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Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tomori Kusunoki
Llenn / Kohiruimaki Karen (voice)
24 eps
Yoko Hikasa
Pitohui / Elsa Kanzaki / Rei Sato (voice)
24 eps
Kazuyuki Okitsu
M / Asougi Goushi (voice)
24 eps
Chinatsu Akasaki
Fukaziroh / Shinohara Miyu (voice)
24 eps
Unsho Ishizuka
Narrator (voice)
1 eps
Yuhko Kaida
Instructor (voice)
1 eps
Narumi Beppu
Operator (voice)
1 eps
Ryo Sugisaki
Player (voice)
1 eps
Hinata Tadokoro
Player (voice)
1 eps
Yoshihito Sasaki
Player (voice)
1 eps
Tsuguo Mogami
Avatar Buyer (voice)
1 eps
Ryuichi Kijima
Peter (voice)
8 eps
Shinya Hamazoe
Tomtom (voice)
10 eps
Ikuji Nose
Borno (voice)
3 eps
Yasuaki Takumi
Max (voice)
8 eps
Yuya Murakami
Dominic (voice)
2 eps
Mikako Komatsu
Clarence (voice)
4 eps
Shuichi Nishitani
Clint (voice)
4 eps
Kenji Nomura
Player (voice)
1 eps
Kenji Hamada
Player (voice)
2 eps
Kazumasa Nakamura
Player (voice)
2 eps
Itaru Yamamoto
Summon (voice)
4 eps
Marika Kouno
Shirley (voice)
5 eps
Hiroki Maeda
Alphon (voice)
3 eps
Tadanori Date
KKHC (voice)
2 eps
Masashi Nogawa
KKHC (voice)
3 eps
Daichi Hayashi
Player (voice)
12 eps
Junichi Yanagita
Player (voice)
10 eps
Kouichi Souma
KKHC (voice)
6 eps
Shinji Kawada
Shinohara (voice)
10 eps
Atsushi Imaruoka
Huey (voice)
10 eps
Junji Majima
David (voice)
14 eps
Taishi Murata
Jake (voice)
10 eps
Ryokan Koyanagi
Bold (voice)
9 eps
Hiromichi Tezuka
Player (voice)
12 eps
Masaaki Mizunaka
Lux (voice)
10 eps
Aoi Ichikawa
Kenta (voice)
9 eps
Akinori Egoshi
Player (voice)
11 eps
Ryunosuke Watanuki
Player (voice)
11 eps
Makoto Kaneko
Player (voice)
13 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
College student Karen takes up Gun Gale Online and gets a reputation as the Pink Demon. Then her gaming buddy Pitohui asks her to join the Squad Jam.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 24 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20182 episodes
Best episode · S00E01 Refrain
Season 1 · Complete
Gun Gale Online
201812 episodes
7.7IMDbIn the world of guns and steel that is Gun Gale Online, LLENN has been a devoted, female solo player. She is obsessed with two things: donning herself entirely in pink and honing her skills with consistent game play. She soon discovers her love for hunting other players (a.k.a. PK), soon to be known as the “Pink Devil.” Meanwhile, LLENN meets a beautiful yet mysterious player, Pitohui, and the two click right away. Doing as she is told by Pitohui, she enters the Squad Jam group battle.
Best episode · S01E12 Applause
Season 2 · Complete
Gun Gale Online II
202412 episodes
7.1IMDbLlenn, Pitohui, Fuka and M form team LPHM and participate in the 3rd Squad Jam. It's again a Battle Royal style play but with a twist. All the while, Llenn keeps asking herself why she continues to play a game that is essentially about killing other people.
Best episode · S02E01 What Happens Twice Will Happen Thrice
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E12
Applause
At last, it’s the finale of the Second Squad Jam. LLENN and Pitohui’s one-on-one combat has begun. How will their fight end? Who will win the Second Squad Jam? And will LLENN be able to save Pitohui’s life?
S01E11
Psycho LLENN
The climax of the second Squad Jam begins. With the defeated rival team members and the audience watching, the confrontation between Llenn, Pitohui and M starts.
S01E01
Squad Jam
Squad Jam is a battle royale that pits teams against each other. LLENN, a female player clad in pink, has teamed up with M, a burly man and talented sniper. At the beginning of the tournament, LLENN scouts ahead, but then an enemy team closes in…
S01E09
Ten-Minute Massacre
The teams that have come together to defeat Pitohui’s team, PM4, begin their attack. Meanwhile, LLENN and Fukaziroh head to PM4’s current position. They take the shortest route through the dome before them, but realize there are three enemy teams inside.
S01E02
GGO
Karen Kohiruimaki’s college life in Tokyo hasn’t been as she had hoped, due to her insecurity about her height. She comes across Gun Gale Online and, as LLENN, she becomes known as a “player killer.” But then, another female player aims a gun at her…
S01E10
The Devil's Comeback
LLENN receives some unexpected help during her battle in the dome that results in a change of tactics as she continues towards team PM4. M is surprised to see team SHINC approaching, and Pitohui learns that her ruthlessness can have consequences.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S02E12
The Reason to Fight
- Directed by Yusuke Murata, Masayuki Sakoi
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
S02E11
Pitohui's Attack
- Directed by Aya Mikami, Shigehisa Iida
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
S02E10
The Devil's Castle
- Directed by Kazuho Kunimoto
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
S02E09
An Invite to the Battlefield
- Directed by Ryosuke Azuma
- Written by Yosuke Kuroda
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Satoshi GunjiExecutive Producer
- Ryutaro KawakamiProducer
- Kaoru AdachiProducer
- Atsuhiro IwakamiExecutive Producer
- Kenta SuzukiProducer
- Kazunori GokaExecutive Producer
Writing
- Yosuke KurodaWriter
Direction
- Tomonori MineDirector
- Aya MikamiDirector
- Shigehisa IidaDirector
- Masayuki IimuraDirector
- Hidemi YamashitaDirector
- Kazuho KunimotoDirector
Cinematography
- Mutsuki AokiDirector of Photography
- Kazumasa SomeyaDirector of Photography
Music
- Yusuke SeoOriginal Music Composer
- Daisuke ShinodaOriginal Music Composer
- DAITAOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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