Sword Art Online  S3 E22 Alice Synopsis and Review  Disclaimer: I am pretty new to anime. I just started my anime addiction in February. I am not well versed in terminology. I have the Light Novels but I have not started them. This is very much a noob review. I will say the wrong things. Once I start the LN's I hope to go back through the series and compare. You can skip the synopsis if you want and go straight to the review at the end.  The date is Saturday, August 1, 2026. The scene opens with Rinko speaking to an audience. We see Kirito and Asuna still laying in the STL's. At the press conference there are cameras flashing and media there. Rinko introduces Alice to the small crowd as the world's first true artificial general intelligence.