*Read Hopeful Chant Fan Translation at Dreadful Decoding:* dreadfuldecoding.blogspot.com/p/hopeful-chant.html Chapters: 0:00 Introduction | *1:26** Asuna, Kirito & Nautilus vs Ruthless Warder Chief* | 6:52 Asuna & Heathcliff on FullDive Non-Conformity | 9:37 Shameful Isolation of Nautilus | *11:53** Eiji's promise to Yuuna* | *15:47** Asuna seeks Kirito's counsel* | *18:58** The Extra Skill, Chant* | 20:22 Asuna and Kirito at peace, listening to Utachan | 21:21 Preparations, Plans and Disappointment | *22:25** Trap, Horror and Determination* | *25:31** Nautilus, Yuna & Rescue Team vs Feral Warder Chief* | *27:40** Lack of Experience* | *28:18** The Final Chant of Hope* | *36:00** Waking up from the Past into Ordinal Scale* 💙 You can get SAO Games, Light Novels and Manga through Amazon and Book Depository Affiliate links below! Amazon US for Americas (and Global): www.amazon.com/shop/gamerturk Amazon UK for Europe and nearby regions: www.amazon.co.uk/shop/gamerturk Book Depository for Global book purchases: bit.ly/GamerturkSAOBookDepository 🏆 Support me on Patreon! - bit.ly/PatronGamerturk 💙 Join the current Giveaway by Gamerturk! - bit.ly/GamerturkGiveaway 🥇 Become a Member with a Badge & Custom Emotes! - bit.ly/JoinGamerturk 🔥 MERCH! Grab your Merch! - bit.ly/GamerturkMerch 🐤 Follow me on twitter! - twitter.com/gamerturk95 🔔 Like my facebook page! - facebook.com/gamerturk 💭 Join the community on the Gamerturk Discord Server! - discord.gg/rj8vvDE 🕹 Love livestreams? Follow me on twitch! - go.twitch.tv/gamerturk95
17:00 why must you hurt us so? So not that long after their deaths and before he goes for that revive item December 2023 was the time he got Sachi's message on Christmas
It makes so much more sense now why Eiji kept talking about how the real world was so much different in OS. It was because he was in denial because he couldn’t save Yuna and hurt other players due to his FNS
Thank you! I did my best with the little audio and visual material I had! I'll look to get some custom visuals for Cordial Chords video since I got 0 visuals for that, though I don't think I can get someone to do some character voices which was something I was thinking about for this video as well. Still, I'm really happy about how this one turned out regardless of the limitations and I'm really glad you enjoyed it
Finallyyyyy!! There it is. I have waited so long for it and finally. I really love this video. Thanks for explaining and nice visuals used in the video. I hope UA-cam won't bother you anymore (but bruh thats impossible). I'm glad I was able to learn more about Yuna and Eiji's past without even having to read the Orignal chapters. Thank you very much Gamerturk. Keep up the good work P.S: Eiji and Yuna are my favorite characters and one of my favorite ship from SAO so I was really looking forward to this video. Thanks a bunch Gamerturk
You could have watched it hours ago when I premiered it on Facebook ;) I strongly recommend following me on all platforms at this point. UA-cam is very unreliable and it took me a whole day to get this video up here, whereas it was ready to be published since yesterday.
@@Gamerturk Yeah, you are right. I was actually sleeping at the time it was released on Facebook. But don't worry I have followed you there so I won't miss any updates now. I'm actually proud of myself for doing that
I never knew I needed videos like this until now and after this one I need more, this is absolutely awesome and the work you put into this definitely paid off
I'm still wondering what compelled Asuna to end the party with Kirito to join KoB. Surely, it wouldn't be as simple as she wants to join a strong guild or anything.
I guess that explains why he really beat the crap and took time to make sure Klein’s guild got a hard beating when he fought them in Ordinal Scale. I feel more bad for Eiji now and Yuna is one of my favorite characters now.
Ahahahah thank you, but "in the upcoming days" would be too much, planning on once a month or once every two months etc. Especially since for some content, I need to create some original sprites and visuals like the upcoming Cordial Chords video.
