User Recommendations for Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online

Both are fun light hearted animes about cute girls playing a MMO game, where they meet other players, played in tournament and just have fun playing the game.

Easy to watch shows about a primarily female cast playing a VRMMO game with unconventional tactics/powers. Bofuri is more of a comedic, lighter story with more gameplay outside of the tournaments whereas GGO actually has a plot with a couple heavier details, but both still have a lot of focus on the girls (and the token male friend) having fun with the game and playing through competition arcs.

Cute girls play videogames

Both anime happen in VRMMOs. Both MCs are relatively new to VRMMO and do not have any idea what to do. Both MCs become very strong and very popular within the game community. Both MCs use very unconventional tactics to win their battles. Both Anime is quite similar, they are all relatively light-hearted. Where they compete in events and make friends along the way. However SAO:GGO has real-life consequences and everyone is extremely competitive while BOFURI is more light-hearted and everyone is relatively friendly with each other.