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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. !He is in fact Heathcliff in the game SAO, who is the leader of the guild Knights of Blood.!
Featured Anime Roles (7)
TV
7.0
Sword Art Online
2012 · 25 eps
#Action#Adventure
TV
7.5
Sword Art Online: Alicization
2018 · 24 eps
#Action#Adventure
TV
7.5
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld
2019 · 12 eps
#Action#Adventure
MOVIE
7.3
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale
2017 · 1 eps
#Action#Adventure
MOVIE
7.8
#Action#Adventure
SPECIAL
6.1
Sword Art Online EXTRA EDITION
2013 · 1 eps
#Action#Adventure
SPECIAL
5.5
Sword Art OFFline
2012 · 9 eps
#Comedy
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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. ~!He is in fact Heathcliff in the game *SAO*, who is the leader of the guild Knights of Blood.!~