Glad you enjoyed it! There is still Cordial Chords, the Ordinal Scale Epilogue Story that you can watch on the channel! And my next big project like this is the First Day story that takes place a couple hours after Kirito abandons Klein from volume 8 of the main series.
Eiji A young man who wanted to bring a friend back, whatever the cost his actions to the SAO survivors will not forgotten, what happens is how he grows from it. For anime only and Light Novel virgin, I want to see how he redeems himself. Context, I have volume 15-19 and Progressive 1 (water damaged) and 2
@@Gamerturk Can't wait There's characters I give passes for making a change, until I see what happened post OS, What he did to Klien, his friends, pushing Silica, hurting others, can't be brushed aside. Something like that should hang as guilt. Yeah Yuna's dad was the one doing the whole thing to being her back as a A.I, but he used a suit to increase his abilities, Kirito Asuna Klein Agil Lisbeth Silica Are SAO survivors like him, but they didn't need some exosuit.
@@OathKeeperRiku07 Definitely, Kirito really had to push beyond everything that his augma could handle during his duel between Eiji and the floor 100 boss fight
Eiji figth for his love but cost cheating and abusing other people from the movie. Unlike kirito figth for His love without any help like advance technology just to beat others.
Beautiful and great work as always and thank you to those helped with translations 🙇💖 Really want a copy of it for myself! Depression train all over it again 💔 but a worthy story indeed.
I wish we had a purchasable physical copy available, even if it was only in Japanese.... This was one of those stories I would certainly get just for a memoria :/
Glad that you enjoyed it! If you haven't, there's also the Ordinal Scale epilogue story, Cordial Chords. I have a video on that one too, covering Kirito, Eiji and YUNA after the end of Ordinal Scale.
@@Gamerturk oh boy!!! Can I have the Link? I want to know everything about sao , also I'm wandering if you are able to answer my other question I asked a few minutes ago?
Oh if you want to know more about SAO, you are definitely in the right place! For Cordial Chords: ua-cam.com/video/7xtMQIR-hKs/v-deo.html Generally, Story of the Past series is something I do quite rarely for stories I really enjoy from the series that were never adapted into anime, so you can search for that. Though the only other one aside from the OS stories currently is the First Day side story. Otherwise, I strongly recommend my Explained series, where I compare the Anime to the Light Novels and fill out the blanks or highlight the changes. My complete Sword Art Online Timeline series is currently in the progress, with Part 1 covering Progressive series and Part 2 covering the rest of Aincrad currently.
This is a little bit off topic as has to do with Kirito and Asuna instead of Eiji and Yuna, but something you said in the video threw me off - you said Kirito and Asuna finally broke their party apart on floor 25 when Asuna joined KoB. I thought it happened a lot earlier than that - and no, I'm not going to say that they broke apart after defeating the floor 1 boss, never to come back together again until they decided to investigate the murder inside a safe zone. As I've read all of the light novels and most of the side stories available to me, I'm well aware from the Progressive series that Kirito and Asuna hooked back up on floor 2 and stayed together to this point an indeterminate amount of time as so far it's only gone to the clearing of floor 6 (Reki hurry up and write more Progressive novels). Based on ME 16 (Sugary Days 7), even though we haven't gotten there in the Progressive series, we're well aware that the Elf War quest ends tragically and two years later, after Kirito and Asuna were married, they're still suffering from emotional pain due to the outcome of that quest. In fact, Kirito says that it contributed to them walking their separate ways; Asuna toward KoB, Kirito to returning to his role as a solo player. I had always assumed that it was the painful ending of the Elf War quest that drove them apart, say, at floor 10 or shortly thereafter, and it was Asuna walking a path that led to KoB, not necessarily joining KoB itself. Keeping in mind Hopeful Chant is one of the few things I actually haven't read yet, was it there that indicated that Kirito and Asuna finally split their party on floor 25 when Asuna joined KoB, or was it another side work that I missed?
jdoggivjc The story never got to that point yet, but I did read a comment here that says in the mobile game “Integral Factor,” Asuna and Kirito got into a fight when Heathcliff invited her to KoB and that was probably the reason why Asuna dissolved their party.
