Fans are now halfway through the third season of the wildly successful Sword Art Online anime, so what better time than now to reveal that a brand new video game is being released worldwide for PS4, Xbox One, and PC! Titled Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris, the new game will feature a story inspired by the events of the third TV season. So, if you’ve not caught up on the anime, you might want to be careful of spoilers in the following English subtitled promotional video.
In the promotional video, viewers are introduced to Medina Orthinanos (voiced by Miho Okasaki), who is a new character to the franchise.
The third television season of the hit anime Sword Art Online premiered in October 2018. The first half ran for two cours. The second half, which will also run for two cours, will premiere in October 2019. The story of this season covers the Alicization arc which ran from volume nine to volume eighteen of the light novel series. Crunchyroll describes the story of the third season as:
“Where…am I…?” Before he knows it, Kirito has made a full-dive into an epic, fantasy-like virtual world. With only a murky recollection of what happened right before he logged in, he starts to wander around, searching for clues. He comes upon an enormous, pitch dark tree (the Gigas Cedar), where he encounters a boy. “My name is Eugeo. Nice to meet you, Kirito.” Although he is supposedly a resident of the virtual world – an NPC – the boy shows the same array of emotions as any human being. As Kirito bonds with Eugeo, he continues to search for a way to log out of this world. Meanwhile, he remembers a certain memory deep down within him. He remembers racing through the mountains with Eugeo as a child… A memory that he should not have in the first place… And in this memory, he sees someone other than Eugeo, a young blond girl. Her name is Alice. And it is a name that must never be forgotten…
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