Eugene Vorkan is the the first candidate revealed to Kajika. He first appears in episode 2. Kajika is enamored by him, because he resembles her deceased friend Mustafa who was a white Leopard.

Kazuto Kirigaya (桐ヶ谷 和人)
Birthday: October 7
Age: 14 (Beginning of Aincrad arc); 16 (End of Aincrad arc, Fairy Dance arc); 17 (Phantom Bullet arc)
Height: 172 cm
Weight: 59 kg
Weapon(s) of choice: Anneal Blade (1st Level), Queen's Knightblade (9th Level), Elucidator (50th level) and Dark Repulser (forged by Lisbeth).

Kirito is the main protagonist of the series. He is a "solo" player, a player who hasn't joined a guild and usually works alone. He is also one of the very few people to have had the privilege to play in the beta testing period of Sword Art Online. His game alias, Kirito, is created by taking the syllables of the first and last Kanji of his real last and first names respectively: (Kirigaya Kazuto). In the real world, he lives with his mother and younger cousin in a family of 3.

When Kayaba announced the start of the death game, he is surprised, but unlike everyone else he quickly gets over it and accepts it to an extent. He invited his friend Klein to go with him but Klein had to find his friends in the game. He was invited to join them but he declined as he couldn't take the pressure of protecting them even with his beta testing knowledge of the game.


He was the first one to be called a Beater, a combination of beta testing and cheater, as he had great knowledge of the game through the beta test period and showing great skills in floor clearing but chose not to help other players.

He had it imposed on himself so as to differentiate the beta testers who were just picked in the testing and the serious gamers who uses the knowledge efficiently like a cheat.

Kirito tends to use a single handed straight sword. The blade that he uses most often is the Elucidator. Later on he acquires a second blade called Dark Repulser that was made by his blacksmith friend, Lisbeth.


He has a unique skill called <<Dual Blades>> which allows him to dual wield two swords and use Swords Skills. It's the special skill designed for the Hero that defeats the Demon Lord at the last floor. He found it in his skills list after a year in the game. After nearly mastering it, he only uses it in emergencies to avoid attention for being one of the few people to have a unique skill.


In episode 2 he befriends a girl by the name of Yuuki Asuna who later becomes his lover.

Yato (Noragami)

Yato is a young man of average height with shaggy purple-black hair that reaches to his neck, and bright blue eyes. He is often seen wearing a jersey and track pants and an old white bandana/cloth around his neck, which he describes as 'fluffy' (fuwa fuwa). He also wears a pair of brown knee-length boots.Yato is often very playful and sneaky, doing silly and childish things like buying good luck items obviously a scam, giving Yukine a childish jacket, and others. He is very determined to become more popular as a god, often either placing his cell phone number everywhere or doing a job, however he also sometimes slacks off somewhere. There are also times, however, when Yato appears very serious and mysterious.