That's all the information we have. Elf War Campaign strains things between the two. F25, they finally split up. Asuna explicitly states she finally broke off their partnership on Floor 25 and joined KoB.
@@Gamerturk yeah, there's a certain irony in all of this. I've been going through the light novels again recently, and just an hour or so after I made this original post I hit where Hopeful Chant is in the timeline, so I went ahead and read it for the first time. I guess it surprised me that it was as much of a Kirito-Asuna backstory as much as it was for Eiji-Yuna. It was also great getting it from Asuna's POV and seeing her regrets for the pain she put him through, her thinking that the darkness swirling behind Kirito's eyes was somehow her fault, how a significant part of her wishes she had never broken up their partnership, and then the inner conflict about how she doesn't have the right to ask him about these things. One thing is plainly obvious, though - they never would have become the power couple that they are now if they hadn't spent those 18 months essentially apart from one another. While pretty much everyone around them (excluding them) knew they were basically a couple those first several months, neither of them were mature enough to really appreciated what they had. Let's face it - Asuna treated him like crap a lot of that time - and a lot of that time Kirito actually deserved it. But neither of them truly appreciated what they had until Kirito was within one pixel of losing his life twice within one week. The botched 74th floor boss raid as well as Kuradeel's near-assassination attempt drove home what they meant to one another.
I do have a question on Eiji and Yuna being canon now, unless it has already been confirmed, but do you think Reki Kawahara will include Eiji and Yuna in the SAO Progressive series? Edit: Also amazing job on the video!
No info yet on including them of course, as Progressive is still very early on in the story and Eiji doesn't snap out of things to train hard and get noticed until later on. Once it happens, surely they will be included.
Hi I read your google support page about chapters. I have the same problem of not seeing them. If I open the url in a incognito window, I see the chapters.
Hopeful Chant was a special Light Novel that was given to Japanese audiences who came to watch Ordinal Scale at the theater at certain weeks. You will not be able to find it publicly released anywhere, let alone a translation. You can find the fan translation in the description.
Most exclusive events are exclusive to the US. As mentioned in the video, this summary was made possible thanks to Gsimenas translating the exclusive novel.
It is a known issue that UA-cam is adamant at not fixing. Chapters feature has been broken for almost 2 months now on various channels. You can still use the timestamps in the description.
*Read Hopeful Chant Fan Translation at Dreadful Decoding:* dreadfuldecoding.blogspot.com/p/hopeful-chant.html
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction | *1:26** Asuna, Kirito & Nautilus vs Ruthless Warder Chief* | 6:52 Asuna & Heathcliff on FullDive Non-Conformity | 9:37 Shameful Isolation of Nautilus | *11:53** Eiji's promise to Yuuna* | *15:47** Asuna seeks Kirito's counsel* | *18:58** The Extra Skill, Chant* | 20:22 Asuna and Kirito at peace, listening to Utachan | 21:21 Preparations, Plans and Disappointment | *22:25** Trap, Horror and Determination* | *25:31** Nautilus, Yuna & Rescue Team vs Feral Warder Chief* | *27:40** Lack of Experience* | *28:18** The Final Chant of Hope* | *36:00** Waking up from the Past into Ordinal Scale*
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Thank you I'd rather do that on screen than waste tons of black printer ink just to read it offscreen
Yuna quickly became one of my favorite characters
This must have took a ton of effort fact checking and getting the right backgrounds for each point.
Gj gamerturk
Don't forget Gsimenas and the Dreadful Decoding team, without their translation, this wouldn't be possible!
@@Gamerturk ok thank you Gsimenas and dreadful decoding
Just one of many reasons we need an SAO anime reboot. Hopeful Chant is one of my favorite parts of SAO lore
17:00 why must you hurt us so?
