Are memories really that important?
Would you care if you lose them?
Would you, deliberately, cast them away?
SAO fans should know what to expect of this movie: the hype was sky-high, and Ordinal Scale met those lofty expectations, astonishingly!
After the Aincrad fateful events, Asuna and Kirito are back to the so called reality. The year 2026 elapses and, in it, a new crescent cosmogony; an inventive and conspicuous technology has emerged - Augma, an alternative system to the AmuSphere, where players can consciously dive. More than a mere torsion of reality, Augma appears to be an extension of the tangible, transforming the seeing world before your very eyes. And, through this portal, amongst a myriad of other apps, Ordinal Scale exists, the most popular one, a RPG game. People use it every day, renouncing more and more the SAO world. Asuna, Lisbeth and Silica encourage Kirito to play, due to his reluctance, enticing him, since old foes from Aincrad have returned. Behind this wit, an eerie and occult mystery is growing, and the whispered word "Switch" will thicken that same subtlety.
A Sword Art Online survivor, a top ranking player, Eiji is his name, from the Knights of the Blood Oath, alongside a shady entity, is attempting an unprecedented and unreasonable milestone - bring back to life a girl named Yuna, who died in Aincrad. For that to befall the memories of SAO survivors are needed, in order to attain and restore every bit of information regarding Yuna's persona. (An alter ego serves as the iconic idol in the AR world of Ordinal Scale - a cute one.) A secret creeps and besieges around these three characters.
Into the nascent fantasy, you will encounter old bosses from SAO, in spectacular battles with fantastic, epic songs sung beautifully and composed fabulously - Kajiura Yuki in all her magnificent brilliance. "delete" by Yuna is breath-taking!
As the story proceeds, passing through an extremely suggestive bridge where Japan terminates and an admirable, transversal world begins, you will dive deeper into the development of the new characters, and the innermost evolution of Kirito and Asuna relationship, probably the most prominent couple in anime. Everyone else is here, too, from the original series and the second season, (Yui, Sinon, Leafa, Sakuya, etc.) and their interaction and importance is salient and strong, for we have learnt this from Kirito and his gamer solitude – friendship and fellowship are essential, making us do the impossible, a slow but progressive sedimentation, becoming unwavering, inexpugnable. For even in this, not so distant, near utopic future, the most primeval and prosaic sentiments are scrutinize and depicted, because, in the end, it is never just a story, or how you narrate it, but the emotion it can convey. Lastly, you will feel back in Swordland as you're in for a final surprise, a stupendous showdown of grandeur! Chilling and chanting.
On an unbiased basis, as an anime fan, i was completely absorbed by the might of this movie, all the artistry that floats and then flows through the screen, the animation, the music, script and seyuu talents, thrill and excitement.
Still, as a SAO enthusiast myself, i grandly loved this jewel. Adore!
So, what are you waiting for?
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