We haven’t heard too much since last October about the new anime film Accel World: Infinite Burst, which follows up the TV series that ran back in 2012 and was released in North America by Viz Media. With an original story written by original creator Kawahara, we now have a little more information on the project. The latest Dengeki Bungo Magazine is now revealing that the film will open in limited run on July 23rd, 2016. The theme song for it will be from Altima and Kotoko with Plasmic Fire.
The series is bringing back the original cast and seemingly most of the original staff as well. The work has Masakazu Obara directing with Yukiko Aikei handling the character designs and serving as the animation director. It’ll be animated at Sunrise. The cast includes Sachika Misawa as Kuroyukihime, Yuuki Kaji as Haruyuki, Aki Toyosaki as Chiyuri and Shintarō Asanuma as Takumu.
Original concept: No matter what age it is, the “Bullied Child” will never disappear. The overweight, Middle School student, Haruyuki, was one such kid. The only time he could relax completely, was when he would play a squash game on the local network the school had set up. He loved playing this simple game as he can forget painful times while immersed in it.
It was fall. He was passing his time like this until one day, he had an encounter with the school’s most beautiful, refined girl, “Snow Black,” which changed his life abruptly. Introduced to the software she transmitted, Haruyuki learned about “Accel World.” A program that enhances one’s mind capabilities, with certain side-effects.
It was the moment the guy on the lowest rung at school became “Burst Linker,” protecting the Princess as her knight.
[Source: ANN]
