Sword Art Online has been around for more than a decade now, and the anime is planning to release a new season soon. The hit sci-fi fantasy adventure anime celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2022, and Sword Art Online continues to thrive. The anime, which is based on the light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec, has teased that a new Sword Art Online movie is in production for Kirito and his friends.
The official announcement for the upcoming Sword Art Online movie was made on X (formerly Twitter), following the first terrestrial broadcast of Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night, which is a new original film project announced in 2022. The tweet thanked viewers for watching the broadcast, and announced: "A completely new theatrical anime is in production. Please wait for further information!"
What is Sword Art Online about?
Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online light novel series started publication on ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko imprint from April 2009, and it spawned multiple TV anime adaptations, manga, movies, and spin-off light novels. The latest anime of the franchise was Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld: Part II, which broadcasted in the Summer 2020 anime season. A feature film titled Ordinal Scale was also released.
The Progressive movie series is based on the light novel of the same title, which features the story of Sword Art Online's first arc.
If you want to know what the anime is about, you can read the official synopsis of Sword Art Online below:
In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called: Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...
The production team recently announced that the Ordinal Scale film is getting an Ultra HD 4K release, scheduled to release in February 2024. You can check out the announcement video below:
Sword Art Online anime is available to stream on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Netflix. The spin-off anime series, Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, is streaming on Crunchyroll, and Season 2 was officially confirmed to release.
