Accel World

Haruyuki Arita is an overweight, bullied middle schooler who finds solace in playing online games. But his life takes a drastic turn one day, when he finds that all his high scores have been topped by Kuroyukihime, the popular vice president of the student council. She then invites him to the student lounge and introduces him to "Brain Burst," a program which allows the users to accelerate their brain waves to the point where time seems to stop. Brain Burst also functions as an augmented reality fighting game, and in order to get more points to accelerate, users must win duels against other players. However, if a user loses all their points, they will also lose access to Brain Burst forever.

Kuroyukihime explains that she chose to show Haruyuki the program because she needs his help. She wants to meet the creator of Brain Burst and uncover the reason of why it was created, but that's easier said than done; to do so, she must defeat the "Six Kings of Pure Color," powerful faction leaders within the game, and reach level 10, the highest level attainable. After the girl helps Haruyuki overcome the bullies that torment him, he vows to help her realize her goal, and so begins the duo's fight to reach the top.

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Kuroyukihime Main

Misawa, Sachika Japanese

Arita, Haruyuki Main

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Kurashima, Chiyuri Main

Toyosaki, Aki Japanese

Mayuzumi, Takumu Main

Asanuma, Shintaro Japanese

Kouzuki, Yuniko Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Kurasaki, Fuuko Supporting

Endou, Aya Japanese

Ash Roller Supporting

Suzumura, Kenichi Japanese

Yellow Radio Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Kakei, Mihaya Supporting

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Noumi, Seiji Supporting

Kobayashi, Sanae Japanese

Nakayama, Nobuhiro Producer

Miki, Kazuma Producer

Oosawa, Nobuhiro Producer

Hirayama, Tadashi Producer

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Jul 2, 2024

CBMiura

Recommended

Accel World have the dynamics between virtual and real world. While in the real world we see our protagonist being completely useless, in the virtual world we see our protagonist being super cool even if the avatar is kinda lame.

We're able to see the journey of Haruyuki developing to become a "normal" human being. In both worlds the interactions between the characters are important to develop our main protagonist.

The animation it's good, the story itself brings nothing new. But above all it's a good show to watch.

The characters in my opinion aren't fully developed, but I don't think it would've matter if they were more ... developed. The story would keep the same.

In short, Accel World have a good animation with "ok" characters and a common story with regular pace, not too fast, not too slow, but not on point. Still, enjoyable.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 6, 2024

zaharded

Mixed Feelings

Failed remake of sword art online. The character is lousy, uninteresting and generally a coward - the opposite of what you would expect in fiction such as this.

My main problem is the main character, the art style and animation here is subjective as it’s neither bad nor amazing but you might like it, just isn’t for me.

This story remains predictable from the beginning to end and some characters are unintentionally over exaggerated.

Also at some points it seemed like the characters weren’t real in the way they reacted to this new reality

Overall I’ve got mixed feelings on this one, not as horrible as some other adaptations ... but the problem here is mainly with the source material, there are way better alternatives

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 18, 2025

zancoru

Not Recommended

Dialog is obnoxious, annoying, especially the last villain of season 1, calling everyone sempai with that irritatingly squeaky voice just didn't make him intimidating at all to me. MC's falling head over heels for the main girl feels like the only reason why his even doing the fights, if she quit he would probably definitely follow her which is just a bore of a motivation for me. The rest of the cast is more normal, but lacks in interest, same as MC, the more fleshed out characters seem to be every other side character, like the girl in the wheelchair and even the bike guy ... has more depth than the MC, and the amount of times he wants to quit just because he doesn't believe in himself is insane, again bringing back the feeling that his just a downer from beginning to end and lack any or slight amount of protagonist material in his personality.

The animation and little bit of the plot are the only take away from this one, sorry the characters are just so badly done and ruined it for me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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