The official website for the television anime of Keiichi Sigsawa's Sword Art Online: Alternative Gun Gale Online novel series posted a "long" promotional video on Saturday. (Note: The linked video is region-locked to Japan.) The video previews Eir Aoi's opening theme song "Ryūsei" (Falling Star).

The anime will premiere on April 7 in Japan . Aniplex of America will stream the series as it airs on Crunchyroll and Hulu.

Tomori Kusunoki stars as Llenn, and Yōko Hikasa also stars in the series as Pitohui. Kazuyuki Okitsu will play M, and Chinatsu Akasaki will play Fukaziroh.

Masayuki Sakoi (Celestial Method, Princess Resurrection, Strawberry Panic!) is directing the anime at Studio 3Hz (Flip Flappers, Princess Principal). Yousuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia, Gundam Build Fighters, Mobile Suit Gundam 00) is in charge of series composition and the script. Yoshio Kosakai (Chaos;HEAd, Needless) is chief animation director, and he is also designing the characters based on Kouhaku Kuroboshi's original designs. Tomori Kusunoki is performing the ending theme song "To see the future"

The story follows Karen Kohiruimaki, a 183-centimeter-tall (6-foot-tall) college student who's insecure her height, and is bad at dealing with people in the real world. She enters the world of Gun Gale Online with her avatar, Llenn, who is less than 150 centimeters (5 feet) tall and wears all pink. She meets a beautiful, brown-skinned female player who goes by Pitohui. They hit it off, but one day Pitohui pressures her to participate in "Squad Jam," a team Battle Royale variation of the Bullet of Bullets tournament.

Thanks to Dennis R. for the embedded video.