So not that long after their deaths and before he goes for that revive item
December 2023 was the time he got Sachi's message on Christmas
The relationship of Kazuto and Asuna is touching my heart again. Its the same for Yuna and Eiji/Nautilus
I won't lie I shed a tear when I was listening to this
It makes so much more sense now why Eiji kept talking about how the real world was so much different in OS. It was because he was in denial because he couldn’t save Yuna and hurt other players due to his FNS
This was really nice dude. Cant wait for stories.
Beautiful narration gameturk
This was honestly an amazing prologue and I'm glad you went over it for us :)
Thank you! I did my best with the little audio and visual material I had! I'll look to get some custom visuals for Cordial Chords video since I got 0 visuals for that, though I don't think I can get someone to do some character voices which was something I was thinking about for this video as well. Still, I'm really happy about how this one turned out regardless of the limitations and I'm really glad you enjoyed it
Finallyyyyy!! There it is. I have waited so long for it and finally. I really love this video. Thanks for explaining and nice visuals used in the video. I hope UA-cam won't bother you anymore (but bruh thats impossible). I'm glad I was able to learn more about Yuna and Eiji's past without even having to read the Orignal chapters. Thank you very much Gamerturk. Keep up the good work
P.S: Eiji and Yuna are my favorite characters and one of my favorite ship from SAO so I was really looking forward to this video. Thanks a bunch Gamerturk
You could have watched it hours ago when I premiered it on Facebook ;)
I strongly recommend following me on all platforms at this point. UA-cam is very unreliable and it took me a whole day to get this video up here, whereas it was ready to be published since yesterday.
@@Gamerturk Yeah, you are right. I was actually sleeping at the time it was released on Facebook. But don't worry I have followed you there so I won't miss any updates now. I'm actually proud of myself for doing that
I never knew I needed videos like this until now and after this one I need more, this is absolutely awesome and the work you put into this definitely paid off
As a die hard SAO fan, I love this. I understand a lot more now. Great job
I'm still wondering what compelled Asuna to end the party with Kirito to join KoB. Surely, it wouldn't be as simple as she wants to join a strong guild or anything.
Good job making this! Thanks
Already read this short story, but seeing it again with visuals, makes a difference.
Still a great story ❤
just came back to watch this video, and I regret not watching it before, amazing as always
I guess that explains why he really beat the crap and took time to make sure Klein’s guild got a hard beating when he fought them in Ordinal Scale.
I feel more bad for Eiji now and Yuna is one of my favorite characters now.
This was beautiful, thank you so much for doing this!
Simply fire🔥🔥
Hoping for some more videos like this in the upcoming days. It sure took a lot of effort.
Ahahahah thank you, but "in the upcoming days" would be too much, planning on once a month or once every two months etc. Especially since for some content, I need to create some original sprites and visuals like the upcoming Cordial Chords video.
Very well done much appreciated! the time and effort you put into this was perfect, thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! There is still Cordial Chords, the Ordinal Scale Epilogue Story that you can watch on the channel! And my next big project like this is the First Day story that takes place a couple hours after Kirito abandons Klein from volume 8 of the main series.
@@Gamerturk thank you i will definitely watch it 😊
Eiji
A young man who wanted to bring a friend back, whatever the cost
his actions to the SAO survivors will not forgotten, what happens is how he grows from it.
For anime only and Light Novel virgin, I want to see how he redeems himself.
Context, I have volume 15-19 and Progressive 1 (water damaged) and 2
Cordial Chords video will hopefully arrive mid-June!
@@Gamerturk Can't wait
There's characters I give passes for making a change, until I see what happened post OS, What he did to Klien, his friends, pushing Silica, hurting others, can't be brushed aside. Something like that should hang as guilt. Yeah Yuna's dad was the one doing the whole thing to being her back as a A.I, but he used a suit to increase his abilities,
Kirito
Asuna
Klein
Agil
Lisbeth
Silica
Are SAO survivors like him, but they didn't need some exosuit.
@@OathKeeperRiku07 Definitely, Kirito really had to push beyond everything that his augma could handle during his duel between Eiji and the floor 100 boss fight
Eiji figth for his love but cost cheating and abusing other people from the movie. Unlike kirito figth for His love without any help like advance technology just to beat others.
