Character
Akihiko Kayaba
茅場晶彦
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' body. Any attempt of removal, loss of power for a certain period, or if the user dies in the game will also kill the user. His motivation is to observe what happens after he traps them.
Appears in
Sword Art Online
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Sword Art Online: Alicization
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Sword Art Offline
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Sword Art Online
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Sword Art Online: Progressive
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Sword Art Online: Progressive
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Sword Art Online: Aincrad
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Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance
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Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet
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Sword Art Online: Re:Aincrad
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Sword Art Online 4-koma
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Sword Art Online Comic Anthology
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