Budo: The Art of Killing Budo: The Art of Killing Budo: The Art of Killing is an award winning 1978 Japanese martial arts documentary created and produced by Hisao Masuda and financed by The Arthur Davis Company. Considered a cult classic, the film is a compilation of various Japanese martial art demonstrations by several famous Japanese instructors such as Gozo Shioda, Taizaburo Nakamura and Teruo Hayashi. Martial arts featured in the film include: karate, aikido, kendo, sumo, and judo among others. The only modern Japanese martial art not featured in the film is kyudo. "Budo: The Art of Killing" is a compilation of various gendai
Sword Art Online go "back to the real world." The Unital Ring story arc began in volume 21, which was released in Japan on December 7, 2018. Kawahara also writes the "Sword Art Online: Progressive" series, which covers Kirito's adventures on the first few floors of Aincrad. The first volume of "Progressive" was released on October 10, 2012, and four volumes have been released as of December 10, 2015. The first volume of a light novel series based on "Sword Art Online" titled "Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online", written by Keiichi Sigsawa with illustrations by Kouhaku Kuroboshi, was published by ASCII