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HIDIVE Streams Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
HIDIVE announced on Thursday that it will stream Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld, the second half of the Sword Art Online: Alicization anime. The stream will debut on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. EDT.
The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX, BS11, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV, and MBS, on October 12, and it will also begin streaming on AbemaTV on the same day. The show will then premiere on AT-X on October 13, and on TV Aichi on October 15. The anime also had a compilation episode for Sword Art Online: Alicization titled "Reflection" that aired last Saturday.
Haruka Tomatsu is performing the show's opening theme song "Resolution." LiSA is performing the show's ending theme song "unlasting."
Funimation and Crunchyroll are both also streaming the series.
Sword Art Online: Alicization premiered in Japan in October 2018, and is streaming on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and FunimationNow. The series is adapting the entire "Alicization Arc" of Reki Kawahara's original novels and will air for four cours, or four quarters of a year. The first two cours aired from October to March.
Manabu Ono (Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, Saki, The Asterisk War) is directing the anime at A-1 Pictures. Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale animation directors Gou Suzuki and Tomoya Nishiguchi are joining Shingo Adachi for the character designs. Yuki Kajiura is returning to compose the music.
Source: Press release
