The Sword Art Online: Progressive film is collaborating with MARVEL’s Eternals. The anime film officially premiered on October 30, 2021, while the Eternals opened on November 5, 2021, nationwide in Japan.
The official Disney Japane YouTube account uploaded the video:
The narrators of the video are Haruka Tomatsu (Yuuki Asuna) and Tsunematsu Ayumi (Sersi). According to the official Japanese website of MARVEL, the two movies have a strong collaboration. Sword Art Online: Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night and MARVEL’s Eternals share many common points such as they are both “Beginning Stories” of the original series. SAO: Progressive shows the beginning of Kirito and Asuna’s life in a virtual reality world, while Eternals reveals the origin of all heroes before the Avengers were born. It was also stated in the article that Reki Kawahara, the author of the Sword Art Online series, and other staff of the anime film were big fans of MARVEL studios movies.
In addition, the official Twitter Account of SAO also uploaded a key visual, promoting the collaboration:
Eternals is an American film by MARVEL studios. It introduces an alien race that emerged from hiding after thousand years to save the world. The Eternals were created by Jack Kirby and debuted in 1976. The movie will show the origin of all heroes before the events in the blockbuster movie The Avengers. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) will direct the film, while Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures will distribute it.
The anime film Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night is based on Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online: Progressive light novel series. ASCII Media Works started serializing the novel in October 2012, which is still ongoing and currently has 8 volumes available. The movie adapts some parts of the novel’s first volume, and it will be available in more than 40 countries soon.
A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online series, 86-Eighty Six-) animated the movie, while Ayako Kono (Gate) directed it. A sequel for the movie titled Sword Art Online: Progressive – Kuraki Yuuyami no Scherzo has also been announced.
“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
Lastly, you can watch the main trailer of the anime film below:
Source: Official Japanese Website of MARVEL, Official Twitter of SAO
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