The bad news is that the next major portion of the story may take even more years to reach a conclusion. The good news is the anime may proceed at a faster clip, and critics won't be able to complain about the pacing issues. Assuming Sword Art Online Season 3 is 24 episodes long, it's possible they may split up the Alicization story arc into multiple seasons, although a good stopping point is debatable. Many fans felt the 12-episode long segment covering Phantom Bullet dragged out too slowly. How this will be handled may largely be determined by fan feedback from SAO Season 2. The recently-released story arc in the anime centered on Mother's Rosario comes right before Sword Art Online Alicization, the major plot point of the Sword Art Online Underworld story arc. The Excalibur story arc was also pulled from volume eight. SAO Season 1 covered volumes one through four and one of the side stories of volume eight, while SAO Season 2 covered volumes five through seven. As of August of 2014, writer Reki Kawahara has released 15 light novels. What we can reliably predict for SAO Season 3 is the story line. There was a two-year gap between the first and second seasons, so at the earliest we might expect new episodes to be ready by late 2015 or early 2016. Unfortunately, predictions for the Sword Art Online Season 3 release date are in the same boat. To put things in perspective, the original Japanese anime for SAO Season 1 came out in July of 2012 and the SAO English dub release date was not until August of 2013, so there's a good chance we may have to wait months to a year for the Sword Art Online Season 2 English dub. Unfortunately, Aniplex has been silent on the issue, although prior history can be used to predict when it might happen. economic downturn claims that anime, cosplay, and the new overabundance of neets in American society is the cause.Īmerican viewers have been consistently searching for when the Sword Art Online Season 2 English dub is coming out from Aniplex. In a related report by the Inquisitr, one interesting explanation for the recent U.S. The release date for the SAO Season 2 English dub has also been officially announced by Aniplex. We also published an interview with author Reki Kawahara about his future plans. The spoilers in this article were purposefully kept to a minimum, but we've created an article explaining what Project Alicization means for SAO Season 3 and a spoilers article about Kirito, Asuna, and what is known so far about the plot.

While nothing has been announced yet, fans are hoping the Sword Art Online: Underworld story arc will not require two years of waiting. The Sword Art Online Season 3 release date is already on the minds of many an anime fan now that the Sword Art Online Season 2 finale has been released.

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