Aniplex started streaming on Thursday a trailer for the Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night time anime movie. The video highlights the Recreation Grasp’s look and declaration of the loss of life sport from Asuna’s standpoint.

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

Forged members Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Haruka Tomatsu, and Inori Minase will be part of director Ayako Kohno and singer LiSA at stage greetings throughout 4 screenings of the movie at Tokyo’s Shinjuku Wald 9 theater and United Cinema Toyosu on opening day, Saturday.

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

Funimation will current the 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 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. The movie will open in over 40 nations and territories all over the world.

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

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

Funimation describes the movie:

It is 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 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, instantly discover themselves trapped inside the sport when the Recreation Grasp deprives them of any solution 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 kind of gamers is Asuna, however regardless of not but figuring out the principles 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 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 may till somebody seems earlier than her: the aloof swordsman, Kirito…

Ayako Kohno (unit director on Black Butler: E book of the Atlantic, Excessive Faculty 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) 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 forged.

The anime is predicated 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 authentic Sword Artwork On-line novels. The story depicts Kirito’s journey by means of 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 variations.

Sources: Aniplex‘s YouTube channel, Comedian Natalie