Sword Art Online: Progressive Anime Announced!

Immediately after the last episode of Sword Art Online: Alicization aired in Japan, the official Twitter account for the series announced that the sixth volume of the novel series, Sword Art Online: Progressive, will be receiving a TV anime series. The official website of Sword Art Online had also released a visual and an announcement video. There is no additional information regarding the release date of the TV anime series yet, but we’ll keep you posted.

Here is the visual for the announcement:

Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online: Progressive launched in 2012, and retells the original series of Sword Art Online. The story features Kirito’s journey in the Aincrad castle, from the beginning and floor by floor. Sword Art Online: Progressive is being published in English by Yen Press.

Here’s the video announcement of Sword Art Online: Progressive:

《アリシゼーション》編の最終話放送直後に公開となった「ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ」アニメプロジェクト告知映像はこちら！

YouTube：https://t.co/Ci62vkSWRE

公式サイト：https://t.co/rivYvY6aHD#sao_anime pic.twitter.com/kMT4SPxio1

— アニメ ソードアート・オンライン 公式 (@sao_anime) September 19, 2020

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!

Source: SAO Official Twitter, SAO Website