Definitely not plucked out of a trash bucket of Google search-optimized otaku terms, Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online follows college student Karen Kohiruimaki’s foray into a virtual world created in the aftermath of the original (and fatal) Sword Art Online MMORPG.
Here we are, in 2018, with a new Sword Art Online anime series, this time about a woman playing as a loli avatar in a VR battle royale game.
Gun Gale Online, the game within the anime, is the VR PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds of the future, in which the last team of gunmen standing wins.
Still, seven episodes in, Gun Gale Online has treated its female characters decidedly better than the anime’s earliest iteration.