Sword Art Online Progressive: What to Expect From The Sequel (According to The Light Novel)
Sword Art Online Progressive is a storyline in Sword Art Online (SAO) franchise that focuses on the events that happened in one of the best arcs in the entire SAO history, the Aincrad arc. Reki Kawahara, the original writer of SAO created the Progressive storyline back in 2012, and it is actually still on going to this day. Other than the light novel, there’s also a manga adaptation drawn by different artists. However, the one that caused the most buzz is the 2021 anime movie, Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night.
With the overwhelming support and excitement of the fans, the sequel for the movie is quickly announced not long after the first one. It’s called Sword Art Online Progressive: Scherzo of Deep Night, and it is scheduled to be released in September 2022. Here’s what you can expect from this upcoming sequel.
Are the Sword Art Online Movies Canon?
As mentioned earlier, there are at least three different versions of Sword Art Online Progressive out there. What you need to know is the fact that all of them are different from one another, to some extent. The overall story progression is still based on the original light novels, but both the manga and the movie version have taken some creative choices that differ from the original source.
The biggest change that the anime movie version ofSword Art Online Progressive has taken is adding a new character named Mito. This character doesn’t appear in any other version of SAO Progressive, so if you’ve watched the movie and wish to know more by reading either the light novels or the manga version, then expect to see some differences in the details of the story.
The first SAO Progressive movie adapted the first volume of the light novel, Aria of Starless Night.
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