Light Novel Art
Sword art online is a japanese light novel series first written as a web novel series by kawahara reki and illustrated by abec.
Light novel art. Light novel series which the sword art online series was first published. Light novels are also often called ranobe or ln in the states. The series takes place in the near future and focuses on various virtual reality mmorpg worlds. Sword art online sao ソードアート オンライン author.
Every new chapters published by the author is updated instantly on the light novel world and notification service is provided to the readers. Action adventure fantasy game romance sci fi. A distinguishing characteristic of light novels is that they are illustrated with an anime or manga art style and are often adapted into such media. Originally self published online under the pseudonym fumio kunori ascii media works began publishing the novels on april 10 2009 under their dengeki bunko imprint.
The sword art online light novel focuses on themes such as virtual reality friendship survival and fantasy creatures. He is also known as kirito. 86 eightysix a lesbian elf and a cursed princess a standing ovation with izaya orihara a sunset with izaya orihara aa megami sama absolute duo accel world adachi and shimamura adolescent adam aesthetica of a rogue hero aim the deepest part of the different world labyrinth akashic records of the bastard magical instructor alice mare. The light novels began publication on ascii media works dengeki bunko imprint from april 10 2009.
Light novels are often published in a specific style and have dense publishing schedules. They are mainly published in separate book volumes while some of them have their chapters serialized in anthology magazines before being collected in book form similar to how manga is published. Light novel world is a very special platform where you can read the translated versions of world famous japanese chinese and korean light novels in english. However light novels are illustrated with anime and manga style art style which is later used to convert these novels into animes.
Kirito is also part of the beta version of the sword art online.