Recaps

Wenren Seiya entered Sword Art Online, where he helped players survive and joined Kirito and Asuna in clearing the First Floor. After gaining another Seiya’s abilities through the Mind Dream Space, he returned to the Prince of Tennis world and stunned Fudomine and Seigaku players with his transformed tennis.

• Wenren Seiya bought a NERvGear, entered SAO, and met Kirito and Klein in the Town of Beginnings.
• Seiya used Wenren Sword Style to defeat monsters and fought Kirito to a draw before the players learned they were trapped in a death game.
• Seiya paid for early advantages with microtransaction currency, defeated the Dire Wolf Leader with Kirito, and kept its experience-boosting necklace.
• At Diabel’s Floor Boss meeting, Seiya challenged Ya Wang’s accusations against beta testers, and players recognized him as the Saint who had helped newcomers.
• Seiya, Kirito, and Asuna trained together and joined the raid on the First Floor Boss, where Seiya saved Diabel and the group defeated Kobold Lord Irvangu.
• After reaching the Second Floor, Seiya met another version of himself in the Mind Dream Space and exchanged abilities with the Prince of Tennis Seiya.
• Seiya returned to Fudomine, defeated Kamio in practice, impressed Tachibana Kippei, and went with An to watch street tennis.
• Seiya and An challenged Izumi and Fukawa, and Seiya’s extraordinary speed stunned Momoshiro while Ryoma recognized that his movement seemed unlike tennis.

Seiya helped Fudomine defeat Seigaku and then, in another world, began a child-acting career to support Yuko and Ako. Twelve years later, he entered high school and reunited with Kana, Aqua, Ruby, and Marilou.

• Seiya stopped Momoshiro’s Bullet Serve match when Tachibana Kippei called him away, then helped Fudomine prepare for the regional tournament.
• Seiya advised Fudomine’s lineup and tactics, and Fudomine took a 2–1 lead over Seigaku before Seiya faced Fuji in singles.
• Seiya beat Fuji 6–2 with Storm Fang and Army Breaker, while agreeing not to use Army Breaker again if Fuji stopped using Bear Drop.
• Miyaka celebrated Fudomine’s victory and promised to find Seiya foreign coaches, while Wenren Xingzi secretly arranged new buildings and equipment for the school.
• Seiya warned Yuko that she was overworking, then recalled how she had adopted him after he saved Ako and her fiancé died, and he decided to become a child star to help support them.
• Seiya impressed Director Okawa by improvising a fight with a police dog, and his performance became popular even as the film’s overall reviews fell.
• Twelve years later, Seiya started at Yoto High School, reunited with Kana, and met Aqua and Ruby, and Aqua concealed that he recognized Seiya from the attack on Ai.
• Seiya entered Class 1-F with Ruby, met Kotobuki Minami, and introduced her to Shiranui Marilou, who teased him about making friends.

Seiya joined Current Love to help Aqua investigate Ai’s murder, then returned to Sword Art Online and became involved with Kirito, Sachi, and Asuna. After Claude’s ambush delayed his duel with Heathcliff, Seiya exposed Heathcliff as Akihiko Kayaba and challenged him to fight.

• Seiya agreed to help Aqua approach suspects connected to Ai’s murder by joining Current Love, and he chose Arima Kana as his partner on the show.
• Seiya appeared on Current Love with Kana and described her as his ideal type, leaving her flustered as the other guests teased him.
• Seiya met Kirito and joined him and the Moonlit Black Cats on the twenty-eighth floor, where he rescued the guild from hyenas using his Shikigami Sword skill.
• Seiya reunited with Asuna, shared his inventory with her, gave her the rapier Meteor, and later accepted Heathcliff’s challenge to duel in exchange for a place in the Knights of the Blood.
• Claude lured Seiya to Death Hill, where Claude and Laughing Coffin members attacked him, but Seiya and his summoned creatures defeated them and Seiya killed Claude.
• Seiya arrived late to Dragon’s Nest and gave Heathcliff a Mirror of Truth, which revealed him as Akihiko Kayaba.
• Kayaba admitted he had planned to confront the players on the hundredth floor, and he agreed to duel Seiya, with Seiya’s true identity at stake if he lost.

Seiya defeated Akihiko Kayaba, returned to the real world, and helped expose Nobuyuki Sugo’s experiments before confronting the curses surrounding Sukuna’s Finger. The arc ended with Ryomen Sukuna controlling Itadori’s body and adapting to it as he fought Seiya.

• Seiya defeated Akihiko Kayaba in a duel on Aincrad’s 100th Floor, and Kayaba freed the trapped SAO players before giving Seiya the Virtual World Seed.
• Seiya awoke after two years unconscious, confirmed he could use his Shikigami powers in the real world, and went to RECT Company to tell Akihiko Yui about Nobuyuki Sugo’s experiments.
• Akihiko Yui set a trap for Sugo, whose arrest led investigators to uncover his Brain-upload experiments and rescue the three hundred captives, including Asuna.
• Seiya visited the Yuuki family, where Kyoko praised him and suggested he and Asuna become engaged after graduation.
• At Sugisawa High School, Seiya protected Sasaki and Iguchi when curses attacked after the Occult Research Club unsealed Sukuna’s Finger.
• Seiya fought the curses with his Shikigami and martial arts, then used a huge fireball to destroy the surrounding Cursed Spirits.
• Itadori swallowed Sukuna’s Finger and awakened Ryomen Sukuna, who seized control of his body and attacked Seiya.
• Seiya and Sukuna exchanged blows across the school grounds, and Seiya realized Sukuna was adapting to Itadori’s body.