Woo hoo! Just one more week, then the DVD/Blu-ray of Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale gets released. "4 years later…. A next-generation, wearable multi-device called the Augma has been released to compete with the NerveGear’s successor, the Amusphere. A cutting-edge machine boasting the ability to enhance AR (Augmented Reality) to the maximum, the Augma offers a safe, user-friendly experience, as it can be used while the player is awake, making it an instant hit. Its most popular title is an ARMMORPG developed exclusively for the Augma, “Ordinal Scale (a.k.a. OS).” Kirito is about to join Asuna and the others as an Ordinal Scale player, but they’re about to find out that it isn’t all fun and games…" https://otakumode.com/news/59560184...ine-Ordinal-Scale-Blu-ray-DVD-On-Sale-Sept-27!
I've got mixed feelings on this. I feel like it could have been fleshed out so much more, explained more, and just not cramed into a single movie. I would have rather had a 15 or even 10 episode season to cover the material in it. Maybe I'm just silly like that.
They still can do it, it's anime. Taking 10 episodes and cramming it into a single movie, or, taking a movie and rebuilding it into a series arc is what they do. There's two different series for Negima that has almost the exact same characters with an entirely different story...and let's not even start with Tenchi Muyo.
