Sword Art Online: Annulment

Sword Art Online: Annulment (ソードアートオンライン・撤廃, Sōdo Āto Onrain: Teppai) is the SAO fanfiction written by Yasuda Izumi. It is a reboot of SAO with the main cast genderbent. It is split into four arcs: Chaos Labyrinth, Project Dreamscape, Fairy Dance and Dark Yggdrasil. Annulment is followed by its sequel: Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale.
==Overview==
This is the story surrounding Shioko Kirigaya and her friends as they adventure through the death game of Sword Art Online, duel the King of Fairies to the death in ALfheim Online, and solve a series of murder cases in Gun Gale Online. As the second main protagonist, Nijika Karatachi also appears in Annulment.
==Arcs==
#Sword Art Online: Chaos Labyrinth
#Sword Art Online: Project Dreamscape
#Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance
#Sword Art Online: Dark Yggdrasil
===Sub-arcs===
#Sword Art Online: Dark Aincrad - Takes place during DP arc; focuses on the crew's adventures through the Hollow Area
==List of Novels In This Series==
TBA
==Characters==
===Protagonists===
*Shiota
*Rain
*Yuurei
*Illyasviel
===Side Characters===
*Quartz
*Tiffany
*Chelsea
*Asano
*Leafa
*Sinon
*Philia
*Yūna Shigemura
===Antagonists===
*PoH
*Nautilis
*Heathciff
*Oberon
*Seven
*Sumeragi
==Musical Themes==
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==Trivia==
*The author was kicked out of school for writing the first volume of Annulment during class.
**The first volume is also the author's debut novel in National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo.
***Sadly, the author couldn't reach the word count goal of 50,000 in time.