The mixture of anime and video games will make our day! Let’s review five anime about video games in Arium.
New Game
The story of this anime has gone beyond stereotypes, and instead of being about a group of heroes in the game world, it is about the development of video games. So, if you want to know the world of making video games and its ups and downs, this anime is for you!
The story’s main character is a girl named Aoba Suzukaze, who has been fascinated by the fantasy story of a game called “Fairies Story.” As soon as she finishes high school, instead of going to university like her classmates, she directly enters the job market. Her job? Designing Gaming characters. She sends her job application to the “Eagle Jump” studio, the same studio that made the game “Fairies Story,” and gets the job! But it is just the start. Even though she is very excited about her dream job, the path is not easy for her, and she faces many challenges.
Aoba also meets some strange colleagues that she has to deal with. One of them is the famous and legendary designer and source of her inspiration, Ko Yagami. Interestingly, all these developments happen when the design team works on the third game in the “Fairies Stories” series. Meanwhile, Aoba is trying to become a successful character designer in the highly competitive gaming design industry. This anime looks at the gaming industry from the perspective of video game publishers.
Log Horizon
The story of Log Horizon revolves around a student boy named Shiroe who suddenly finds himself in the role of the leader of thousands of other players in the popular video game “Elder Tale.” Shiroue and the other players are trapped in this seemingly irreversible game and must learn how to survive the world of this game.
Although there is no clear way out of this game, players try their best to build a functional society in this strange new world to find a way out and back to the real world. The only point is that their death in the game does not affect them in real life.
Finally, in Log Horizon, we see that the characters have accepted the new world of the game as reality, and instead of looking for a way to save and return home, they have focused on how to live their new life in this world.
Sword Art Online
Sword Art Online is an anime adaptation of a manga that was made in 2012. The first series of this anime gained many fans as soon as it was released. The game in the anime completely immerses the players, and they must use NerveGear headsets to enter the game world. However, the creator of the game, Akihiko Kayaba, traps the players in the game, and the only way to escape from this game is to destroy the hundred steps of the game tower. If the player dies in the game, the NerveGear burns his brain and kills him in the real world.
Summer Wars
Summer Wars is a science fiction, action, adventure, and comedy anime. The story is about a mathematical genius named Kenji and a girl named Natsuki. Summer Wars raises the concern about hackers when Kenji, the moderator of the sizeable virtual reality world “Oz,” has his account hacked. Kenji and Natsuki work together to stop the evil AI behind this security breach, as millions of lives are at stake. Kenji and his teammates are under much pressure to face this mysterious online hacker and save both the real and virtual worlds from destruction.
. Hack//Sign
. Hack//Sign is an adventure and fantasy anime. The story revolves around the main character, a young man named “Tsukasa,” who wakes up, finds himself in a multiplayer online role-playing game, and does not know how to get out of this world. Worse, Tsukasa can neither logout nor reset his computer; he is stuck in this mysterious unknown world and has become a part of it.
Even though Tsukasa is in the game, he has both a sense of smell and can feel pain. As a result of his pain, Tsukasa rarely fights anyone and avoids combat. Other players want to help him figure out what’s going on. But he has no choice but to hide when he realises why he can’t quit. It takes some time for him to trust the other players and be convinced to befriend the characters.
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