Sword Art Online: Season 1

In a virtual reality game called Sword Art Online, players can log in and experience a new world with their senses. But when 10,000 players log in for the first time, they discover they cannot log out. The game's creator, Akihiko Kayaba, announces that they must beat all 100 floors of the game's steel castle, Aincrad, to be free. Those who suffer in-game deaths or forcibly remove the NerveGear out-of-game will suffer real-life deaths. Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya, a player with previous VR gaming experience, isolates himself and plays the game alone, bearing the mantle of "beater". He eventually befriends a young woman named Asuna Yuuki and they confront and destroy Kayaba's secret ID, freeing themselves and the other players from the game. In the real world, Kazuto discovers that 300 SAO players, including Asuna, remain trapped in their NerveGear. He meets Asuna's father, Shouzou Yuuki , who is asked to make a decision regarding his daughter's marriage, which Sugou later reveals to be his marriage with Asuna, angering Kazuto. Several months later, he is informed by Agil that a figure similar to Asuna was spotted in a new VRMMORPG called Alfheim Online.

You can stream Sword Art Online on: Apple TV

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