While not everything Sunrise does turns to gold, they do have some fascinating properties over the years and really caught a lot of attention with the surprising title Tiger & Bunny. The studio is back this spring with a new twenty-six episode series called Accel World, directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino. The series is based off of the light novels, which spawned a manga series, by Reiki Kawahara that began in 2009 and has already flown to ten volumes.
Overall Plot (May contain spoilers!): In the year 2040, Neuro-synchronization, a technology system that allows humans to manipulate their five senses has become widespread where people can access the internet and enter virtual worlds. Haruyuki “Haru” Arita is a short, fat boy who is constantly bullied, causing him to have a low-self esteem. To escape the torments of real life, he logins in the school’s virtual world network where he plays squash alone where he always gets the highest score. One day, Haru attract the attention of the Student Council Vice-President, Kuroyukihime, who offers him to join a secret program called Brain Burst which allows a person to make time appear to stand still in their surroundings by “accelerating” their brainwaves in the real world. Unfortunately, there is a limit to how many times a person can accelerate which uses Brain Burst points and the primary way to get more points is to fight other Brain Burst users in a virtual reality massive multiplayer online (VRMMO) fighting game and defeat them.
[Source: Crunchyroll]
