Manabu Ono (The Asterisk War) will direct the upcoming anime with Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale animation directors Gou Suzuki and Tomoya Nishiguchi joining Shingo Adachi (Log Horizon) as character designers. The show's director previously revealed in an interview that he heard around the time of Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale's preview that the Aniplex staff plans to adapt the original novel series till the very end.
Adapting the original light novel's 9th to 18th volumes, the 3rd season of Sword Art Online, Sword Art Online: Alicization is set to premiere this October.
[Source: Anime News Network]