Soon after, Kirito awakens in the real world with no memory of what happened. Kirito attempts to stop Alice from being taken away, while Eugeo stands motionless. For this violation, she is sentenced to execution by the Integrity Knights. Alice trips and falls with her hand accidentally touching the Dark Territory. The three get lost in a cave in the outskirts of the Human Territory, ending up at the boundary of the Dark Territory. Inside an unknown VR environment, Kirito spends his days as a child with his friends Eugeo and Alice. Transcription: " Andāwārudo" ( Japanese: アンダーワールド)
The series is available with multilingual subtitles on iQIYI in South East Asia. The second cour of the second part of the series premiered on Toonami on November 8, 2020. Aniplex of America's English-dubbed version aired on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block from February 10 until July 14, 2019, while the first cour of the second part of the series aired from January 19 until April 5, 2020. The second half of the War of Underworld series was originally scheduled to premiere on April 26, 2020, but was delayed to air from July 12 to September 20, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second part of the series premiered on October 13, 2019, and aired until December 29, 2019, with a recap episode summarizing the first part airing on October 6, 2019.
The first part of the series premiered on October 7, 2018, and aired until March 31, 2019, with a one-hour world premiere airing in Japan, the United States, Mexico, Australia, France, Germany, Russia, and South Korea on September 15, 2018. While not covered in the light novels, Alicization takes place after Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale, as it incorporates elements from the film not in the novels. The second part of the anime, titled Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld, adapts from the novel's fifteenth volume, Alicization Invading, to the eighteenth volume, Alicization Lasting. It covers the first part of the "Alicization" arc and adapts from the novel's ninth volume, Alicization Beginning, to the fourteenth volume, Alicization Uniting. It is animated by A-1 Pictures and directed by Manabu Ono. Sword Art Online: Alicization is the third season of the anime series adapted from the light novel series Sword Art Online, written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec.