{"id":3816,"date":"2021-11-08T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2021-11-04T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T07:45:37","slug":"where-the-new-sword-art-online-movie-fits-in-the-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/where-the-new-sword-art-online-movie-fits-in-the-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the New <i>Sword Art Online<\/i> Movie Fits in the Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newest addition to the <em>Sword Art Online<\/em> franchise, S<em>word Art Online The Movie \u2013Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night<\/em>, hit Japanese theaters late last month. However, unlike past iterations, instead of taking us further into the future, this one takes us back to the beginning and the floating castle of Aincrad.<\/p>\n<p>In the broadest sense, <em>Aria of a Starless Night<\/em> shows us things we have already seen\u2014namely the first days of the death game up through the clearing of the first boss. The same events are more or less covered in the first two episodes of the 2013 <em>Sword Art Online<\/em> TV anime. However, there is one huge difference between the TV show and the new film: the main character isn\u2019t Kirito. It\u2019s Asuka.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s cold opening happens in the final moments of the Sword Art Online beta test on August 31, 2022\u2014as the strongest beta testers rush towards a boss room to gather the last little bit of information they can before the servers go offline.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night Trailer 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8M5DaTWZ5k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film proper, on the other hand, begins on October 14, 2022 and shows bits and pieces of Asuka\u2019s life\u2014i.e., the family pressure she feels at home, the somewhat superficial friends she has at school, and her relationship with her one true friend, Misumi Tozawa. From there, the film moves on to the launch of Sword Art Online on November 6, 2022 and covers from the first day of play through November 27, 2022\u2014detailing the story of how and why Asuka becomes a solo player.<\/p>\n<p>The back half of the film takes place over the course of a two-day period: December 3 and 4, 2022. It covers the second meeting of Kirito and Asuna, the First Floor Boss Strategy Meeting, and the boss fight the following day.<\/p>\n<p>In general, the first half of the film is largely original\u2014as it focuses on the relationship between Asuka and Misumi, their real lives, and their first few weeks in Sword Art Online. The second half of the film is a combination of scenes from the original anime, and the novel on which the film is based <em>Sword Art Online Progressive Volume 01<\/em>. However, things aren\u2019t a one-for-one copy as it retains Asuka as the viewpoint character and some events are truncated or reordered\u2014not to mention a few other spoiler-tastic changes I won\u2019t go into here.<\/p>\n<p>S<em>word Art Online The Movie \u2013Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night<\/em> was released in Japan on October 30, 2021. It will be released in theaters in the US and Canada on December 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em>Top image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sao_anime\/status\/1454108261880266758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1 \u30bd\u30fc\u30c9\u30a2\u30fc\u30c8\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30f3 \u516c\u5f0f<\/a> on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/where-the-new-sword-art-online-movie-fits-in-the-timeline\/\">Click to Read<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where the New &lt;i&gt;Sword Art Online&lt;\/i&gt; Movie Fits in the Timeline<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sword-art-online","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biggestinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FC4FRJmakAAc4Mx.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}