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2017 pic past Tomohiko Itō

Sword Art Online The Moving picture: Ordinal Scale
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Japanese 劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール-
Hepburn Gekijō-ban Sōdo Āto Onrain -Ōdinaru Sukēru-
Directed by Tomohiko Itō
Screenplay by
  • Reki Kawahara
  • Tomohiko Itō
Based on Sword Art Online
by Reki Kawahara
Starring
  • Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
  • Haruka Tomatsu
  • Ayana Taketatsu
  • Kanae Itō
  • Rina Hidaka
  • Ayahi Takagaki
  • Miyuki Sawashiro
  • Hiroaki Hirata
  • Hiroki Yasumoto
  • Kōichi Yamadera
  • Toshiyuki Morikawa
  • Sayaka Kanda
  • Yoshio Inoue
  • Takeshi Kaga
Cinematography Kentarō Waki
Edited by Shigeru Nishiyama
Music by Yuki Kajiura

Production
company

A-1 Pictures
Distributed by Aniplex

Release date
  • February 18, 2017 (2017-02-18)

Running time

 120 minutes[i] [2]
Country Nihon
Linguistic communication Japanese
Box part ¥4.3 billion ($38.three one thousand thousand)[3]

Sword Fine art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (Japanese: 劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -オーディナル・スケール-, Hepburn: Gekijō-ban Sōdo Āto Onrain -Ōdinaru Sukēru- ) is a 2017 Japanese animated science fiction activeness run a risk film based on the Sword Art Online low-cal novel serial written past Reki Kawahara and illustrated past abec. The picture show is produced past A-one Pictures and directed by Tomohiko Itō, and is an official role of the Sword Fine art Online storyline, featuring an original story by Kawahara, grapheme designs past Shingo Adachi and music by Yuki Kajiura. It was released in Japan, Southeast Asia, and Germany on Feb 18, 2017,[4] in Mexico on March iv, 2017, and in the United states of america on March nine, 2017,[five] as information technology premiered in Hollywood on March one, 2017.[6] The events of the flick take identify between the second and third seasons of the Sword Art Online anime serial.

Plot [edit]

In the year 2026, the Augma is released to the public as an culling system to the AmuSphere, equally it projects a game layer on top of reality while the player is conscious, rather than using FullDive. The nearly prominent combat-based game is Ordinal Calibration, in which a player's abilities are ranked by ordinal numbers.

Asuna, Lisbeth and Silica encourage Kirito to play OS upon hearing that Aincrad bosses have appeared. Kirito joins Asuna and Klein in a boss fight against Kagachi the Samurai Lord at Akihabara, where the game's mascot, AI idol vocalist Yuna, appears and gives players buff effects as she sings. Kirito fails to reach annihilation due to lack of real earth physical force and agility. Eiji, the number-two ranked role player, aids the group in defeating the dominate. Before Asuna makes the killing accident, Eiji whispers the discussion "Switch," a game mechanic from SAO that she recognizes.

The adjacent night, Asuna joins Klein and his group for another boss fight at Yoyogi Park while waiting for their last grouping member, unaware that he was injured by Eiji the dark before. Asuna leaves Klein and his order backside and proceeds to the fight confronting the Storm Griffin, which is once more presided over by Yuna. Klein and his guild are surprised past the sudden appearance of a 2d boss, Zanghi the Flame Caller, and shockingly supported past Eiji, who physically attacks and defeats Klein and his entire guild in the real world using superior reflexes and seemingly superhuman strength. When Asuna returns to where she left them, Klein and his lodge are nowhere to exist seen. The following morning, as Kirito practices with OS in Yoyogi Park, a girl he doesn't know appears in a white hood, mouths something wordlessly and points off into the distance before disappearing. A dislocated Kirito is surprised by Asuna who has arrived to accept lunch with him. While eating together, Asuna theorizes that Eiji was a former fellow member of the Knights of the Claret Oath named Nautilus, while Yui deduces that the spawn locations of the Aincrad bosses line upward with the SAO dungeon maps. Noting the absence of Klein, Kirito tries to check upwards on him.

Asuna, Lisbeth and Silica join the boss fight against Strict Hermit at Yebisu Garden Place, where Yuna and Eiji appear over again. At the same time, Agil contacts Kirito and tells him that Klein has been hospitalized with a broken arm; Kirito, alarmed, rushes to protect Asuna and their friends. During the boss battle, a second boss, Dorz'l the Anarchy Drake, suddenly appears and fixates on Silica. Eiji blocks Silica'due south escape past pushing her into the path of a lethal boss attack, and Asuna is defeated while protecting her; an orangish orb materializes from Asuna and is rapidly nerveless by 1 of the OS drones. After the battle, Asuna begins to suffer memory loss, and goes to the hospital for test.

