For those wanting to re-experience the beginning of the legendary Sword Art Online franchise business, we’ll have the ability to dive back right into the life-or-death globe of Aincard quickly with Sword Art Online the Film -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Evening, a brand-new function movie that will certainly be concerning movie theaters in the UK as well as Ireland, the representative Funimation UK revealed today.
The movie is an adjustment of Sword Art Online -Progressive-, a spin-off light unique collection by the franchise business’s initial writer Reki Kawahara. The collection is a broadened retelling of the very first tale arc, covering the development of each flooring in the online globe of Aincrad, with a higher focus on the franchise business’s lead heroine, Asuna Yuuki.
Funimation explain the movie’s tale as complies with:
This is a story of the moment prior to “Lightning Flash” as well as “The Black Swordsman” were recognized by those names …
The day that she took place to wear the NerveGear, Asuna Yuuki was a third-year intermediate school trainee that had actually never ever also touched an on-line video game prior to.
On November 6, 2022, the globe’s very first VRMMORPG, Sword Art Online, is formally introduced. However the gamers, still blissful over having actually visited, unexpectedly discover themselves caught inside the video game when the Video game Master robs them of any kind of means to log out.
The Video game Master after that provides this caution “This may be a game, but it’s not something you play.” If a gamer passes away in-game, they pass away in the real life.
Hearing this, every one of the gamers panic, as well as ruckus rules.
Among those gamers is Asuna, yet in spite of not yet recognizing the regulations of this globe, she triggers to overcome the drifting iron castle, Aincrad, whose top is too expensive to be seen.
As the days pass in this globe where fatality is never ever really away, she has an eventful experience. And after that, a parting …
Though she goes to the grace of the truth prior to her eyes, Asuna battles on with all her might, till a person shows up prior to her: the apart swordsman, Kirito …
Sword Art Online -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Evening is arranged to be launched in Japan on 30th October 2021, The United States And Canada as well as Canada on third December, after that Australia as well as New Zealand on 9th December. A launch day for the UK as well as Ireland has yet to be revealed.
The light unique collection was very first launched in 2012, with 8 quantities presently launched in Japan considering that, 6 of which are offered localized right into English by Yen Press. The collection additionally obtained a manga adjustment with art by Kiseki Himura has actually been released considering that 2014, as well as in English by Yen Press considering that 2015.
This notes the Sword Art Online franchise business’s go back to Funimation UK, that formerly launched the really initial period while they were still called Manga Enjoyment. Succeeding periods of the tv anime, its spin-off Sword Art Online Option: Weapon Wind Online, as well as 2017’s movie Sword Art Online the Film: Ordinal Range were launched by Anime Limited, that have the 4th period Sword Art Online Alicization: Battle of Abyss arranged for house video clip launch in 2 components in November as well as December.
Resource: Funimation