The Field Workplace Mojo web site revealed that the Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Evening anime movie has earned US$1.05 million and ranked at #10 within the U.S. field workplace in its opening weekend.

The film opened in Japan on October 30 in customary and IMAX theaters, and topped the field workplace in its first weekend. The movie earned 33,490,280 yen (about US$294,900) this previous weekend, and has earned a cumulative whole of 1,277,033,413 yen (about US$11.24 million).

Funimation started screening the movie in each customary and IMAX theaters in the US and Canada on December 3 and can display screen the movie 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 around the globe. 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” have been recognized by these names…

The day that she occurred to don the NerveGear, Asuna Yuuki was a third-year center college 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, all of the sudden discover themselves trapped inside the sport when the Recreation Grasp deprives them of any technique to log off.

The Recreation Grasp then provides them this warning “This can be a recreation, however 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 kind of gamers is Asuna, however regardless of not but realizing the principles of this world, she units off to beat the floating iron citadel, Aincrad, whose peak is simply 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: Ebook 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 is predicated 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 unique Sword Artwork On-line novels. The story depicts Kirito’s journey by means of the floating Aincrad citadel 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.

The Sword Artwork On-line: Ordinal Scale anime movie earned over US$1.35 million in ticket gross sales in its opening weekend in North American theaters. Aniplex of America and Eleven Arts opened the movie in the US in March 2017 after a Hollywood premiere earlier that month. The movie additionally screened in Canada.

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.

Supply: Field Workplace Mojo (hyperlink 2)