The official web site for the Sword Artwork On-line franchise introduced on Tuesday that Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night time anime movie will display screen in Dolby Cinemas in Japan beginning on November 26.

The movie may even supply theatergoers from November 20-26 a postcard with a code to take heed to a voice drama, with a script by authentic gentle novel writer Reki Kawahara. The voice drama will concentrate on tales of “the primary day” of Lisbeth and Silica.

The film opened in Japan on October 30 in commonplace and IMAX theaters, and topped the field workplace in its first weekend. The movie earned 134,363,672 yen (about US$1.17 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of 948,575,173 yen (about US$8.30 million).

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 commonplace and IMAX theaters in the US and Canada on December 3 and in Australia and New Zealand on December 9. The film may even display screen quickly in the UK, Eire, and Latin America. The movie will open in over 40 international locations and territories all over the world. Odex will display screen the movie in Southeast Asia this 12 months.

Funimation describes the movie:

This can be a story of the time earlier than “Lightning Flash” and “The Black Swordsman” had been identified 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 sport 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, out of the blue discover themselves trapped inside the sport when the Sport Grasp deprives them of any solution to sign off.

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

Listening to this, the entire gamers panic, and pandemonium reigns. A type of gamers is Asuna, however regardless of not but understanding the principles of this world, she units off to overcome the floating iron fortress, Aincrad, whose peak is just too excessive to be seen. As the times go by on this world the place demise 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: E book of the Atlantic, Excessive College Fleet, The Seven Lethal Sins the Film: Prisoners of the Sky) directed the movie at A-1 Photos, and Kento Toya (Sword Artwork On-line: Alicization – Battle 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 means of 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.

Sources: Sword Artwork On-line anime’s web site, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Net