Announcement: New SAO Movie

Started by Akiba October 5th, 2015 4:16 PM
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At the Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival yesterday, they announced a new Sword Art Online film, with a brand new story.

(Among the many things that were announced, Index 3 was not one of them)

They haven't really said anything about it, and the trailer was as vague as could possibly be:



Next is...

SAO Movie
Since it's based on original LNs, speculation has put it as either a side story or a bridge between SAO II and Alicization.

They'll be releasing more information soon in a few days.

They also said that they'd sell a special set of 131 SAO OSTs.

Lastly,
Illustrator abec will have an art collection book, and fans can vote for which characters will appear on the cover.
I'm ready for some fanservice trash.

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Spoiler:
Plus they just announced the fourth game. At this point, there's more non-Reki material out for SAO than there is Reki stuff.

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With this and the new game, I can only say this...
MOAR SILICA-TAN!!!

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No Index 3? That's depressing.
Well, yeah, the Index novels are actually selling extremely well to the point where they don't even need another anime season to try to boost sales. That's part of why Heavy Object has an anime adaptation this season while Index does not. They're trying to boost sales for other semi-popular LNs in their stable of series.

SAO's movie is probably somewhat tied trying to boost sales for the game, and they're probably intentionally being vague on the details of the plot.
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They couldn't just let it die, they had to milk it's dead, badly abused corpse ;l
Why would it die when the series is popular in Japan, the only market that actually matters to Dengeki Bunko?
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Well, yeah, the Index novels are actually selling extremely well to the point where they don't even need another anime season to try to boost sales. That's part of why Heavy Object has an anime adaptation this season while Index does not. They're trying to boost sales for other semi-popular LNs in their stable of series.

SAO's movie is probably somewhat tied trying to boost sales for the game, and they're probably intentionally being vague on the details of the plot.
That makes perfect sense for them to do. But it still sucks. :/

Anyway, SAO again, huh? I dropped it somewhere in the second season. But I'll give this movie a shot - it is just a movie, after all. Doesn't require as much investment as a series does.

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No Index 3? That's depressing.

I wonder if this will have anything to do with the next game in the series...I think that's supposed to be a prequel or something, so maybe this will be too? I dunno; I don't really care, SAO is a great example of an awesome concept gone horribly wrong. I can't see this being something that is actually enjoyable. xD
Hollow Realization is not prequel. I'm pretty sure it will be "sequel" to Lost Song.
And everything is non-canon anyways so I don't think it will be connected somehow.
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I'll probably give it a watch (maybe when I'm not sober so as to protect my brain cells) but eh, other than that, not hyped up for it. Nothing else could top Mother's Rosario for me.

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Nothing else could top Mother's Rosario for me.
Alicization will. Alicization will.
Even though Yuuki Aoi Yuuki will always be 2nd best girl.
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Ugh, I don't like the idea of original content but well, if it's being written by the author himself it probably won't hurt.

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The problem is that if there's source material waiting to be adapted I can't believe they decided to make a new movie with original content. Therefore: Y U DO DIS SAO

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The problem is that if there's source material waiting to be adapted I can't believe they decided to make a new movie with original content. Therefore: Y U DO DIS SAO
Because there is NO source material waiting to be adapted.
Right now, Alicization is the only thing that is not adapted and obviously that can't start with a movie, right? =D

At best, they could adapt Progressive or the S&L&L spin-off but that also isn't something movie-worth =D
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Wow. Why couldn't they have let SAO end? Jesus Christ. u_u Nah, I won't watch this movie. I'm far from being interested.

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Wow. Why couldn't they have let SAO end? Jesus Christ. u_u Nah, I won't watch this movie. I'm far from being interested.
I mean, even disregarding this, there's more SAO anyway. The LN's not over, and since that's the source material...well, there you go.

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Wow. Why couldn't they have let SAO end? Jesus Christ. u_u Nah, I won't watch this movie. I'm far from being interested.
Because it's one of the most popular Dengeki series? :P
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Because there is NO source material waiting to be adapted.
Right now, Alicization is the only thing that is not adapted and obviously that can't start with a movie, right? =D

At best, they could adapt Progressive or the S&L&L spin-off but that also isn't something movie-worth =D
Wut. What. Wet. I mean, what!?

I though Alicization already ended.

Damn, I should put my facts together before posting, it seems lol

And why did he suddenly stopped writing Progressive? I'm so confused lol

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I though Alicization already ended.
I didn't know my next birthday came so early :DDDD

And why did he suddenly stopped writing Progressive? I'm so confused lol
Reki is lazy, that's why he writes original works, lol xDDD


Anyway, my point was that there is no non-adapted volume/arc with the exception of Alicization and that will need at least 2 2 cours, so there is no movie material =D
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Progressive Is NOT over. Reki confirmed himself that the fourth volume is still in the process. writing a light novel isnt as easy as stated. Especially a series that is so popular and good that a single mistake can make the community furious. So he does write it careful. Also he actually worked on SAO Volume 16 for a while and it just got released recently.

The fantranslation of the Progressive Arc on Baka Tsuki got shut down because of Yen Press (obviously and sadly because of Copyright) since yen press got the rights from Reki and translation the progressive serisous.

The Thrid Volume is getting released in this Month and quite soon. while Japan had it already over a year. Yen Press is trying to translate it as well grammered and fast as possible ....I think(well they do have released all 3 Progressive Arc in a single year).

as stated above Alicization Arc is huge. So huge that you can even combine the ALfheim GunGale and SAO Arc(no filler arcs) and it wouldnt even be as close as much content like Alicization (in the future probably)
About the Original Content, I think that was a right decision to make because we are still missing some explanation of some stuff. Hopefully something more about Kayaba Akihiko.

Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization is at the non-cannon route of SAO. I think the story will maybe fill up the gap between the Lost Song and (alicization?) GGO probably not, since there is a major plot device that is missing in this route. (something kirito got from Kayaba in the cannon route)

About the the other route. Reki had tons of request by bandai Namco for writing more stories for the game routes (are actually not bad and I prefer them more then the Anime/Light Novel) SO he got busy writing them to earn more mone i guess >_>

As for the movie it was Rekis own decision because for maybe the missing gap? Just like he did with Extra Edition.
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no surprise here.

I mean it's too much to hope for story > fanservice but I realllyyy hope they actually show us something new the majority of the film instead of putting it at the end :) SAO can be really interesting if they do it right, though from the posts here I'm not entirely sure what they could adapt, and it is a movie, so...

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I'm not entirely sure what they could adapt,
Well... obviously nothing :P
It's original content =D
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