Funimation recently announced that tickets for the upcoming sci-fi film, Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night, based on the light novels, are on sale in the United States and Canada at Fandango.
Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Details
Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive-, screened in both English subtitles and dub, arrives in more than 750 theaters — including U.S.-based IMAX theaters with subtitles — in the United States and Canada on Friday, December 3; in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand (December 9); and in South Africa (December 10). Tickets are also on sale starting November 9 in Australia and New Zealand, and on November 19 for the United Kingdom and Ireland. The film also has a running time of 1 hour and 37 minutes and is directed by Ayako Kono with animation production from A-1 Pictures.
Based on the original story from Reki Kawahara (Dengeki Bunko), Sword Art Online the Movie-Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night travels back to the beginning of the saga where players find themselves trapped inside the world’s first VRMMORPG, Sword Art Online, with no way out. The film’s cast includes Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese voice) and Bryce Papenbrook (English voice) as Kirito, Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese voice) and Cherami Leigh (English voice) as Asuna, and Inori Minase (Japanese voice); TBA (English voice) as Mito.
Synopsis
This is a tale of the time before “Lightning Flash” and “The Black Swordsman” were known by those names… The day that she happened to don the NerveGear, Asuna Yuuki was a third-year middle school studentwho’d never even touched an online game before. On November 6, 2022, the world’s first VRMMORPG, Sword Art Online, is officially launched. But the players, still euphoric over having logged in, suddenly find themselves trapped inside the game when the Game Master deprives them of any way to log out. The Game Master then gives them this warning “This may be a game, but it’s not something you play.” If
a player dies in-game, they die in the real world. Hearing this, all of the players panic, and pandemonium reigns. One of those players is Asuna, but despite not yet knowing the rules of this world, she sets off to conquer the floating iron castle, Aincrad, whose peak is too high to be seen. As the days go by in this world where death is never very far away, she has a fateful encounter. And then, a parting… Though she’s at the mercy of the reality before her eyes, Asuna fights on with all her might until someone appears before her: the aloof swordsman, Kirito…
Source: press release
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