r/swordartonline

I first became a fan of SAO wayyy back in 2014... for me, SAO was for a lack of words "the shit" It was my first anime, and I genuinely loved the concept of being trapped in a MMORPG game because I myself was a gamer. Once I realized the anime was only inside of the actual game for the first half of the first season, I was quite disappointed. Even then, I continued to watch the anime still enjoying it because I made quite a strong connection to its characters. After I continued on to GGO it was great! But... nothing really ever hit the same as the first half of season 1 did. I remember rewatching that first half of season 1 religiously and I always wanted more because well it was never enough.

Fast forward a couple years I learned the author (Reki Kawahara) made a separate series solely to fill in the gaps that SAO originally had left out. I remember being filled with sooo much excitement that I saved up money just to buy all the available Progressive ln's at that time. I loved it and I still do love it to this day. SAO Progressive, for me, is the best thing that could ever happen to SAO itself.

Who else shares this same kind of love for Progressive?

Probably a dumb question, but compared to Sinon and Leafa, who both get logged in looking like their GGO and ALO avatars respectively, why doesn't Asuna have her blue hair instead of keeping her usual chestnut hair?

Everyone who came from ALO retaining their avatars makes sense, as they converted their characters, but I don't recall any mention of Sinon or Leafa converting theirs, and I assume Asuna didn't either.

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