UPDATE 3/25/18: Sword Art Online’s season 3 release date has been announced for October. UPDATE 10/1/17: Indeed SAO’s third season was officially confirmed, as well as well as a spin off series based on the Alternative Gun Gale Online novels. Click here for more details. Back …Read more »
As we reported a couple weeks back, IBM Japan is hard at work at bringing Sword Art Online to life with a virtual reality MMO called Sword Art Online: The Beginning . Some more information and photos came out at an event this weekend, along …Read more »
To someone unfamiliar, Sword Art Online might seem like the most backwards property ever. After all, Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment is a game based on an anime based on a light novel series about players trapped in a fictional game. Hollow Fragment on PS …Read more »
Kotaku just posted the results of a poll of Japanese viewers and what they’ve been enjoying this summer. Of the total 36 shows (not counting shows left over from spring!) airing this season, a group of 578 anime fans picked their top 10 for music …Read more »
Some exciting trailers out this week, the first for Studio Ghibli’s latest film, When Marnie Was There , which is due out in Japan this month (look for our review then). When Marnie Was There is directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi ( Arrietty ) and is …Read more »
Bandai Namco Games is bringing Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment to PS Vita in North America and Europe this summer via PlayStation Network. As a bonus, the Vita release will also include the Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment game that was previously only available on …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 »
Not particularly surprising news for those tracking the popularity of Sword Art Online in the west (a lot of you guys find us by searching for it!), but welcome news nonetheless: the second season of the massive multiplayer game-based series will be streamed on these …Read more »
Aniplex of America's panel at this past weekend's Sakura-Con in Seattle revealed some exciting news for Sword Art Online fans. Director Tomohiko Ito, character designer Shingo Adachi, and producer Shinichiro Kashiwada made special appearances, and a worldwide simulcast for the Sword Art Online II anime …Read more »
Good news for Sword Art Online fans: the airdate for the second season of the show has been announced. Well, air month, anyway. Sword Art Online II is set to hit screens this July. The second season doesn’t appear to make any huge creative changes …Read more »
If our observations on a trip there last summer are any indication, anime is pretty popular in Taiwan. Animate, the otaku-centric anime shop, have a few stores there, and just as in the States, anime regularly airs on the TV. That became a small problem …Read more »
Details are a bit scant on this one, but a tiny bit of information recently rolled out regarding a TV special for the Sword Art Online anime. The series will be getting an "Extra Edition," but all we know right now is that it's set …Read more »
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