Top 30 of 38 suggestions

Anime like Sword Art Online

614 people recommend The Rising of the Shield Hero to anyone who liked Sword Art Online — more than any other title. Log Horizon is second on 346 votes and Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? third on 322. 27 more suggestions cleared the threshold, and all of them are listed below, strongest first. These are votes rather than an algorithm: each number counts AniList members who watched Sword Art Online and said a particular show was worth watching next, so a suggestion people disagreed with does not appear at all. Nine of the 30 have a watch order on this site; the rest are named so you can find them.

The Rising of the Shield Hero 5 entries · 2019–2027 Watch order › 614 recommend it
Log Horizon 3 entries · 2013–2021 Watch order › 346 recommend it
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? TV series · 13 episodes · 2015 Not on the site yet 322 recommend it
Accel World TV series · 24 episodes · 2012 Not on the site yet 241 recommend it
Shangri-La Frontier TV series · 25 episodes · 2023 Not on the site yet 182 recommend it
Solo Leveling TV series · 12 episodes · 2024 Not on the site yet 163 recommend it
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 9 entries · 2018–2026 Watch order › 161 recommend it
BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. TV series · 12 episodes · 2020 Not on the site yet 147 recommend it
Infinite Dendrogram TV series · 13 episodes · 2020 Not on the site yet 74 recommend it
Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life! TV series · 12 episodes · 2021 Not on the site yet 61 recommend it
THE NEW GATE TV series · 12 episodes · 2024 Not on the site yet 56 recommend it
Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- TV series · 13 episodes · 2025 Not on the site yet 55 recommend it
Fate/Zero 19 entries · 2006–2021 Watch order › 52 recommend it
Overlord 15 entries · 2015–2024 Watch order › 50 recommend it
Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 6 entries · 2016–2026 Watch order › 30 recommend it
.hack//Roots TV series · 26 episodes · 2006 Not on the site yet 18 recommend it
Black Clover 4 entries · 2016–2026 Watch order › 18 recommend it
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online TV series · 12 episodes · 2018 Not on the site yet 17 recommend it
Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?: Do You Love Your Mom on the Shore? OVA · 2020 Not on the site yet 16 recommend it
GOBLIN SLAYER TV series · 12 episodes · 2018 Not on the site yet 15 recommend it
A Certain Magical Index: The Miracle of Endymion Film · 2013 Not on the site yet 9 recommend it
No Game, No Life Zero Film · 2017 Not on the site yet 9 recommend it
Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- Film · 2024 Not on the site yet 9 recommend it
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! ONA · 2026 Not on the site yet 9 recommend it
Chivalry of a Failed Knight TV series · 12 episodes · 2015 Not on the site yet 7 recommend it
Myriad Colors Phantom World: The Polka Dot Miracle OVA · 2016 Not on the site yet 7 recommend it
Infinite Stratos 2 TV series · 12 episodes · 2013 Not on the site yet 6 recommend it
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest TV series · 13 episodes · 2019 Not on the site yet 6 recommend it
Mushoku Tensei 6 entries · 2021–2026 Watch order › 6 recommend it
The Eminence in Shadow 5 entries · 2022–2027 Watch order › 6 recommend it

Where these come from

Every number above is a tally of AniList members who finished Sword Art Online and nominated another series as the one to watch next. Nothing here is inferred from genres or tags: this page cannot tell you why The Rising of the Shield Hero follows Sword Art Online, only that 614 people think it does. Suggestions the community voted down are excluded, and where several seasons of one franchise were nominated they are counted once, under the franchise.

38 suggestions cleared the vote floor for Sword Art Online — far more than a page can usefully rank, so these are the 30 with the most votes behind them. The rest are the long tail of one or two seasons each. Add Sword Art Online to the picker if you want them weighed against everything else you have watched rather than against this franchise alone.

9 of them have a watch order here , so if one appeals you can see every series, film and OVA in it laid out in order before you start: The Rising of the Shield Hero , Log Horizon , That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime , Fate/Zero , Overlord , Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu , Black Clover , Mushoku Tensei , The Eminence in Shadow .

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Each of these has its own list of what people recommend after it — so if one of the suggestions above appeals, you can see where it leads before committing to it.

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