Source: Aniplex of America
Summary:

Aniplex of America announced that they will release the first season of Sword Art Online in a Blu-Ray set. The release, which includes the entire first series plus Sword Art Online: Extra Edition, will hit stores on June 27 with a suggested price of $199.98.

Aniplex of America announced that they will release the first season of Sword Art Online in a Blu-Ray set. The release, which includes the entire first series plus Sword Art Online: Extra Edition, will hit stores on June 27 with a suggested price of $199.98.

Aniplex of America Announces

Sword Art Online Blu-ray Box SetProduct Details

Mega-Hit Anime Series Slated to Receive Box Set Release for the First Time

SANTA MONICA, CA (March 17, 2017) – Aniplex of America announced today their product details and release plans for the Sword Art Online Blu-ray Box Set. This set will include all 25 episodes from the first season in addition to Sword Art Online Extra Edition and various bonus contents. Previously teased at the North American premiere of Sword Art Online the Movie -Ordinal Scale- on March 1, this will be the first time a complete season Sword Art Online box set has seen a domestic release since its original broadcast in 2012. This product is scheduled for release on June 27 of this year. Pre-orders will begin today (March 17) at 12 PM PDT on Right Stuf Anime (http://www.rightstufanime.com).

About Sword Art Online:

In the year 2022, a next-generation technology known as “NerveGear” has been developed, making Full Dives into a virtual dimension possible. The world’s first true VRMMORPG utilizing NerveGear known as “Sword Art Online (SAO)” has generated worldwide buzz, and on its official launch day, one player, Kirito, immerses himself in its virtual world.

But Akihiko Kayaba, the developer of SAO, proclaims the following to all players: “This game is inescapable unless all levels are cleared. And in this world, ‘Game Over’ means death in the real world.”

For details on Sword Art Online, please visit: www.swordart-onlineusa.com

Sword Art Online Blu-ray Box Set (TV Series 1 & Extra Edition) features:

*Art subject to change

<BD Features>

• Spoken Languages: Japanese & English
• Subtitles: English & Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 16:9 widescreen
• Episodes: #1-25 and Extra Edition l Number of Discs: 9 Blu-ray Discs
• Total Run Time: Approx. 692 min.
• Rating: 13UP

<Bonus Contents>

• Audio Commentary by Creators and Japanese Cast
• Textless Opening & Ending (Aincrad Arc)
• Textless Opening & Ending (Fairy Dance Arc)
• Special Short Animation “Sword Art OFFLINE”
• Original Web Previews
• SAO English Trailer
• SAO II Teaser Trailer

• Bonus contents subject to change.
• Bonus contents include English subtitles

<Package>

• Rigid Box with New Design by Shingo Adachi (Character Design)
• Mini-pinup poster

Product number and UPC bar code

This SKU will be available through official Aniplex of America retailers. For a list of our retailers, please visit: www.AniplexUSA.com/retailers

STAFF:

Original Story: Reki Kawahara (Dengeki Bunko / ASCII MEDIA WORKS)

Original Character Design: abec

Director: Tomohiko Ito

Character Design: Shingo Adachi

Sub Character Design: Tetsuya Kawakami

Supervising Animation Director: Shingo Adachi, Tetsuya Kawakami

Action Animation Director: Ryuta Yanagi, Takahiro Shikama

Main Animator: Atsushi Saito

Monster Design: Ryuta Yanagi

Prop Design: Yuta Tsuchiya, Takahiro Shikama

Art Director: Yusuke Takeda (Bamboo), Takayuki Nagashima (Bamboo), Shigeru Chiba

Art Setting: Yuho Taniuchi (KUSANAGI)

Color Setting: Kazuko Nakashima

Director of Photography: Gaku Hirooka

Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

Effects: Yasuyuki Konno

Sound Production: Ducks Production

Music: Yuki Kajiura

Animation Production: A-1 Pictures

Project Supervising: GENCO

Produced by SAO Project

CAST (Japanese/English):

Kirito: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka / Bryce Papenbrook

Asuna: Haruka Tomatsu / Cherami Leigh

Yui: Kanae Ito / Stephanie Sheh

Silica: Rina Hidaka / Christine Marie Cabanos

Lisbeth: Ayahi Takagaki / Sarah Anne Williams

Leafa: Ayana Taketatsu / Cassandra Lee Morris

Klein: Hiroaki Hirata / Kirk Thornton

Agil: Hiroki Yasumoto / Patrick Seitz

Akihiko Kayaba: Koichi Yamadera / Marc Diraison

Sakuya: Sayuri Yahagi / Lauren Landa

Alicia-Lu: Chiwa Saito / Cristina Vee

Eugene: Kenta Miyake / Joshua Tomar

Recon: Ayumu Murase / Marianne Miller

Seijirou Kikuoka: Toshiyuki Morikawa / Matt Mercer

English Voice Director & Script Writer: Alex von David

About Aniplex of America Inc.

Aniplex of America Inc. (Santa Monica, California) is a subsidiary of Aniplex Inc. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan), a group of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and a leading provider of anime content and music production and distribution in Japan. Aniplex of America has launched fan-favorite Blu-ray and DVD releases including Sword Art Online, KILL la KILL, Blue Exorcist, DURARARA!!,

Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero, Your lie in April, BAKEMONOGATARI, NISEKOI, Magi: The

Labyrinth of Magic, Expelled From Paradise, The irregular at magic high school, ALDNOAH.ZERO, Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works], and ERASED. The company’s ever-growing line-up of shows includes our most recent titles GOD EATER, March comes in like a lion, Occultic;Nine, The Asterisk War, OWARIMONOGATARI, and WAGNARIA!!3.

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