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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BZwivFCikI The time has come, FusionFall fans. The highly anticipated fan re-build of the classic MMO is going to be open for players next month!

Aniplex of America uploaded this to their YouTube channel not too long ago, confirming that there will be an upcoming anime film for Sword Art Online sometime in the future: As it stands, the only information present for this film is, as the trailer says, that it will have a brand-new, original story written by the creator of SAO himself, Reki Kawihara. Given this description, I believe it may cover either events left out of the anime adaption or possibly legitimate brand new material created by the author around the same instances as either of the first two anime. I find that the most likely scenario might be coverage of the recent SAO spin-off "Progressive".

I believe that this is a topic that hopefully will not come off as tired or repeated because I personally don't see much discussion about it in the specific manner that I am going to address it in, if that makes any sense. So, as we all know, the majority of worlds that we visit in the Kingdom Hearts games are worlds based off Disney films/properties that are home to the various Disney characters that star in those films/properties. However, some of the Disney characters we've met have been documented as belonging to their native home world, and yet we've never actually seen those worlds. Now, obvious examples of these characters are people like Simba or Mushu or the Fairy Godmother, but those characters were later confirmed to be from actual worlds. See, I'm referring to the characters that do not have that sort of confirmation whatsoever. For instance, we saw Pongo, Perdita and all of their puppies from 101 Dalmations in KH1. Their journal entries claimed that they were from a native world, but we only ever saw them in Traverse Town and never got to see their actual world which was also claimed to have been lost to darkness thanks to Xehanort's Heartless. The same can be said for the summons Bambi and Dumbo, from the films of the same name. In the same vein, Chicken Little from KHII also qualifies, but I'd personally be glad if we never see a world based on that "film" inserted into the series. Of course, that's just me. This is what I'm basically trying to prove here: on technical terms, the Kingdom Hearts universe does in fact have worlds based on 101 Dalmatians, Bambi, Dumbo, and Chicken Little. These are worlds that are in fact possible for us to explore in the universe of KH if we are given the chance to. Not saying that we will or that they'll be apart of KHIII, but I'm just saying that it is possible to a certain extent. There's also the characters of Merlin and Experiment 626/Stitch (and by extension Dr. Jumba, Gantu, and the Grand Councilwoman I guess) that could be into this category, but I actually think that they are part of a special exception. You see, when it comes to them, I'm sure most of us have thought that there's the possibility of a Sword Of The Stone world or a Lilo & Stitch world just based on their existence in the series alone, but here's my line of thinking: For Merlin's case, there's never been any solid evidence that he originally inhabited a world based on SotS, he just simply existed in the universe, possibly solely in Radiant Garden, ever since the dawn of time. And it's not like that's not entirely plausible. Speaking realistically, the Disney inhabitants of the KH universe don't necessarily follow the standard flow of time. I'd dare say that most of them can pretty much be touted as "immortal", and I think Merlin qualifies for this. As for Stitch, his situation is a little more complex. In BBS, we were essentially given the prologue to Lilo & Stitch before Stitch crash lands on Earth, and we don't really know what happened to him afterwards, in-universe speaking. In KHII, he randomly shows up again for a couple of scenes and as a summon, and it's pretty much just handwaved that he used to be a bad guy but now he's good and all that jazz. We weren't told that he went to a world where he met a chubby Hawaiian girl and reformed himself either. He just sort of turned good on his own, and thanks to Birth By Sleep, we can also reinforce the idea that Stitch turned good because of Terra, Aqua, and Ventus and didn't need Lilo in the first place. So, it's all kinds of complicated. Still, my conclusion is that Stitch, and in extension the entire L&S cast from BBS are in fact just random aliens who exist in the universe on their own merits. Deep Space isn't really a world anyway, it's literally just a giant spaceship. It's about as much a world as the insides of Monstro were in KH1 and KHDDD. So yeah, there's my stance. Do you think any of the proposed worlds I talked about could be introduced in KHIII? Do you agree with my personal thesis on Merlin and Stitch? Are there any examples I might have missed?

In the same vein as the upcoming SAO film, Accel World, another series by Reki Kawahara which in a way shares a universe with SAO, will be receiving a new anime film called "Infinite Burst". Accel World originally had an anime series in 2013 that ran for 24 episodes, and aside from a couple of OVAS and other misc. animations, "Infinite Burst" will be the first major anime project for the series in years. Also like the new SAO film, it will have an original story written by the aforementioned creator, Reki Kawahara.