Funimation has introduced that the Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Evening anime movie will likely be launched “quickly” within the UK and Eire.

It can even be launched in cinemas in the USA and Canada on December 3, Australia and New Zealand on December 9, and can open quickly in Latin America, The movie opens in Japan on October 30.

Ayako Kawano (unit director on Black Butler: Ebook of the Atlantic, Excessive Faculty Fleet, The Seven Lethal Sins the Film: Prisoners of the Sky) is directing 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) is designing the characters. Yasuyuki Kai is serving as motion director, and Yuki Kajiura is returning 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 authentic Sword Artwork On-line novels. The story depicts Kirito’s journey via the floating Aincrad citadel from the start, floor-by-floor.

Funimation describes the story as follows:

“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 college 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 Sport Grasp deprives them of any option 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 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 demise is rarely very far-off, 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 may, till somebody seems earlier than her: the aloof swordsman, Kirito…”

Yen Press is publishing the Sword Artwork On-line: Progressive novel collection in English, in addition to two manga variations.