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STORY:
To tell you the truth the story of this Anime is somewhat similar to the ".Hack//" series but this is not necessarily a bad thing. 10,000 players log on to play in a new virtual immersion MMO called "Sword art Online" after being lucky enough to snag a copy. Once there they find that the system has been locked and the only way to get out and back to the real world is to beat all 100 floors of the game and death is 100% real. Kirito who was one of the Beta players helps the group fight the first boss and meets ... Asuna while doing it. Because the beta players are being blamed for the deaths of rookies(by not providing enough info) he intentionally makes himself an outsider. He still manages to help people along the way but becomes known as "the black swordsman" and the ultimate solo player. All this takes place inside the game but it would have been nice to see a couple of news reports form outside like the light novels had.

Characters:
Kirito, Asuna and their friends are neat so far but it seems that all the girls he meets seem to fall for him including a blacksmith named Lizbeth and a cute beast tamer named Ayano. There's also a group of PKs who actually murder people within the game to provide more conflict at times. Also some characters may not be what they seem and hopefully more will come of this as the plot advances.

Art:
The vr world that everyone is trapped in is pretty epic and the times that we sometimes see monsters are pretty well drawn. The locations can be graveyards, dark dungeons, towns and open fields...all are pretty well depicted.

Overall:
If you looking for something fun to watch you can't really go wrong here. I've had some spoilers on the novels so if they keep to that plot there shouldn't be any issues. I was pretty unsure at first but it seems to be coming along nicely.

this is only a review of episode one as that's all that's out when I'm writing this. So far this puts out some good concepts but toei may be running out of steam. Miyuki is kinda a clutz and can't control her powers right when she gets them. Candy and Miyuki do make a comedy team for this episode but I'm not sure how this is not the best first episode in the pretty cure series. I may update this review later but if I were you I'd wait to see if this one how this one runs before judging the whole ... series.