Last month it was announced that Reki Kawahara’s sixth volume of the Sword Art Online light novel series, Sword Art Online: Progressive, will be receiving an anime adaptation. The official Twitter of the Sword Art Online anime, recently announced that Sword Art Online: Progressive will be adapted into a movie, the new title is called Sword Art Online Progressive THE MOVIE: Hoshi Naku Yoru no Aria (Aria of a Starless Night). Along with the announcement a new visual and a new promotional video was released for the film. The production staff was listed and Kirito and Asuna’s voice actors will be returning.
The production staff consists of:
- Head Director: Ayako Kawano
- Character Designer: Kento Toya
- Key Animator: Yasuyuki Kai
- Music: Yuki Kajiura
- Head Animation Studio: A-1 Pictures
Here is the new visual for Sword Art Online Progressive the movie:
Kawahara’s sixth volume, Sword Art Online: Progressive retells the original series of Sword Art Online and was first launched in 2012. It features Kirito and Asuna clearing each floor during the Aincrad arc. The film will be adapting the first chapter of the Sword Art Online: Progressive light novel. Yen Press is publishing Sword Art Online: Progressive and the two manga adaptation of the light novel in English.
Here is the new promotional video:
https://twitter.com/sao_anime/status/1325410075339452416?s=20
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 Progressive Website, SAO Anime Twitter
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