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2nd Sword Art Online Progressive Anime Film's Teaser Video Streamed
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
A stage presentation for the Sword Art Online franchise at the AnimeJapan 2022 event on Sunday revealed a teaser video for Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Kuraki Yūyami no Scherzo (Scherzo of a Dark Dusk), the second film in the Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- anime film series.
The film will open in Japan this fall.
The event also revealed a video for the Sword Art Online franchise's 10th anniversary. The franchise will host a 10th anniversary event on November 6 in Tokyo.
Additionally, the event revealed a video for the home video release of Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night on July 8.
Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night, the first anime film in the project, opened in Japan in October 2021, and topped the box office in its first weekend.
Funimation screened the film in both standard and IMAX theaters in the United States and Canada on December 3 last year and screened the film in Australia and New Zealand on December 9. The film opened in over 40 countries and territories around the world. Odex screened the film in Southeast Asia last year.
Ayako Kohno (unit director on Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic, High School Fleet, The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky) directed the film at A-1 Pictures, and Kento Toya (Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld, The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments) designed the characters. Yasuyuki Kai served as action director, and Yuki Kajiura returned to compose the music.
The anime is based on Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online: Progressive light novel series. The novel series launched in 2012 as a revised retelling of Kawahara's original Sword Art Online novels. The story depicts Kirito's journey through the floating Aincrad castle from the beginning, floor-by-floor. Yen Press is publishing the Sword Art Online: Progressive novel series in English, as well as two manga adaptations.
Sources: AnimeJapan 2022 stage presentation, press release
