Update on Gun Gale Online

I know this is late for an update since the series ended last July 1, 2018 and well I was just lazy to make an update on this.

But heck here we go.


The Gun Gale Online which is a spin-off of the series Sword Art Online (which i never got to finish but i will be watching it since I am now doing a reaction/review of the spin-off). The series began last April 8, 2018 and ended last July 1, 2018 with 12 episodes for the season run, a bit short but this is typically how long some some anime series go these days and long running anime are quite rare these past years in my book.

So the series centered on the main female character Karen Kohiruimaki who is too conscious of her height, being tall for her age made her shy and too aware of people around her. This made her try to find ways to make her forget or distract her from the issue of her height.

This is where her friend Miyu Shinohara who plays online games introduced her to an online game called Gun Gale Online which was released after the game Sword Art Online was shutdown due to issues of players getting stuck online and dying after they are killed in the game itself.

The game GGO was different and uses a different interface which is supposed to be safer that the Nerve Gear which was used in Sword Art Online game. She later tried the game and ended up creating a character which is the exact opposite of her in the real world. Well that was her reason why she tried playing the game, divert her attention when she gets home and play as someone who is different from her real world self.

She was later known as the Pink Devil or the Pink Munchkin that became popular to other players as a Player Killer.

she later meets with other characters namely Pitohui a girl clad in black shape revealing suit, M a sniper and later her friend Miyu enters the game as Fukaziroh.

The game has no danger of having players getting stuck in the game and not being able to log out or having to die after they die in the game itself.

For the entire run of the 12 episode series and compared to similar genre anime series where the characters play online VR this one made it to my top 5 and the four titles on top of it are all from the //.Hack series which I will review on a later time.

One of the key features I look for in an anime series or movie is the growth of the characters specially the main characters and their supposed partners if they have one. In this series Karen/Lenn slowly grew out of her shell and slowly interacted with other characters even though they are the human characters of the other avatars in the GGO world. She learned to come out in the open and face the "Real World" with hew new found friends and overcome her fear or her being self conscious of her height and embrace what she has.  This was shown from episode one up to the end of the series and this is one of the series which I wish they made a bit longer or give it a special OVA if not a season 2 which I doubt they will make a season 2 for some reason.

Back to the series, GGO Gun Gale Online yup I will recommend this series to anyone who will be asking me what I can recommend to watch even if they don't give a specific genre they want.

Well that's my update review for GGO series a 12 episode anime series which is for mature teens due to the violence and languages used in this series run. So on to the next review.

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