Gekijôban Sword Art Online Progressive Hoshi naki yoru no Aria: Anime film from the popular series about “Sword Art Online “
Plot and background
Whoever dies in this video game also dies in the real world. Full of anticipation, millions of players logged into the first Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game – VRMMORPG for short – on 6 November 2022, only to find out a short time later that they could no longer log out easily. The game holds them captive.
Among the players is middle school student Asuna Yuuki, for whom it all began quite by chance. She has never played an online game before and put on her NerveGear rather by chance and now finds herself exposed to dangers in the virtual world.
When word spreads that one dies if one’s life points fall to 0, panic breaks out in the virtual world. It is now up to the players to do everything they can to conquer the floating iron castle of Aincrad. For Asuna, the challenges are not only of a physical nature; once a beloved person dies, the game begins to reveal its evil depths. But she soon meets the aloof swordsman Kirito, with whom she will form an important alliance.
“Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night” – background, cinema release
The anime film “Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night” is based on the popular light novel series “Sword Art Online”, which is about the VR MMORPG of the same name. Since 2009, the book series by Reki Kawahara has enjoyed great popularity worldwide, and in 2017 the anime series “Sword Art Online” was released.
“Sword Art Online Progressive” is a light novel series by Reki Kawahara himself that follows the plot of the main anime, but condenses it so that it is told within a few volumes. The focus is on the beginnings of the game and how the two main characters Asuna and Kirito found their way to the game and met for the first time. The two anime films “Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night” and “Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night” are direct adaptations of these prequel novels.
On 27 June 2023, the first of the two films, “Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night”, will be released in German cinemas, both in German synchro and in original Japanese sound. “Scherzo of Deep Night” will be released on 25 July 2023.