Asuna learns that the Augma device scanned her brain specifically for SAO memories and that the memory loss could worsen. Afterwards Asuna's condition worsens, Kirito gains a strong resolve to solve the mystery. Kirito visits Klein in the infirmary and confirms that Klein'south SAO memories are too missing. Kirito goes to the Dire Tusk dominate battle at Tokyo Dome Urban center looking for Eiji, where he is joined by Sinon; although he is concerned for her safety, Sinon reminds Kirito that she is not an SAO survivor. During the boss battle, an SAO survivor is defeated and Kirito witnesses a glowing memory orb being collected past an Os drone. Yui tries to retrieve the memory orb from the drone but fails later on beingness blocked past the Bone system. After the boxing, Kirito is frustrated that Eiji did non evidence upward, but meets the hooded girl a third time, who repeats her deportment from before. Kirito and Yui effigy out that she is pointing towards Touto Technical Academy.

Kirito goes to the university and meets Professor Tetsuhiro Shigemura, who adult Augma. Shigemura refuses to answer any questions. Before leaving, Kirito notices on Shigemura's desk a picture of a girl who resembles Yuna. Kirito talks to Seijirō Kikuoka, who informs him that Shigemura's daughter, Yuna, died in SAO. Kirito warns Kikuoka that the retention loss may exist affecting other SAO survivors playing Bone. Visiting Asuna's home, Kirito promises Asuna that he volition become her memories back. While searching for clues, Kirito encounters the hooded girl notwithstanding again, who he confirms is Yuna. When she tells him his rank is too depression, Kirito decides to level up hardcore, recklessly concatenation-soloing as many bosses as he tin, and improving his AR swordwork with help from Leafa.

Days later, the Os players assemble at the Tokyo National Stadium for Yuna's first live concert. In the lower levels, Kirito duels with Eiji, who claims he has a way to return Asuna's memories. Later Kirito defeats him, Eiji reveals that Shigemura has been harvesting memories of SAO players in an attempt to reconstruct his lost daughter'south soul and resurrect her as an AI; having SAO survivors concentrated in one place is the final stage of the plan and Eiji believes he has won. Kirito rushes back upstairs to warn everyone, calling Kikuoka on the style. Kikuoka warns Kirito that all the memory harvesting drones scanning everyone at once could damage the players' brains, killing them like the NerveGear did in SAO.

Every bit a horde of Aincrad bosses appear and terrorize the stadium, Kirito and Yuna join the battle. Yuna tells Kirito that the Augma has a subconscious full-dive feature and he can use it to defeat SAO's 100th floor boss to end the scan and save anybody. Before diving, Kirito gives Asuna an engagement ring. Inbound the Cherry Palace of Flooring 100, Kirito, Lisbeth, Silica, Agil, and Sinon confront the boss. They are easily overwhelmed until Asuna, Leafa, Klein, and several other memorable players from ALO and GGO come to their aid. Yui restores their saved abilities from SAO, allowing everyone to defeat the boss. The vocalisation of Akihiko Kayaba congratulates them on their victory and gives Kirito an extremely powerful sword as a reward.

The group returns to the arena still in full-swoop where Kirito, now Bone's top-ranked player, effortlessly dispatches the bosses with his new sword. Meanwhile, in the real world, Kikuoka finds Shigemura in the abandoned server room of Argus (the defunct company that once ran SAO) and arrests him. The hooded Yuna restores the survivors' memories and fades out of existence since her existence was tied to that of the Flooring 100 boss. Afterwards, Kirito and Asuna fulfill the promise they made to each other in Aincrad, to watch a meteor shower together. Asuna returns Kirito's hope ring so he can properly put it on her paw this fourth dimension, which he does.

In a postal service-credits scene, Kikuoka, who was impressed with Shigemura's endeavour at AI and soul reconstruction, recruits Shigemura to Rath.

Voice cast [edit]

Grapheme Japanese[seven] English language[8]
Kirito / Kazuto Kirigaya Yoshitsugu Matsuoka Bryce Papenbrook
Asuna / Asuna Yuuki Haruka Tomatsu Cherami Leigh
Leafa / Suguha Kirigaya Ayana Taketatsu Cassandra Lee Morris
Yui Kanae Itō Stephanie Sheh
Silica / Keiko Ayano Rina Hidaka Christine Marie Cabanos
Lisbeth / Rika Shinozaki Ayahi Takagaki Sarah Anne Williams
Sinon / Shino Asada Miyuki Sawashiro Michelle Ruff
Klein / Ryōtarō Tsuboi Hiroaki Hirata Kirk Thornton
Agil / Andrew Gilbert Mills Hiroki Yasumoto Patrick Seitz
Akihiko Kayaba Kōichi Yamadera Marc Diraison
Seijirō Kikuoka Toshiyuki Morikawa Matthew Mercer
Yuna / Yuuna Shigemura Sayaka Kanda Ryan Bartley
Nautilus/ Eiji / Eiji Nochizawa Yoshio Inoue Chris Patton
Dr. Tetsuhiro Shigemura Takeshi Kaga Jamieson Cost

