The fall 2019 anime series Sword Art Online: Alicization may be moving through its last round of simulcast episodes with the sequel side of it with War of the Underworld, but the original part of this run is about to get some new distribution. Netflix has announced an October 1st, 2020 debut on their site of the first twelve episodes of this series with language options to be revealed- though at least bilingual. They’ll be bringing them all out at once to encourage a solid day of binging and talking about it. It’ll be listed as season three on their site when it goes live.
Manabu Ono is directing it and A-1 Pictures handling the animation production. Gou Suzuki, Tomoya Nishiguchi, and Shingo Adachi are handling the character designs.
The announced cast includes Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Kirito, Haruka Tomatsu as Asuna, Ai Kayano as Alice, and Nobunaga Shimazaki as Eugeo.
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Plot Concept: Kirito awakens in a vast, fantastical forest filled with towering trees. In his search for clues to the truth of his surroundings, he encounters a young boy who seems to know him. He ought to be a simple NPC, but the depth of his emotions seem no different than a human.
As they search for the boy’s parents, Kirito finds a peculiar memory returning to him. A memory from his own childhood, of this boy and a girl, too, with golden hair, and a name he should have never forgotten Alice.
