The official website for the anime film adaptation of Reki Kawahara and abec's Sword Art Online: Progressive light novels series, titled Sword Art Online the Movie: The Aria of the Night Without Stars, has announced that LiSA will be performing the film's theme song titled, "Yuke." LiSA wrote the lyrics, while Ayase from YOASOBI composed the song and Ryo Eguchi arranged it.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Haruka Tomatsu are returning as Kirito and Asuna in the voice cast.
Yen Press describes the first volume of the series as:
'There's no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die...'One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead. Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone. Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, the surviving players of Sword Art Online are starting to get desperate, and desperation makes them dangerous to loners like Kirito and Asuna. As it becomes clear that solitude equals suicide, will the two be able to overcome their differences to find the strength to believe in each other, and in so doing survive?Sword Art Online: Progressive is a new version of the Sword Art Online tale that starts at the beginning of Kirito and Asuna's epic adventure--on the very first level of the deadly world of Aincrad!
Sword Art Online the Movie: The Aria of the Night Without Stars is set to premiere in Japan on October 30, 2021.
The English Twitter account for Sword Art Online has also announced that information on the English release will be revealed soon.
15-SECOND PV:
30-SECOND PV:
CHARACTER VISUALS:
KIRITO
ASUNA:
MITO:
NEW CAST ANNOUNCEMENT:
Inori Minase as Mito
Ayako Kawano is directing the film at A-1 Pictures, and Kento Toya is designing the characters. Yasuyuki Kai is serving as action director, and Yuki Kajiura is returning to compose the music.
MAIN VISUAL:
The Sword Art Online: Progressive novel series is a retelling of the events of the Aincard arc of Sword Art Online, started nearly a decade after author Reki Kawahara wrote the original web novel.
Yen Press describes the first volume of the series as:
'There's no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die...'One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead. Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone. Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, the surviving players of Sword Art Online are starting to get desperate, and desperation makes them dangerous to loners like Kirito and Asuna. As it becomes clear that solitude equals suicide, will the two be able to overcome their differences to find the strength to believe in each other, and in so doing survive?Sword Art Online: Progressive is a new version of the Sword Art Online tale that starts at the beginning of Kirito and Asuna's epic adventure--on the very first level of the deadly world of Aincrad!