Funimation introduced on Wednesday that it’ll display screen the Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Evening anime movie in each commonplace and IMAX theaters in the USA and Canada on December 3 and in Australia and New Zealand on December 9. The film will even display screen 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 screen in Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub.

Bryce Papenbrook and Cherami Leigh will reprise their roles as Kirito and Asuna, respectively, within the dub.

Funimation describes the movie:

This can be a story of the time earlier than “Lightning Flash” and “The Black Swordsman” have been identified 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 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, instantly discover themselves trapped inside the sport when the Recreation Grasp deprives them of any approach to log off.

The Recreation 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, all the gamers panic, and pandemonium reigns. A type of gamers is Asuna, however regardless of not but realizing the principles of this world, she units off to overcome the floating iron fort, Aincrad, whose peak is just too excessive to be seen. As the times go by on this world the place loss of life is rarely very distant, she has a fateful encounter. After which, a parting…

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

The movie will open in Japan on October 30 in commonplace and IMAX theaters.

The movie acquired an advance IMAX screening on September 15 on the T-Pleasure PRINCE Shinagawa theater in Tokyo.

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 – Struggle of Underworld, The Seven Lethal Sins: Revival of The Commandments) designied the characters. Yasuyuki Kai served as motion director, and Yuki Kajiura returned to compose the music.

Additionally returning are Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kirito and Haruka Tomatsu as Asuna within the voice solid.

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 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 collection in English, in addition to two manga diversifications.

Replace: Added English-subtitled trailer.

Supply: Press launch