Crimson Night's Animation Galaxy: .hack//Sign

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

.hack//Sign

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Isekai,

Virtual Reality, Romance, Online Game/MMORPG, Comedy,

Description:

Amidst a popular online role playing game in the near future, characters try to play out the goals they set for entertainment and passing of time. The World as the RPG is called is one with a setting of monsters, player characters and dungeons. Tsukasa is a detached and introverted character that has a number of mysteries about his player character. Many weird happenings seem to suround Tsukasa and his involvement in a rare item called 'The Key Of The Twilight' sparks Tsukasa'a meeting with different online characters and the befriending of their real life counterparts; All without ever meeting face to face in reality. What is strange about Tsukasa is that he can't seem to log out of The World. Subaru and Silver Knight of The Crimson Knights continue to look for proof of why Tsukasa can not log out or the existance of The Key Of The Twilight. Meanwhile Bear, Mimiru, and BT as Tsukasa's friends try to help him understand who he really is and how he can return to the real world.

Episode

Season 1: 26 episodes + 3 special

Alternate Setting OVA: 4 episodes

Season 2: 12 episodes + 1 special

Alternate Setting Season 3: 26 episodes + 1 Movie + 1 Special + 1 OVA

Alternate Setting OVA: 3 episodes + 3 Special

Movie: 1 episode

Special: 1 episode

Original Run

Season 1: April 4, 2002 – September 25, 2002

.hack//Intermezzo: March 28, 2003

.hack//Unison: October 24, 2003

.hack//Gift: November 16, 2003

.hack//Liminality: June 20, 2002 – April 20, 2003

Season 2: January 9, 2003 – March 27, 2003

Special: October 24, 2003

Alternate Setting Season 3: April 6, 2006 – September 28, 2006

.hack//G.U. Trilogy: March 25, 2008

.hack//G.U. Returner: January 18, 2007

.hack//Quantum: January 28, 2011 – April 7, 2011

.hack//Beyond the World: January 21, 2012

.hack//Versus: The Thanatos Report: June 28, 2012

Studio: Bee Train / Kinema Citrus (Quantum) /

CyberConnect2 & Anima (Movie) /Anime (Thanatos Report)

.hack//Liminality

Description:

In the year 2007, an MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) known as 'The World' is released in the US and becomes insanely popular, spreading worldwide and reaching up to 20 million players. One day, a mysterious phenomenon occurs where all the monsters in the game become increasingly powerful and harbour otherwise unheard of abilities. Along with this, players are unable to make any progress with their characters. Naturally, these occurrences render The World rather unplayable, so a player who goes by the name of Kite decides to get to the bottom of it.

.hack//Gift

Description:

Helba has created the Twilight Hot Springs for our heroes from the .hack game series and the .hack//SIGN series. Now the characters race to see who finds it first, and to solve some mysterious player-killings.

.hack//Intermezzo

Description:

Bear joins Mimiru for an event held in the Dungeon of Nankoflak, a newly reopened dungeon known for giving rise to many a legend in the past. But Mimiru isn't there for the experience points or the treasure, but rather memories of one of her first experiences in The World, and the players she met there.

.hack//Unison

Description:

A number of characters from .hack//SIGN and .hack video games come together for a big party in Cyber Slum. Taking place after the end of the .hack video games, "Unison" is more or less an epilogue to both the games and the TV series. Helba invites Tsukasa, Bear, BT, Mimiru, Subaru, Silver Knight, Sora, Crim, Kite, BlackRose, Mistral, Balmung, Orca, Elk and Mia to a huge party in Net Slum. Some characters reunite, some meet for the first time, and everybody gets their funk on.

.hack//Legend Of the Twilight .hack//黄昏の腕轮伝说

(.hack//Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu)

Description:

Shugo and his twin sister Rena, two new players in The World, (a future online roleplaying game) are caught up in an unknown agenda. Unstopable monsters have started appearing and players that encounter these monsters fall into comas in the real world. Playing the limited edition characters, Kite and Black Rose, and the wielding the mysterious twilight bracelet, the two siblings must figure out what is going on and stop it before the damage escalates.

.hack//Legend of the Twilight Offline Meeting Special

.hack//黄昏の腕轮伝说オフラインで会いましょう

(.hack//Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu: Offline de Aimashou)

Alternative Name: 黄昏之腕轮传说 (Huáng Hūn Zhī Wàn Lún Chuán Shuō)

Description:

It's a short story about the characters from .hack// Legend of the Twilight meeting offline. It's more to hear than to see. It shows only backgrounds from the real world with the heads of the charater-game-avatars; but it reveals some interesting real life informations about the characters.

.hack//Roots

Description:

In 2015, CC Corporation's datacenter caught on fire destroying "The World". By splicing in data from what would have been another project, CC Corp. was able to rebuild the game. In 2016, "The World R:2" was released. .hack//Roots covers the time Haseo spent with Shino and Ovan in the guild known as the Twilight Brigade, before the .hack//G.U. PS2 games.

