Anime Like Sword Art Online

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.

Thirty thousand Japanese players of the popular Elder Tale game all log in to explore the new update of their game, only to discover they are unable to log out.

The story focuses on the socially awkward college student Shiroe, a master strategist in-game, and his friends as they try to navigate their new reality.

In the MMORPG game simply called The World, a wavemaster by the alias of Tsukasa awakens with slight amnesia and cannot log out of the game.

Believed to be a hacker with the Crimson Knights guild, Tsukasa wanders the game looking for answers and avoiding other players that seek to do him harm. A

After reuniting with the Crimson Knights, the players that became acquainted with Tsukasa also seek a reason as to why he cannot log out before the problem becomes worse.

Haruyuki Arita is a loser at school, constantly ridiculed by his peers. Like so many, his only escape is into the virtual world of video games.

One day, his video game skills attract the attention of Kuroyukihime, the school’s popular student council Vice President. She introduces Haru to a new game called Brain Burst that accelerates the human cognitive process to the point at which time appears to stop.

However, it is really actually an Augmented Reality Massively Multiplayer Online (ARMMO) Fighting Game where people fight each other in fierce duels in order to obtain Burst Points which can be spent for acceleration abilities in the real world.

After mustering his courage to ask a girl out online, Hideki “Rusian” Nishimura is crushed when she rejects him. To add insult to injury, she reveals that she is actually a man in real life. After that, he vows off women online.

Years later, after the persistence of another online girl, he agrees to marry her. Although he thinks she is a man, he decides gender doesn’t matter if she is cute online.

However, when his guild arranges an online meet, he finds out that she is not only a girl, but his classmate.

After receiving an invitation from a friend, Kaede Honjou starts playing the VRMMO game New World Online as a character named Maple.

However, in her desire to not get hurt, she puts all her stats in Vitality. This makes her move very slowly, unable to use magic, and get attacked by even the smallest creatures.

HIt does allow her impenetrable defense and her gear she finds while wandering grants her a one-hit counter skill.

And so, her adventures begin.

Infinite Dendrogram is the world’s first successful full-dive VRMMO. It can replicate the five senses and provides infinite possibilities.

College freshman Reiji has just started playing with his brother Shuu and is ready to set off on adventure.

As the final hour approaches the life cycle of the MMO Yggdrasil, Momonga, a powerful wizard and leader of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, is there to see it off.

However, to his surprise, the servers don’t go down and even stranger is that all the NPC characters have come alive with their own unique personalities.

Suzuki Ichirou is a programmer for a game company, and in order to keep up with demands, he frequently sets his work pace to “death march” in which he works for days straight with little sleep and without going home.

During one of these death marches, he falls asleep and when he wakes up, he is somehow transported inside of one of his games.

In the fantasy city of Orario, there is a massive labyrinth underneath it. For brave adventurers, glory and fortune can be found within. However, in order to tackle the challenging monsters inside, adventurers join guilds of strong gods and goddesses.

For newbie adventurer Bell Cranel, no good guild will have him, except for Hestia, a goddess with no followers. Together they team up to grow strong and find glory.

Every few years when the sky-god Anu extends his protection, the monsters in the Tower of Druaga weaken and adventurers go forth for fame and fortune, trying to reach the top.

Like many adventurers, Jil is young and ready to make the push towards the top. While inexperienced in the Tower, his combat skills have the promise for him to go the distance.

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.

After a war that ravaged the country, the use of devastating demon contracts was outlawed and people went back to the way of the sword. Cecily Campbell is determined to a be a protector of the people, wielding her family heirloom.

However, one day when she steps in to protect citizens from a crazed swordsman, her weapon is shattered. Thankfully she was saved by a man wielding an odd sword.

It turns out her savior is also a blacksmith named Luke Ainsworth who possesses the skill to restore her now-broken heirloom sword.

As such, Cecily is determined to follow him and have him do repairs.

For years, war has raged between the Empire and the realm of witches, Nebulis.

On the battlefield, a talented young knight is tasked with killing the princess of Nebulis, but he is taken by her beauty and she taken by his honor.

In the real world, siblings Shiro and Sora are NEET shut-ins. However, in the virtual world, they are a legendary gaming duo.

One day, after a strange email, they find their reality taken away as they are transported to the realm of Tet, God of Games.

Here, Shiro and Sora must play games to defeat the sixteen races of this world as well as Tet in order to become the new gods.

After magic, once thought to be folklore, was turned into a technical skill, schools to teach it opened all over. At one such school are siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba.

While Miyuki excels, her brother is placed in a lower class due to his seemingly magical ineptitude.

However, he has rather unique abilities that make him quite irregular.

A certain selection of people, known as Blazers, are able to manifest their souls as weapons. To harness these powers, a number of schools have been established to teach these people how to use them.

Ikki Kurogane is an aspiring Mage-Knight, but unfortunately is also one of the lowest ranked Blazers around.

However, there may be more to his powers than meets the eye.

After a tragedy that occurred at a wedding between the two nations of Fantasia Union and Factory Alliance, the continent of Atlatan is embroiled in war once again. in this war, an Alliance mage is rescued by a young warrior named Theo that carries a mysterious crest.

His strange crest is able to banish the corrupting chaos which is consuming the countryside, and she finds herself pulled into his epic quest.