Best Anime’s in an MMO setting
Best Anime’s in an MMO setting
Whether or not you’ve watched it yourself, everyone who watches anime has at least heard the name “Sword Art Online”.
The anime primarily takes place in a fantasy world created by a video game developer. Its basically a giant MMO in which the players use a device called “nervegear” to enter.
Picture a VR headset, but instead of using your hands for a controller, it connects directly to your brain. The user can just lay right in his bed and be seemingly teleported to this new world.
And because it’s attached to your brain, they can even recreate the other senses like touch and feel. It’s as real-life as we could ever hope video games to be.
Most of us that watched it immediately fell in love with the idea of a video game world so realistic its like LIVING in World of Warcraft.
I don’t know about you, but I would definitely choose that world over the regular world any day.
But if you’ve already watched Sword Art Online, what other anime’s can give you that same feel? Well lucky for you, there’s a bunch of them. And I’m going to list some of the best right here for you.
10. Log Horizon
Available to Stream: Hulu, Crunchyroll
Seasons: 3
Official Plot: The story takes place in a universe where 30,000 Japanese players and several hundreds of thousand players worldwide are trapped in a fantasy online game world called Elder Tale. For these players, what was once a "sword-and-sorcery world" is now the "real world"! The main character is a male named Shiroe who teams up with his old friend Naotsugu and an assassin named Akatsuki as they try to survive in this new world.
9. Overlord
Available to stream: Hulu, Crunchyroll
Seasons: 3 (4th possibly this year)
Official Plot: In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become
8. Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
Available to Stream: Hulu, Crunchyroll
Seasons 1 (possibly second will be released)
Plot: Before Haruhiro had realized what happened, he was surrounded by darkness. Why was he here? Where was here? Even now, he still didn't know. Those around him were the same as him, no one remembered anything other than their own names. And when they emerged from the darkness, the world that awaited them seemed like something out of a video game.
In order to survive, Haruhiro forms a party with the others, learns fighting skills, and as a soldier in the reserve force, takes his first steps into the world of Grimgar. What awaits him there, he doesn't know...
7. Rising Of The Shield Hero
Available to Stream: Hulu, Crunchyroll
Seasons 1
Plot: Rising of the Shield Hero follows Naofumi Iwatani, a 20 year-old university student who was whisked away to a fantasy game-like realm of monsters and magic after discovering a book about Four Heroes. ... Now the cynical Iwatani must somehow survive in a new and dangerous world that despises him.
6. KonoSuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World!
Available to stream: Crunchyroll
Seasons 2
Plot: After dying a laughable and pathetic death on his way back from buying a game, high school student and recluse Kazuma Satou finds himself sitting before a beautiful but obnoxious goddess named Aqua. She provides the NEET with two options: continue on to heaven or reincarnate in every gamer's dream—a real fantasy world! Choosing to start a new life, Kazuma is quickly tasked with defeating a Demon King who is terrorizing villages. But before he goes, he can choose one item of any kind to aid him in his quest, and the future hero selects Aqua. But Kazuma has made a grave mistake—Aqua is completely useless!
5. Shichisei No Subaru
Available to steam: Crunchyroll
Seasons 1
Plot: In a gamed called “Union,” there was a group of seven kids: Subaru, known to be the best. Unfortunately, when Asahi, one of the seven, dies in the game, she dies in real life as well. Her death causes the game to get shut down and their group to separate. Some years later Haruto, another member of Subaru, decides to play a new version of the game called “Re’Union” and once again meets Asahi who had died years ago still looking as she did when she was a kid. This mystery brings the group back together again to find out what happened to their friend.
4. Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Available to stream: Hulu, Crunchyroll
Seasons 3
Plot: The story follows the exploits of Bell Cranel, a 14-year-old solo adventurer under the goddess Hestia. As the only member of the Hestia Familia, he works hard to make ends meet. He looks up to Ais Wallenstein, a famous and powerful swordswoman who once saved his life, and with whom he fell in love.
3. Accel World
Available to stream : Crunchyroll
Seasons 1
Plot: Short, fat, and bullied, Haru escapes the torment of his school life by playing squash on his school's local network. One day he finds his score beaten by Kruyukihime, who introduces him to Brain Burst, a secret program to accelerate the human cognitive process to the point where time appears to stop.
2. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
Available to stream: Crunchyroll
Seasons 2
Plot: Lonely thirty-seven-year-old Mikami Satoru is stuck in a dead-end job, unhappy with his mundane life, but after dying at the hands of a robber, he awakens to a fresh start in a fantasy realm...as a slime monster.
1. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
Available to Stream: Crunchyroll
Seasons 2
Plot: Takuma Sakamoto is an ordinary human who is mysteriously transported to the world of his favourite MMORPG, Cross Reverie, with the appearance of his own character in the game, the Demon Lord Diablo. The two young girls who summoned him, the pantherian Rem and the elf Shera, attempt to use a spell to make Takuma their servant, but the spell rebounds, and both end up with magic collars stuck on their necks, thus becoming his slaves instead. With a serious case of social anxiety, Takuma decides to act like his character while interacting with others, and makes use of his high stats and vast knowledge of Cross Reverie's lore to survive in his new environment, traveling along with Rem and Shera to look for a way to remove their slave collars while helping them with their own, personal issues that led them to summon him in the first place.
So as you can see, the plot is pretty consistent among all of these. Person gets teleported to a new world. Person gets trapped in new world. And in most cases, person falls in love and fights badass monsters in new world.
Out of this list there are a couple that I feel deserve the most attention. Not because all of these aren’t pretty good, but because 2 of them are “different” enough that they deserve the most credit.
“Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?” Is the first. I thoroughly enjoyed this anime. It’s a bit fan servicey, featuring a giant breasted goddess who throws herself at the main character, but aside from that the plot is really cool.
While it does have the MMO element of leveling up and fighting dungeon monsters, there's this whole other side plot of the conspiracy of how the gods are ruling the world. Because of that, it should gain your attention.
KonoSuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World!
This is one of my favorite all time Anime’s. Its light hearted and really fun. It focuses way more on comedy and the bond between the main set of characters. There’s honestly not even a whole ton of “fighting” (though there is some).
The characters are all HILARIOUS and unique in their own way. You’ll learn to love and laugh right along side them all.
This one is definitely worth watching, and many will agree.
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