TV Anime Staff of 'Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online' Announced

Mouloxas said:
Studio 3Hz huh? Well, Princess Principal was awesome and who can forget the Dimension W dance? Add the director of my favorite guilty pleasure Matoi and things are looking quite promising. At the very least this will be fun, if nothing else.

Red_Keys said:
GGO is boring af

Literally the only thing that made SAO potentially interesting was the threat of actual death. Remove that and any drama they try to introduce becomes just a bunch of loser kids painfully overreacting to video games.

Drachen said:
Nice to see Studio 3Hz onto another project. The character design and visual style of the poster is highly reminiscent of Princess Principal.

Hatsuyuki said:
Not A1-Pictures ? Surprising.

Playcool said:


At least Alicization will get more focus from them, and they really need to give all they got with that, otherwise it will leave alot of LN readers disappointed.

Cant wait for that arc to get the airing release date annouced!

Hatsuyuki said:


You can say whatever you want about SAO but the fighting scenes animated by A1-Pictures are well executed.

Ainosense said:
If you're coming into this with the "oh it's kino no tabi author, it'll be good" in mind, or something among those lines, i'd like to give you a little advice:

The novels are extremely boring, period.

This guy takes his 'love for guns' (speaking of which, he talks about it in the author notes at the end of the novel) to the next level. He constantly pauses the narrative to give meaningless notes about random stuff (and guns) that...uh, you know what? Won't have any real impact in the actual story; (yeah, he does it in such a MEH way that it feels wrong to talk about guns in a story about guns) like, someone could compile the whole actual narrative, letting out his constant monologues, and it would probably feel like a decent story, though it's just annoyingly boring the way it is. It was a pain to finish the first 2 volumes and i wanted no more of this. (just in case, he does the same in kino no tabi, but since he's trying to build up something, it feels a little more acceptable).

To sum it up, it feels like Tolkien trying to write SAO, taking half a page to describe something you'll forget in the next 5 seconds.

moodie said:
Sounds exactly why it will be good.

Dara said:
Surprised that A1 pictures isn't doing it this time. Oh well, hopefully it'll be somewhat decent.

Ainosense said:
If you're coming into this with the "oh it's kino no tabi author, it'll be good" in mind, or something among those lines, i'd like to give you a little advice:

The novels are extremely boring, period.

This guy takes his 'love for guns' (speaking of which, he talks about it in the author notes at the end of the novel) to the next level. He constantly pauses the narrative to give meaningless notes about random stuff (and guns) that...uh, you know what? Won't have any real impact in the actual story; (yeah, he does it in such a MEH way that it feels wrong to talk about guns in a story about guns) like, someone could compile the whole actual narrative, letting out his constant monologues, and it would probably feel like a decent story, though it's just annoyingly boring the way it is. It was a pain to finish the first 2 volumes and i wanted no more of this. (just in case, he does the same in kino no tabi, but since he's trying to build up something, it feels a little more acceptable).

To sum it up, it feels like Tolkien trying to write SAO, taking half a page to describe something you'll forget in the next 5 seconds.

Still up to the Anime though, since i'm sure the director/studio will make up for this author's poor writing just like others did to his previous works.

Ainosense said:
If you're coming into this with the "oh it's kino no tabi author, it'll be good" in mind, or something among those lines, i'd like to give you a little advice:

The novels are extremely boring, period.

This guy takes his 'love for guns' (speaking of which, he talks about it in the author notes at the end of the novel) to the next level. He constantly pauses the narrative to give meaningless notes about random stuff (and guns) that...uh, you know what? Won't have any real impact in the actual story; (yeah, he does it in such a MEH way that it feels wrong to talk about guns in a story about guns) like, someone could compile the whole actual narrative, letting out his constant monologues, and it would probably feel like a decent story, though it's just annoyingly boring the way it is. It was a pain to finish the first 2 volumes and i wanted no more of this. (just in case, he does the same in kino no tabi, but since he's trying to build up something, it feels a little more acceptable).

To sum it up, it feels like Tolkien trying to write SAO, taking half a page to describe something you'll forget in the next 5 seconds.

Still up to the Anime though, since i'm sure the director/studio will make up for this author's poor writing just like others did to his previous works.

HMS-Unicorn said:
>not A-1 Pictures
>No Kirito

Yes!!!!!!!!
This is gonna be way better than the original.

Wasshio said:


See this is an issue I had with the novel. It pretty much focuses too much on the narrative and the way its done its pretty missed. It misses the opportunity and in the end it makes the experience somewhat lackluster. That's why after 2-3 chapters of Volume 1 I stopped because despite liking the additions it didn't made me feel too interested to where I would be too invested on it.

I hope the staff can fix some of the issues the LN already had, given that the author has a love for guns but this isn't really what the series is about as a whole... It's even more unneeded info dumping than the original series, and it irritates me. There's a limitation of how knowledgeable you are with something, and there's a limit on how much you should add. If you're going to focus on mainly explaining the basis of guns for a long ass time, that's pretty bad.

Again. LIMITS.

Wasshio said:

I wouldn't exactly blame you. I mean this has potential. And granted it does have stuff that are interesting. The problem of the novel is how much the author throws info in and adding which makes the entire reading experience tedious. It doesn't help much because you're essentially giving a documentary on guns at this point, rather than giving actual context of the actual story which was supposed to be the conflict about a girl with height issues and wanting to fit to what she wants as well.

It doesn't help because the info dumping shallows the rest of the stuff in the source and it doesn't help given that some of the stuff in the gun explanations are irrelevant later on. I wouldn't say all from what I've read, but there's really no point in adding the information to the point where it's beyond an entertainment source, but literally reading a book from literature class. That's how I felt when reading the other chapters that I've read from the series.

I do hope again, the series can fix the issues or skim through the explanations of the guns at least some of them or translate them to visual format so that way the experience when watching it visually doesn't come off as watching a presentation. And I'm saying this because the amount of stuff it has causes the pacing to be slow, not as much compared to the novel but a chore to sit through.

And this is coming from someone who has read the original series and admittedly it has its flaws but it wasn't as apparent compared to the spin-off. At least in the original SAO novels it takes an degree of heavy breather and actually focuses on the story parts. Yes there will be points where information will be placed, but it isn't as random. It felt more natural, and in this it seems like the guy doesn't know what he's actually doing with the spin-off. It doesn't even feel like GGO a lot. It feels like something else.

Hatsuyuki said:


You can say whatever you want about SAO but the fighting scenes animated by A1-Pictures are well executed.