[Project Announcement] Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris manga

As some of you already know, Sword Art Online is getting a new game adaptation, titled Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris, on 21-22 May. The game adapts the Alicization arc from the novels with new characters and some changes to the original plot. We don't know much about the story yet, but this game is getting a manga adaptation that has already begun ahead of its release. The manga is being serialised on Dengeki PlayStation magazine's appendix, DenPlay Comics. The first chapter was released on 28 December and a second chapter was released at the end of January.

Since the manga is being released 5 months ahead of the release of the game itself, we felt some interest in doing the manga... at least for a few chapters until the actual game comes out. Out of interest, I held a poll on Twitter to gauge the public interest in getting the manga translated (https://twitter.com/gsimenas/status/1224074592731508739)... and was surprised to find quite the interest in the manga.

As such, we announce that we will be a trial translation of the manga. How many chapters we translate will depend on the continued interest in the manga, so if you enjoy reading it, be sure to let us know.

We have already finished the translation for chapter 1, which is now awaiting cleaning and typesetting. We do not currently have an estimated release date for it yet, but stay tuned.

-Gsimenas

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