The Sword Art Online stage panel at the “Dengeki Bunko Aki no Saiten 2017 event (Dengeki Bunko Fall Festival 2017) event in Tokyo announced on Sunday that a television anime adaptation of the Alicization arc in Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online light novel series has been green-lit.
The Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale anime film, which opened in Japan on February 18, had teased that “SAO will return.”
The third series is titled Sword Art Online: Alicization.
The anime series has two television anime adaptations, an anime special, and the recent film.