Sword Art Online final had its first ever, feature film!

Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale.  

Aniplex & Eleven Arts held a red carpet premiere in Hollywood, California at the famous Egyptian Theater!

The exclusive event SOLD OUT within 48 hours after tickets were on sell. With anime’s popularity, its no wonder it sold out quickly! Hundreds of fans gathered for this exclusive one-day event, some came in cosplay.

(Left) Andrew Black Swordsman; (Left Middle) Stella Chuu; (Middle Right) Celty Farron; (Left) Atashi as Silica w/ Pina

Celty Farron as Yuki Asun

Atashi as Silica w/ Pina

Fans were also able to buy new SAO merch at the ‘SAO store’ Aniplex staff set up

The SAO ‘Store’

Fan looking through items

Boxes of SAO merch

Asuna SAO OS Figure B

Asuna SAO OS Figure A

Items I purchased (Money well spent)

The event was filled with special guests, such as:

abec [Character design concept]

TOMOHIKO ITO [Film Director]

REKI KAWAHARA [SAO Author/Original Story]

(Left) KAZUMA MIKI [Editor/Producer]; (Right) SHINGO ADACHI [Character Design/Chief Animation Director]

SHINICHIRO KASHIWADA [Producer of Aniplex]

Other surprise guests included:

Bryce Papenbrook [Kirito / Kazuto Kirigaya]

Cherami Leigh [Asuna Yuuki]

(Left) Cassandra Lee Morris [Leafa / Suguha Kirigaya]; (Middle) Cherami Leigh [Asuna Yuuki]; (Right) Christine M. Cabanos [Silica / Keiko Ayano]

(Left) Bryce Papenbrook [Kirito / Kazuto Kirigaya]; (Middle) Sarah Williams [Lisbeth / Rika Shinozaki]; (Right) Cassandra Lee Morris [Leafa / Suguha Kirigaya]

After the screening, special guests had a Q&A session set up by Aniplex. You can read some of the questions that were asked here, Anime News Network.

Reki Kawahara

Tomohiko Ito

Shinichiro Kashiwada & Yui

Yui

(Left) Tomohiko Ito; (Middle) Shingo Adachi; (Right) Shinichiro Kashiwada & Yui

For those who missed this fantastic event, you can still catch the movie in theaters THIS Thursday; March 9th 2017. Tickets on sale here. Catch some of the highlights of this event down below.

We’ll be posting an event video soon, so stay tuned!