'Sword Art Online' News: A-1 Pictures Announces Anime's Third Season
After five long years of waiting, fans of "Sword Art Online" will soon get to enjoy a brand new season of the hit anime series.
According to Comicbook.com, A-1 Pictures officially announced during the Dengeki Bunko Fall Festival 2017 that season 3 is on its way. Along with the announcement came the release of a teaser trailer lasting under two minutes.
The trailer begins with two men entering a computer-filled control room, with one of them sporting a confused look as the door opened. Two other men are then shown, apparently manning a huge computer monitor that is home to an artificial world.
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Season 3 will feature the Alicization arc, which accounts for half of the 18 volumes in the anime's novel counterpart, Twinfinite reported. Furthermore, they also released an official poster featuring some of the key characters for the upcoming season. The show will be bannered by Kirito and Asuna, who will feature the voices of Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Haruka Tomatsu, respectively.
Other key characters will be the newbie Eueo, voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki and the newbie Alice played by Ai Kayano.
The arc kicks off after Kirito is offered a job at the Rath company. He is then tasked to test a new FullDive equipment called Soul Translator. Unbeknownst to the hero, the full details of his task were not completely divulged. Instead of using the FullDive gaming console, Rath plans to come up with a new AI for military use.
Rath successfully copied the soul of a child and fused it into the machine, although they failed to make its AI perform humanistic tasks. Then comes the hiring of Kirito, where the private firm planned to use the protagonist as a human influence until one of the AIs broke the laws of the virtual world. After extracting Kirito out of the machine, Rath then blocked his memories of his experiences while he was in the Underworld.
Kirito, however, learned that there are several people who want to take away his memories for good, particularly the ones involving his time with Alice, an AI.
