna must band together in order to survive challenges from both within and without. "Sword Art Online: Progressive is a new version of the Sword Art Online tale that starts at the beginning of Kirito and Asuna's epic adventure--on the very first level of the deadly world of Aincrad!"--

Follows Kirito's quest, playing as a spriggan, to rescue Asuna from her prison at the top of the World Tree in the suspicious new VRMMORPG called ALfheim Online.

Logging into the new gun-based combat game, Gun Gale Online, Kirito investigates an in-game item, the Death Gun, rumored to be responsible for deaths in the real world.

Junior high school student Haruyuki Arita is prime pickings for the bullies until he encounters beautiful Kuroyukihime, an avatar in the virtual world where he relaxes, and his life is turned on its head as he dives into Brain Burst, a mysterious computer program, where he becomes a knight to protect his princess.

In an effort to discover the truth behind Death Gun, Kirito has entered the Bullet of Bullets tournament in Gun Gale Online. Both he and Sinon the sniper girl have made it to the finals, and the reality of what they discover is stranger than anything they could've prepared for. As Sinon is forced to face her own past, lives are on the line once again, and Kirito struggles to connect Death Gun to events in the original SAO game - but can Death Gun's...