.hack series

Jun 26, 2009 3:58 AM

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Hi there!

I don't know ANYTHING about the .hack series and I would like some information about it. Mostly... In what order does everything play in? I mean, which seasons is the first, and seccond season and yeah....

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Jun 26, 2009 4:05 AM

DarkGyraen

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack

That has a list of both of the major .hack storyline's, including the original and the conglomerate, which revolves around the .hack//gu storyline.

Jun 26, 2009 4:14 AM

Janssonn

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This was VERY confusing :S There is:

""Project .hack

Project .hack was the first generation of the .hack series. It launched in 2002 with the PlayStation 2 game, .hack//Infection and the anime series .hack//Sign. Project developers included Koichi Mashimo, Kazunori Ito, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. Since then, Project .hack has spanned television, video games, manga, novels, and even trading cards.
[edit]Main storyline
Series that are part of the official continuity (canon) of the project.
.hack//AI buster, a novel telling the story of Albireo and a prototype of the ultimate AI, Lycoris, and of how Orca and Balmung defeated "The One Sin" and became the Descendants of Fianna.
.hack//AI buster 2, a collection of stories involving the characters of AI Buster and Legend of the Twilight Bracelet: ".hack//2nd Character", ".hack//Wotan's Spear", ".hack//Kamui", ".hack//Rumor" and ".hack//Firefly". "Rumor" was previously released with the Rena Special Pack in Japan.
.hack//Sign, an anime series surrounding the character Tsukasa and his (her) inability to log out of The World.
.hack//Zero, a novel series that tells the story of a Long Arm named Carl, of what happened to Sora after he was trapped in The World by Morganna, and of Tsukasa's real life after being able to log out from The World.
.hack, a series of four PlayStation 2 games that follow the story of the .hackers, Kite and BlackRose, and their attempts to find out what caused the sudden coma of Kite's friend, Orca, and BlackRose's brother, Kazu. The four volumes, in sequence, are .hack//Infection, .hack//Mutation, .hack//Outbreak, and .hack//Quarantine.
.hack//Another Birth, novelizations of each of the .hack video games from BlackRose's point of view.
.hack//Liminality, a set of four DVD OVAs included with the games that follow the story of Mai Minase, Yuki Aihara, Kyoko Tohno, and ex-CyberConnect employee Junichiro Tokuoka as they attempt to find out what is causing the comas.
.hack//Legend of the Twilight, a manga series following the player characters Shugo and Rena, as they win a mysterious contest that earns them super deformed character models of the legendary .hackers Kite and BlackRose (from the .hack PlayStation 2 games).
[edit]Other storylines
Alternative stories (non-canon) of the project.
.hack//Gift, a self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek, one-episode OVA that was created as a "gift" for those who had bought and completed all four .hack video games. In Japan, one could only watch Gift if the Data Flag on the memory card file in .hack//Quarantine was present, whereas the American version included Gift on the fourth Liminality DVD. It is predominantly a comedy that makes fun of everything that developed throughout the series, even the franchise's own shortcomings. Character designs are deliberately simplistic - Balmung wears a tie around his head in this title to symbolise that he is an office worker.
.hack//4 Koma, a humorous manga series based on the .hack and .hack//G.U. franchises.
.hack//XXXX (read as "X-Fourth"), a manga series that adapts the four original .hack video games.
.hack//Legend of the Twilight anime series. It features most of the same characters as the manga version, but with an alternative storyline. It was incorrectly called .hack//Dusk, among other names, in early fan-translated versions.
[edit]Related products
.hack//Enemy, a collectible card game created by Decipher Inc. based on the .hack storylines. It was discontinued after running five separate expansions between 2003-2005.
.hack//fragment, the first .hack ORPG (Online Role-Playing Game). It was released in Japan and the servers have since been closed, ending all official online gameplay. Bandai announced at E3 '06 that frägment will not be coming to North America.
[edit].hack Conglomerate

