GENRE: Animated / Action / Adventure
RATING: NR
RUNNING TIME: 1:37
STARRING: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Inori Minase, Haruka Tomatsu
DIRECTOR: Ayako Kawano
WRITER(S): Reki Kawahara
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: On November 6, 2022, the world's first VRMMORPG, Sword Art Online, is officially launched. As hoards of players excitedly log in, they suddenly find themselves trapped inside the game when the Game Master deprives them of any way to log out. The Game Master then gives them this warning: "This may be a game, but it's not something you play." If a player dies in-game, they die in the real world. Hearing this, all of the players panic, and pandemonium reigns. One of those players is Asuna Yuuki, a third-year middle school student who'd never even touched an online game before. Despite not yet knowing the rules of this world, she sets off to conquer the floating iron castle, Aincrad, in hopes of saving herself and those whithin the game. As the days go by in this world where death is never very far away. Asuna fights on with all her might, when someone appears before her: the aloof swordsman, Kirito...