New trailer for "SWORD ART ONLINE THE MOVIE - Progressive - Scherzo in the Dark of Dusk" to be released in September! The theme song is by Aoi Eir!

The visual and the second trailer of "SWORD ART ONLINE THE MOVIE - Progressive - Scherzo in the Dark of the Underworld" have been released.

The "SWORD ART ONLINE" series of novels by Reki Kawahara won the 15th Dengeki Novel Award (Grand Prize). The TV anime began airing in 2012, and "Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale" was released in 2017.

Sword Art Online Progressive" is a reboot series by the author himself that delves deeply into the trajectory of the story of "SAO" from the first layer of Aincrad, where it all began.

⇒The story of the beginning of "SAO" has evolved over the past 10 years! Interview with Inori Minase as Fukasumi Usazawa and Mito in "Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of the Hoshinaki Yoru"!

⇒Click here for the screening schedule of the anime film.

And "SWORD ART ONLINE THE MOVIE -PROGRESSIVE- SCHELZO IN THE DEEP EVENING DARK" will be released on September 10, 2022. The visual released today features the catchphrase "Surely, you can be strong. The visual depicts Kirito, Asuna, Mito from the previous "Hoshinaki Yoru no Aria" and Argo, who will be joining the game this year.

The trailer released along with the film makes it impossible to take one's eyes off of the story.

The theme song will be sung by Eir Aoi, who has sung the theme song for many episodes since the TV anime "Sword Art Online" Fairy Dance. Sadashijo Matsuoka, who plays Kirito, and Eir Aoi are scheduled to appear on stage at the completion announcement screening on Wednesday, August 24, for which advance lottery applications are being accepted.

Second Trailer

The story of the fifth layer of the floating castle "Aincrad", which has not been revealed in the TV series, will be depicted in this game. In this video, we see a group of people who are absorbed in PK (player-kill), ignoring the game, and we see someone pointing a weapon at Asuna and a man wearing a hooded cloak approaching..!

What is the meaning of the meaningful words, "To clear this game, we need both DKB and ALS", which foreshadows that something is happening to the two major guilds?

Kirito and Asuna join forces with Mito, Argo, and Egil, who entered the game from the previous game, to face the boss, but a powerful enemy, different from the boss monster Kirito saw in the beta, appears--! Will they be able to clear the fifth layer⁉

Comment from Eir Aoi
I am very happy to be in charge of the theme song for the movie version of SAO, which is very important to me.
Both lyrics and music were written by n-buna.
When I heard the song for the first time, I thought it was a song with a clear "stillness" and "movement," with a "sadness" in it, but also a "freedom. I got the impression that it had an image of "freedom.
I would like you to listen to the lyrics with the will to "fly to anywhere".
I hope that the song "Heart," which I sang with different emotions according to the lyrics, will reach your heart....
I would like to continue to sing this song with great care, staying close to the world of SAO.
(Original text)

【Music information
Aoi Eir "Heart
Lyrics, Composition, Arrangement: n-buna (from Yorshka)
2022.9.7(Wed) Distribution & CD release

0First Press Limited Edition [CD+DVD].
DVD includes "Heart" Music Video
Normal Edition [CD] (CD+DVD)
Limited time production edition [CD+DVD].
Digipak with anime illustration
DVD will include "SWORD ART ONLINE THE MOVIE - Progressive - Darkness in the Evening Scherzo" and "Heart" Music Video.

Completion Screening
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Scherzo in the Dark of the Underworld - Completion Unveiling Screening
Date：August 24, 2022 (Wednesday)
Place: Shinjuku Wald 9
Advance lottery sales：# (Applications accepted until August 16, 11:00)
General sales：August 17 (Wed.) 10:00 -

Film Information

Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Scherzo in the Dark of the Underworld
Opening in theaters on September 10 (Sat), 2022

＜Cast
Asuna: Haruka Tomatsu
Kirito: Matsuoka Teijo
Mito: Inori Minase
Argo: Izawa Shiori
Egil: Hiroki Yasumoto
Kibaou: Tomokazu Seki
Lieutenant: Kaede Motowatari
Shivata: Yusuke Nagano
Lindo: Takeo Otsuka
Yamata: Shinya Takahashi
Wolfgang: Yohei Azaue
Lorbacka: Yuki Tamai
Naijan: Koji Seki
Joe : Ryota Osaka
Morte : Yusuke Kobayashi

<Staff
Original Story Design : Reki Kawahara(Dengeki Bunko)
Original Illustration/Character Design Design : abec
Director：Ayako Kono
Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Kento Toya
Action director/ Monster design：Yasuyuki Kai
Music: Kajiura Yuki
Production: A-1 Pictures
Production: SAO-P Project
Distributor: Aniplex

＜Introduction
The "Sword Art Online" series of novels by Reki Kawahara, winner of the 15th Dengeki Novel Award (Grand Prize), is published by Dengeki Bunko.
The story, which depicts the activities of the main character Kirito in the next-generation VRMMORPG "Sword Art Online," has been highly popular since the first volume of the original novel was released in April 2009, and as of 2022, the total number of copies sold worldwide has exceeded 30 million.
The first season of the TV anime aired in 2012, and in addition to the four series (97 episodes*1) that have continued to the present, "Sword Art Online the Movie -Ordinal Scale-" will be released in 2017.
In addition, "Sword Art Online -Ordinal Scale- the Movie" was released in 2017. The series has also been developed into a wide range of media mixes, including games and comic book adaptations.

Sword Art Online Progressive" is a reboot series by the author himself that delves deeply into the trajectory of "SAO" from the first layer of Aincrad, where the story of "SAO" all began.
In 2021, a completely new animated film series based on "Progressive" will begin. The first film, "Aria: A Night Without Stars," which depicted a new "Aincrad" chapter from the perspective of Kirito and the heroine Asuna, debuted at No. 1 on the weekend box office rankings and was a long-running hit for 10 weeks in all prefectures.
In 2022, the sequel, "Scherzo in the Dark of the Evening," will finally open.

A death game in which game over is directly linked to death in real life.
The long-awaited second animated film of "Sword Art Online Progressive" traces the origin of the story!

*1 Excluding the compilation and "Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online".

(C)2020 Reki Kawahara/KADOKAWA/SAO-P Project