description Accel World Overview
Haruyuki Arita is an overweight, bullied middle schooler who finds solace in playing online games. But his life takes a drastic turn one day, when he finds that all his high scores have been topped by Kuroyukihime, the popular vice president of the student council. She then invites him to the student lounge and introduces him to "Brain Burst," a program which allows the users to accelerate their brain waves to the point where time seems to stop. Brain Burst also functions as an augmented reality fighting game, and in order to get more points to accelerate, users must win duels against other players.
However, if a user loses all their points, they will also lose access to Brain Burst forever.
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Is Accel World by the same author as Sword Art Online?
Yes. Both series come from author Reki Kawahara, with Accel World being his second major franchise after Sword Art Online. The light novels have been running considerably longer than the anime adaptation covers.
Will there ever be a season 2 of Accel World?
The 2012 TV anime never got a second season, and the story instead continued in the 2016 film Accel World: Infinite Burst. The light novels have carried the story forward in the meantime, so anime-only viewers are well behind the source material.
Who animated Accel World and how many episodes is it?
The series was animated by Sunrise and ran for 24 episodes in 2012. That single two-cour season is still the entirety of the TV anime.
What exactly is Brain Burst in Accel World?
Brain Burst is the secret augmented-reality fighting program Kuroyukihime installs for Haruyuki, where users duel each other in accelerated time to earn Burst Points. Losing all your points uninstalls the program and erases your memories of it, which is why the duels carry real stakes.
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