Product [edit]

At the Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival 2015 on October four, 2015, it was announced that the low-cal novel serial would be adapted into an animated film, with the main staff returning from the anime series.[9] [x] The picture takes place after the anime series' second season, Sword Fine art Online II.[11] It was and then revealed at the Dengeki Bunko Haru no Saiten 2016 result on March 13, 2016 that the motion picture is titled Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Calibration.[12] The voice cast from the anime series returned to reprise their roles in the film.[seven] [xiii] [14]

The film'due south soundtrack is composed by Yuki Kajiura, who also equanimous the music for the anime series. The soundtrack features 50 tracks, including five insert songs performed by Sayaka Kanda. Information technology was released past Aniplex on Feb 22, 2017.[xv] LiSA performed the film's theme song, titled "Catch the Moment".[16] Sayaka Kanda performs five songs as Yuna: "Ubiquitous dB", "Longing", "Delete", "Interruption Beat Bark!" and "Smiling For You".

Release [edit]

The film premiered in Nihon, Southeast Asia and Germany on Feb 18, 2017. The Asian premieres were distributed by Aniplex and Odex, respectively.[17] [xviii] [19] At that place was a premiere event in the United States on March 1, 2017; Xi Arts and Sony Pictures distributed and released the film in U.South. theaters on March ix, 2017.[20] Madman Entertainment also released the film at theaters in Australia and New Zealand on March 9, 2017.[21] Aniplex of America released the motion-picture show at theaters in Canada between March 17 and March 19, 2017.[22] The English language dub premiered at Anime Boston 2017, Sony Pictures fabricated its national release on Apr 22.[23] [24] Anime Express brought the film to cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland on April xix, 2017.[25] [26] The film was fix to play in about ane,000 theaters worldwide.[27]

A few days afterward the world premiere, a leak of the film was institute online, tracing the source back to Malaysia and Singapore.[28] [29]

The Blu-ray and DVD home video release volumes of Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale were released in Japan on September 27, 2017 and N America on December 19, 2017.[xxx] The Japanese dwelling video release features a sequel novel titled Sword Art Online: Cordial Chords written by Kawahara and illustrated by abec, set eight days after the events of Ordinal Calibration.[31]

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

The film on its opening weekend opened at No. 1 at the Japanese box function, debuting in 151 theaters beyond Japan and grossed ¥425 1000000 from 308,376 admissions.[32] [33] It went on to gross a total of ¥2.52 billion ($22,466,673) in Japan by the terminate of 2017.[34]

In China, the film has grossed CN¥53.95 million.[35] It grossed over $i.35 million in its first weekend in North America,[36] and went on to gross $one,522,976 in the United States and Canada.[37] During its commencement day in Italy, the motion-picture show beat out both Pirates of the Caribbean: Expressionless Men Tell No Tales and Wonder Adult female at the box function.[38]

Past October 1, 2017, the film had grossed a total of over ¥4.3 billion ($38.3 million) worldwide.[3] Afterward October 5, 2017, the motion picture grossed a farther $41,652 in Communist china,[39] and $14,702 in Argentina,[40] for a worldwide total of $38,256,354.

Disquisitional response [edit]

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 100% of critics have given the film a positive review based on five reviews, with an average rating of 7.62/ten.[41] Alex Osborn of IGN posted a score of 7.5/ten and stated: "It's not a visual stunner, but Ordinal Calibration serves up a solid original story that will help tide over those who are hungry for more than SAO while they wait for a third season". A review coming from Cine Premier's Julio Vélez who scored it a iv/5 and stated: "The second human action falls a niggling in activeness by focusing more on defining the motives of the antagonists, merely everything recovers in an heady and prolonged climax".[42] [43] In a review featured on the anime streaming website Crunchyroll, Isaac Akers states "SAO being SAO, this was never going to be a perfectly crafted motion-picture show—merely information technology captures so many of the charms of the franchise whilst also avoiding nearly all of its most aggravating faults."[44]

In other media [edit]

Yuna makes her outset video game appearance in Accel World VS. Sword Art Online as a DLC playable grapheme. She later makes her second DLC appearance in Sword Fine art Online: Fatal Bullet alongside game original character Seven and Eiji, the latter making his video game debut in Fatal Bullet.

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External links [edit]

  • Official website (in English)
  • Official website
  • Sword Fine art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
  • Sword Fine art Online The Movie: Ordinal Calibration at IMDb
  • Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale at Rotten Tomatoes

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