The opposite lol
Beautiful and great work as always and thank you to those helped with translations 🙇💖
Really want a copy of it for myself! Depression train all over it again 💔 but a worthy story indeed.
I wish we had a purchasable physical copy available, even if it was only in Japanese.... This was one of those stories I would certainly get just for a memoria :/
@@Gamerturk there's a lot I want from japan but can't read :/
What a wonderful Summary!!!! It's amazing ! I hope when They make an SAO Progressive anime , they adapt this Story there .
Watched it on fb earlier. Great vid as always
thank you for making this!
Thanks for the explanation, I've been wondering where they started ❤
Glad that you enjoyed it! If you haven't, there's also the Ordinal Scale epilogue story, Cordial Chords. I have a video on that one too, covering Kirito, Eiji and YUNA after the end of Ordinal Scale.
@@Gamerturk oh boy!!! Can I have the Link? I want to know everything about sao , also I'm wandering if you are able to answer my other question I asked a few minutes ago?
Oh if you want to know more about SAO, you are definitely in the right place!
For Cordial Chords: ua-cam.com/video/7xtMQIR-hKs/v-deo.html
Generally, Story of the Past series is something I do quite rarely for stories I really enjoy from the series that were never adapted into anime, so you can search for that. Though the only other one aside from the OS stories currently is the First Day side story.
Otherwise, I strongly recommend my Explained series, where I compare the Anime to the Light Novels and fill out the blanks or highlight the changes.
My complete Sword Art Online Timeline series is currently in the progress, with Part 1 covering Progressive series and Part 2 covering the rest of Aincrad currently.
@@Gamerturk thanks, you're the goat
@@Gamerturk I would love the link the explained series for novels pls , that's what I've been looking for ....I want to know where to start
I would be to terified to sing that finale chant
really enjoyed this story looking forward to more in this series
This is a little bit off topic as has to do with Kirito and Asuna instead of Eiji and Yuna, but something you said in the video threw me off - you said Kirito and Asuna finally broke their party apart on floor 25 when Asuna joined KoB. I thought it happened a lot earlier than that - and no, I'm not going to say that they broke apart after defeating the floor 1 boss, never to come back together again until they decided to investigate the murder inside a safe zone. As I've read all of the light novels and most of the side stories available to me, I'm well aware from the Progressive series that Kirito and Asuna hooked back up on floor 2 and stayed together to this point an indeterminate amount of time as so far it's only gone to the clearing of floor 6 (Reki hurry up and write more Progressive novels). Based on ME 16 (Sugary Days 7), even though we haven't gotten there in the Progressive series, we're well aware that the Elf War quest ends tragically and two years later, after Kirito and Asuna were married, they're still suffering from emotional pain due to the outcome of that quest. In fact, Kirito says that it contributed to them walking their separate ways; Asuna toward KoB, Kirito to returning to his role as a solo player. I had always assumed that it was the painful ending of the Elf War quest that drove them apart, say, at floor 10 or shortly thereafter, and it was Asuna walking a path that led to KoB, not necessarily joining KoB itself. Keeping in mind Hopeful Chant is one of the few things I actually haven't read yet, was it there that indicated that Kirito and Asuna finally split their party on floor 25 when Asuna joined KoB, or was it another side work that I missed?
jdoggivjc The story never got to that point yet, but I did read a comment here that says in the mobile game “Integral Factor,” Asuna and Kirito got into a fight when Heathcliff invited her to KoB and that was probably the reason why Asuna dissolved their party.
That's all the information we have. Elf War Campaign strains things between the two. F25, they finally split up. Asuna explicitly states she finally broke off their partnership on Floor 25 and joined KoB.
