Sword Art Online still has the thrill in it! The expected series has been quite late as fans bored of waiting, but the shonen series made a comeback this week with a new movie. Just this weekend, Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale hits Japan cinemas after a long wait, and fans were excited to prop the feature up. As per the box office, the animated film blew away its struggle to take the weekend's top spot.

Long-Awaited Movie Came Profitable In Its Debut

Over the weekend, Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale sold approximately 305,000 tickets in Japan and earned 400,00.00+ yen (that is rough $3.76 million) in cinema debut. The film premiered in more than 150 theaters abroad, and its opening makes the Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale the first film since Your Name debuted to be #1 in both weekend turnout and overall weekend box office paychecks.

You can check out the synopsis for Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale below:

"In 2022, a virtual reality game that was suspended by the creation of an invention from a genius programmer, Akihiko Kayaba, called NerveGear. It was the first full dive system, and with it, came endless possibilities to VRMMORPGs.

In 2026, a new gear called the Aug is developed to vie against the NerveGear and its successor, the Amusphere. A gen-next wearable device, the Augma doesn't have a full-dive function like its predecessors. Instead, it uses Augmented Reality (AR) to get players into the game. It is nonviolent, manageable and lets users play while they are conscious, making it an instant hit on the market. The most pop game on the system is "Ordinal Scale" (aka OS), an ARMMORPG developed solely for the Augma.

Asuna and the gang have previously been playing OS, by the time Kirito got bored and decides to join them. They're about to find out that Ordinal Scale isn't all fun and games..."

Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale will be showing abroad in Japan, and the film will first perform in the United States for a one-night event on March 9.