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Sword Art Online Progressive Film Opens in Indian Theaters on February 25
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PVR Pictures announced on Tuesday that the Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night anime film will open in Indian theaters on February 25.
Ticket booking platform BookMyShow describes the film:
High school student Asuna struggles to survive with a young swordsman after its revealed that she is trapped inside the game of Sword Art Online, where if your HP drops to zero, your brain will be destroyed in real life.
The film had an advance IMAX screening on September 15 at the T-Joy PRINCE Shinagawa theater in Tokyo. The film then opened nationwide in Japan on October 30 in standard and IMAX theaters, and topped the box office in its first weekend. The film earned a cumulative total of 1,326,146,793 yen (about US$11.67 million) as of December.
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) designied the characters. Yasuyuki Kai served as action director, and Yuki Kajiura returned to compose the music.
Also returning are Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kirito and Haruka Tomatsu as Asuna in the voice cast.
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.
A new film titled Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Kuraki Yūyami no Scherzo (Scherzo of a Dark Dusk) will open in 2022.
Sources: PVR Pictures's Twitter account, BookMyShow
