Kadokawa and Dengeki Bunko have revealed that Reki Kawahara, the novelist most well-known for Sword Art Online, will launch a brand new novel titled Demons’ Crest. The new title may have its characters drawn by Yukiko Horiguchi of Ok-On! fame.

The story of Demons’ Crest will happen within the close to future with a full-dive VR expertise the place individuals can work together with the VR world with their whole our bodies. In the same vein to Reki Kawahara’s prior works Sword Art Online and Accel World, an in-universe VR MMORPG will kind the core of the storyline.

Demons’ Crest will inform the story of Yuma Ashihara, an 11 years-old sixth-grader who joins a take a look at play for Actual Magic, the primary MMORPG to make use of the full-dive VR expertise. Soon after defeating a dungeon boss together with his classmates, a mysterious pink mild envelops Yuma’s avatar and causes the participant to faint. After a pressured logout, Yuma will get up to see a Mixed Reality the place world parts from Actual Magic seem in actual life.

The Japanese press launch added that Demons’ Crest will likely be Reki Kawahara’s first novel that he writes as a industrial product. The creator gained a lot fame for his works on Sword Art Online and Accel World. Kawahara additionally has one other novel collection titled The Isolator, which had its first formal publication in 2014 in Japan. However, he first uploaded all aforementioned titles as private tasks and contest entries earlier than Kadokawa and ASCII Media Works supplied to publish his works.

Demons’ Crest will likely be out there in Japan on November 10, 2022. Reki Kawahara will reveal extra particulars concerning the new novel by means of a reside stream on his official channel on Niconico on Monday, September 12, 2022, at 19:00 JST (6 AM ET).