The anime film Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night has received a new trailer, ten days after the premiere on October 30, 2021. The video shows new clips that we didn’t see from all of the previous trailers of SAO Progressive. It also contains the first half of LiSA’s song Yuke for the background music
You can watch the video below:
The movie premiered on October 30, 2021, in IMAX, nationwide in Japan and it ranked first in the opening box revenue during its first weekend. Funimation will screen it in December 2021 in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Odex will also deliver the movie in Southeast Asia in January 2022.
A new key visual was also revealed:
Sword Art Online: Progressive is a Japanese light novel series by Reki Kawahara, with abec’s illustrations. ASCII Media Works started serializing the novel in October 2012, and it currently has 8 volumes in circulation.
The anime film adapts some parts of the novel’s first volume and it will be available in more than 40 countries soon. Ayako Kono (Gate) directed it, while A-1 Pictures (86-Eighty Six-, Sword Art Online series) took care of the animation. Lastly, a sequel for the movie titled Sword Art Online: Progressive – Kuraki Yuuyami no Scherzo has been announced and it will premiere in 2022.
Yen Press is publishing Sword Art Online: Progressive light novels in English:
“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?
Yen Press
Source: Official Website
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