[Project Announcement] SAO Dengeki Comic Anthology Volume 1

The Sword Art Online Dengeki Comic Anthology: Him and the Sword, Her and Love (ソードアート・オンライン 電撃コミックアンソロジー　彼と剣と彼女と恋と) is an official collection of SAO-themed one-off manga shorts by a variety of artists. "Wait, haven't you already translated the first volume?!" - I hear someone ask. Well, it's elementary, my dear Watson. Dengeki decided that the original Comic Anthology was too old, so they started an entirely new line of SAO Comic Anthologies and reset the volume counter! See the "Dengeki" in the title?

Anyway, now that we got that question out of the way, we'll be continuing our work on the Comic Anthologies. This volume consists of 9 stories that are set at various points of the series: some are seemingly set during Progressive, some are set after Phantom Bullet, and some are set in ALO at an unspecified time of the story. All the stories in the anthology should probably only be regarded as "officially published doujinshi" or something, since I doubt that they're canon. All the stories in the anthology vary greatly in art style, plot and genre.

We've already started work on the first three stories of the volume. Celest will be continuing to typeset most of the chapters due to Mtt being busy, though Mtt has specifically claimed Sinon-centric stories due to being a Sinonsimp. I expect the first story to be ready for release in the coming weeks.

Staff: Mangaka: Various
Raws: Celest
Translation: Gsimenas
Editing: Gsimenas
Redrawing, typesetting: Celest and Mttblue2
Cleaning: Mttblue2

Here's a preview of the stories in this volume:

Far beautiful world

Aqua Bullet

Silica-chan's Heart-Pounding Master Plot!

Little Date

The Distance Between the Two

If the Sword Will Protect You

Yui-chan and the Road to the Abyss

Superspeed Kirito

Together to the Ends of the World