Tetsuhiro is a professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Toto Institute of Technology, where he had established his Shigemura Laboratory that was attended by students such as Kayaba Akihiko, Sugou Nobuyuki, and Higa Takeru. Shigemura Tetsuhiro was also an external board member at Argus, the company that created Sword Art Online

After the death of his daughter Shigemura Yuuna in Sword Art Online, Tetsuhiro developed the Augma, Ordinal Scale, and YUNA at Kamura as part of a plan to resurrect his daughter as an artificial intelligence (AI) by gathering memories of her stolen from Sword Art Online survivors. The plan would have culminated in a mass high-output scanning of Sword Art Online player brains during YUNA's first concert at the New National Stadium, but it was thwarted by the artificial intelligence reproduction of his daughter, who decided to sacrifice herself to save the players from potential death due to the scan. In the aftermath of the incident, the professor resigned from Kamura,relinquished his rights to the YUNA AI, and was introduced to Project Alicization at Rath by Kikuoka Seijirou.

In 2022, the world of virtual reality was upended by the arrival of a new invention from a genius programmer, Akihiko Kayaba. Called NerveGear, it was the first full-dive system and with it, came endless possibilities to VRMMORPGs. 

In 2026, a new machine called the Augma is developed to compete against the NerveGear and its successor, the Amusphere. A next-gen wearable device, the Augma doesn't have a full-dive function like its predecessors. Instead, it uses Augmented Reality to get players into the game. It is safe, user-friendly and lets users play while they are conscious, making it an instant hit on the market. The most popular game on the system is “Ordinal Scale” (aka: OS), an ARMMORPG developed exclusively for the Augma. 

Asuna and the gang have already been playing OS for a while, by the time Kirito decides to join them. They’re about to find out that Ordinal Scale isn’t all fun and games… 

(Source: Official website)

Noted host of Iron Chef, has been in a number of Japanese movies, and has had a few voice acting roles in anime.    Golbez from Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP) (Japanese)

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Gerardo Reyero is an outstanding Mexican voice actor. He is best known for being the Latin American Spanish voice of Freezer in the *Dragon Ball* franchise, Han Solo in the original *Star Wars* trilogy and in several projects of the franchise, the second voice of Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask in the *Sailor Moon* franchise and Maito Gai in *Naruto* and *Naruto Shippūden.*

**Non-Anime Roles:**
- Die-Hardman (Death Stranding)
- Agustus Cole (Gears 5) 
- Raiden (Mortal Combat X and Mortal Combat 11)
- Blitzcrank / Jarvan IV / Jax / Skarner / Xerath (League of Legends)
- Sergeant Major Avery Johnson (Halo _Series_)

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In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for all its amazing features, SAO is missing one of the most basic functions of any MMORPG - a log-out button. Now trapped in the virtual world of Aincrad, their bodies held captive by NerveGear in the real world, users are issued a chilling ultimatum: conquer all one hundred floors of Aincrad to regain your freedom. But in the warped world of SAO, "game over" means certain death - both virtual and real...
 
(Source: Yen Press)

In 2022, the world of virtual reality was upended by the arrival of a new invention from a genius programmer, Akihiko Kayaba, called NerveGear. It was the first full-dive system, and with it, came endless possibilities to VRMMORPGs.
 
In 2026, a new machine called the Augma is developed to compete against the NerveGear and its successor, the Amusphere. A next-gen wearable device, the Augma doesn't have a full-dive function like its predecessors. Instead, it uses Augmented Reality (AR) to get players into the game. It is safe, user-friendly and lets users play while they are conscious, making it an instant hit on the market. The most popular game on the system is "Ordinal Scale" (OS), an ARMMORPG developed exclusively for the Augma.
 
Asuna and the gang have already been playing OS for a while, by the time Kirito decides to join them. They're about to find out that Ordinal Scale isn't all fun and games...
 
(Source: Aniplex USA)
 
Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tetsuhiro Shigemura