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Dec 25, 2009 2:47 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Nuuuuuuuuu Phyllo is gonee. ;____;

But, I'm glad that Haseo is back to normal. :)

But wow, 2 more AI's have turned up, =/

I guess it was an alright ending.. but if could have been better.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~
Feb 12, 2010 11:48 AM
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Yeah and they resemble balmung and orca :P I guess this isnt too great as a stand alone anime, its more of a prelude into the games
Feb 14, 2010 5:35 AM
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Thats because .hack//Roots is the prequel story to the .hack//GU games,it should be left with an opening so the games continue the story.

Project .hack// is interlinked so they don't usually go well as a stand alone,its best to watch/play/read them all in close enough order although I guess theres quite alot to the series at this point ^^'
May 20, 2011 12:31 AM
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Fuck that.
I was expecting a solid ending at least.
SIGN did it.

Not some bullshit "Ya...so all this shits just been a Commercial for the games" ending.
May 29, 2011 8:10 PM
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The Ending was ok...
Aug 18, 2011 10:41 AM
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I feel quite left up in the air..

in remembering what happened in .hack//sign, I was expecting "no loose ends" or atleast a clear sequal..


I know this is a discussion, but I gotta ask, will watching future .hack's (such as returner, trilogy etc) tie up these loose ends - mostly noteably about Shino?
Sep 9, 2012 11:30 AM
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As said, this is a part of a multimedia story and it by itself is an incomplete story. With that in mind, I actually watched this AFTER playing the games and having the prequel answer some of the questions I had about the G.U. series I felt satisfied. My only question thus far (and I'm in the process of finding the answer by playing G.U. all over again) is why the Azure Knights were set up to look like the problem when the true problem was something else.

Otherwise, the ending to the show left many possibilities for the development of the series there after and it had a similar "to be continued" style that SIGN had (in the sense that the story of the phases was yet unsolved).

And for Reflect, indeed- everything you ever wondered about the series is answered in the trilogy.
Nov 7, 2013 3:25 AM
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Cya Phyllo :(

The ending wasn't really good but there's sequels so I'm sure they'll give me a good ending for the story.
Oct 9, 2014 1:24 AM
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I found this series to be more boring that Sign was and it had a worse ending. Both series could be defined as lots of talking with no plot progression. I love the video games but really did not like either series. At least Sign did something.

This gets a 3/10.
Oct 7, 2015 9:09 PM

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It took me a while to get thru this anime.
I liked Haseo, he was a good main character. Also I'll really miss that old man :"(
7/10
Jul 3, 2016 10:12 PM

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So an appearance from Skeith (Haseo's power?)? I'm really intrigued by how this all will play out.

Edit: Also, why the characters Kite, Orca of the Azure Sea, & Balmung of the Azure Sky?
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Jul 3, 2016 10:17 PM

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And in addition, this....
Reflect said:
I feel quite left up in the air..

in remembering what happened in .hack//sign, I was expecting "no loose ends" or atleast a clear sequal..


I know this is a discussion, but I gotta ask, will watching future .hack's (such as returner, trilogy etc) tie up these loose ends - mostly noteably about Shino?
Jul 17, 2016 7:16 AM

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CarrotCakes said:
So an appearance from Skeith (Haseo's power?)? I'm really intrigued by how this all will play out.

Edit: Also, why the characters Kite, Orca of the Azure Sea, & Balmung of the Azure Sky?


The appearance of Skeith is foreshadowing for things to come @.@

I'd mention why to the Azure Knights being there but that would be a spoiler which is explained in the G.U. games.

As for the ending it is much like .hack//SIGN was to IMOQ and has a time difference of afew months between them. However .hack//G.U. continues Haseo's story so you can see what happens by playing them (or watching playthroughs online).
Aug 25, 2017 3:45 AM
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Sabinlerose said:
Fuck that.
I was expecting a solid ending at least.
SIGN did it.

Not some bullshit "Ya...so all this shits just been a Commercial for the games" ending.


Yeah well anime does that a lot. Quite a few shows are meant to be advertising for games/books/manga. I don't like it either.

So I watched this show in preparation for the remastered games coming up in November iirc. My PS4 is ready. See you in the World!
Oct 7, 2017 10:27 PM
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Hack how dare you be so confusing?
Mar 10, 2018 3:02 PM

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Sabinlerose said:
Fuck that.
I was expecting a solid ending at least.
SIGN did it.

Not some bullshit "Ya...so all this shits just been a Commercial for the games" ending.


My thoughts EXACTLY. This show can suck a duck

Oct 2, 2020 3:44 PM

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That sure was quite the ending, I really wonder what they'll be doing for the sequel movie of this. I sure found it quite impressive as everything still is connected to the original series which I find quite impressive actually!
Feb 15, 2022 8:02 AM

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ur shitting me if this is what i get for sitting through 25 episodes of this SMH
Feb 20, 2022 1:00 PM

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Somethings...

Phyllo was a great character, I think his personality or situation also relates a little bit to his voice actor.

I really liked Suburou and other side characters since they were interesting and realistic people who brought flavor and sanity to the main line

Tabby's character development was mostly good and somehow made sense, prefer her and other characters to Haseo

Oh my goodness, Silver Knight appeared!
ow + nw = 90-2000s


Feb 24, 2022 7:16 PM
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I rather liked the development of all the characters. Haseo is my favorite ^_^ I like that the series is a prequel to the games. I can’t get enough of this arc.
Nov 5, 2022 10:56 PM

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Unfortunately some of those character just don't even appear again in the franchise... Sucks a lot, I thought it was a good ending tho.


In most cases, the MAL Average Scores don't mean anything, here is a question: were the works made before 2000 all shit?
Why are they so damn scarce in the Top 50? Think about how MAL is quite literally a filtered amount of the Anime fanbase.

Here's a timeline of the Top 15 in which you can check that, almost always, the scores are affected by the freshness, popularity and other factors that have nothing to do with quality.

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