2048, Doug Quaid rêve chaque nuit qu’il est sur la planète Mars à la recherche de la belle Melina. Sa femme, Lori, s’efforce de dissiper ce fantasme. Doug va bientôt s’apercevoir que son rêve était artificiel et que sa femme est une espionne chargée de veiller à son reconditionnement mental. Il se souvient d’un séjour réel sur Mars, à l’époque où il était l’agent le plus redouté du cruel Coohagen. Il décide de s’envoler sur Mars à la recherche de son énigmatique passé.
« Vous êtes peut-être dans un jeu, mais vous n'êtes pas là pour jouer. » Un mois a passé depuis que Sword Art Online, le tout premier MMORPG en réalité virtuelle, a été coupé du monde. Pour dix mille joueurs, toute mort en jeu entraîne inévitablement un décès dans le monde réel. Après avoir terminé le premier palier, Asuna et Kirito continuent l'aventure ensemble, un seul objectif en ligne de mire : vaincre le boss du dernier palier et en finir avec ce jeu macabre. La conquête du château progresse tranquillement grâce à l'aide précieuse d'Argo, une indic, mais un nouveau péril menace les joueurs.
Naomi Katagaki est un lycéen du secondaire qui, un beau jour, fait la rencontre de son « lui du futur », de dix ans son aîné. Ensemble, ils vont s'atteler à sauver la vie de Ruri, une camarade de classe à laquelle le jeune Naomi commence tout juste à s'attacher…
« Ce jeu est impossible à terminer. La seule chose qui nous différencie, c’est le lieu et la façon dont nous mourrons. » Un mois s’est écoulé depuis que le jeu de la mort Sword Art Online a ouvert ses portes et emprisonné dix mille âmes. Kirito, un joueur solo qui s’est juré de ne se fier qu'à lui-même pour progresser, va faire la rencontre d’une figure rare sur les lignes de front : une joueuse. Cette fille qui enchaînait les combats contre de redoutables monstres à la seule force de sa rapière, avait tout d’une étoile filante transperçant le ciel nocturne.
Après un terrible et mystérieux accident, un jeune architecte talentueux se retrouve entre la vie et la mort dans un monde étrange basé sur la mémoire des personnes plongées dans un profond coma. Dans cet espace où l'Empire State Building côtoie Big Ben, rivières, glaciers et villes semblent tenir dans une seule pièce une forme de souvenir du monde réel, déformé et tordu par une perception subjective, inconstante et fragmentaire. Le jeune homme va devoir se battre contre de nouvelles lois de la physique pour survivre, rencontrer l'amour de sa vie, espérer trouver une sortie, et se réveiller.
Dans la vie réelle, Suzu est une adolescente complexée, coincée dans sa petite ville de montagne avec son père. Mais dans le monde virtuel de U, Suzu devient Belle, une icône musicale suivie par plus de 5 milliards de followers. Une double vie difficile pour la timide Suzu, qui va prendre une envolée inattendue lorsque Belle rencontre la Bête, une créature aussi fascinante qu’effrayante. S’engage alors un chassé-croisé virtuel entre Belle et la Bête, au terme duquel Suzu va découvrir qui elle est.
L’argent ne fait pas le bonheur, paraît-il. C’est aussi l’avis de Dominik, un fils de riches que la vie facile déprime. Rien à voir avec l’excitation que lui procure le monde virtuel ! Surtout la chambre du suicide, une plateforme de contacts pour ceux qui veulent mettre fin à leurs jours.
21 juillet 2047, Risa Tsukiori, une jeune gymnaste a un accident lors d'une compétition nationale. Le 27, dans le monde du jeu Brain Burst, une bataille de territoire oppose Nega Nebulus et Great Wall. Tandis que Haruyuki et Kuroyukihime se préparent au combat contre le Roi Vert, une tempête emporte tous les joueurs. Ceux-ci se retrouvent déconnectés et l'application Burst Link ne fonctionne plus.
Kirito et certains de ses nouveaux amis reviennent sur les événements de la première saison. Kirito se souvient de ses moments décisifs pendant que Suguha apprend à nager avec l'aide d'Asuna et d'autres filles qui se sont battues aux côtés de Kirito.
A Paris, en 2047, alors que la population vit connectée en permanence à des mondes virtuels, un agent employé par une multinationale est chargé de traquer des terroristes qui menacent le système.
Shelter raconte l'histoire de Rin, une jeune fille de 17 ans qui vit sa vie à l'intérieur d'une simulation futuriste complètement seule dans une solitude infinie et magnifique. Chaque jour, Rin se réveille dans la réalité virtuelle et utilise une tablette qui contrôle la simulation pour se créer un monde nouveau, différent et magnifique. Jusqu'au jour où tout change et Rin découvre les véritables origines de sa vie dans une simulation.
In the year 20XX, a young boy named Netto Hikari receives a very special gift as he enters the 5th grade: his very own customized Net Navi, Rockman.
In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...
Kaede Honjou is invited by her friend Risa Shiramine to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named Maple, and decides to put all her points in VIT to minimize pain. As a result, she moves slowly, can't use magic, and even a rabbit can get the best of her. But as it turns out, she acquires a skill known as "Absolute Defense" as a result of her pumping points into VIT, as well as a "Counter Skill" that works against special moves. Now, with her ability to nullify all damage, she goes on adventures.
A short, overweight student uses the Neuro Link, an evolution of the Nerve Gear, to escape himself from the reality. But his skills in the virtual world brings him to the attention of Kuroyukihime, a popular student who introduces him to the Brain Burst.