@@Gamerturk yeah, there's a certain irony in all of this. I've been going through the light novels again recently, and just an hour or so after I made this original post I hit where Hopeful Chant is in the timeline, so I went ahead and read it for the first time. I guess it surprised me that it was as much of a Kirito-Asuna backstory as much as it was for Eiji-Yuna. It was also great getting it from Asuna's POV and seeing her regrets for the pain she put him through, her thinking that the darkness swirling behind Kirito's eyes was somehow her fault, how a significant part of her wishes she had never broken up their partnership, and then the inner conflict about how she doesn't have the right to ask him about these things. One thing is plainly obvious, though - they never would have become the power couple that they are now if they hadn't spent those 18 months essentially apart from one another. While pretty much everyone around them (excluding them) knew they were basically a couple those first several months, neither of them were mature enough to really appreciated what they had. Let's face it - Asuna treated him like crap a lot of that time - and a lot of that time Kirito actually deserved it. But neither of them truly appreciated what they had until Kirito was within one pixel of losing his life twice within one week. The botched 74th floor boss raid as well as Kuradeel's near-assassination attempt drove home what they meant to one another.
Where did you get the comic from??
Ordinal Scale manga adaptation featured some Hopeful Chant content.
This was really awesome ill hope for more
Good old memories of sao
🥰🥰
Well done. The video was nice.
I do have a question on Eiji and Yuna being canon now, unless it has already been confirmed, but do you think Reki Kawahara will include Eiji and Yuna in the SAO Progressive series?
Edit: Also amazing job on the video!
No info yet on including them of course, as Progressive is still very early on in the story and Eiji doesn't snap out of things to train hard and get noticed until later on. Once it happens, surely they will be included.
Hi I read your google support page about chapters. I have the same problem of not seeing them. If I open the url in a incognito window, I see the chapters.
Well done GT It's a shame the book may never get released in English.
Hello, it sucks that Sony claimed the damn video but im super exited when it comes out
I really hope his story get animated later on but its most likely never going to happen ):
I always wanted to know, what was Eiji's Avatar Race in ALO?
Most probably an Imp. Imps are commonly known to have the color purple mainly.
@@Gamerturk Yeah, it seemed like an Imp to me as well
is this story from aincard or which movie? odinan scale??
Hey, does anyone know if the actual Ordinal Scale manga is getting an English translation. This is good and all, but I want to read all of it
It has not been officially licensed by Yen Press as of right now, so no. Only Fan Translations by Dreadful Decoding.
His Kirito hut darker version.
Fuck this was super sad man why you gotta do me like this
amazing!!!!
Well damn that was good
Amazing video
sounds 10/10
Is there a light novel??? anyone know the name ?
Hopeful Chant was a special Light Novel that was given to Japanese audiences who came to watch Ordinal Scale at the theater at certain weeks. You will not be able to find it publicly released anywhere, let alone a translation. You can find the fan translation in the description.
@@Gamerturk thank youu
Thank You For The Video I Love Yuna She's One Of The Best I Like Eiji Too But Yuna Is My Bae
This IS so fu.... Sad
So sad...
Hey gamerturk can you upload SAO ordinal scale English dub to UA-cam, my Wi-Fi only works fast at UA-cam
No, because that's a massive copyright infringement and is illegal.
@@Gamerturk that means we can't upload it to UA-cam?
@@rinnonmax8582 no
15:16 the background music... Is it Fate zero opening 2?
No
I like nautilas not I say love bcuz I man guys.. nautilas is skill really style and he take inflict from enemy
These are not the light novels am I right?
These are Light Novels. They are just not main series novels, they are very exclusive side story novels given at very limited events.
@@Gamerturk are these exclusive events only in America? Cause I'm Italian...
Most exclusive events are exclusive to the US. As mentioned in the video, this summary was made possible thanks to Gsimenas translating the exclusive novel.
İlkkk ♥️♥️♥️
thank you
the chapters dont work, same for me bwo
It is a known issue that UA-cam is adamant at not fixing. Chapters feature has been broken for almost 2 months now on various channels. You can still use the timestamps in the description.
No clue, it got fixed for me a long time ago without a single response.
Keşke Türkçe anlatım da olsaydı :(
Turkmusun abee
Soru ekleri ayrı yazılır, "Türk müsün" olacak...
@@Gamerturk tüüürk 😂