The official Twitter account for the anime film adaptation of Reki Kawahara and abec's Sword Art Online: Progressive light novels series has announced that the second film in the Progressive franchise will be shown in IMAX theaters at the same time as in regular theaters. They've released a new poster with the announcement.
Eir Aoi will perform the theme song titled, "Shinzо̄" (Heart). n-buna of the band Yorushika wrote the song.
They've confirmed that the staff and cast from the first film are returning.
Kaede Hondo will voice Liten, and YÅ«suke Kobayashi will voice Morte.
Shiori Izawa has been cast as Argo "The Rat", an information broker in Sword Art Online.
Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Kuraki YÅ«yami no Scherzo (Scherzo of a Dark Dusk) is set to premiere on September 10. 2022.
IMAX POSTER:
2ND TRAILER:
KEY VISUAL:
LiSA performed the first 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 returned as Kirito and Asuna in the voice cast.
Aniplex and Funimation describe the film as:
This is a tale of the time before “Lightning Flash” and “The Black Swordsman” were known by those names…
The day that she happened to don the NerveGear, Asuna Yuuki was a third-year middle school student who’d never even touched an online game before.
On November 6, 2022, the world’s first VRMMORPG, Sword Art Online, is officially launched. But the players, still euphoric over having logged in, suddenly find themselves trapped inside the game when the Game Master deprives them of any way to log out.
The Game Master then gives them this warning “This may be a game, but it’s not something you play.” If a player dies in-game, they die in the real world.
Hearing this, all of the players panic, and pandemonium reigns.
One of those players is Asuna, but despite not yet knowing the rules of this world, she sets off to conquer the floating iron castle, Aincrad, whose peak is too high to be seen.
As the days go by in this world where death is never very far away, she has a fateful encounter. And then, a parting…
Though she’s at the mercy of the reality before her eyes, Asuna fights on with all her might, until someone appears before her: the aloof swordsman, Kirito…
Sword Art Online the Movie: The Aria of the Night Without Stars premiered in Japan on October 30, 2021.
The English Twitter account for Sword Art Online has announced that the film will premiere in the United States and Canada on December 3, 2021. Tickets go on sale November 5.
Bryce Papenbrook and Cherami Leigh reprised their roles as Kirito and Asuna, respectively, in the dub.
The film opened in over 40 countries and territories around the world.
Ayako Kawano directed the film at A-1 Pictures, and Kento Toya is designed the characters. Yasuyuki Kai served as action director, and Yuki Kajiura returned to compose the music.
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.
Aniplex and Funimation describe the film as:
This is a tale of the time before “Lightning Flash” and “The Black Swordsman” were known by those names…
The day that she happened to don the NerveGear, Asuna Yuuki was a third-year middle school student who’d never even touched an online game before.
On November 6, 2022, the world’s first VRMMORPG, Sword Art Online, is officially launched. But the players, still euphoric over having logged in, suddenly find themselves trapped inside the game when the Game Master deprives them of any way to log out.
The Game Master then gives them this warning “This may be a game, but it’s not something you play.” If a player dies in-game, they die in the real world.
Hearing this, all of the players panic, and pandemonium reigns.
One of those players is Asuna, but despite not yet knowing the rules of this world, she sets off to conquer the floating iron castle, Aincrad, whose peak is too high to be seen.
As the days go by in this world where death is never very far away, she has a fateful encounter. And then, a parting…
Though she’s at the mercy of the reality before her eyes, Asuna fights on with all her might, until someone appears before her: the aloof swordsman, Kirito…