List of Sword Art Online characters

Logging into Alfheim Online to rescue her, where he meets a player name Leafa, who is unknowingly, is his younger sister Suguha; who agrees to guide him to the head toward to the top of the giant World Tree, in order to get to Asuna.

Once he did so, he rushed over to Shino Asada's (Sinon's real life identity) house and saves her from the Death Gun killer on the reality side, Kyoji Shinkawa.

After the Dark Territory had begun their plans to attack the Human World, Alice is forced to go back to the front lines and took Kirito with her, leaving him in the care of Tiese and Ronye, who are both devastated to hear of Eugeo's death.

Leafa, Lisbeth and Silica also feature as protagonists in the spin-off manga series Sword Art Online: Girls' Ops, where they form a team with Kirito away on a study program and Asuna tied up in family affairs.

[6] Noting that the focus shifts away from Asuna towards Leafa in the Fairy Dance arc, Anime News Network's Theron Martin wrote in a review that "Suguha's unrequited love seems more like a play meant to pander to 'Big Brother Complex' fans, though she does get some nice emotional development out of it and some very good scenes later on when the matter of her attempt to replace her misplaced love for Kazuto Kirigaya with Leafa's attraction to Kirito (who is also unknowingly her brother) blows up".

[7] Reviewing the spin-off manga Sword Art Online: Girls Ops, Martin praised it for Leafa's prominence in the storyline, and "while Suguha was a veritable co-lead for one story arc, she has now been relegated to that role in the franchise, too".

[9] Silverman, in a review of episode 15 – 25 in the Sword Art Online anime, went on to say that "Leafa shows more emotional strength as a heroine than Asuna ever did", and she "also stand[s] out as one of the more interesting, developed characters", due to not being overly reliant on Kirito.

In Agil's café, Shino meets Asuna, Rika, and Sachie Osawa, a woman who had survived the post office incident, who convinces her that she had saved her and her daughter's life.

Sword Art Online girls (including Yuuki) feature in a merchandise lottery by Bandai, where they are depicted in french maid clothing with cooking utensils, with Anime News Network humorously noting that they have "brought in a pretty penny for the franchise's creators.

Following his defeat, he commits suicide by running a high output scan on his brain, but downloads his own consciousness into the server and leaves behind a program that gives Kirito the World Seed, which revitalizes the VRMMORPG industry.

As a result, due to the Underworld's time accelerating, Vassago's body in the real world aged rapidly and mysteriously disappeared as Critter and the rest of their group were collecting their dead comrades before escaping.

[2] However, Rebecca Silverman (also of Anime News Network) disagreed, writing "Sugou actually feels the least over-the-top as he plots how to use the VR technology for his own ends [when compared to the other characters]", and praised him as "nicely evil".

He and his brother, a former member of the red SAO guild Laughing Coffin, used the Death Gun account to commit murder: Kyōji normally posing as Sterben and using a «Metamaterial Optical Camouflage Mantle» to spy on other players inputting their real life details so his brother can make his way to the house of a potential victim to inject the person with succinylcholine, a drug capable of stopping the heart, at the exact moment the victim's player is shot.

The King of the Frost Giants and final boss of the Calibur side story, Thrym is an artificial intelligence that ALO's Cardinal System created from the actual Norse myth.

Thrym then uses his forces, and players he recruits on a false quest, to slaughter the native beasts to cripple the power of Urðr and her sisters so he can reach the surface of Alfheim and obtain the golden apple growing on top of the World Tree.

But as Kirito and his party realize upon taking Urðr's quest to stop him, Thrym's actions would cause a chain of events that would result in the Ragnarok scenario and ultimately reset ALO.

Yanai is a Rath technicians who was previously worked for Sugou during the Alfheim arc via a slug-like avatar, selling out his co-worker to avoid criminal charges and becoming a spy for the Americans within the Ocean Turtle.

Following Quinella's death while aiding Gabriel's group, Yanai holds Higa at gunpoint and reveals his act of sabotaging UW and intention of keeping Kirito from being revived.

Gabriel Miller is the primary antagonist of the second half of the Alicization Arc, the chief tactical officer of «Glowgen Defense Systems» and the son of the company's founding president.

He developed a morbid interest in the human soul as a child when he murdered his friend Alicia Klingerman, spurring him to utilize FullDive technology and became a legend in GGO as Subtilizer due his skills of predicting his opponents' moves and ambush them for a quick kill.

[36] In an interview with Sword Art Online author Reki Kawahara, he noted that Agil and Klein are both "very popular", and he wanted to write short stories centred around their characters.

In an interview with Sword Art Online author Reki Kawahara, he noted that Agil and Klein are both "very popular", and he wanted to write short stories centred around their characters.

Sword Art Online girls (including Silica) feature in a merchandise lottery by Bandai, where they are depicted in french maid clothing with cooking utensils, with Anime News Network (ANN) humorously noting that they have "brought in a pretty penny for the franchise's creators.

Sword Art Online girls (including Lisbeth) feature in a merchandise lottery by Bandai, where they are depicted in french maid clothing with cooking utensils, with Anime News Network humorously noting that they have "brought in a pretty penny for the franchise's creators.

The next day, along with Sylph reinforcements, she and her squadron of Cait Sith riders, on tamed dragons, aided Kirito's ascension of the World Tree after using the collected funds to purchase armor of at least Ancient grade for all of her warriors.

It is revealed that Kikouka is actually a Lieutenant Colonel of JSDF and also the head of Rath, a company under the Ministry of Defense, that is trying to develop AI suitable for replacing humans on a battle-field.

She's a sadist at heart, but more playful in real life as GGO lets her vent; having blackmailed M into working for her night and day years ago when he stalked her (though he enjoys her abuse and saved her from an actual dangerous stalker).

Goshi, however enjoyed doing so and lost weight, eventually joining Gun Gale Online alongside her as M, an avatar of a husky male dressed in a green combat battledress.

But the program took advantage to Quinella's attempt overwrite her memories on a preteen nun named Lyserith to attack the Administrator, only to be forced to confine herself in the Great Library which she sealed off from the rest of Underworld.

He was the childhood friend of Yuuna Shigemura, and was one of the 10,000 players who were trapped in Sword Art Online, where he suffered from a FullDive Non-Conformity condition that impeded his movement whenever he feared for his life.