Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale

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Anime movie
title Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale
Original title 劇場版 ソ ー ド ア ー ト ・ オ ン ラ イ ン - オ ー デ ィ ナ ル ・ ス ケ ー ル -
transcription Gekijō-ban Sōdo Āto Onrain -Ōdinaru Sukēru-
Sword Art Online Ordinal Scale logo.png
Japanese logo
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2017
Studio A-1 Pictures
Kadokawa Pictures
ASCII Media Works
Genco
length 119 minutes
genre Fantasy , adventure
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Tomohiko Itō
idea Reki Kawahara
script Reki Kawahara
Tomohiko Itō
music Yuki Kajiura
synchronization

Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale ( 劇場版ソードアート·オンライン-オーディナル·スケール- Gekijo-ban Sodo Ato Onrain -Ōdinaru Sukēru- ) is a Japanese fantasy and adventure - animated film based on the eponymous Light-Novel series by Reki Kawahara . It was produced by Tomohiko Itō in collaboration with the animation studios A-1 Pictures , Kadokawa Pictures , Genco and ASCII Media Works and was released in Japanese cinemas on February 18, 2017.

Globally, the film grossed around 4.3 billion yen , which corresponds to approximately 38 million US dollars . The film was shown in 7,500 cinemas in 27 countries, 6,000 of which were in the People's Republic of China alone , where Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale grossed 6.1 million US dollars. In Japan , the film opened with more than 300,000 visitors and grossed just under 3.8 million dollars on the first weekend.

After being shown in official cinemas in Los Angeles and across the United States , the film qualified for entry to the 2018 Oscars . There was Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale beside A Silent Voice , In this Corner of the World , Ancien and the Magic Kingdom and Mary and the Witch's Flower for a nomination for Best Animated Feature proposed and landed on the shortlist. However, none of the proposed Japanese animated films was nominated for an Oscar in this category, which caused a lack of understanding among parts of the population.

action

In 2026 the new game system Augma, an alternative game system to AmuSphere, will be released. Augma has the function of simulating a virtual reality while the user is fully conscious. The most famous game for Augma is the battle-based Ordinal Scale , in which the skills of the players are sorted using ordinal numbers .

Asuna, Lisbeth, and Silica encourage Kirito to try the game after all of the bosses from Aincrad show up. Kirito takes part in a boss fight with Asuna and Klein. During the fight, the game's mascot, the virtual idol singer , appears and empowers the players with her singing . Kirito is unable to perform well due to a lack of physical values ​​and speed. Eiji, the second strongest player by then, helps the group defeat the boss. Before Asuna can deliver the final blow to the boss, Eiji whispers "Switch", a function she knows from the MMORPG Sword Art Online (SAO).

The following night, Asuna joins Klein and his group to defeat another boss while they wait for another teammate, unaware that he was injured by Eiji the night before. Asuna continues to fight and is once again supported by Yuna. Klein and his group are ambushed by another boss opponent and Eiji and defeated. The morning after, Kirito is practicing using Ordinal Scale in a park when a girl in a white cloak appears, points into the distance, and disappears again. He meets Asuna, who theorises that Eiji could be a former member of the Knights of the Blood Oath , namely Nautilus , while Yui deduces that the spawn points match those in Sword Art Online.

Asuna, Lisbeth and Silica decide to join a fight again in which Yuna and Eiji also appear. Asuna is hit by the monster while trying to help Silica, who was pushed into the boss' attack surface by Eiji, and passes out. Asuna realizes that her memories of her time in Sword Art Online are starting to fade. During a hospital visit from Kirito, they find out that Augma is scanning the brains of the survivors of the SAO incident for memories. Kirito investigates a joint fight with Sinon against another boss that defeats another former SAO player. You see a glowing orb float from the defeated player into an ordinal-scale drone. Yui cannot get this orb as she will be excluded from the game. Later, the girl in the white cloak reappears, repeating her actions and then disappearing. Kirito and Yui discover that the girl has pointed to Touto Technical University.

Kirito visits the university and meets the developer of Augma, Dr. Tetsuhiro Shigemura, who refuses to answer Kirito's questions. Leaving the facility, Kirito discovers a picture of a girl on Shigemura's desk that resembles Yuna. Kirito discusses with Seijirō Kikuoka, who informs him that Yuna is the daughter of Shigemura and died in the SAO incident. When Asuna visits, Kirito promises to bring her memories back. He meets the girl again, who identifies herself as Yuna. When she tells him that his level is too low, Kirito decides to fight bosses on his own and, with the help of Leafa and Sinon, increase his stats by as many levels as possible.

