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Calwings posted...

Because Keiichi Sigsawa, the author of the light novels, really liked the GGO world/concept and he wanted to use it in his work. He's also a huge gun nerd (his pen name is even derived from the name of a real life firearms manufacturer, SIG Sauer) and already showed some of that firearms knowledge a few times in the Kino's Journey series that he wrote previously.

On top of that, he's also written an Indiana Jones-esque adventure series collectively called The Story of One Continent with a quite a bit of gun action, and then there's Gakuen Kino, "magical girl" Kino's Journey in high school with tons of gun fanservice.

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

I hate SAO so I have never watched anything after season 1.

I realize Gun Gale Online kinda makes fun of SAO, but why be part of that universe?

It's actually more like SAO (the in-story game) is made fun of by pretty much everyone after a certain point due to its in-universe history, and even by the SAO players themselves in the SAO Progressive series because of how exploitable the gameplay mechanics were.

Sigsawa's GGO series focus mostly (entirely?) on the people who didn't go through SAO in its original form, so you're basically getting an "outsider" perspective on the incident when it gets brought up.

And yeah, it's pretty much because Sigsawa liked the setting. His involvement pretty much began when he assisted with the gun action in the GGO arc of SAO2 anime.