.hack Conglomerate is the sequel to Project .hack and the group of companies behind this second chapter of the series, although no true "conglomerate" has been formed. The companies include Victor Entertainment, Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Bandai, TV Tokyo, Bee Train, and Kadokawa Shoten. It encompasses a series of three PlayStation 2 games called .hack//G.U., an anime series called .hack//Roots, prose, and manga.
[edit]Main storyline
Series that are part of the official continuity (canon) of the project.
.hack//Roots, an anime series which follows Haseo and his joining (and subsequent exploits with) the Twilight Brigade guild. It also shows his rise to power and how he becomes known as "The Terror of Death". Towards the end of the series we see the start of .hack.//G.U.
.hack//G.U., a series of three video games (Vol. 1 Rebirth, Vol. 2 Reminisce, and Vol. 3 Redemption) that focus on Haseo's chase of Tri-Edge, his eventual involvement with Project G.U, and the mysterious AIDA who plague The World R:2. This latest series has proven greatly successful to the .hack franchise, with the recent release of .hack//G.U. Vol 3 in Japan selling over 100,000 copies in one day and becoming the number one game the week of its release in Japan.
.hack//CELL, a novel which involves a female Edge Punisher called Midori who acts as a "professional victim", by letting people PK her for money.
.hack//GnU, a humorous manga series about a male Blade Brandier called Raid and the seventh division of the Moon Tree guild.
.hack//Alcor, a manga series that focuses on a girl called Nanase, who appears to be quite fond of Silabus, as well as Alkaid during her days as empress of the Demon Palace.
Online Jack, a set of anime clips in the news section of the .hack//G.U. games' fake internet. It tells the "real world" story of the mysterious "Doll Syndrome".
.hack//Link, a manga that occurs three years after the end of .hack//G.U. in a new version of The World, The World R:X. It focuses on a player named Tokio and a mysterious exchange student named Saika.
[edit]Other storylines
Alternative stories (non-canon) of the project.
.hack//G.U.+, a non-canon manga adaptation of the three .hack//G.U. video games.
.hack//G.U. Trilogy, a cgi video adaptation of the .hack//G.U. video games.
.hack//4koma, a manga series which throws a little humor into both Project .hack and .hack Conglomerate alike.""

Which is anime ? :S and which order is it -.-

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Jun 29, 2009 7:33 PM

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Order of the anime series goes like:

.hack//Sign --> .hack//Liminality --> .hack//GIFT ---> .hack//Legend of the Twight --> .hack//Roots --> .hack//Online Jack / .hack//GU movie

Canon or not thats roughly how you would watch the anime in order but ofcourse you'd need to have played both game series to make sense of it.

Jun 29, 2009 7:44 PM

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Scygoku said:
Order of the anime series goes like:

.hack//Sign --> .hack//Liminality --> .hack//GIFT ---> .hack//Legend of the Twight --> .hack//Roots --> .hack//Online Jack / .hack//GU movie

Canon or not thats roughly how you would watch the anime in order but ofcourse you'd need to have played both game series to make sense of it.

This, but Legend of the Twilight isn't worth watching.

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Jun 30, 2009 6:05 AM

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Neither is Roots. Where as SIGN had its own standalone prequel story, complete with a cast of mostly all new characters, Roots was a prequel with the same main character as the game and no room for maneuver. Roots could not go beyond the start of the games story, and there was little to nothing that happened before the games got going, so there's an awful lot of painful starring contests and dialogue that added nothing. It really was just a poor cash-in prequel; one which I believe was made after the first game had been released. Unless you're a .hack fantard, it's one to avoid - just watch the very good .hack//G.U. CG flick instead.

.hack//SIGN is a great little series... if you can handle slow-pacing. .hack//G.U. Trilogy is a very good film... providing you're familiar with the games story and understand changes needed to be made because of time limitations.

I recommend Bleach/Naruto fans check out the film because one filler fight stole heavily from Naruto (Kyuubi mode) and Bleach (multiple sword training). The fight is made of win.

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