“Sword Masters Online” is a true classic of Japanese anime, the action in which takes place in the virtual world of the game, which can be exited only after passing all 100 levels, or dying. However, the death of a game character leads to the death of a player in real life.
Especially for fans of CAO (came from the original name Sword Art Online), we have assembled animes similar to "Sword Art Online" in the story. If you want to see something like this, there is plenty to choose from!
10. Lord | 2015-2018
The popular game "Yggdrasil" closes. For a player with the nickname Momonga, this was a real tragedy. Wanting to spend the last minutes of his life with his hero, he remains in the game until the servers are disconnected. Gathering like-minded people around him, Momonga, being one of the leaders of the local gangsters, perched on the throne and began to wait for the end together with his minions. However, at the announced time, the server did not shut down, and all gamers were imprisoned in virtual reality. Now Momong and his brothers, in misfortune, will have to get out on their own into the real world, making their way home with fire and a sword.
9. East Eden | 2009- ...
Saki Morimi, on an excursion in Washington, stumbles upon a strange naked guy with a gun in one hand, with a cell phone in the other. This is Akira Takizawa, and he does not remember anything about himself. During the mini-investigation, it turns out that the guy is not such a simpleton, as Saki first seemed. A serious mission to save Japan was entrusted to his shoulders. In this he will be helped by 8.2 billion yen on the account of the mobile and a mysterious Juice, who is ready to fulfill Akira’s desire on call. It also turns out that 12 such people roam around Akir. And only one of them will save the country and will meet with the organizer of the whole action - Mr. Outside. Complicating the situation is the elusive spy, who removes gapeous participants from the game.
8. Death Note | 2006-2007
It’s boring today for the gods of death. One of them decides to leave the death note on Earth - a terrible murder machine. The one whose name falls on the fields of the notebook will die. Yagami Light discovers her near the school, quickly understands what's what and decides to start punishing criminals under the name of Kira. For the time being, everything gets away with him, until the best detective of the world, whom everyone knows as L. And the closer L gets to Kira, the more innocent people begin to die, because Kira will do anything to avoid punishment. The fire god Ryuk and dad Yagami, who works in the police force, will throw firewood into the fire.
7. Diary of the future | 2011-2013
The powerful god of time and space, Deus is too old and is going to rest. But before that, he needs to find a successor, otherwise the whole world will collapse. The casting in the form of a deadly game includes 12 participants, each of which has a diary. If you record an event in the diary, then all similar events that will happen to the hero in the future will be recorded here. So players can find out their future, avoiding many traps and dangers on the way to the final. If the diary suffers, then its owner expects death. The main characters - the girl Yukiteru and the boyfriend Yuno in love with her - decide to join forces and reach the finals together.
6. The explosion! | 2012
Ryuta Sakamoto recently turned 22 years old, and everything in her life went awry: friends turned away, there was no money, work too, and her mother sawed daily. The girl’s only joy is the virtual world of the game, where she holds the leading position in the final rating. She is a champion in the game, but not in life, so Ryute runs around the island all day and kills unlucky gamers. One morning, everything turns upside down. The girl wakes up not in her bed, but on an island lost in the ocean. The virtual game world has materialized, and now she will have to show all her skills, otherwise she will be killed. Let the cruel and bloody massacre in the style of "royal battle" begin!
5. No game - no life | 2014
Ciro and Soro, brother and sister, avid gamers. Their playing tandem rattles the whole world, because they are a real team. Soro has brilliant intuition, and Shiro has intelligence. All this allows them to tear apart game arenas without much difficulty. In the real world, they are typical representatives of the NEET generation. Once, having defeated a mysterious opponent, they receive an offer from him to be reborn in a virtual world where everything will be solved with the help of games alone. Inveterate gamers could not refuse such an offer and were transferred to Disboard. It is home to the weak race of Imanichi. Her brother and sister will have to lift her from her knees. They decide to challenge the local god Tetu and obtain divine status on their own.
4. Accelerated world | 2012
Meet Haruyuki Arite! 14-year-old underweight puff with low self-esteem. His only joy is a virtual squash game in which he, by the way, is the world champion. His gaming abilities interested Kuroyukihime, because she dreams of reaching level 10 in the game "Accelerated World". And who else but the world champion in a virtual game, albeit in squash, is able to help her in this! But there is one point ... Kuroyukihime is a legendary player under the nickname Black Queen. She managed to fight the Red King on the approach to the unattainable 10th level, but now she is forced to hide and re-pass the Accelerated World.
3. When cicadas cry | 2006
Maebara Keiichi moves with his parents to the quiet, at first glance, the village of Hinamizawa. At first everything goes like clockwork: he is transferred to a new school and gets acquainted with the girls, of whom there are many. On the eve of the June festival of Watanagashi in honor of the local god, the guy learns that for 4 years in a row, during the festive festival, the mysterious killer, who can not be found in any way, goes hunting. This time a nurse and a photographer became his victims. The population of the village is agitated and believes that the curse of the local deity lies on them. Maebara has to figure out all these mysterious events and find out why people die.
2. I’ll go to the dungeon, I’ll find a beauty there | 2015
The gods descended to earth in search of fresh sensations and adventures. Having fundamentally changed their image so that no one would recognize them in the crowd, and leaving with them a minimal divine set (power, immortality and prediction), they set off on a journey. Having decided to settle in the city of Orario, where something is constantly happening, the gods enter the local Guild and create history. They certainly will not be bored, because the life of everyone who joined the Guild now belongs to the gods. Behind-the-scenes intrigues, battles of various scales, the economy of the city - all this fell on the shoulders of previously bored gods. Each of them decides to start his own game and get out of all adversity as a winner.
1. The Chronicles of the Horizon | 2013-2015
30,000 gamers were literally captured by their favorite virtual game. What used to be played cheerfully and naturally, has now become a real struggle for survival. Dying here, the player dies in real life. The Shiroe guy considered himself a good gamer until he met the real mastodons of the game. It is unrealistic to complete the game alone, so Shiroe teams up with his friend Naotsugu and the killer with the oddities of Akatsuki. This trio has to go through a series of deadly traps and dangers, survive, if possible, hundreds of battles and, in the end, find out which of them should become the winner in the final.