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Sword Art Online
"Blurring the line between the virtual and the real."
8.2
Yr
2012
Rt
24m
Status
Ended
Animation
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Action & Adventure
Series Brief
Overview
In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...
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Featured Players
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Production Board
Crew
Storyboard Artist
Akira Yamada
Keiichi Sasajima
Risako Yoshida
Susumu Nishizawa
Jouji Furuta
Takehiro Miura
Hirokazu Yamada
Takao Abo
Tetsuo Hirakawa
Takashi Sakuma
Toshimasa Ishii
Hirotaka Tokuda
Toshiyuki Fujisawa
Heo Pyoung-kang
Naomi Nakayama
Tomohiko Ito
Rie Matsumoto
Takahiro Shikama
Koichi Kikuta
Shunsuke Nakashige
Background Designer
Prop Designer
Art Designer
Director of Photography
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Keyword Cloud
Keywords
video game
artificial intelligence (a.i.)
based on novel or book
magic
fairy
trauma
virtual reality
friendship
sword fight
romance
survival
game
death match
alternative reality
shooting game
anime
sword and sorcery
mmorpg
isekai
virtual world
love polygon
guns
trapped in a game
fantasy
death game
based on light novel
adventure
admiring
teen fantasy
vrmmo
dungeon crawling
Technical Sheet
Details
- First Aired
- July 08, 2012
- Status
- Ended
- Episode Runtime
- 24 minutes
- Origin
- JP
- TMDB Votes
- 2,108