On the official site for the franchise sword art online it was announced that the film Sword Art Online: Progressive – Kuraki Yuuyami no Scherzo (Scherzo of a Deep Night), the second part of the film project based on the spin-off light novels Sword Art Online: Progressiveit was reported that the singer Eir-Aoi will perform the theme song titled “Shinzō (Guts)“. The press release also included a new trailer that includes a preview of this song.
Eir Aoi previously performed the second opening theme of the first anime of Sword Art Online for television, the opening theme of the special Sword Art Online EXTRA EDITIONas well as the first opening theme of Sword Art Online 2nd Season. Continued the franchise for the 2015 video game Sword Art Online: Lost Songfrom which his song “Cynthia no Hikari” as the main theme. After a time away, Aoi returned to perform the opening of the spin-off series Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online in 2018, before his songs were used as the ending theme of Sword Art Online Alicization and from the second part of Sword Art Online Alicization War of Underworld.
The film was scheduled to be released on September 10, but it was delayed until October 22 due to complications caused to the production by the COVID-19 pandemic.. On the other hand, this movie will adapt the fifth volume of the light novels, which is described as follows:
- The fifth floor of Aincrad is a dimly lit area of ruins and relics. In the beta test, this floor was the scene of many PKs (Player Kills), so Asuna asks Kirito for a “Player vs. Player” dueling lesson. Asuna considers Kirito to be a very wise and trustworthy person, but she depends on him a lot. For this reason, she will seek to gradually become independent from him on this floor.
Production team
- Ayako Kouno (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri) is in charge of directing the feature film at the studios A-1 Pictures.
- Kento Toya (Angel Beats!, Boku dake ga Inai Machi, Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu) is in charge of character design and animation direction, while Yasuyuki Kai is in charge of the design of the monsters.
- yuki kajiura (Kimetsu no Yaiba, Boku dake ga Inai Machi, Fate/Zero) is responsible for the composition of the soundtrack.
Sword Art Online Progressive Synopsis
This is a story that goes back to before “Lightning Flash” and “The Black Swordsman” were known by those names. The day Asuna Yuuki put on the NerveGear, she was a third grader who had never touched a game. On November 6, 2022, the world’s first VRMMORPG, Sword Art Online, is officially released. But the players, still elated to have connected, are suddenly trapped inside the game when the Game Master deprives them of any chance to get out. The Game Master gives them this warning “this may be a game, but it is not something to be played with”.
If a player dies in the game, they also die in real life. Hearing this, the players panic, and chaos reigns. One of these players is Asuna, but even though she still doesn’t know the rules of that world, she is on her way to conquer Aincrad, the floating iron castle whose peak is too high to be seen. As the days go by in this world where death is never far away, she has a fateful encounter. And then a goodbye. Although she is at the mercy of reality in her eyes, Asuna fights with all her might until someone appears before her: the cold swordsman, Kirito…
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Eir Aoi will perform the new theme song for Sword Art Online: Progressive — Kudasai