Sword Art Online: Progressive, Vol. 1 by Reki Kawahara
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Originally, I watched the anime when it came out and was fairly blown away by the quality of what I now know to be the LitRPG genre. But even this wasn't my absolute first introduction to it. It just happened to be the Then-Best example of it. And it remained so for many years.

And then I got into the genre for real. And somehow, I just forgot about this.

I'm back. I wanted to see if it really WAS as good as I remember. I'm doing it as a light novel this time, however, and it really WAS as good as I remembered. :)


Classic storyline, told well.

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