Manga Volume 1
In the year 2026, a highly-advanced augmented reality console known as the Augma entered the market. With the introduction of Ordinal Scale (OS), the first Augmented Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (ARMMORPG) for the Augma, the new console quickly became popular. On April 24, 2026, having learnt about rumors of Sword Art Online monsters appearing in OS from his friends, Kirigaya Kazuto (Kirito) decides to participate in a boss fight alongside Yuuki Asuna and Tsuboi Ryoutarou (Klein).
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Manga Volume 2
As Ordinal Scale (OS) continues surging in popularity, Kazuto encounters a mysterious white-hooded girl in augmented reality and begins investigating the appearances of Sword Art Online bosses in Ordinal Scale. Meanwhile, during one such battle against a Sword Art Online boss with her friends, Asuna ends up sacrificing herself to protect Silica from the boss's attacks. In the aftermath of the battle, Asuna suddenly finds herself unable to recall anything from her days in Sword Art Online...
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Manga Volume 3
With Asuna having lost her memories from her SAO days, Kazuto learns that the same condition has affected other SAO Survivors playing Ordinal Scale. When his warnings to other survivors to stop playing the game go largely ignored, Kazuto decides to take matters into his own hand and takes part in a boss battle to find Eiji and learn more about why Asuna has lost her memories.
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Manga Volume 4
In his quest to take back Asuna's memories, Kazuto receives a vague message from an unknown individual to come to a specific place. At the boundary between dreams and reality, Kirito encounters the white-hooded girl, a phantom of Shigemura Yuuna, from whom he learns that he needs to increase his Ordinal Scale ranking to fulfil his quest of restoring Asuna's memories. While speeding through numerous boss battles in the augmented reality game, Kirito gets challenged to a duel at the New National Stadium during YUNA's upcoming live concert by the man he now hates the most: Eiji.
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Manga Volume 5
Although victorious in his duel against Eiji, Kazuto learns that he and the professor have planned to plan a high-powered simultaneous scan of the brains of all the SAO Survivors who had been intentionally gathered at the concert, heedless of the fact that the scan could potentially kill its victims. In order to prevent tragedy, Kirito and the gang have to revisit the castle in the sky to stop the horde of bosses rampaging at the concert venue...
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Bonus Manga Chapters (Comic Walker Exclusive)
Hopeful Chant
Hopeful Chant (ホープフル・チャント) is an SAO side story written by Kawahara Reki that was distributed as a present to people who watched Sword Art Online The Movie -Ordinal Scale- in cinemas throughout Japan in the third week of the official cinema release between March 4 and March 10, 2017. The SS features a background story for Yuna and Eiji, two of the original characters in the movie.
In October 2023, a fledgling yet promising member of the Knights of the Blood named Nautilus finally gets to join his guild's main game-clearing force, a giant step towards his goal to help clear the game and set his dear childhood friend Yuna free from the virtual prison. However, his first run-in with a midboss in the Labyrinth goes wrong when a crippling condition rears its ugly head: a FullDive Non-Conformity that freezes his body in place at times of great fear. When his childhood friend decides to head into battle herself, Nautilus learns the hard way just how crippling his condition can be...
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- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- Part 5
- Part 6
- Aincrad Arc Chronology
Cordial Chords
Cordial Chords (コーディアル・コード) is an SAO side story written by Kawahara Reki that was released with the Japanese Limited Edition Blu-Rays and DVDs of Ordinal Scale. This side story is a sequel to the events of the movie.
After stopping Professor Shigemura's plans at the New National Stadium, Kirigaya Kazuto is about to retire from Ordinal Scale entirely... when he suddenly receives a vague distress call from Yuna. In order to find out what had happened, he will need to enlist the help of his former foe Nochizawa Eiji to gain access to the SAO Server where Yuna had previously been hosted. Meanwhile, Eiji will have to once again face his own old foe and conquer his crippling FullDive Non-Conformity to save his childhood friend from another demise...
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I was looking for it to be translated into english as i wanted to see the difference between the movie and the manga adaptation. What i wholeheartedly loved was Asuna POV from Aincrad rather than it just being Kirito. When i read LN 1, i wanted to see how would it look like from her POV rather than Kirito.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate that your team has been able to translate all these chapters, although may I ask when is volume 3 going to get translated? (Of course i can wait until its translated by professionals like you all)
I can't really say when we'll get the volume translated. Unlike our recent LN and side story translations, our manga translations are always a team effort, so a release depends on multiple people finding the free time to work on the project. So, even I don't know when we'll have the releases ready for release. All I can say is that we're working on it.
DeleteAlso, we're not really professionals. At best, we're experienced amateurs.
Haha, even if you say that... i have been using you as source more than the others for comic anthology and all being translated :)
DeleteAnyway, i was just wondering if it was going to progress a bit further but thanks for the update on where you all are.
Like what he just said... I honestly wanted to read a bit further of rainbow bridge to know the full story, but as i found this blog ... I finally got to read it (I don't understand Japanese but i do know a bit).
DeleteThink we all just appreciate your work and the other members for translating/editing and so on for the public to have the chance to read stories that they missed out on.
So yeah, ill be following this blog post from now as well :D