
Before leaving, Kirito notices on Shigemura's desk a picture of a girl who resembles Yuna. Kirito goes to the school and meets Professor Tetsuhiro Shigemura who developed Augma, but Shigemura refuses to answer any questions. Kirito and Yui discover she is pointing towards Touto Technical University. Later, Kirito meets the hooded girl again who repeats her actions from before. Yui fails to retrieve it after being locked out by the game. Kirito investigates the issue with Sinon during a boss battle, where an SAO player is defeated and a glowing orb floats upward into an OS drone. Asuna realizes her memories of SAO are fading and at a hospital visit with Kirito, learn that the Augma scanned her brain for SAO memories and that it could also happen to other SAO survivors playing OS. Asuna is hit by the boss and passes out upon saving Silica who was pushed into the boss' path by Eiji.

Kirito meets with Asuna, who theorizes that Eiji was a member of the Knights of the Blood Oath named Nautilus, while Yui deduces that the spawn locations of the Aincrad bosses line up with the SAO dungeon maps.Īsuna, Lisbeth and Silica enter another fight where Yuna and Eiji appear again. The following morning, as Kirito practices with OS in a park, a girl in a white hood appears and points off into the distance before disappearing. Klein and his group are ambushed and defeated by the sudden appearance of another boss and Eiji. Asuna proceeds to the fight which is again presided over by Yuna. The next night, Asuna joins Klein and his group for another boss fight while waiting for their last group member, unaware that he was injured by Eiji the night before. Before Asuna makes the killing blow, Eiji whispers the word "Switch," a game mechanic from SAO that she recognizes. Eiji, the number-two player, aides the group in defeating the boss. Kirito fails to achieve anything due to lack of physical strength and quickness. Kirito joins Asuna and Klein in a boss fight where the game's mascot, AI idol singer Yuna, appears and gives players buff effects as she sings. The most prominent combat-based game is Ordinal Scale, in which a player's abilities are ranked by ordinal numbers.Īsuna, Lisbeth and Silica encourage Kirito to play OS upon hearing that Aincrad bosses have appeared. In the year 2026, the Augma is released to the public as an alternative system to the AmuSphere, due to its function to simulate reality while the player is conscious rather than using FullDive. It was released in Japan, Southeast Asia, and Germany on February 18, 2017, in Mexico on March 4, 2017, and in the United States on March 9, 2017.īased on Sword Art Online by Reki Kawahara The film is produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Tomohiko Itō, featuring an original story by Kawahara, character designs by Shingo Adachi and music by Yuki Kajiura.
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Shingo Adachi is also returning from the TV anime to design the characters.Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (Japanese: 劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール is a 2017 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film based on the Sword Art Online light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec. Tomohiko Ito is returning from the two TV anime series and the anime special to direct the film at A-1 Pictures. Yuki Kajiura will return to compose the film's soundtrack.

"Ordinal Scale" is an "ARMMO RPG" exclusive to the Augma.

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