The Best 5 Anime about Games

Anime and games are two elements of pop culture that are very well known and liked by many people. The two of them often collaborate and create fantastic stories that succeed in stealing the attention of the audience.

Anime with a game theme gives us an idea of the game world which is full of adventure, challenges and exciting stories that can keep us hooked and carried away.

Of the many anime with game themes that have been released, here are some of the best and most exciting anime about games that have managed to steal the attention of anime fans all over the world. Enjoy reading and exploring the world of gaming through an anime lens!

Sword Art Online

One of the most popular anime about games is Sword Art Online or often abbreviated as SAO. SAO is the name of an online game, where players have to enter the game to be able to enjoy the game. Apart from that, in this online game every player can feel everything that exists in the real world, such as pain, pleasure, and others.

To be able to enter and play SAO, players are required to wear a special helmet, NerveGear. Because of the uniqueness offered by SAO, many players flock to try it out and enter its world.

However, on the first day of the game's launch, a terrible incident occurred. Kayaba Akihiko, the game's creator, announced that players cannot log out of the game in any way.

All players are trapped in the world of SAO, and their bodies in the real world are completely immobile, i.e. in a coma. Worse yet, if their character in the game dies, their real body in the real world will also die.

Overlord

This story begins with the founding of a game called YGGDRASIL. YGGDRASIL is a DMMO-RPG (Dive Massively Multiplayer Online RPG) game that has been around for 2 years. However, in the end, the game decided to close. After that, all game players logged out.

However, there was one player who was reluctant to log out and chose to stay until the last second the game was completely closed, this player was known as a character named Momonga. After waiting and preparing to be logged out automatically, strangely enough, Momonga still appears as a character in the game.

Feeling uncomfortable with this incident, Momonga checked the situation. However, what surprised Momonga was that all the NPCs (Non-Player Characters) in the YGGDRASIL game world actually lived like humans. Not only that, the items and items in the YGGDRASIL game were very different from the items he knew in that game.

Horizon Logs

Log Horizon begins with an unexpected incident where around 30,000 people in Japan mysteriously disappear and are trapped in a game world called Elder Tale. One of them is Shiroe, the main character who is caught in this confusing situation.

Shiroe then decided to go on an adventure to find the reason they were trapped in the Elder Tale. In this adventure, Shiroe was accompanied by his good friend, Naotsugu. Their initial goal was only to gather information, but as time went by, Shiroe realized that they couldn't seem to get out of Elder Tale.

Ultimately, Shiroe chose to adapt to the circumstances, and this involved forming a group within Elder Tale. Over time, without realizing it, he had become the leader of the group (guild) now known as Log Horizon.

No Game No Life

The concept of Isekai and games has become a popular one in the world of anime. Like No Game No Life, they bring an Isekai story with a challenging game background.

The story begins with two brothers, Sora and Shiro. Both of them are very good at playing various kinds of online games, and they have even gained high popularity thanks to their talent in playing games. However, for them, popularity is meaningless, because they see the world as just a game.

After the two of them had finished various games, suddenly they got an email with a challenge to play a chess game which was said to be very difficult to complete. However, surprisingly, both of them managed to finish the chess game.

Thanks to this, Sora and Shiro were taken to another world, namely Disboard. They are asked to play all the games from the gods on Disboard. If they lose then their lives are at stake. However, if they succeed then Sora and Shiro will have the right to become the new Gods on Disboard.

Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte

This anime is quite unique because it is set in an otome genre game. A little information, otome games are dating simulation games which usually have beautiful and handsome characters. Therefore, it is not surprising that quite a lot of people play games in this genre.

The focus of the story is on two high school students, Kobayashi and Endou. They both actively play otome games and can mysteriously hear and talk to all the characters in the game. As a result of this ability, they are respected as gods by the characters in the game.

In their roles as 'gods', Kobayashi and Endou have a mission to help a character named Lieselotte Riefenstahl. She is described as a tsundere girl who has difficulty expressing her feelings. Unfortunately, he is considered a villain in this game.

In order to clear up misunderstandings about Lieselotte's character, Kobayashi and Endou gave a 'whisper' to Prince Siegwald, that Lieselotte is a good woman who has her own way of expressing her emotions.

Thanks to whispers from the 'god', prince Siegwald begins to open up to his fiancee, Lieselotte. However, uniting the two of them is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand. Kobayashi and Endou must continue to monitor the development of their relationship, without caring about the actual storyline. Can their mission succeed?