The popular-hit anime film, Sword Art Online: Progressive Aria of a Starless Night- will be having a general screening in the Philippines starting on March 9, 2022. The movie had a fan screening in the country on February 26, 2022, which was attended by many SAO fans, making the whole theater occupied.
ODEX Philippines confirmed the general screening on its official Facebook and Twitter accounts:
The movie will be available in the following SM branches:
- SM Aura
- SM Bacoor
- SM Baguio
- SM Baliwag
- SM Batangas
- SM BF
- SM Bicutan
- SM Calamba
- SM Cebu
- SM Clark
- SM Dasma
- SM Fairview
- SM Grand Central
- SM Legazpi
- SM Lipa
- SM Mall of Asia
- SM Manila
- SM Marilao
- SM Masinag
- SM Megamall
- SM North Edsa
- SM Rosales
- SM San Pablo
- SM Southmall
- SM Sta Mesa
- SM Sta Rosa
- SM Sucat
- SM Tarlac
You can make a reservation and buy tickets on the official website of SM Cinemas. The ticket costs 350 pesos (~US$6.82) and it includes popcorn. If you are planning on watching the show, you must follow the following guidelines:
- You must be fully vaccinated and bring your own vaccination card.
- For Alert level 3 places, minors (12 to 17 years old) are only allowed to watch if they are fully vaccinated.
- For Alert level 2 places, minors (12 years old and below) are allowed to watch if they are accompanied by a fully vaccinated adult.
- Wear your face mask
- You cannot eat inside the theatre
You can also watch the trailer of Sword Art Online with English subtitles made by ODEX below:
“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!
SM Cinemas
Sword Art Online: Progressive originally premiered on October 30, 2021, and was also available in IMAX theatres nationwide in Japan. The anime film topped the box office revenue during the opening weekend, earning more than 349 million yen (~US$3.04 million). In three weeks, the movie earned over 1 billion yen (~US$8.79 million). The anime film was also the first show to use the IMAX 12-channel sound system, marking history in Japanese theaters. A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online series, 86-Eighty Six-) animated the movie, while Ayako Kono (Gate) directed it.
Sword Art Online: Progressive -Aria of a Starless Night- anime film is based on Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online: Progressive light novel series. The movie adapted the events on floor 1 of Aincrad, which can be found in the novel’s first volume. A sequel movie titled Sword Art Online: Progressive -Scherzo of the Deep Night- has also been announced, and it will adapt the events on floor 5 of Aincrad. ASCII Media Works is publishing the novel since October 2012 with abec’s illustrations, and it currently has 8 volumes available. The light novel shows the events in the lives of Kirito and Asuna in Aincrad that were not shown in the original anime series because of the time skip.
Source: Official Facebook and Official Twitter of ODEX Philippines
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