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Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale to Release on February 18 – New Visual & Trailer Revealed

At the recent Dengeki Bunko Aki no Saiten 2016 event, it was revealed that the upcoming Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale anime film will release in Japan on February 18, 2017. In addition, a brand new visual and trailer was also revealed.

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The film will release on Saturday, February 18th in Japan in over 150 theatres in Spring 2017. In addition, the International website of the movie has also echoed that the film is set for a Spring 2017 release in North America, and is projected to run in approximately 1000 theatres around the world.

The second full trailer for the film has been revealed online with English subtitles. The video introduces the new game and AR technology and the new characters that will debut in the film:

The first full theatrical trailer.

Here is the film’s announcement trailer:

The new characters that will debut in the film have been revealed, but their respective cast members have yet to be announced. They include:

  • Yuna

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  • Dr. Shigemura

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  • Eiji

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The main cast of the previous two anime seasons will return in the upcoming movie with new original character designs:

  • Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Sora in No Game No Life) will be back to voice Kirito

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  • Haruka Tomatsu (Haruka Takayama in Sakura Trick) returns as Asuna

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  • Kanae Itou (Ruiko Saten from Toaru Kagaku no Railgun) voicing as Yui

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  • Rina Hidaka (Airi Kashii in Ro-Kyu-Bu!) as Silica

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  • Ayahi Takagaki (Mikako Satsukitane in Sora no Otoshimono) will voice Lisbeth

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  • Ayana Taketatsu (Kirino Kousaka from Oreimo) voicing Leafa

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  • Miyuki Sawashiro (Celty Sturluson from Durarara!!) is back as Sinon

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  • Hiroaki Hirata (Sanji from One Piece) will return to voice Klein

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  • Hiroki Yasumoto (Germany from Hetalia) as Agil

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  • Koichi Yamadera (Togusa in Ghost in the Shell) will reprise his role as Akihiko Kayaba

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The film will feature the new AR-VMMORPG Ordinal Scale that utilises the new Augma Augmented Reality device. Players rank up in the game by defeating monsters and using special items.It will have an original story, not adapting of Kawahara’s any previous work; set after the Mother’s Rosario arc, which was the third and final arc to be animated in Sword Art Online II. The arc itself was featured in the light novel’s 7th volume.

The Director of first two seasons, Tomohiko Ito (Silver Spoon, Seikimatsu Occult Gakui), will return to direct the film alongside Anime Character Designer Shingo Adachi (Working!!, Galilei Donna). Yuki Kajiura (Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica, Fate/Zero) will also return to compose the music and A-1 Pictures (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, AnoHana) will be back to animate the film. Reki Kawahara will be writing the movie’s original story.

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Sword Art Online is a light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec, who also is the author of Accel World. The light novel series began in 2009 being published in ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko. To date a total of 17 volumes have been compiled in the series. Since the series’ debut, the series has sold over 16 million copies, topping the charts in 2012. Additionally in 2012, an anime adaptation was released. The Sword Art Online anime aired in July and was produced by A-1 Pictures, which received a large reception; it was followed by a recap film and a second season. Since then, the series has appeared on a plethora of media with international merchandise, various manga adaptations of the light novel’s arcs, and video games. In addition, Kawahara has relaunched the series as Sword Art Online: Progressive, a re-release of the light novels with additional content.

Here is a synopsis of the anime from MAL:

1 year after the SAO incident, Kirito is approached by Seijiro Kikuoka from Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Department “VR Division” with a rather peculiar request.

That was an investigation on the “Death Gun” incident that occurred in the gun and steel filled VRMMO called Gun Gale Online (GGO). “Players who are shot by a mysterious avatar with a jet black gun lose their lives even in the real world…” Failing to turn down Kikuoka’s bizarre request, Kirito logs in to GGO even though he is not completely convinced that the virtual world could physically affect the real world.

Kirito wanders in an unfamiliar world in order to gain any clues about the “Death Gun.” Then, a female sniper named Sinon who owns a gigantic “Hecate II” rifle extends Kirito a helping hand. With Sinon’s help, Kirito decides to enter the “Bullet of Bullets,” a large tournament to choose the most powerful gunner within the realm of GGO, in hopes to become the target of the “Death Gun” and make direct contact with the mysterious avatar.

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Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale will release on February 18th, 2017 across over 150 Japanese theatres in Spring 2017. The movie will also be out across North America in Spring 2017. More information about the anime movie will be revealed in the upcoming weeks.

Visit the film’s website here: http://sao-movie.net/
Check out their International site here: http://sao-movie.net/us/
And follow the latest developments on their Twitter: @sao_anime

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