User blog:Kaantantr/Sword Art Online Alicization and Game news from October 7, 2018

With Kirito's birthday, we got a bunch of news right after the first episode of Alicization Arc finished airing on October 7 in Japan! So, as usual, we decided to work on a blog post to provide you the latest and juiciest news in a way that'd make Argo proud! Well, maybe not usual, we are still testing out blog posts, so we'd love to hear if you enjoy hearing the news without leaving the Wikia in this blog post form!

For those who don't want to wait for news recap posts and want to learn everything as they come, we strongly recommend following us on twitter at the handle @SAO_Wikia! And mind you, this news post is not yet complete, as the Dengeki Autumn Festival is just hours away and has 2 separate stages available, one for SAO Anime content and one for SAO Game content. We will keep sharing the news on twitter and update this post once the reporting concludes there. And unlike Argo, we won't try charging you for it!

First and obvious things first, Sword Art Online Alicization Episode 1 is now available on Crunchyroll, Hulu, Funimation, Wakanim and other regional licencors all around the world, so you can watch the hour long special there right now if you haven't done so already! But there are tons of news to go along with it!

First off, the Bluray/DVD release for the first Alicization Anime Volume has been made public, marking it for a January 30th release! This first volume will include Episodes 1-3 of the Anime! On top of that, the Limited Edition version of the first volume will come with an original story written by Reki Kawahara, but those are not the only bonuses! In addition to the brand new original story, a special booklet, various character songs, promotional and commercial video recordings, along with an Audio Commentary, will be included as well! As the Sword Art Online Wikia, we will do our utmost best at bringing the brand new original stories and information to you as quickly as possible!



But that's not all, a special Illustration by the series' Light Novel Illustrator, abec, will be given away for people who purchase SAO BD/DVD's V1-8 as a bundle in certain stores!

More news may be revealed at the SAO Anime Stage at Dengeki Fall Festival, which will start at 7:00am UTC and you can watch it by clicking here!

In SAO Games news, Sword Art Online Fatal Bullet COMPLETE EDITION, that includes all 3 DLC episodes and the upcoming Dissonance of the Nexus/Diva of the Snow Fields DLC, has been slated for a January 18 release! More info is promised during Dengeki Autumn Festival later today in Japan! For reference, the SAO Games stage at the Festival will be held at 8:30am UTC and you can watch it through clicking here!

As news come from the panels, we will bring them to you very quickly on twitter @SAO_Wikia and will update this blog post accordingly as mentioned earlier, after the news are complete!

See y'all in a couple of hours! Here's a treat while you wait, have fun with the Alicization Opening!

=Dengeki Autumn Fest News=

Well, as promised, here's the update to the post with all the news from Dengeki Autumn Fest 2018! Sadly, we didn't get much actual news from the main SAO Panel. It was mainly the guests, including Voice Actors having a fun time. But surprisingly, the SAO Game news started creeping in early as Yosuke Futami showed up on the stage and via a Fatal Bullet Complete Edition advertisement, they announced the DLC4, Dissonance of the Nexus would come out on January 17th as well, on the same day as Complete Edition! Futami continued to showcase an ad for a brand new arcade game, Sword Art Online Arcade -Deep Explorer-!

Towards the end of the main SAO stage, the news about Alicization Bluray Release, along with other promotional material was shared again, but nothing new, compared to what we summarized earlier above. But for the SAO Game enthusiasts, it became quite the eventful day, just a couple hours later!

Among a lot of Memory Defrag and Integral Factor news, focusing on their own Alicization Anime Launch campaigns, with tons of rewards and activities, the focus shifted over to Fatal Bullet. They showcased the DLC4 trailer that we have seen in the previous streams, but then, also shared a clip of Sachi appearing to Asuna, Kirito and the others, seemingly not remembering anything. We have added English subtitles to the clip, so you can also understand the context!

We got tons of character reveals for DLC4 as well! We already knew Sachi and while they "mysteriously" hinted at a character in the trailer, we had reported that it was YUNA all the way back then! But surprisingly, 2 additional characters were revealed, one of which you already saw in the clip above. Eiji from Ordinal Scale and Seven from Lost Song have been announced as Fatal Bullet newcomers!

On top of all, the Free Trial version and the Free Update that was announced in the previous stream, finally got a date! Well, not a date, a time window! Both will be available sometime in November, so if you want to check the game out, you can take advantage of the Free Trial that'll also let you transfer your progress into the full game should you purchase it, or if you already have the game, you can enjoy Lievre and Death Gun in Hero mode battles, among other improvements that you can read in our previous News Blog!

But Fatal Bullet is not the only focus of the news, as we finally got to see a working demo build for Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization on Nintendo Switch! Yoshitsugu Matsuoka took the game for a spin!

While the Alicization Anime run will keep fans quite busy for a long time, it's good to see Game fans are getting cool treats as well!

Hope you enjoyed this news coverage and we'll be here, once there is more to cover!