Shino Asada

Shino Asada, also known as Sinon, Sinonon, Solus and Hecate, is one of the main characters from the Sword Art Online series.
== Charactah Account ==
Shino is a skilled VRMMO player. She goes by the name Sinon in Gun Gale Online and ALfheim Online. She is nicknamed Hecate, after her gun «PGM Ultima Ratio Hecate II», a .50 caliber anti-materiel and rare sniper rifle. She is one of the main characters of volumes five and six and first female player that Kirito meets in GGO. She plays GGO to overcome her trauma concerning guns.
Calm and cool are two words that best describe Sinon's personality. In battle and most of the time in the game, she keeps a cool head that actually makes other female players admire her; however, Sinon has a violent temper once angered—something that is best seen with her interactions with Kirito. It is actually said that Kirito is the first one to make her extremely angry. Despite all this, Sinon, while may be hard to approach, is generally a friendly person and doesn't mind helping others.
Sinon becomes a Cait Sith archer in ALO where she is capable of hitting targets from 200m away despite her bow being limited to 100m.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Sword Art Online II
* Sword Art Online II: Debriefing
* Sword Art Online II: Sword Art Offline II
* Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale
* Sword Art Online: Alicization
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Reflection
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Recap
=== Light Novels ===
* Sword Art Online
* Sword Art Online SS: Caliber SS (Failure Side)
=== Manga ===
* Gekijouban Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale
* Sword Art Online: Aincrad Night of Kirito
* Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
* Sword Art Online: Calibur
* Sword Art Online: Girls Ops
* Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
* Sword Art Online: Kirito's Gun Gale Wars
* Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet
* Sword Art Online: Project Alicization
=== Video Games ===
* 300 Heroes
* Accel World VS Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight
* Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
* Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
* Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment
* Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
* Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment
* Sword Art Online: Integral Factor
* Sword Art Online: Lost Song
== Trivia ==
* Shino has no memories of her father or his appearance, as he died when Shino was only one year old, while her mother erased all photographs and videos of him after the traffic accident.
* The glasses Shino uses do not have any prescription and are not meant for correcting eyesight. Instead, the lenses are made from an NXT polymer which is said to make the glasses able to withstand even the impact of a bullet. This gives her a modest sense of security and allows her to stay calm despite her trauma from the past.
* The visual acuity rating for both of Shino's eyes in real life are 2.0, which is twice as good as the average person.
* Asuna has nicknamed Shino as "Sinonon".
* Sinon's avatar in ALfheim Online was originally supposed to be a Sylph archer. This was changed with the creation of the Calibur side story.
* Sinon appears in multiple Sword Art Online game adaptations as an archer, even though she was not an SAO player and archers did not exist in SAO in the original story.
* Shino aspires to become a policewoman.
* Shino's motto is "One Shot, One Kill". In the real world, this saying is popularly known as the "Sniper's Creed", and is often quoted by real-world military snipers.
* While discussing about the designs of the series heroines, the light novel illustrator abec felt that the glasses factor in the series was too low at the time and suggested making Sinon a glasses girl. This idea ended up being adopted.
* In an official character popularity poll hosted by Dengeki Bunko for the cover of abec Art Works, Shino's GGO avatar ranked third, her ALO avatar ranked sixteenth, while her real life persona ranked eleventh.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Asada Shino at Sword Art Online Wiki
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