Kazuma Miki, the light novel editor and an anime producer for Sword Art Online, stated at a “SAO and GGO New Anime and Original Work Stage” presentation at a Sword Art Online fan meeting event on Saturday that the upcoming Sword Art Online: Alicization anime will cover the entirety of the Alicization arc from Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online light novel series.
The Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale anime film, which opened in Japan in February 2017, had teased that “SAO will return.”
The Alicization arc is in volumes 9 through 18 of the original novel series.
The anime series has two television anime adaptations, an anime special, and a recent film.