Anime Like Quality Assurance in Another World

Nikola is just a village girl working in ann inn when her life is upended by dragons attacking her village. During this attack, she meets Haga, a Seeker who manages to defeat the dragons even if he does it in an odd and not particularly heroic way.

However, despite clearing the dragons, Nikola and her whole village are wiped out because they were all just an event in the King’s Seeker Online VRMMMO, and the Seeker Haga was just one of several debuggers who were hired to debug the game and then trapped inside unable to log out.

While Nikola is revived, her character programming seems to malfunction allowing her to remember Haga and even to accompany him as he tries to find a way to log out of the game while resisting the allure of ultimate power from debug mode that so many of his peers have embraced for their own fun.

For high schooler Rakurou Hizutome, he enjoys playing games like any teen. However, his pleasure in gaming comes from playing trash games.

The broken, the janky, the terribly designed, the ridiculously difficult – he has conquered all of the trash games that no one plays!

After his most recent conquest, the games clerk recommends that he try something that isn’t trash – a new VRMMO game called Shangri-La Frontier. While he decides to give this VRMMO a try, his min-maxing trash game play style allows him to discover some little known secrets of this incredibly popular game that even the major tryhards haven’t found out.

Average high school student Hiro Yuuki obtains a copy of the full dive RPG game called Kiwame Quest. This game is uses the pinnacle of gaming technology to create an experience as close to real life as possible.

Unfortunately, while the sights, smells, and sensations are very realistic, it does make it a difficult game to beat. For players, their real life abilities are reflected in game and being hit also leaves serious wounds on your character that hurt and heal slowly.

It is not a game for casuals, but with a supreme sense of accomplishment on the line for beating it, who could say no?

Union was once a world-renowned VRMMORPG, and among its top players was a tight group of elementary school friends in a guild called Subaru. However, Union came to an end after Asahi, a member of Subaru, passed away while playing the game.

After Asahi’s death and the end of the game, Subaru went their separate ways, with Asahi’s death hitting her partner Haruto particularly hard.

Six years later, a new version of Union launches called Re’Union. As Haruto logs in, he is reunited face-to-face with Asahi. He immediately gathers Subaru’s other members to find out if this is Asahi or some kind of electronic ghost.

With the aid of NerveGear technology, video game players can now experience their playable worlds like never before – in virtual reality. For Kazuto Kirigaya, his game of choice is Sword Art Online.

After beta testing the game, he logs into the launch and finds himself, as well as ten thousand other players, trapped in the game world.

In a dangerous dungeon that had never been explored fully, Clay searches for her lost father who made it to the lower levels and never returned. However, while she delves deeper than any known adventurer has ever gone, she accidentally destroys a wall while fighting a monster and reveals a bedroom.

It turns out, the unbeknownst to anyone, a dungeon administrator and a whole organization are responsible for maintaining the dungeon and doing necessary tasks like dispatching monster to fight adventurers and refilling treasure chests.

Discovering the what they do, Clay is offered a job helping Belle, the cheerful dungeon administrator.

Driven to the point of extinction by creatures known as the Gadoll, humanity now lives out of a large mobile fortress known as Deca-Dence.

Inside, the residents are separated into Gears, warriors that fight the Gadoll, and Tankers who maintain the fortress. Natsume, a Tanker, has dreams of becoming a Gear, but is forced into armor repair where she meets a surly senpai named Kaburagi that has more skills than he lets on.

After the Golden Kingdom was sunk a thousand years ago by a magician, the king emerged from the depths and said that anyone who can defeat the mage will get his treasure. The king crumbled to dust and adventurers raced into an expansive underground labyrinth to prob its dangerous depths.

Laios is the leader of one such adventuring party. However, when their battle with a red dragon goes awry, his sister Falin is eaten when sacrificing herself to transport them out.

With no money to buy supplies in order to go rescue his sister, Laios and his two remaining companions, Chilchuck the thief and Marcille the healer, decide to eat the monsters they defeat in order to save money on food and get to Falin before she is digested.

With eating monsters considered a bit taboo not to mention gross, they struggle to prepare them correctly since there is little knowledge on how to do so. However, they stumble across a dwarf named Senshi who has a passion for cooking monster ingredients and just so happens to have always wanted to try eating a red dragon.

Taichi Tanaka is a middle-aged office worker who enjoys playing video games in his free time. Upon the release of a new VRMMO called One More Free Life Online, he decides to give it a try.

In One More Free Life Online, the player is free to do as they like, and for Taichi – now logged in as a player named Earth – he decides to master skills that are deemed to be useless by the player community. However, the skills he picks turn out to be increasingly valuable to not just his character, but others as well.

Thrown into a foreign land with no memory of their previous life, a group of strangers must try and survive in a brutal world filled with dangerous monsters.

While the strong quickly band together, the weak are left to make a patchwork group of their own. Slowly but surely this group becomes fighters, finally earning enough to survive each day.