A rather intuitive saying that seasoned anime fans seem to hurdle often is “SAO was good until it was not”. With Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Season 2 all set for premiere in Japan this year, it felt like an obligation to write a little on what used to be an amazing series, that turned bad, turned good again, and the spin-off that now continues.
Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Season 2 Release Date scheduled for 2024
The second season of Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online anime has been scheduled for broadcast in Japan this year. While we are at it, you may also enjoy this reading: Was the Sword Art Online Anime Adaptation faithful to the Light Novel?
- While the news of Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Season 2 was set into motion long back in July of 2023, it took some time to reveal that the second season will be having a 2024 debut, although the ‘when’ in 2024 is yet to be revealed.
- This still is nigh compared to how much a dedicated SAO Alternative fan had to wait since the first season premiered way back in 2018.
- Also, The original cast of the previous season will be making a return, Tomori Kusunoki as the main lead LLENN falls into this set of returnees.
The official Twitter handles released the following key visual featuring characters Kanzaki Elsa known as Pitohui, Asougi Goushi who is M (or emu), Shinohara Miyu who is Fukaziroh and our finest karen, Kohiruimaki Karen known as LLENN.
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Where to watch the first season
Although the second season is yet to have a confirmed release date and thereby it is not possible to watch it at the moment, one can watch the first season in the following platforms.
Note that given how distributions work in the industry if season 1 is available on one platform, one can be more or less sure the upcoming second season will also premiere there.
Here’s where you can watch Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Season 1:
What is Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online about, again?
For the uninitiated, or the long-lost fan of SAO who no longer has much touch about what is currently going on in the SAO Universe, let us engage you – one might recall Gun Gale Online as being part of the third arc of the original Sword Art Online.
Having uploaded the ‘world seed’ that Kirito was presented with at the end of Aincard the first arc), multiple VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) arose in the SAO universe. Out of them all, GGO (Gun Gale Online) stood at the apex top in the hierarchy.
Where to watch Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online
Explaining the difference between the original SAO and SAO alternative
Now Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, as the name ‘alternative’ suggests, is actually a spin-off series based on this VRMMORPG that the original story introduced. The original Sword Art Online is a light novel first before it is an Anime, conceived and written by Kawahara Reki.
The franchise has so far collected multiple works under its banner, ranging from the obvious Anime and Manga, but also spreading to many well-received (And some not) games. Building upon the original work, author Keiichi Sigsawa continues the legacy of Kawahara Reki as a spin-off series named SAO Alternative.
- To give you a better hindsight, take for example Pluto – which is by the same author as Monster – Naoki Urasawa, and is based on the legendary classic called Astro Boy which is Osamu Tezuka’s genius creation.
Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Season 1, based on the light novel, was released back in 2018. The books however have been in circulation since 2014, and and around 13 tankoubon volumes as of March 2023.