Sword Art Online

[🇯🇵] ソードアート・オンライン

Synopsis:

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...
(Source: Crunchyroll)

Main Characters:

Kazuto Kirigaya

🇯🇵 桐ヶ谷和人

Character ID: 36765

About Character and Role:

Birthday: October 7
Age: 17
Height: 172 cm
Weight: 59 kg
Weapon(s) of choice: Anneal Blade (1st Level), Queen's Knightblade (9th Level), Elucidator (50th level) and Dark Repulser (forged by Lisbeth)

Kirito is the main protagonist of the series. He is a "solo" player, a player who hasn't joined a guild and usually works alone. He is also one of the very few people to have had the privilege to play in the beta testing period of Sword Art Online. His game alias, Kirito, is created by taking the syllables of the first and last Kanji of his real last and first names respectively: (Kirigaya Kazuto).

In the real world, he lives with his mother and younger sister in a family of 3. When Kayaba announced the start of the death game, he is surprised, but unlike everyone else he quickly gets over it and accepts it to an extent. He invited his friend Klein to go with him but Klein had to find his friends in the game. He was invited to join them but he declined as he couldn't take the pressure of protecting them even with his beta testing knowledge of the game. He was the first one to be called a Beater, a combination of beta testing and cheater, as he had great knowledge of the game through the beta test period and showing great skills in floor clearing but chose not to help other players. He had it imposed on himself so as to differentiate the beta testers who were just picked in the testing and the serious gamers who uses the knowledge efficiently like a cheat.

Kirito tends to use a single handed straight sword. The blade that he uses most often would is the Elucidator. Later on he acquires a second blade called Dark Repulser that was made by his blacksmith friend, Lisbeth. He has a unique skill called "Dual Blades" which allows him to dual wield two swords and use Swords Skills. It's the special skill designed for the Hero that defeats the Demon Lord at the last floor. He found it in his skills list after a year in the game. After nearly mastering it, he only uses it in emergencies to avoid attention for being one of the few people to have a unique skill. In episode 2 he befriends a girl by the name of Yuuki Asuna who later becomes his love interest.

Asuna Yuuki

🇯🇵 結城明日奈

Character ID: 36828

About Character and Role:

Age: 18
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 55 kg
Three Sizes: 82-60-83
Weapons of choice: Wind Fleuret (1st Floor), Lambent Light (Forged by Lisbeth), Radiant Light (As Stacia)
Birthday: September 30

Asuna is a friend of Kirito and is a sub-leader of the guild Knights of the Blood (KoB), a medium-sized guild of about thirty players, also called the strongest guild in Aincrad. Being one of the few girls that are in SAO, and even more so that she's extremely pretty, she receives many invitations and proposals. She is a skilled player earning the title "Lightning Flash" for her extraordinary sword skill that is lightning fast. Her game alias is the same as her real world name. She is married to Kirito in SAO. They decided to have a peaceful life and decided to buy a house on the lower part of Aincrad and take a break from the guild Knights of the Blood. But later they need to return to the front lines and have to abandon their peaceful life. After the SAO incident, all the players that survived should have awoken, but Asuna is still trapped within her NerveGear. She is actually abducted by her betrothed, Sugou Naboyuki, who transfers her to ALO (Alfheim Online). In ALO, She is known as Queen Titania, yet she is only a character who is trapped within a cage that is programmed to be an unbreakable object.
She entered the UnderWorld under the godly account named as "Stacia, The Goddess of Creation".

Suguha Kirigaya

🇯🇵 桐ヶ谷直葉

Character ID: 36831

About Character and Role:

Kazuto's sister in the real world. She is 15 years old and in her third year of junior high, as well as a member of the Kendo club. She's a diligent worker and has been practicing Kendo for 8 years. In the VRMMO game Alfheim Online, she is known as Leefa, a Sylph fairy. She stumbled onto Kirito by accident one night and decided to travel with him to the World Tree. She eventually fell in love with him because he showed that he really loves playing VR games as if living in it and is very honest in everything. In the real world she slowly got closer to her brother (actually a cousin) but because they're family and because he already got Asuna as a girlfriend she decided to give up on him and fall in love with Kirito instead. But soon afterwards she realized that they're the same person. After being convinced by Kirito to have a fierce duel which ended up in them flying in each others' arms, she decided to help Kirito in rescuing Asuna.