Trivia / Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online

• Acting for Two: Most of the main cast and several supporting cast (Team SHINC) needs to provide two different voices for their character's in-game avatar and their real life self, showcasing the voice artists' vocal range. The only exceptions are Chinatsu Akasaki and Faye Mata who use the same voice for both Miyu and Fukaziroh.
  • The standouts are Tomori Kusunoki and Yōko Hikasa, who both do three voices in the show: Kusunoki also does P-chan's voice, while Hikasa also voices Elza Kanzaki's music club owner Rei Satou in the final episode.
• Exiled from Continuity: While alluded to a few times, major Sword Art Online characters like Kirito and Sinon are completely absent from the spin-off.
  • In fact Episode 2-3 occurs in the background of the Phantom Bullet arc, but the Death Gun incident is never brought up, even though the Bullet of Bullets Tournament is.
  • In Episode 9 and 10, Sinon is directly referenced by name. In fact it's revealed she spoke with Team SHINC offscreen at some point before Squad Jam 2.
  • The closest we've gotten to a physical appearance is a silhouette of Kirito's GGO avatar in Episode 10 while David is remembering photon swords.
• Life Imitates Art: AGGO began publishing as a light novel series in 2014. The anime adaptation began airing in Spring 2018, right when MMO battle royale shooter games like Player Unknowns Battlegrounds and Fortnite were reaching huge popularity.
• No Dub for You: Just like what happened with the Netflix version of SAO (but not with the broadcasted version for TV, as Latin American networks requires any foreign show to be dubbed in Spanish) in Latin America, the Netflix version of the show lacks a Latin American Spanish dub due to Aniplex's restrictions regarding dubbing to any other language other than the original Japanese or English in their licensed shows, at least until 2020.
• No Export for You: As of 2018, the light novel, anime and manga are licensed in various regions in English, Latin America, and major European languages. You're out of luck if you live in a country/territory where they don't sell/broadcast either of the three properties.
• Non-Singing Voice: ReoNa provided the singing voice of Elza Kanzaki, even though her voice actress, Yōko Hikasa, is a singer in real-life.
• The Other Darrin: LLENN was played by Minami Tsuda in Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, but was later replaced by Tomori Kusunoki for the subsequent roles.
• Playing Against Type: Allegra Clark as Elza Kanzaki, an Idol Singer with a squeaky voice.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Elza Kanzaki/Pitohui is bisexual just like her English dub voice actress Allegra Clark.
• Recast as a Regular:
  • Aside from LLENN, all of the main quartet are played by voice actors who worked with Sword Art Online in the past.
    • Pitohui is played by Yōko Hikasa, who had previously voiced Endou (Sinon's bully) from the Phantom Bullet arc.
    • Fukaziroh is voiced by Chinatsu Akasaki, who provided the voice of Lux in Lost Song.
    • M is voiced by Kazuyuki Okitsu, who voiced Genesis in Hollow Realization.
  • In the dub, Anna is voiced by Xanthe Huynh, who previously voiced Sachi in the Aincrad arc.
• Schedule Slip: The English publications of the light novels. Yen Press normally manages to get volumes out on a four month basis, but in 2019 Volumes 4 and 5 took five months to come out. Volume 6 managed to come out in an impressive two month period, but then Volume 7's release date was bumped back to a whopping ten months later on November 24th, 2020... and this was after it had been delayed twice from its original release date of October 24th, then November 17th.
  • The manga adaptation stalled after Volume 3 was released in November 2018 in the middle of Squad Jam 1. Almost two years later in late October 2020, Tadadi Tamori posted that he would be ending the adaptation with Volume 4 by finishing up Squad Jam 1 and not continuing it any further for personal reasons. The final chapter was released in Dengeki Maoh magazine on January 26, 2021, and the final manga volume was published on March 27, 2021.
• Star-Making Role: The role of LLENN for Tomori Kusunoki. Prior to this she was a fairly new and lesser known voice actress whose biggest claim to fame was starring as the lead of Märchen Mädchen, a series that was most (in)famous for being a total production disaster. However, thanks to AGGO she became a sensation practically overnight.
  • Also for singer ReoNa, being Elza Kanzaki's singing voice. Over half a dozen insert songs in the show all went towards her big debut in the music industry.

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