Animated film "SWORD ART ONLINE THE MOVIE -Ordinal Scale-" to be released by the end of 2017!　With a completely new story by the original author

The animation film "SWORD ART ONLINE THE MOVIE -Ordinal Scale-" has been announced.

This is a new theatrical version of the TV anime "Sword Art Online". It is a completely new story written by Reki Kawahara, who is in charge of the original light novel series that has sold a total of 16.7 million copies worldwide, and will be released within 2017. The staff includes Tomohiko Ito as director, abec as original character designer, Shingo Adachi as character designer, Yuki Kajiura as music director, and A-1 Pictures as production designer.

In conjunction with this announcement, a key visual of the main character Kirito and heroine Asuna in new costumes and character settings by abec, who is in charge of the character design draft, were also released.

＜Story
The new augmented reality (AR) terminal "Augmar" andthe fate that awaits Kirito and his friends in thenext stage of"Ordinal Scale"...
The "Augmar".
A next-generation wearable multi-device that looks like a small pair of headphones. Its compactness far surpasses that of the VR machine "Amosphere. Instead of a full dive function, the AR (Augmented Reality) function has been expanded to the maximum extent. It can send visual, auditory, and tactile information to a person in a waking state, and an increasing number of users are enjoying fitness and health management as if it were a game.
The "Ordinal Scale.
This ARMMO RPG dedicated to "augmented reality" became the talk of the town as a next-generation game using the latest technology and took the world by storm as soon as it was released. The game is played in the real world, and the player's "rank" is raised by collecting items that appear in various locations and defeating monsters. The characteristic feature of "Ordinal Scale (OS)" is this "ranking system," in which the status of all players is determined by their rank number, which is not a cardinal number but an ordinal number. Therefore, the player with the highest rank is given overwhelming power, and in solo PvP, the rank order is a major factor in victory or defeat.