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Sword Art Online 1: Aincrad

By: Reki Kawahara, Stephen Paul - translator
Narrated by: Bryce Papenbrook
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Read the novel that ignited the phenomenon!In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for all its amazing features, SAO is missing one of the most basic functions of any MMORPG - a log-out button. Now trapped in the virtual world of Aincrad, their bodies held captive by NerveGear in the real world, users are issued a chilling ultimatum: conquer all one hundred floors of Aincrad to regain your freedom. But in the warped world of SAO, "game over" means certain death - both virtual and real... Adventure Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Game Technology Virtual World
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As a hard anime and light novel fan I absolutely loved this audiobook rendition! My only complain is Bryce’s honestly painful rendition of Asuna’s voice. Please oh please bring in Cherami to handle the female characters, or any female VA honestly. I know this series is planned to be continued as an audiobook, but given how many more female characters and POVs will be introduced in the next volume alone, please hire a female VA to handle all their voices! Biggest stickler! I know many SAO friends who instantly stopped listening as soon as they heard Bryce’s Asuna. I myself powered through, but only because I already know the story and played this in the background. Otherwise, all of Bryce’s work for the majority of the book, absolutely fantastic job! Great emotion! Great story telling! I personally thought Klein’s voice was a little low effort, but wow some of the voices surprised me as super awesome/well done! Daizan and Nishida were my surprise favourites!

TL;DR: Fantastic job! Except… female/Asuna voice sounding painfully bad! Just hire a female VA and this would be a 9/10, otherwise it’s a solid 7/10 for me :D

Awesome to hear Kirito reading as Kirito, but not some much as Asuna… 😅

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Absolutely amazing can't wait for them to make the rest of the series avaliable. Will be buying as soon as they drop

Hurry up and complete the series

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brilliant story, great character development and the voice acting is on point. well worth a go if your a fan of this genre.

just awesome

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I thought this audio book was brilliant, Kirito's voice actor did a good job reading this. Unlike other reviewers I didn't think his rendition of Asuna or other female characters was awkward or hard to listen to, I felt he did well with Asuna. The only parts I didn't like of his narration was the yelling for characters besides Kirito during the action moments, but oh well they were brief.

It was great getting a more detailed view of the world of SAO, though I was suprised to learn the light novel omitted many characters and scenes from the anime, I guess they came in side stories or something.

An insightful look into the world of SAO

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this was a fun listen Bryce papenbrook did a great job , I'd recommend this audiobook.

enjoyed

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