Alicization and fatal bullet cannon/not cannon?

[BoxMageOfOld]

Soo I have thought a lot about how the anime and the games split basically creating alternate timelines. A lot of things are similar but many many events changed... My thing is thought in the first episode of Alicization you see both Kureha and Zeliska are playing pool in the background together while in a scene while everyone is saying goodbye before heading off for the night you see on the scoreboard itsuki's name.

This has lead me to theorize on something since I know the game itself isn't cannon as a whole but some of it may be cannon. For example Kureha was your childhood friend meaning you knew her since before the SAO incident which means even though the show is a different timeline it has no effect on your characters existance or not meaning that your character does exist within SAO just not visably present but subtly hinted at.
Now I want to adress that When you see both Kureha and Zeliska together you have to take into consideration the only reason anyone in your circle is friends with her is due to specifically you catching her attention which means if these two are friends you did join gungale, you did show potential enough to earn Zeliska's attention, you do know your childhood friend, ect.

Okay that out of the way you can see Itsuki is still in gungale and hasn't vanished... this either means you never got close to him... or maybe that event hasn't happened and we could potentially get a side hint at the event happening like in the background on the news which would be even cooler!

What all this means is from the beginning of fatal bullet all the way to teaming up with Zeliska with your childhood friend is actually cannon buuut I am curious if anyone else could come up with any other parts that would be cannon since obviously any involvment with kirito, deathgun, any of kirito's friends, and those characters from past SAO games won't be part of this is my guess since fatal bullet is actually seperate from the kirito stories thanks you playing a custom character.

What are your thoughts on this? Thought I would add this for some fun since I think this could be a cool topic to hear what others think of it.

[SUN]

Don't think it too hard.
There are fans for most characters.
So Devs added as many characters as possible in one game regardless of the probability, resulting tons of twists to character settings etc. It's all fan service thing, even the appearance of game characters in anime. Because of how the sao games are continuous in terms of story and character settings are twisted by that, anime and game NEVER can be cannons, devs just didn't plan it that well even if u wanted them to be.

[BoxMageOfOld]

Originally posted by SUN:

Don't think it too hard.
There are fans for most characters.
So Devs added as many characters as possible in one game regardless of the probability, resulting tons of twists to character settings etc. It's all fan service thing, even the appearance of game characters in anime. Because of how the sao games are continuous in terms of story and character settings are twisted by that, anime and game NEVER can be cannons, devs just didn't plan it that well even if u wanted them to be.

Bet you are fun at parties...

I am aware of all this... it's more for fun is all

[Ruego Al Alba]

Zeliska and Kureha make a cameo appearance in SAO Alicization's anime just because of marketing. Fatal Bullet's logo was also being advertised on one of the buildings, similar to how Tales of Xillia was advertised in anime's Phantom Bullet arc on one of the holographic displays.

As for Kureha and Zeliska playing pool together, that's... really got nothing to do with the MC. Zeliska is a solo player out in the field. She's perfectly sociable while inside Glocken.

And as for Itsuki, apparently all the DLCs take place prior to the vanilla game's ending.