Watching Sword Art Online (#36)

I've started watching Sword Art Online on Netflix. It's a cool anime about a gamer called Kirito who ends up getting stuck in the world of Sword Art Online, a popular recently released video game that traps players in the game world. The designer of the game has made it so that if you die in the game, you die in real life. See, the show is set in the year 2022 (the beginning of the show is at least, but lots of months pass between each episode) and Virtual Reality is possible. The player wears a Virtual Reality helmet that fries their brain if they die in the game, and players must clear all one hundred floors to return to the real world.

So far I've watched 5 episodes, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far. If you're a fan of modern anime and video games, especially MMOs, you'll probably like this anime.

Thomas