The official web site for the Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night time anime movie introduced on Monday {that a} new movie within the undertaking titled Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Kuraki Yūyami no Scherzo (Scherzo of a Darkish Nightfall) will open in 2022.

Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night time opened in Japan on Saturday in normal and IMAX theaters, and topped the field workplace chart for the weekend. The movie bought roughly 225,000 tickets and earned about 349 million yen (about US$3.06 million) in its first two days.

Funimation will current the movie in each normal and IMAX theaters in the USA and Canada on December 3 and in Australia and New Zealand on December 9. The movie will display screen in Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub. The movie will open in over 40 international locations and territories world wide.

Funimation describes the movie:

It is 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 pupil 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, all of a sudden discover themselves trapped inside the sport when the Sport Grasp deprives them of any strategy to sign off.

The Sport Grasp then offers them this warning “This can be a sport, however 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 realizing the foundations of this world, she units off to beat the floating iron fort, Aincrad, whose peak is simply too excessive to be seen. As the times go by on this world the place dying isn’t 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: 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 – Warfare 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 sequence. The novel sequence launched in 2012 as a revised retelling of Kawahara’s unique Sword Artwork On-line novels. The story depicts Kirito’s journey by the floating Aincrad fort from the start, floor-by-floor. Yen Press is publishing the Sword Artwork On-line: Progressive novel sequence in English, in addition to two manga diversifications.

Sources: Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night time anime’s web site, Oricon, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Internet