The Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night time anime movie topped Japan’s field workplace in its debut weekend, from October 30-31. The movie opened in Japan on Saturday in normal and IMAX theaters.

Funimation will current the 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 even display quickly in the UK, Eire, and Latin America. Tickets go on sale within the U.S. and Canada on November 5 and in Australia and New Zealand on November 9. The movie will display in Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub. The movie will open in over 40 nations and territories around the globe.

Odex will display the movie in Southeast Asia this 12 months.

Bryce Papenbrook and Cherami Leigh will reprise their roles as Kirito and Asuna, respectively, within the English dub. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Haruka Tomatsu reprised their roles in Japanese model as Kirito and Asuna, respectively.

Funimation describes the movie:

It is a story of the time earlier than “Lightning Flash” and “The Black Swordsman” have 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 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, abruptly discover themselves trapped inside the sport when the Recreation Grasp deprives them of any technique to log off.

The Recreation Grasp then offers 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 true world.

Listening to this, all the gamers panic, and pandemonium reigns. A type of gamers is Asuna, however regardless of not but realizing the foundations of this world, she units off to beat the floating iron fort, Aincrad, whose peak is just too excessive to be seen. As the times go by on this world the place dying is rarely very distant, 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 Photos, 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 mild 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 via the floating Aincrad fort 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: Kōgyō Tsūshin