Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale

In 2026, four years after the infamous Sword Art Online incident, a revolutionary new form of technology has emerged: the Augma, a device that utilizes an Augmented Reality system. Unlike the Virtual Reality of the NerveGear and the Amusphere, it is perfectly safe and allows players to use it while they are conscious, creating an instant hit on the market. The most popular application for the Augma is the game Ordinal Scale, which immerses players in a fantasy role-playing game with player rankings and rewards.

Following the new craze, Kirito's friends dive into the game, and despite his reservations about the system, Kirito eventually joins them. While at first it appears to be just fun and games, they soon find out that the game is not all that it seems...

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Kirigaya, Kazuto Main

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Yuuki, Asuna Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Yuna Main

Kanda, Sayaka Japanese

Nochizawa, Eiji Main

Inoue, Yoshio Japanese

Asada, Shino Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Yui Supporting

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Kirigaya, Suguha Supporting

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Tsuboi, Ryoutarou Supporting

Hirata, Hiroaki Japanese

Ayano, Keiko Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Shinozaki, Rika Supporting

Takagaki, Ayahi Japanese

Miki, Kazuma Producer

Kaneko, Atsushi Producer

Kanbe, Muneyuki Producer

Kashiwada, Shinichirou Producer

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Sep 26, 2024

Chipsy543

Recommended

This movie is absolutely worth the watch!
Movie has a REALLY HIGH production value, the thing that left me in awe was the level of SFX (sound) and VFX (visual).
The effort into making this movie really showed the level SAO has reached so far. And they showed it quite well in the first 15 minutes of the movie, absolutely stunned by it.
Plot of the movie is quite an interesting one, not going to spoil but it has recallings of the old SAO times and it kidna revolves around that. Which was interesting, to say atleast.

Anyways, if you're reading this, before or after the movie, ... I'm sure you won't think less.


P.S.
Shinon my beloved, keep being the best character, we love you 🙏🙏🙏💙💚

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 13, 2024

elthreedotcomma

Mixed Feelings

This movie was a 2-hour long introduction to systems that would be used in future seasons of Sword Art Online. There was nothing TOO good about it, but it did what it had to as a movie. It had decent action, decent plot, decent scenarios. Everything in it was just decent. The animation was better than previous seasons, but that is to be expected from a movie.

AR was introduced, VR was overrun, new games were experienced, and Kirito was overpowered (again). What it did do was that it mixed elements well, progressed characters decently, and introduced characters that played some role in the outcome. What ... it didn't do was deviate from its limited plot, which is largely good, but provides no chance to explore many new ideas. It played more of a role in setting up the upcoming Alicization arc than in conveying a story of its own. While respectable, there was nothing really different about it.

The movie is not bad, but only reaches the standard of "decent".

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 25, 2024

Squid1es

Not Recommended

I know a lot of anime movies dont have anything to do with the anime itself and a lot arent even cannon, but this movie is so fucking boring and lame i genenly had to watch it 3 times because i kept falling asleep, and even when I finally finished it I was so confused, it had literally ZERO correlation to the show, most anime movies that dont have anything to do with the original anime at least make sense, but at the end all i could think was “so why did they add this new headset bullshit just for this movie???” The only good ... thing to come out of this movies creation is the music, absolute bangers and i still listen to them sometimes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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