15 Best MMORPG Anime - Suki Desu

In this article, we will get to know the 15 best MMORPG animes, with an RPG Online theme, whether in a real virtual world or even in a fantastical world that has the MMORPG style.

The acronym MMORPG stands for “Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game” where MMO means massively multiplayer online and RPG means role-playing game. The term “MMORPG” was first used in 1997 by Richard Garriott, the creator of Ultima Online.

To see more similar animes, we also recommend reading our article about Animes about Games or Isekai animes. I hope you enjoy our article and share it with friends:

15. Dungeon ni Deai

The story depicts the daily routine of Bell Cranel as a 14-year-old adventurer led by his goddess, Hestia. As the only member of the Hestia family, he works tirelessly every day in the dungeon to stay alive while doing his best to improve.

He notices Aiz Wallenstein, a powerful swordswoman who once saved his life and for whom he has developed feelings. He has no idea that affection is being developed by several other women, women and mortals who are not like him, especially Hestia.

14. Hai To Gensou No Grimgar

The anime, also known as Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, Grimgar Ashes and Illusion, is a fantasy story written by Ao Jmonji and directed by A-1 Pictures. It is based on a two-volume novel of the same name, Grimgar.

Suddenly, some townspeople disappear… Only to reappear in a magical world with no memory of their past. What exactly is this world? What is the best way to stay alive? These are the most pressing questions. In the style of Sword Art Online.

13. Phantasy Star Online 2

Based on the MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2 published by SEGA. It includes the first three episodes of the original game, as well as a unique story. The game’s story follows members of ARKS, a planet exploration organization based on the Oracle fleet, as they search for a habitable planet for their population.

Oracle and other planets inhabited by monstrous creatures known as Darkers are under the influence of the evil Dark Falzes.

12. Log Horizon

The anime follows Shiroe, the strategist of the game, and the other players of the MMORPG Elder Tale, shortly after being trapped in the game world following an update. The MMORPG Elder Tale became a worldwide success with its twentieth expansion pack, with millions of players participating.

However, after the release of the game’s twentieth expansion pack, Novasphere Pioneers, three million Japanese players who were logged in at the time of the update were teleported to the game world, dressed as their avatars.

In light of such events, a player named Shiroe, along with his friends Naotsugu and Akatsuki, decides to form a team that will allow them to cope with the world until they can return to reality, overcoming many challenges along the way.

11. Ixion Saga

On a day when Kon Hokaze is playing an MMORPG, he receives a request from a female character in the game. He then begins to think that he is lucky to find an online girlfriend, but suddenly he is transported to the world of Mira, where he accidentally saves a young princess by landing, with his chair, on top of an opponent.

With no idea how he got there or how to return to his world, Kon joins the princess as part of her honor guard, while a military faction from the princess’s own country wants to capture her before she can get married. Totally based on the game Ixion Saga created by CAPCOM.

10. .Hack/Sign

In the year 2005, a computer virus known as Pluto’s Kiss destroyed the internet worldwide, severely limiting cyberspace. After the internet was restored two years later, people began to play The World, a medieval RPG that has become a huge success. The adventures are shared by over 20 million internet users worldwide.

The story begins when one of the characters, a young Wavemaster named Tsukasa, for some reason cannot log out of the game. Mimiru, a young Heavy Blade, notices what is happening to Tsukasa and tries to help him. Team up with other characters like Bear, Crim, Subaru, Sora, and BT to complete the task.

9. No Game, No Life

No Game, No Life revolves around two siblings hikikomori (shut-ins) who have accumulated a significant amount of urban loans on the internet about their gaming skills. One day, they meet a boy named “God,” who summons them to another world.

In a world where war is forbidden, twelve different races fight for dominance, but their battles are fought through various types of games. Humanity has been relegated to a last city. Is it possible for Sora and Shiro to save humanity from extinction?

8. Konosuba

Kazuma Sat, a reclusive Japanese NEET, meets Aqua, a goddess who offers him the chance to reincarnate in a parallel world with MMORPG elements, where he can adventure and fight monsters.

Despite being offered a superpower or ability to use in this new world, Kazuma chooses his own Aqua to accompany him to Axel after some kind of provocation, quickly discovering that her interruption is not beneficial. With Aqua unable to return to life after death and the Demon King defeated, the two form a team and recruit two more members: an explosive magic user known as Megumin and a masochist known as Darkness.

Due to the group’s ineffective abilities, Kazuma quickly abandons his plan to defeat the Demon King and tries to live a comfortable life, only to discover that the circumstances of his daily life are forcing him and his group to face and fight against the Demon Generals.

7. Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis

Mistarcia is a magical world where humans, gods, and demons mix. Previously, a Bahamut of white and purple donkeys planned to destroy the land, but humans, gods, and demons overcame their differences to fight together and regain their power.

The key to this seal was divided into two halves, one given to the gods and the other to the demons, so that they would never be united and Bahamut would never be free. Now, two thousand years later, the world is in a period of peace – until the day a human woman steals half of the god’s key.

6. The Kings Avatar

In the MMO Glory, Ye Xiu is considered an expert, a top-tier professional player. However, he is fired from his team for various reasons. After leaving professional gaming, he finds work as a manager of an internet café. Glory returns to the game once again when its tenth server is launched. His return in search of the top has begun, with ten years of experience, memories of his past, and an imperfect weapon made by himself.

5. Btooom!

In Btooom! Ryta Sakamoto is a 22-year-old unemployed man living with me. He is not particularly remarkable in the real world, but he is one of the best players on the planet in a game called Btooom!

One day, he wakes up on what appears to be a tropical island, but he doesn’t remember how or why he got there. While walking along the beach, Ryta noticed someone and asked for help. The stranger responded by throwing a bomb at them!

Ryta now realizes that his life is in danger and that he is in a real version of his favorite game! Will Ryta be able to survive and find out why this is happening and who is to blame?

4. Blade & Soul

In Blade & Soul, Aruka is an assassin from the Tsurugi Clan. She is on a journey to find Jin Valel, the woman who killed her master, Ron. Jin is a demon woman who controls Chaos Energy and kills without remorse, unlike how Aruka learned to kill in her work as an assassin.

On her journey, Aruka meets three strange women, all of whom are great warriors in their own way, and she also deals with her late master’s wish for her to leave the life of an assassin behind. The anime is an adaptation of the Korean MMORPG, Blade & Soul.

3. Accel World

In Accel World, Haruyuki is an overweight child at the bottom of the food chain in his middle school. In the real-world environment of science fiction, he often seeks refuge in a virtual environment.

However, one day, his life will change when he has the opportunity of the most beautiful girl in school, if not the world, to join him through a program called “World Accelerated” (Burst Cerebral).

However, to maintain this enhancement, he must score points by fighting against other players within the realm of this new virtual world.

2. Overlord

A famous online game called Yggdrasil was suddenly shut down without warning. Momonga, on the other hand, decides not to log out of the game. As a result, he is transformed into a skeleton known as “the most powerful wizard.”

The world is changing, with NPCs gaining player-like characteristics. Having no family, friends, or a place in real life, young Momonga decides to fight for dominance in the new game world.

1. Sword Art Online

In a not-so-distant future, Sword Art Online was released, a Multiplayer Virtual Reality RPG (VRMMORPG), in which players can control their characters with their own bodies through a technological device known as NerveGear.

One day, players discover that they cannot log out of the game because the game creator traps them unless they reach the 100th floor of the Tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they will also die in real life. The fight for survival has begun…

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