Days later, all Ordinal Scale players gathered in a stadium to attend a concert by Yuna. Kirito confronts Eiji in the lower levels, who claims he knows a way to bring Asuna's memories back. Kirito defeats Eiji, who tells him that Shigemura is collecting the memories of the Sword Art online players in order to be able to reconstruct the soul of his daughter and download her as AI. He reveals that Shigemura would reach his goal faster if all the players were in one place. He adds that the drones that store players' memories have enough energy to damage brains and kill players in a way that NerveGear did.

When all of Aincrad's boss monsters appear in the stadium, Kirito and Yuna join the fight. Yuna reveals that Augma like the NerveGear has the ability "FullDive" and can use it to defeat the strongest boss. Before Kirito starts diving, he hands Asuna a wedding ring . Kirito reaches the top level of the Ruby Palace with Lisbeth, Silica, Agil and Sinon. You challenge the strongest boss, but are quickly defeated. Asuna, Leafa, Klein, as well as various players from Alfheim Online (ALO) and Gun Gale Online (GGO) come to support. Yui creates the abilities of all players saved in Sword Art Online, whereby they defeat the boss together. Akihito Kayaba's voice rings out, congratulates all players and presents Kirito with an extremely powerful sword as a prize.

The group returns to the stadium, which is still haunted by the monsters. Kirito, meanwhile the strongest player in Ordinal Scale, defeats the monsters with the help of his sword, while Kikuoka Dr. Shigemura in the server room of Argus, the now closed developer company of Sword Art Online, finds and takes into custody. Yuna recovers and fades the memories of all players as it was encoded from the data of the strongest boss. Shortly thereafter, Kirito and Asuna fulfill the promise they made in Aincrad and watch a meteor shower together. Asuna gives Kirito the wedding ring back and asks him to put it on her finger.

After the credits it is shown that Kikuoka, who is impressed by Shigemura's attempt at AI and soul reconstruction, brings him to Rath.

synchronization

For the German dubbed version of the movie, the dubbing studio recorded Oxygen Sound from Berlin responsible. All German voices, with the exception of Asuna, are spoken by the voice actors who have already lent their voices to the characters in the respective anime series .

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya Yoshitsugu Matsuoka Patrick Keller
Asuna "Asuna" Yuuki Haruka Tomatsu Lisa May-Mitsching
Suguha "Leafa" Kirigaya Ayana Taketatsu Julia Meynen
Yui Kanae Ito Christiane plant
Keiko "Silica" Ayano Rina Hidaka Sarah Madeleine Tusk
Rika "Lisbeth" Shinozaki Ayahi Takagaki Nina Amerschläger
Shino "Shinon" Asada Miyuki Sawashiro Jennifer White
Ryōtarō "Small" Tsuboi Hiroaki Hirata Isaak Dentler
Andrew Gilbert "Agile" Mills Hiroki Yasumoto Dirk Hardegen
Akihiko Kayaba Kōichi Yamadera Torsten Michaelis
Seijirō Kikuoka Toshiyuki Morikawa Matthias Keller
Yuna "Yuna" Shigemura Sayaka Kanda Samira Jakobs
Eiji "Eiji" Nochizawa Yoshio Inoue Nico Sablik
Dr. Tetsuhiro Shigemura Takeshi Kaga Bodo Klein

production

At the autumn festival of Dengeki Bunko on October 4, 2015, it was announced that a new film would be produced for the Sword Art Online franchise. It was announced that the main people in charge of the anime series will be involved in the development of the movie. In March 2016, the title of the film, Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale , was announced. The voice actors who voiced the characters in the anime series have also been confirmed for the film.

