Search Results for: Reki Kawahara
Oricon has come through with the best-selling book rankings for Japan in 2018, which once again has Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece dominating the manga charts. This isn’t just an off and on phenomenon either, it marks the 11th year in a row for One …Read more »
Reki Kawahara‘s smash hit Sword Art Online series is coming to Japanese arcades next year in the form of Sword Art Online Arcade: Deep Explorer. While fans with access to game centers in Japan will have to wait until spring to try it for themselves, …Read more »
Here’s an exciting follow-up to this morning’s release date announcement: SAO season 3 will only be the first of four “cours” comprising the entire Sword Art Online: Alicization arc. A cour is a season lasting roughly 12 episodes. That means in its entirety, Alicization will run about …Read more »
Kiseki Himura’s Sword Art Online: Progressive manga has been adapting Reki Kawahara‘s novels—which are revised retellings of the originals—since 2013. Now, according to the March issue of Kadokawa’s Dengeki G’s Magazine, the adaptation is preparing to come to an end. The Sword Art Online: Progressive …Read more »
Oricon, Japan’s tracker of all things sold, just released the stats on the best-selling light novels and manga of 2017 (how they did this before 2017 is actually over is anyone’s guess). Anyway, here’s how light novels and manga fared in the year 2017: Light …Read more »
In case you forgot, which is understandable, last year Skydance Television acquired the global rights to Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online series, and they’re planning to produce a live-action television series. Now SAO has a pair of writer-producers lined up to act as showrunners, executive …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Sword Art Online is a multimedia phenomenon, and its reach is about to extend to the world of board games. aims to bring the virtual world action to tabletops with Sword Art Online The Board Game: Sword of Fellows , and a Kickstarter …Read more »
The year is coming to an end, and that means it’s list time. Getting the party started is Kono Raito Noberu ga Sugoi! ( This Light Novel is Amazing! ), a yearly guidebook that polls industry insiders to discover the best light novels of the …Read more »
Aniplex of America posted the second trailer for Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale , the anime film that's coming to Japanese theaters on February 18, 2017. In addition to some fresh footage, the preview showcases some of the new characters, including Ordinal Scale's idol Yuna, …Read more »
Here's an exciting report out of left field from The Hollywood Reporter . Sword Art Online is getting the live-action adaptation treatment thanks to Skydance Television, an independent production company that recently acquired the global live-action rights in a partnership with Kadokawa Corp. There's currently …Read more »
As if you needed any more reason to go to Anime Expo. Seriously, if our posts the last few weeks have sounded like advertisements for AX, it's not like we're affiliated with them in any way - they've just got a darn good lineup this …Read more »
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