In Big Money City, players participate in "Hero Battles" using Bankfon Gs, which allows them to rent powerful hero suits and fight battles against other players, receiving power boosts from the system's public domain feature. Kaito Goushou, a young elementary school student who is always eager to help others, ends up hastily signing a contract to rent the powerful unlisted hero suit, "Enter the Gold," from a mysteriously seedy priest named Sennen; however, he soon learns that the suit comes with a debt of 10 billion yen, and Kaito must now clear his dues by winning Hero Battles.
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
Sakaido is a genius detective who can track down any criminal. But when his daughter is murdered, revenge lands him on the other side of the law. Now in prison, he helps the police solve mysteries using a system that invades a person’s identity. Little by little, a trail of blood forms, and it all leads back to his daughter’s murderer.
Due to a terrible accident, Keina Kagami is forced to live on life support in order to survive. The only way for her to be free is within the VRMMORPG "Leadale." One day, her life support stops functioning, and Keina loses her life. But when she wakes up, she finds herself in the world of Leadale 200 years in the future. She is now the half-elf Cayna, who possesses lost skills and OP statuses and becomes closer to the other inhabitants of this world. But among those inhabitants happen to be the "children" she made in character creation?!
Code Lyoko centers on four children who travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to battle against a sentient artificial intelligence named XANA, with a virtual human called Aelita.
In an unexpected turn of events, dull high school student Hiro Yuuki obtains the full dive role-playing game Kiwame Quest. Created by the best of technology, the game claims to take "reality to its extremes," from stunning graphics, NPCs' behavior, to the scent of vegetation, and even the sensation of wind brushing against the skin—everything was the result of an ultimate workmanship. Except, the game is a little too realistic and messy to clear. Kiwame Quest features over ten quadrillion flags and reflects the players' real-life physical abilities in the game. Being hit in the game also hurts in real life and slash wounds take days to heal. The only reward here is the sense of accomplishment. Conquer the most stressful game in history that can't be played casually!
Taichi Tanaka is just an ordinary 38-year-old who enjoys video games. He starts a new virtual reality multiplayer game called One More Free Life Online, naming his character Earth. Unlike his fellow players, he decides to master the most menial of skills in the game. He cooks the finest meals, overbrews complicated potions, and hunts monsters with handmade weapons. His fantasy life begins!
Aoba lives on Midorijima, a small island to the southwest of the main islands of Japan. He lives with his grandmother Tae while working part time at a junk shop. The popular pastimes on the island are the ongoing turf war called "Libstease" and an online game set in the virtual world of "Rhyme." Aoba isn't involved in either, preferring to live peacefully, until one day he is forced into a Rhyme battle.
In the world of Wixoss, the card game, players are invited to play as avatar versions of themselves; in this well-known game, the most popular way to play is participating in "Diva Battles," where players compete to gain fans.
Set in a virtual simulation of Shibuya, Tokyo which is regulated by an entity named Piece which does not allow inhabitants to live, the series focuses on a fifteen-year-old boy named Tsuyoshi who seeks to find both his lost memories and a way to escape Shibuya. To maintain control, Piece locks "kills" those who do not operate within the proper confines of the world, which results in their being reset and inserted back into the city with a new name and identity and without their previous memories.
Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G is an original video animation series produced by Sunrise to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Gundam plastic model kits. It's directed by Kou Matsuo and written by Yousuke Kuroda, and features character designs by Kaichiro Terada. The OVA was released in August 15, 2010 to December 19, 2010 with 3 15-minute Episodes. Unlike other Gundam titles, Gunpla Builders Beginning G takes place in a present-day timeline. Aside to the OAV, two manga sequels were released in Dengeki Hobby Magazine.
A survival variety show where the contestants become a character in a virtual world. The contestants will be disguised as a virtual character with AI face-editing technology to completely hide their identity to transform them into virtual characters that exist in real life. The contestants will be showing their appealing charms to the viewers through the show. The audience matches and guesses the identities of the contestants to a real life star, if the contestant's identity has been found out, they are eliminated, and only one last character stands.
The network covers the whole globe, and the development of the information network reaches its acme. In this age, there are two developed worlds; the "real world" and "wired" — the virtual network world. Souma Tooru belongs to a group of hackers called Steppen Wolf, surfing the network freely. On their last job they attacked the database of the UN forces. During this attack, he loses Nonomura Yuuya, his friend and team leader. Tooru is arrested by the army. In exchange for letting him free, he has to work for an anti-hacker organization, the first squad of the UN Security Force Information Administration Bureau. Working for them, Tooru searches for the person that killed his friend, while the other members also have their own reason to fight. The three-way battles between the terrorist group, the security enterprise, and the army, continue from day to day. And when several seemingly unconnected events occur during these skirmishes, it becomes quite clear that something big is afoot.
In 2048, the Lingyun system, as the first case of "smart brain popularization application", will be trialed within the urban area of Mirage City. The accident at the Lingyun system conference that day triggered an emotional entanglement between its founders Zhou Tong, Zhao Feibai, and childhood friends Ayigul, Aizmat. In order to achieve his goals, Zhou Tong closed the "brain consciousness" of Zhao Feibai, Ayigul and Aizmat in the sandbox space of the Lingyun system, but inadvertently triggered the system's "initial intelligent AI" ------Lucoco's start. Everything is related to the "imprint" game in the memories of the four people that year, an intelligence crisis with the code of "human heart fetters" unfolding between the real and virtual worlds.
