Sword Art Online

Yes it is a must watch. Laura it's genre is action,fantasy,romance,harem, and sci-fi. You must watch lol and I uavent watched fate/stay night yet but plan on it :)

I liked .hack more (in general, I do have some issues with parts of the franchise) but mainly because they don't have the whole group of people stuck and I had ethical/legal issues with how SAO was set up IRL before I dug into the background stuff where that is sort of explained. It seems kinda like .hack in several aspects, esp. now around ep. 10/11 with the vagrant AI who reminds me of Zeffie (//LOTT) or Lycoris (//AI BUSTER). I like the story, just don't like how the creator made it where all the people die for various reasons and player motives.

i agree, this anime is awesome. the difference between this and others is that it is very FAST PACE. you don't feel for a moment like it's dragging or they are putting in a filler episode.