@lanodan @Nelenese

>And I guess they didn't change the ending of the novel?
Kind of surprising for something that gets a *full* season adaptation, it makes me wonder if the novel author put his foot down or something to keep things as they are.

That's what the new novels are supposed to be, a fuller Aincrad arc, however they fucked it up and made it a movie series, which skips loads of details, hurr