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アクセル・ワールド / Accel World Light Novels #10
アクセル・ワールド 10 Elements [Akuseru Wārudo 10: Elements]
加速世界を彩る特別編登場！ SAOとのコラボ短編
『バーサス』 のほか、書き下ろし含む三編収録。
『遠い日の水音』 ── 西暦二〇四六年、秋。新生 ≪ネガ・ネビュラス≫ の一員となったシルバー・クロウことハルユキだが、とある過失でバーストポイントを急激に減らしてしまう。窮地に立ったハルユキに、タクムは加速世界の ≪用心棒≫ を雇うことを提案する。
『最果ての潮騒』 ── 西暦二〇四七年、春。新入生のバーストリンカー・能美征二による策略によって、かつてない危機に陥ってしまったハルユキ。それと時を同じくして、黒雪姫は修学旅行先の沖縄で、奇妙なバーストリンカーに≪対戦≫を仕掛けられていた。
『バーサス』 ── 西暦二〇四七年、春。ハルユキはブレインバースト内で、黒い剣士の姿をしたアバターと出会う。仮想デスクトップには、≪KIRITO≫ という表記で……。次元の壁を越えて、二人の主人公が激突する！
『バーサス』 のほか、書き下ろし含む三編収録。
『遠い日の水音』 ── 西暦二〇四六年、秋。新生 ≪ネガ・ネビュラス≫ の一員となったシルバー・クロウことハルユキだが、とある過失でバーストポイントを急激に減らしてしまう。窮地に立ったハルユキに、タクムは加速世界の ≪用心棒≫ を雇うことを提案する。
『最果ての潮騒』 ── 西暦二〇四七年、春。新入生のバーストリンカー・能美征二による策略によって、かつてない危機に陥ってしまったハルユキ。それと時を同じくして、黒雪姫は修学旅行先の沖縄で、奇妙なバーストリンカーに≪対戦≫を仕掛けられていた。
『バーサス』 ── 西暦二〇四七年、春。ハルユキはブレインバースト内で、黒い剣士の姿をしたアバターと出会う。仮想デスクトップには、≪KIRITO≫ という表記で……。次元の壁を越えて、二人の主人公が激突する！
344 pages, Paperback
First published December 10, 2011
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Reki Kawahara
282 books911 followersKawahara Reki (川原礫) is the writer of Sword Art Online and Accel World. He also uses the pen name Kunori Fumio. His hobby is cycling.
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March 28, 2025
(sigh) It's hard to say anything critically valid about these books when the loli fanservice is all over the cover.
This one is a collection of three novellas.
(3 stars) The Sound of Water on a Distant Day
After the first story arc, when Haruyuki and Takumu are settling back into their partnership after Takumu's foiled heel turn, Haruyuki finally saves up enough points to ascend to level 2, but doesn't realize he forgot to build a surplus beyond what he spent, meaning he's one fight away from losing his few remaining points and being exiled from the game. Enter, a mysterious "bouncer" who teams with other fighters to help raise their points out of such a crisis.
The main fumble of this story is they try to find noble reasons to justify why Takumu doesn't just help Haruyuki out of this mess instead of bringing in an outsider. Even with the strain in their friendship, it's them denying themselves easier resolutions just for the sake of finding some pride in that denial. That said, it's a fun story, with good fights, and a great riff on complications that can happen with the leveling system.
Regarding the bouncer, it is nice to see Kawahara again take criticism to heart and challenge himself to explore new directions, here adding a gender queer character when he'd notoriously built all his fictional games with systems that only allow people to use avatars of their birth gender. That absolutely was an oversight on his part, ignoring that game personas and The Real personals don't always align when an avatar gives one a freedom of expression the real world can often deny them. Unfortunately, he takes it a little too literally by having the non-binary person be represented by a literal fluid, undefined avatar. Which is cool in a way, but also very lazy in a way. I'm sure it'll play differently to different readers, but it still feels like he needs to do a bit more learning, though I am curious how this character will develop further down the road.
(3 stars) Roar of the Sea at the Ends of the Earth
Here's the loli fanservice one, as we finally explore what happened with Kuroyukihime during her beach trip to Okinawa. It's bikinis, best friends suddenly grabbing your tits from behind and oiling up your back. (sigh) Even though I like these books for reasons other than this, this reason makes it really damn hard to get any other friends to read it.
