After 10,000 players log in and find themselves unable to exit, Kirito navigates the immersive, lethal virtual world of Sword Art Online. Alongside allies, he aims to clear the game and free everyone.

The series will follow a brilliant young beta tester Kirito and his group of friends when they are trapped - alongside 10,000 other people - in a next-generation virtual reality online role-playing game. The game is a world unto itself: filled with sword fighting, monsters and mystery, where the stakes are life and death. Kirito and an ensemble of diverse characters must fight their way through this hostile environment while making lives for themselves in the fantastical world that is known as Sword Art Online.—Skydance Television