Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of a Dark Dusk 劇場版 ソードアート・オンライン -プログレッシブ- 冥き夕闇のスケルツォ (SAO Progressive's official website in Japanese) premiered in Japan today (the IMAX version had an early start yesterday). I am not a big fan of SAO, but I have been following the series so I went to catch it today.
This is the second movie in the SAO Progressive series of movies, but it actually covers the fourth volume of the light novels in this series, where the characters are in level 5 of Aincrad working toward level 6. So there is a bit of a jump from the first movie which covered the first volume, essentially level 1 of Aincrad.
They were also handing out door gifts to viewers, and I got this at the cinema.
The first show of the day included a live broadcast of an opening day event, in which the voice actors and theme song singer made an appearance. This event took place after the movie's screening, and they could talk about things in the movie without worrying about spoilers.
The opening event featured Asuna's VA Tomatsu Haruka, Kirito's VA Matsuoka Yoshitsugu, Argo's VA Izawa Shiori, and singer Aoi Eir. They talked about their favorite scenes from the movie and some episodes during the voice recording. Apparently, author Kawahara Reki has told Matsuoka that he hopes Matsuoka will keep playing his role of Kirito until he is 80 years old. I guess Kawahara really intends to write every single level in Aincrad for his SAO Progressive light novel series...
The movie itself had some fan service, like the bathing scene (which became a swimsuit scene). Otherwise, it was like SAO in general, with action scenes of fighting the boss monster taking up much of the second half of the movie. And once again, Kirito always comes to the rescue. I really had enough of the overpowered MC but I guess that's the whole point about SAO. Still, why can't Asuna be the one rescuing Kirito?
Anyway, this series is not ending anytime soon. There are still many fans of SAO, Kawahara is still writing light novels for the main series as well as spin-offs, and there are arcs in the main story that have not been adapted into anime. Plus volumes (and future volumes) of the SAO Progressive light novels waiting to be adapted. Great news for fans, and even better news (💰💰💰) for Kawahara...
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