The soundtrack of the film, which has a total of 50 pieces, was composed by Yuki Kajiura and published on February 22, 2017 via Aniplex . Kajiura was already responsible for the music in the anime series as a composer. The Japanese pop singer LiSA contributed the title song of the film with Catch the Moment . Sayaka Kanda, who plays the role of "Yuna Shigemura" in the film, sings the five songs Ubiquitous dB , Longing , Delete , Break Beat Bark under her character in the film ! and Smile for You .

context

The plot of Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale takes place after the events in Sword Art Online II . At the end of the film, reference is made to a sequel to Sword Art Online . This was done through Season 3, Sword Art Online: Alicization , which aired between October 6, 2018 and March 30, 2019.

publication

movie theater

Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale premiered in 151 cinemas in Japan on February 18, 2017 . On the same day, the anime film also celebrated its cinema premiere in several countries in Southeast Asia and in Germany . About two weeks later, on March 1, 2017, the film was first shown in the original language with subtitles in the United States ; a nationwide performance in the States followed a week later; the English version of the film was shown on April 22nd as part of the anime Boston . Canada followed between March 17 and 19 ; in the UK and in the Republic of Ireland came Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale also in the cinemas. The film was shown in Australia and New Zealand on March 9, 2017.

A few days after the premiere, the film was leaked on the Internet . The traces led to Singapore and Malaysia .

Home video

In Japan, Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale was released for the domestic market on DVD and Blu-ray on September 27, 2017 . The film was released in North America on December 9 of the same year. The Japanese DVD and Blu-Ray edition came out with the sequel novel Sword Art Online: Cordial Code , which describes the story eight days after the events in the film.

As early as March 2016 it was announced that the film would be released on DVD and Blu-ray in German-speaking countries . Licensed Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale of anime peppermint , which initially suggested a publication in the period from 2017 to 2018. The DVD release took place on December 8, 2017. In addition to a regular edition, a limited version was also released which, in addition to the film, included a soundtrack CD with five tracks, a 56-page booklet, digital streaming code, audio commentary and a trailer show. This edition came out a week later than the standard edition.

success

Grossing results

On the first weekend of the film's official showing in Japan , Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale landed at number 1 on the domestic box office. The film in 151 Japanese cinema has been shown and played more than 3.7 million US dollars in over 300,000 viewers a, which Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale , the first film in Your Name. - Yesterday, today and forever from Makoto Shinkai , who was able to reach the top position in the cinema charts in terms of box office income and number of visitors.

In the People's Republic of China , the film landed at number 3 on the box office and achieved gross sales of more than 6 million US dollars. The anime film was shown in 6,000 cinemas all over China. In the United States , Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale grossed over $ 1.3 million as of October 2017. In Germany , the anime brought in a good $ 31,000 on the weekend of its premiere, and by September it was more than $ 300,000.

In total, the film was shown in over 7,500 cinemas in 27 countries.

Reviews

Bernd Haasis from the Stuttgarter Nachrichten writes that the film fits in with the Japanese tradition of reflecting the possibilities and consequences of the media world. The plot, around the relocation of virtual actions back into reality, seems interesting. In addition, the battles are impressively staged. Nevertheless, according to Haasis, the script is not self-explanatory: Much of the complicated is explained in "overloaded dialogues", which even connoisseurs of the franchise do not find easy to follow.

David Herger from Filmstarts.de is of the opinion that the attempt to accommodate critical tones in the fantasy adventure was not entirely successful. If the film warns of the dangerousness of the game Ordinal Scale for human memory, it is criticism of unreflective belief in technology and authoritarian dehumanization. But this fizzles out with the realization of "Kirito and Co" that life in virtual reality is harmless and more communal. This mishap, however, fades behind impressive show values. This is what makes Herger in the fights of Kiritos and his companions against fantastic beings such as minotaurs and dragons , whose terrifying design is described as a feast for the eyes.

Filmdienst judged that Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale is a “funky science fiction animation film, sometimes watered down by extremely infantile surface stimuli”, which nevertheless “critically influenced the possible consequences of a computer in a remarkable way Consciousness "games.

Awards and nominations

year Award category For result swell
2017 Newtype Anime Awards Best Work (Theatrical Film) Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale Won
Best male character Kirito
Best female character Asuna
Best mascot Yui Rank 6
Best opening credits song LiSA - Catch the Moment place 2
Best soundtrack Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale Won
Best director Tomihiko Itō 4th place
Best screenplay Reki Kawahara place 3
Best character design Shingo Adachi (Character Design)
abec (Original Design) 		5th place
2018 Academy Awards Best animated feature film Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale Shortlist
(no official nomination)
AnimaniA Awards Best character design Shingo Adachi Won
Best movie Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinal Scale Won
Best director Tomohiko Ito Won
Best studio A-1 Pictures Won
Trending Anime Awards Anime movie of the year Sword Art Online - The Movie: Ordinale Scale 5th place

Web links

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