The Sword Artwork On-line the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Evening anime movie might be launched on Thursday December 9 in cinemas within the UK and Eire.

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

Ayako Kawano (unit director on Black Butler: Guide of the Atlantic, Excessive College Fleet, The Seven Lethal Sins the Film: Prisoners of the Sky) directed the movie at A-1 Footage, 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 authentic Sword Artwork On-line novels. The story depicts Kirito’s journey by way of the floating Aincrad fortress 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’ have been identified by these names… The day that she occurred to don the NerveGear, Asuna Yuuki was a third-year center faculty 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, immediately discover themselves trapped inside the sport when the Recreation Grasp deprives them of any technique to sign off.

“The Recreation Grasp then provides them this warning “This can be a sport, but it surely’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 type of gamers is Asuna, however regardless of not but understanding the foundations of this world, she units off to beat the floating iron fortress, Aincrad, whose peak is just too excessive to be seen.

“As the times go by on this world the place loss of life isn’t very far-off, 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…”

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