Sword Art Online Ordinal Scale! It actually
just premiered in the US and also some
places in North America last night!
Hopefully by now you've got a chance to
check out my review on it! If you haven't
definitely check that out. But for this
video we're talking about the
post-credit scene. At the very end of the
movie hopefully you stayed it said SAO
will return. So this is pretty much the
SAOseason three confirmation that
we've all been waiting for. The big
question on everyone's mind is where
exactly does sao go from here?
So right here by the way spoiler warning.
I'm gonna be getting into pretty
light spoiler stuff for the Alicization
Arc. This Alicization Arc being
the next Arc that's coming up. So about
that post credit scene. I'm talking about the
stuff before the big sao will return
shot. There's really three key main
things taking place here. First off the
Augma scientist Dr. Shigemura
managed to escape jail. Lucky little
bastard.
So of course this guy's going to be
involved in the following seasons. Which
is also pretty interesting because I
don't remember a Dr. Shigemura in
the novel. But anyways second key thing.
More important than him is the person who
actually helped him out and now who also
happens to be the person that he's working
for. That being none other than Seijirou.
Yeah remember this guy? We first saw this
guy in the SAO extra episode. He was
later more involved in the second season
GGO Arc. I'm sure a lot of us saw him at
first and all that this guy might be a
shady characters. When the group first
meets him
he tells them that he's working for
government but he conveniently never
mentioned to Kirito's group is that Seijirou
was actually one of the original 1000
BETA testers. Yeah this guy was in the
same group that Kirito was also in. What's
interesting that he went down a
different path than Kirito. Seijirou was
actually deeply inspired from what he
saw in the SAO beta game. Instead of
later going to join the full games he
instead started working on projects
Alicization. Now finally the key third
thing. Rath. They managed to slip that in
So what exactly is this Rath thing? well
it's actually related to Seijirou and
what he's been really involved.
TO put it simply Rath is this
mysterious company that's working with
the Japanese government and also Japan's
self-defense force. Seijirou actually a
lieutenant-colonel for the Japanese
self-defense force.
The goal of this company Rath is to
develop and vastly improved Japan's
weapon technology. At the same time they're
also trying to improve Japan's outdated
defense tech. So now where does Kirito
come into all of this? You might
already have a good guess. It involved
Seijirou. Rath happens to hire Kirito to test
out their fourth generation fulldive
system. This latest on that they're
working on or have been working on is
called the Soul Translator. You might be
wondering how is this one different from
the previous fulldive systems. I'm just
going to go ahead and keep it simple and
say that instead of like the other fulldive
systems that are connected to users
brain this news Soul Translator connects
directly to what's considered the human
soul. Anyway i'll go ahead and stop here.
This was just a little teaser for you.
Now there's two main questions that
remain.
When is SAO season 3 coming
out and just how is SAO Season 3
going to be made? I'm going to
explain what I mean by this soon. The
director for the SAO series and movie
mentioned that they just completed the
movie one week before it was released in
theaters in Japan. I'd be really
surprised that they're heavily deep into season
three. Most likely if they done anything
for SAO Season 3 it's in very very early
pre-production stages. If I had to take
a guess I can see an official
announcement for season 3 coming out
later this year and by official
announcement I just mean some type of
visual graphics that says it's coming
out in early 2018. So yes
unfortunately I don't see SAO season 3
coming out this year. You could also bet
that is the SAO ordinal scale
continues to be a big hit
they might announce this even sooner. They
might even plan to announce it at the
Anime Expo this year. I'll definitely be
there! Now for the second important
question. Just how are they going to go
about making
SAO season three? Sword Art Online season 3
is going to cover the Alicization Arc,
also known as the longest Arc in the SAO
series. So just as a refresher. SAO season
1 covers the first four Light Novels novels of
the series.
This includes the Aincrad and Elfen
Arcs. SAO Season 2 covers the next four
Light novels.
This includes three arcs: GGO, Caliber and
Mother's Rosario, which is probably my
favorite arc. Now for SAO season 3 and
possibly SAO season 4. This one covers
the Alicization Arc.
I really meant it when I said that this
arc was long.
The Alicization arc coverage 10 light
novel! That's right.
freaking 10. This means that is longer
than SAO season one and SAO season 2
combined. If you think about it it could
be the length of SAO season one and
season to combined if you also add in
that extra episode and the movie. So what
this means is that I could really only see
the Alicization arc being a least 50
episodes. This is why I brought up the
how part earlier on. Just how are they
going to make the Alicization arc. Let's also
try to keep in mind the business part of
it.
On the one hand this Alicization arc
needs to be 50 plus episodes. The thing is
I just don't see them making 50 episode
series.
Not without a break in between. Let's
keep in mind that the A1 studio is one
making. So far the only super long series
they made has been Fairy Tail. You could go
ahead and debate about the quality about
how that series turned out.
All 50 episodes in one year might lead
to an overall lower quality SAO season
and no one wants that. More importantly
though from a business aspect I just
don't think it makes much sense releasing
the rest of your most popular series all
in one year.
Just think about it. If they did all of the
Alicization in 2018 that will mean that
the anime would have practically caught
up to source material. After that there's
not much else they could do except wait.
Unless of course they want to do another
movie. So here's what I see most likely
happening.
SAO season three is going to be really
sometimes in 2018. It's going to
have 24 or 25 episodes. The
Alicization arc is going to have to have some
break in between. Then either next year or
in 2020 SAO season 4 is going to
come out with the rest of it. If they do
split this up I really hope they don't
make us wait more than part of a year. But
anyway how do you think they should
handle SAI season 3? The infamous
Alicization Arc. Should they do all
50 episodes in the single years or break
it apart for the sake of a
higher-quality series? For either one
make sure you let me know why you think
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