It was announced by Kadokawa on Monday that the Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale anime movie “will be simultaneously released worldwide on February 18, 2017.” The staff confirmed that the movie is going to be screen in about 1,000 different theatres worldwide, no further details were revealed
The side notes of announcement reveals that approximately 19 million copies of the Sword Art Online novel were sold worldwide, with around 6.5 million copies sold to overseas readers.
12.5 millions were sold to people in Japan, 3.73 million in China, 1.45 million in Taiwan and 777,000 in South Korea and 370,000 in North America and United Kingdom to be exact.
Original trailer for the movie, which revealed the new characters was streamed by Aniplex of America on this Sunday.
Characters visuals on next page!