Sword Art Online

This is probably one of the top anime in 2012. This is based from famous novel with the same title. The story is about online game that when you die in game, you die in real world too. That is basically it. Some crazy scientist create a nerve gear that you can play online game in virtual. The crazy scientist Kayaba actually put application that can cook the player brain when they died in game - nice. All the players cannot log out from the game and they need to clear 100 floor of dungeon before they can actually get out from the game. They actually stuck in game for 2 years before they actually clear the game. The story is about Kirito and Asuna try clearing the game.

It is really fascinating story. The anime for me is really good. Kirito is known as beater in game because he is a beta tester and a cheater (what people assumed he do). He is a solo player because he didn't want to experienced again the pain on losing his friends. He did enter guild before but all his member died and he blamed himself for their death. But, someone actually managed to enter his heart and that is the heroine, Asuna. The story is kinda romantic and some episodes fill with Kirito and Asuna living together in a game for a few days like husband and wife.

After 2 years, they managed to reach to 90+ floor and after an epic boss fight, Kirito noticed something wrong with one of the Master guild. It really was the crazy scientist, Kayaba playing as player to watch just like story in Saw 2. Kirito fought with him and after Asuna sacrifice herself, only that Kirito managed to defeat Kayaba together with him. This is the first Arc.

The second Arc was after Kirito came back to world. He try to look for Asuna and find her still coma. She actually been held captive by her insane fiancee who is also managed to steal data from the sword online game and prisoned around 300 people in his game for human experiment. This time Kirito have to play another game to look for Asuna with his sister.

As I said, the anime is entertaining. The anime is almost finish with this week is the last episode. Of course, the novel is much further story with new Arc. There are some website actually translate the novel that you can read, if you're interested. Try and watch the anime, who knows maybe you will like it. The website for the novel is here.