.hack//G.U. Trilogy

Description:

In his quest for revenge against Tri-Edge and to wake Shino from her coma Haseo searches accross The World as a killer of Player Killers. He comes accross a girl named Atolli who despite his callous and dismissive attitude twards her takes an interest in him and decides to help him. She brings up old wounds for him because of her characters' design and class. He forms new aliances and attempts to discover the mystery behind the comas that are plauging members and the entities known as AIDA.

.hack//G.U. Returner

Description:

The characters from previous .hack//G.U. Games and .hack//Roots receive an email from Ovan. He is requesting them to go to Hidden Forbidden Festival where is set up a mysterious summer festival. There they find an AIDA Chim Chim who wishes to peacefully co-exist with the other players of The World. It then transforms into the word "Returner", so they assume it to mean that Ovan will return to The World.

.hack//Quantum

Description:

Asumi Aida is a cheerful high school student who lives a parallel life inside an online fantasy role-playing game called The World R:X. There her username is Sakuya. While playing together with her classmates Iori Ikuta (username Tobias) and Eri Etou (username Mary) inside the game and having an ordinary treasure hunting adventure, they end up caught in an ominous situation. After an unfortunate encounter with an elite guild and a mysterious player named Hermit, Etou loses consciousness and for an unknown reason is unable to wake up.

.hack//Beyond the World .hack//The Movie セカイの向こうに

Alternative Name: 创世纪传说:世界的彼方

(Chuàng Shì Jì Zhuàn Shuō: Shì Jiè De Bǐ Fāng)

Description:

Although all her high school friends are playing "The World", an online role playing game, Sora Yuki is reluctant due to her grandfather who seems to be avert to technology. Things change once she finds out that he secretly started playing this game. Now with no restrictions and with the help of her friends, she timidly enters the game and is thoroughly impressed by it. While still learning the basics of how to play, she witnesses an odd event: a mysterious girl being attacked by a smoke-like entity. The girl has no problem in avoiding its charges, but while doing it she approaches Sora and gives her a strange small cube that enters her online body. From then on, news start to appear that some players are losing consciousness while playing "The World".

.hack//Versus: The Thanatos Report .hack//Versus タナトスレポート

Description:

Bundled along with a free game, .hack//Versus, on the .hack//Sekai no Mukou ni Blu-ray disc, is a special called "The Thanatos Report". This special connects the events of the game with the events of the movie and "reveal the last truth". The protagonist of the special is Dave; a character who also appears in the main movie. The special takes place in both 2024 (the year in which the movie takes place) and 2025 (the year in which the game .hack//Versus takes place).

List of Songs (directly to CrimNight Muse Garden)

1. Obsession [Opening]

2. Yasashii Yoake [Ending]

3. In the Land of Twilight, Under the Moon [Insert]

4. Open Your Heart [Insert]

5. Key of Twilight [Insert]

6. The World [Insert]
7. Fake Wings [Insert]
8. The World (Extended Version) [Insert]
9. Aura [Insert]
10. A Stray Child [Insert]
11. Das Wandern [Insert]
12. To Nowhere [Insert]
13. Warp [Insert]

.hack//Liminality:

1. Edge [First Opening]

2. Senyaichiya [Second Opening]

3. Kimi ga Ita Monogatari [Third Opening]

4. Kioku [Fourth Opening]

5. Tasogare no Umi [Ending]

.hack//Legend Of the Twilight

1. New World [Opening]

2. Emerald Green [Ending]

3. Dancin’ All Night [Insert]

4. Beautiful [Insert]

5. Travel in Mind [Insert]

6. Dawn [Insert]

.hack//Roots

1. Silly-Go-Round [Opening]

2. GOD DIVA [Insert 23]

3. National Awakening – Catharsis [First Ending]

4. KING KNIGHT [Second Ending]

5. In the World [Insert]

6. Mother [Insert]

7. Kegarenaki Akui [Insert]

8. JunKyousha no Yubi [Insert 14]

9. Hakua Byoutou [Insert]

10. Maisou no Mori no Tasogarezaka [Insert]

.hack//G.U. Trilogy

1. Deepest Memories [Ending]

2. Liar’s Smile [Insert]

.hack//G.U. Game Music
1. Go! Mecha Grunty!
2. Yasashii Ryoute Eng Ver~
3. Nibuki Shunsoku no Doberman ~Piroshi 3 no Teama

.hack//Quantum

1. Shizuku [Ending]

.hack//Beyond the World

1. Hikari wo Atsumete [Ending]

2. With Friends!
3. Tsunagaru Sekai

.hack//Versus
1. Seiten Ouka
2. Hitohira

.hack//Guilty Dragon Original Soundtrack
1. Hoshi wo Kazoete
2. Yoru ga Akeru Made