All that aside, it's a largely charming story, exploring a strain in Kuroyukihime's relationship with Megumi, her only real friend outside of Accel World. There's some nice scenes, even as it gets quickly sidetracked as Kuroyukihime gets pulled into unexpected Burst Linkers operating farther outside the city than she thought was possible. This thread is also nice, with a pair of rambunctious if naive new characters, an old friend of Black Lotus from before her fall, and the emergence of a villain who both makes interesting use of the NPC monsters populating the game world, and taps into organizations operating a dark web within the dark web.
The action is exciting and lush, with a great build, but then it fumbled badly with a twist I didn't enjoy by finding a way to bring Megumi into the game in a way that felt like an over-powered and fantastical deus ex machina instead of anything poignant, and honestly threw an unnecessary layer on her role as Kuroyukihime's friend, which would have been stronger had she remained an outside connection.
(3 stars) Versus
The big Sword Art Online / Accel World crossover.... and it's basically just a what if, one-shot duel between our two leads, firmly establishing that both book stories take place in separate universes, when I felt there were so many interesting ways Kawahara could have explored Accel World as being a few generations down the road from SAO.
That said, it is a lot of fun, basically just acting as an old-school Marvel issue where the heroes just start fighting for no reason, and you root for whatever side you want to root for even as you know they'll never pick a winner.
This one is a collection of three novellas.
(3 stars) The Sound of Water on a Distant Day
After the first story arc, when Haruyuki and Takumu are settling back into their partnership after Takumu's foiled heel turn, Haruyuki finally saves up enough points to ascend to level 2, but doesn't realize he forgot to build a surplus beyond what he spent, meaning he's one fight away from losing his few remaining points and being exiled from the game. Enter, a mysterious "bouncer" who teams with other fighters to help raise their points out of such a crisis.
The main fumble of this story is they try to find noble reasons to justify why Takumu doesn't just help Haruyuki out of this mess instead of bringing in an outsider. Even with the strain in their friendship, it's them denying themselves easier resolutions just for the sake of finding some pride in that denial. That said, it's a fun story, with good fights, and a great riff on complications that can happen with the leveling system.
Regarding the bouncer, it is nice to see Kawahara again take criticism to heart and challenge himself to explore new directions, here adding a gender queer character when he'd notoriously built all his fictional games with systems that only allow people to use avatars of their birth gender. That absolutely was an oversight on his part, ignoring that game personas and The Real personals don't always align when an avatar gives one a freedom of expression the real world can often deny them. Unfortunately, he takes it a little too literally by having the non-binary person be represented by a literal fluid, undefined avatar. Which is cool in a way, but also very lazy in a way. I'm sure it'll play differently to different readers, but it still feels like he needs to do a bit more learning, though I am curious how this character will develop further down the road.
(3 stars) Roar of the Sea at the Ends of the Earth
Here's the loli fanservice one, as we finally explore what happened with Kuroyukihime during her beach trip to Okinawa. It's bikinis, best friends suddenly grabbing your tits from behind and oiling up your back. (sigh) Even though I like these books for reasons other than this, this reason makes it really damn hard to get any other friends to read it.
All that aside, it's a largely charming story, exploring a strain in Kuroyukihime's relationship with Megumi, her only real friend outside of Accel World. There's some nice scenes, even as it gets quickly sidetracked as Kuroyukihime gets pulled into unexpected Burst Linkers operating farther outside the city than she thought was possible. This thread is also nice, with a pair of rambunctious if naive new characters, an old friend of Black Lotus from before her fall, and the emergence of a villain who both makes interesting use of the NPC monsters populating the game world, and taps into organizations operating a dark web within the dark web.
The action is exciting and lush, with a great build, but then it fumbled badly with a twist I didn't enjoy by finding a way to bring Megumi into the game in a way that felt like an over-powered and fantastical deus ex machina instead of anything poignant, and honestly threw an unnecessary layer on her role as Kuroyukihime's friend, which would have been stronger had she remained an outside connection.
(3 stars) Versus
The big Sword Art Online / Accel World crossover.... and it's basically just a what if, one-shot duel between our two leads, firmly establishing that both book stories take place in separate universes, when I felt there were so many interesting ways Kawahara could have explored Accel World as being a few generations down the road from SAO.
