Characters — Browse every character across the manga and anime catalogue

Akihiko Kayaba

Director and creator of the Nerve Gear and *Sword Art Online*. He traps all the players within *Sword Art Online* by using the Nerve Gear to cease sending signals to the users' bod

Akiyo Sada

Housekeeper working for the Yuuki family

Alicia Rue

Alicia Rue is the leader of the Cait Sith. She was elected by popular vote. She is also training her dark magic capable of using Moonlight Mirror. She forms an alliance with the Sy

Andrew Gilbert Mills

A merchant stationed at city Algate, located at the 50th floor of Aincrad. His shop motto is "Buy cheap and sell cheap". He is a very strong axe-wielding warrior in the frontlines.

Asuna Yuuki

Asuna is a friend of Kirito and is a sub-leader of the guild Knights of the Blood (KoB), a medium-sized guild of about thirty players, also called the strongest guild in Aincrad. B

Atsushi Kanamoto

Johnny Black was a survivor of Sword Art Online, he's a member of the infamous red guild Laughing Coffin and is partnered with Xaxa. He is well known for using poisons and such in

Avatar Buyer

A GGO player dedicated to purchasing skins from new players

Ayame Kagurazaka

The editor for Masamune and Yamada at a publishing company.

Behemoth

A high-ranked mercenary player in the VRMMO, Gun Gale Online, who is usually hired as a bodyguard for player groups with money but no perseverance. Behemoth uses a heavy GE M134 Mi

Caynz

A player who was killed inside a city, which is said to be impossible as there is a protection code preventing players to lose HP inside the city area.

Chris Yamada

He is a Yamada Elf's big brother.

Daizen

is the finance chief of the Knights of the Brotherhood of Blood guild in Sword Art Online.

Diavel

A player with a kite shield and proclaims himself to be a knight. He was the one who organized the first meeting of players to form a raid party to take on the first floor boss. He

Ducker

Ducker is a member of the «Black Cats of the Full Moon», a small guild in «Sword Art Online». He's a dagger user.

Dyne

Dyne is a player in the VRMMO game, Gun Gale Online. He is the leader of a PvP (anti-personnel) squadron that primarily targets weaker low-risk opponents.

Elf Yamada

Yamada Elf is Izumi Masamune's fellow author and neighbor.

Emirun

An innocent and carefree girl.

Endou

Eugene

General Eugene is the head of the Salamander armed forces. (Source: SAO Wiki)

Freyja

An Npc that appears in the scalibur sword plot, being locked up and being Klein who falls in love with her and frees her

Gin

Ginrou

He is a member of Dyne's PvP (anti-personnel) squad that targets weaker, low-risk opponents. Ginrou's evasion skills in face-to-face combat is known to be above average

Godfree

He was one of the 10,000 players who got trapped in the death game Sword Art Online. He was part of the guild Knights of the Blood.

Grimlock

Grimlock is a player in Sword Art Online and a former member of the guild Golden Apple. (Source: Sword Art Online Wikia)