Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online - Recommendations

• TV (12 eps)
• 2020

She may be new to gaming, but Maple has found the secret to invincibility! Just put all your skill points into defense until you can’t even move. That works, right? She doesn’t want to experience any pain in the VRMMO game she started playing, and somehow it works better than anyone expected. Now she’s got followers??

• TV (12 eps)
• 2018

Destroy ideals (you) and return to reality (hell)..." A beautiful song echoes throughout the city. A city is overseen by the popular virtual idol group "μ", every day was filled with peace and serenity. Ritsu Shikishima is a freshman at Miyabi city Kishimai High School. With good grades and athletic skills, he was spending a fulfilling high school life surrounded by many of his friends. Time has passed and on the first day of his second year, the one who stepped up to the podium as the class representative was someone who was not supposed to be there...

• TV (12 eps)
• 2016

When Haruhiro awakens, he's in the dark surrounded by people who have no memory of where they came from or how they got there. As the darkness fades, a fantastic new world called “Grimgar” appears before them and their adventure begins—but first, they'll have to choose their guild, class, and special abilities.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2015

When Hotaru Tachibana storms into a host club to avenge the honor of a wronged female student, the last thing Hotaru expects is to duel the club’s most popular host with airsoft guns instead of fists. When Masamune Matsuoka’s experience wins out over Tachibana’s brawn, he realizes that he can use his victory (and the large bill for damaging the club) to make Tachibana join his struggling Survival Gaming team. However, what ladies’ man Masamune totally misses is that his unwilling new guy… isn’t a guy at all! Under the boy’s clothing and strong need to defend justice, Tachibana is all-girl, but, for a number of complicated reasons, she absolutely CAN’T expose that fact to Masamune or his teammate, the erotic manga artist Toru Yukimura. Blood will boil both on and off the airsoft arena, but it’s not over until the last round is shot in AOHARU X MACHINEGUN!

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2007

"There is something I wish to entrust to you; come to the hidden Forbidden Festival," is the message that the Twilight Brigade received from their leader, Ovan. Upon his orders, Tabby, Shino, Yata, Pi and Atori head to the festival, but Ovan is nowhere to be seen. However, things become dangerous once Tabby opens a stray treasure chest that contains an unusual monster! The team must now defeat the monster, discover its nature, and figure out the reason why Ovan invited them to this place...

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2003

The World is safe from viruses and harm. Kite, along with the Twilight Bracelet, is ridding the land of stray viruses, while the cast of .hack//SIGN and the .hack games continue to enjoy their time in The World as players. But a celebration is on the horizon! With Helba's guile to take the blame, Tsukasa, Mimiru, Kite, Elk, and the rest of the gang are finally going to meet or be reunited for one last party!

• TV (26 eps)
• 2006

Years after the fantasy MMORPG known as 'The World' suffered massive system failure, it has returned. Upgraded and re-written, the current incarnation of 'The World' gives players the freedom to find high adventure, embark on quests for treasure, and battle each other in arenas and tournaments. Player-Killers have become commonplace, however, and prey upon those weaker than they. Haseo, a careless player, was saved from such a fate by members of the Twilight Brigade - a guild with a legendary quest. Joining with the Twilight Brigade, they take on "The World" with all of its wonders and dangers. Will they find what they seek, and will Haseo be able to save those that mean the most to him from the unexplainable effects of 'The World'?

• TV (12 eps)
• 2003

Shuugo and Rena think they're just two siblings who got lucky and won two 'special' characters in the MMORPG The World, but mystery is afoot! What is the truth behind the characters they've been given? What is the 'Twilight' that has worried the game's most powerful? The answers lie in Shuugo's bracelet, as well as the power to save his sister from a fate worse than death!

• TV (12 eps)
• 2023

38-year-old Tanaka Daichi’s childhood dream of playing a VRMMO has finally come to life. As he creates his character, he decides to choose skills that are considered useless by others, since he has no interest in playing like a main character. Follow the adventures of Daichi as he strives to use his mismatched set of worthless skills to achieve his dream goal of simply being able to enjoy an alternate life in a virtual reality.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2018

Asahi's life in reality ended simultaneously, when she died playing "Union", a world-renowned online RPG. The members of "Subaru" went separate ways when "Union" shut down due to Asahi's death. Six years later, Haruto logs onto a renewed version of "Re'Union" and reunites with Asahi who had died. Is she an electronic ghost? The "promise" the childhood friends made will unfold within the game.