That said, it is a lot of fun, basically just acting as an old-school Marvel issue where the heroes just start fighting for no reason, and you root for whatever side you want to root for even as you know they'll never pick a winner.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 2, 2018
While the idea of a short story collection sounds good on paper, when it’s executed it’s kind of a different story. It’s not that the quality of the writing or storytelling was terrible this volume, it’s that this break in the plot of the ongoing issues with the Accelerated Research Society’s influence on the Accelerated World is painful. With most of the Chrome Disaster arc resolved and the Incarnate System Study Kits in the wild, we were ready to see what was next. Further, the meeting with the kings of pure color was imminent. Ugh.
Story wise the short story collection mainly fit in with the events that occurred during the Dusk Taker arc and afterwards. It was nice to get some time with Kuroyukihime on her trip and see perhaps a tease of a future burst linker who may have overcome the “memory loss” aspect of having Brain Burst removed. I’ll assume this character will be important in a future volume. That specific side story, as well, featured one of the bet designs for a burst linker, the strongest name, Crimson Kingbolt.
The first side story seemed like it would potentially have importance later, while it was known Aqua Current was a Nega Nebulus member, it seemed that it was confirmed here. I do wish the story had more of a Taku influence in it as he was, sadly, pushed to the sidelines again.
The final side story was any Kawahara fans dream come true, the epic clash between our god Kirito and our favorite and lovable Haruyuki Arita. How could anyone dislike a good one on one match of the ages. It would have been interesting if it involved the current Silver Crow and not the one from way back at the start. Imagine if he’d used “way of the flexible” or his Incarnate ability, or the Enhancement Armament, the Armor of Catastrophe, The Disaster? Kirito would have stood no chance.
Overall good collection to enhance the world, terrible placement in the storyline.
Story wise the short story collection mainly fit in with the events that occurred during the Dusk Taker arc and afterwards. It was nice to get some time with Kuroyukihime on her trip and see perhaps a tease of a future burst linker who may have overcome the “memory loss” aspect of having Brain Burst removed. I’ll assume this character will be important in a future volume. That specific side story, as well, featured one of the bet designs for a burst linker, the strongest name, Crimson Kingbolt.
The first side story seemed like it would potentially have importance later, while it was known Aqua Current was a Nega Nebulus member, it seemed that it was confirmed here. I do wish the story had more of a Taku influence in it as he was, sadly, pushed to the sidelines again.
The final side story was any Kawahara fans dream come true, the epic clash between our god Kirito and our favorite and lovable Haruyuki Arita. How could anyone dislike a good one on one match of the ages. It would have been interesting if it involved the current Silver Crow and not the one from way back at the start. Imagine if he’d used “way of the flexible” or his Incarnate ability, or the Enhancement Armament, the Armor of Catastrophe, The Disaster? Kirito would have stood no chance.
Overall good collection to enhance the world, terrible placement in the storyline.
January 16, 2024
Unfortunately, in my opinion, I feel that this is one of the worst books in the series.
This is not a continuation of the storyline main arc, but rather 3 short stories. 2 of those short stories tie into past events, with the last story just being some fanfiction that really has no relation to anything of importance. Of the two short stories tying into relevant material, they merely create more questions than answers.
This might have been a much better book had it been marketed as some type of additional material rather than vol 10 of the series.
This is not a continuation of the storyline main arc, but rather 3 short stories. 2 of those short stories tie into past events, with the last story just being some fanfiction that really has no relation to anything of importance. Of the two short stories tying into relevant material, they merely create more questions than answers.
This might have been a much better book had it been marketed as some type of additional material rather than vol 10 of the series.
August 18, 2018
When I picked it up I thought this was going to be a 1 star. Writing is crap, the stories are full of act of god events that solve everything and the last story is pure fanfiction.
It did have some funny moments and there were a few things thrown in that if the author decides to include in the following volumes will make Accel World so much better.
In summary, completely skippable if that’s your thing.
It did have some funny moments and there were a few things thrown in that if the author decides to include in the following volumes will make Accel World so much better.
In summary, completely skippable if that’s your thing.
April 17, 2021
that short story at the end - ohmyheart
April 7, 2013
rread
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