The 2018 Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online spin-off anime is returning with a second season. A teaser visual has been released.
Like the first season, the staff of Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II includes Masayuki Sakoi as director, Yousuke Kuroda as series composer and scriptwriter, and Yoshio Kozakai as character designer, with Studio 3Hz being the animation production company once again. Sakoi and Kozakai were recently director and character designer, respectively, on Studio 3Hz’s spring 2023 original anime The Marginal Service.
Tomori Kusunoki is reprising her role as main heroine LLENN.
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online is based on the light novel series written by Kino’s Journey‘s Keiichi Shigusawa and illustrated by Kouhaku Kuroboshi. The series, which is published under KADOKAWA’s Dengeki Bunko label, began in 2014 and has 13 tankoubon volumes as of March 2023. The light novels have also inspired a manga adaptation illustrated by Tadachi Tamori.
Crunchyroll describes the first season of the Sword Art Online spin-off as:
In the world of guns and steel that is Gun Gale Online, LLENN has been a devoted, female solo player. She is obsessed with two things: donning herself entirely in pink and honing her skills with consistent game play. She soon discovers her love for hunting other players (a.k.a. PK), soon to be known as the “Pink Devil.” Meanwhile, LLENN meets a beautiful yet mysterious player, Pitohui, and the two click right away. Doing as she is told by Pitohui, she enters the Squad Jam group battle.
Source: @ggo_anime
