Budo: The Art of Killing and aficionados. The film was eventually remastered and released on DVD in 2005 by Synapse Films. 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
Sword Art Online 2015 issue of "Dengeki Maoh". A tenth manga, titled "Sword Art Online: Project Alicization" and illustrated by Kōtarō Yamada, based on the Alicization arc of the light novel series, began serialization in the September 2016 issue of "Dengeki Bunko Magazine". An anime adaptation of "Sword Art Online" was announced at Dengeki Bunko Autumn Festival 2011, along with Reki Kawahara's other light novel series, "Accel World". The anime is produced by Aniplex and Genco, animated by A-1 Pictures and directed by Tomohiko Ito with music by Yuki Kajiura. The anime aired on Tokyo MX, tvk, TV Saitama, TV Aichi, RKB, HBC