Aniplex started streaming three minutes of footage on Tuesday for the Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night time anime movie.

The film opened in Japan on October 30 in normal and IMAX theaters, and topped the field workplace in its first weekend. The movie has earned 1,095,251,413 yen (about US$9.51 million) as of Sunday.

The movie will display screen in Dolby Cinemas in Japan beginning on November 26.

A brand new movie titled Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Kuraki Yūyami no Scherzo (Scherzo of a Darkish Nightfall) will open in 2022.

Funimation will current the primary movie in each normal and IMAX theaters in america and Canada on December 3 and in Australia and New Zealand on December 9. The film may also display screen quickly in the UK, Eire, and Latin America. The movie will open in over 40 nations and territories all over the world. Odex will display screen the movie in Southeast Asia this yr.

Funimation describes the movie:

This can be a story of the time earlier than “Lightning Flash” and “The Black Swordsman” had been recognized by these names…

The day that she occurred to don the NerveGear, Asuna Yuuki was a third-year center faculty scholar who’d by no means even touched a web-based recreation earlier than. On November 6, 2022, the world’s first VRMMORPG, Sword Artwork On-line, is formally launched. However the gamers, nonetheless euphoric over having logged in, immediately discover themselves trapped inside the sport when the Recreation Grasp deprives them of any method to log off.

The Recreation Grasp then provides them this warning “This can be a recreation, nevertheless it’s not one thing you play.” If a participant dies in-game, they die in the actual world.

Listening to this, all the gamers panic, and pandemonium reigns. A kind of gamers is Asuna, however regardless of not but realizing the principles of this world, she units off to beat the floating iron fortress, Aincrad, whose peak is simply too excessive to be seen. As the times go by on this world the place dying is rarely very far-off, she has a fateful encounter. After which, a parting…

Although she’s on the mercy of the fact earlier than her eyes, Asuna fights on with all her would possibly till somebody seems earlier than her: the aloof swordsman, Kirito…

Ayako Kohno (unit director on Black Butler: Guide of the Atlantic, Excessive College Fleet, The Seven Lethal Sins the Film: Prisoners of the Sky) directed the movie at A-1 Footage, and Kento Toya (Sword Artwork On-line: Alicization – Conflict of Underworld, The Seven Lethal Sins: Revival of The Commandments) designed the characters. Yasuyuki Kai served as motion director, and Yuki Kajiura returned to compose the music.

The anime relies on Reki Kawahara‘s Sword Artwork On-line: Progressive gentle novel collection. The novel collection launched in 2012 as a revised retelling of Kawahara’s authentic Sword Artwork On-line novels. The story depicts Kirito’s journey by the floating Aincrad fortress from the start, floor-by-floor. Yen Press is publishing the Sword Artwork On-line: Progressive novel collection in English, in addition to two manga variations.

Supply: Aniplex‘s YouTube channel through Ota-Suke