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Postby dreamhacker » Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:48 pm

First, what series was first of SIGN and DUSK? As Aura is awaken there, I guess it's after SIGN...
But, in Unison, Kite said that he was trusted with the Bracelet again...Was Aura awake anytime before Tsukasa awakened her? I think this is confusing, as I see this episode as a part of the .hack//SIGN story, but as there was so many people not from SIGN I guess I might be wrong...
And one more thing, is Barmunk and Balmung the same person? :)
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:05 pm

dreamhacker wrote:First, what series was first of SIGN and DUSK? As Aura is awaken there, I guess it's after SIGN...
But, in Unison, Kite said that he was trusted with the Bracelet again...Was Aura awake anytime before Tsukasa awakened her? I think this is confusing, as I see this episode as a part of the .hack//SIGN story, but as there was so many people not from SIGN I guess I might be wrong...
And one more thing, is Barmunk and Balmung the same person? :)


K, so Dusk aka Legend of the Twilight Bracelet, aka Tasogare no Udenwa Densetsu comes both AFTER SIGN and the game series.

Unison is supposed to take place right after the game (so before DUSK), so it's only a SIGN OVA and not really part of the show...

Balmung has several ways of spelling his name (used to be "Balmunk" in fan subs) but since his name is most likely spelled "Barumangu" in Japanese... oh wait in the Liminality OVA the name "Balmung" is supposed to be some Siegfried dude's sword, so the correct way of spelling it is most likely just Balmung.
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Postby dreamhacker » Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:44 pm

Hmmmmmm...And in the end of .hack//SIGN (I count episode 25 as last one...), I didn't get what happened...The evil thing came, and then it was like over, Tsukasa back in real life...Did Helba delete that data?
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Postby Sync » Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:57 pm

when helba removed .netSlum it took with it a part of Morgana's data stream that was keeping Tsukasa in game and Aura from awakening.
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Postby dreamhacker » Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:16 pm

When did Helba remove Net Slum? It was there later on, she never deleted it...She tried to delete the incoming data of the last monster, though
And did we get to know how it went with Sora, and what Bear works with? :)
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Postby sen_no_kotoba01 » Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:29 pm

I really don't know very much about what happened in .Hack// because i never saw the first few episodes. I was always missing them on saturdays. *sigh* but I DO understand that aura was awakened by Tsukasa (I love that name... =^-^=) in .Hack//Sign, and that Kite came along much after. I don't quite understand everything in the .Hack// world, but I'm playing .Hack//infection... maybe I'll understand a little better after I beat it? ^_^;;
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:10 pm

sen_no_kotoba01 wrote:I don't quite understand everything in the .Hack// world, but I'm playing .Hack//infection... maybe I'll understand a little better after I beat it? ^_^]

Actually after re watching SIGN and getting hooked on the game (on Mutation right now, yay!) AND by watching the Liminality OVAs, I think you really do learn alot more as well as get interested in the whole thing...


sen_no_kotoba01 wrote:Hmmmmmm...And in the end of .hack//SIGN (I count episode 25 as last one...)


Well, there's actually 26, as most usual anime shows go. Like Chobits where they count it only having 24 "official epe" it too has 26, but they like to count re cap eps as "specials" and not real eps. Heh on the Wolf's Rain DVD they had a whole disk just of recaps! ...never did finish that show cause of all the recaps squished together :/
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Postby eva-boy7985 » Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:11 pm

Here's the exact chronological order of everything .hack, as I've owned it all at some point or another:

.hack// AI Buster novel (prequel to be read after seeing SIGN I believe)
.hack// SIGN (anime series)
.hack// Infection (PS2 video game)
.hack// Mutation (PS2 video game)
.hack// Outbreak (PS2 video game)
.hack// Quarantine (PS2 video game)
.hack// Liminality (anime series: occurs at same time as video games, shows happenings in the real world)
.hack// Legend of the Twilight Bracelet (anime series)
.hack// Legend of the Twilight Bracelet (manga)

Note: Both of the .hack// Legend of the Twilight Bracelet anime and manga have the same characters, but the manga takes a rather different course in the plot than the anime, so it doesn't really matter which you experience first. Just know that either one comes after the games. Personally I liked the overall plot of the anime better, but that's just me :-) .hack is so amazing in that its massive story crosses so many mediums! Hope this was somewhat helpful
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:15 pm

eva-boy7985 wrote:Here's the exact chronological order of everything .hack, as I've owned it all at some point or another:

.hack// AI Buster novel (prequel to be read after seeing SIGN I believe)
.hack// SIGN (anime series)
.hack// Infection (PS2 video game)
.hack// Mutation (PS2 video game)
.hack// Outbreak (PS2 video game)
.hack// Quarantine (PS2 video game)
.hack// Liminality (anime series: occurs at same time as video games, shows happenings in the real world)
.hack// Legend of the Twilight Bracelet (anime series)
.hack// Legend of the Twilight Bracelet (manga)


Forgot one thing: .hack//ZERO novel, taking palce between SIGN and the games (pic seen here http://blackwings.net/hack/novels.php). Course it hasn't been licensed yet. Also... they made novels based on the games are there.
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Postby desperado » Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:12 pm

balmung is the official name i dont know where he got the balmunk name.
secondly helba removed THAT net slum to try to destroy the phase skeith (who data drained sora and trapped him in the wand)
thirdly consider .//hack lottb cannon fodder because it doesnt follow any of the rules the other parts of the series set.
fourthly the games will answer about any question you have and ill just let you know [spoiler] that kite gets the bracelet meets blackrose fights the phases (the big monster at the end of sign was a phase there are 8 totall that where originally inteded to study human emotions (mainly negative for some odd reason) but where twisted by morgana to destroy people plus they have bracelets that put you into a coma when they data drain you unless kite is around.) also the phases have names such as skeith the terror of death, fidel the machinator and tarvos the avenger (just to name a few of the top of my head) [/spoiler]

also there are two new games coming out .//hack fragment which is a mmorpg and .//hack g.u. which has little data known on it (will post in a second) and will suposedly be longer then all four of the last .//hack games put together.
okay what WE KNOW about g.u. and some theories of mine [spoiler] it starts of with talking about "when "it" was born the first thing "it" saw was a "PK"" (direct quatiotion with included quatiation marks that were included in the trailer) then it flashes through several scenes super quick and shows a guy in black armor taking down a group of pkers that are pking two people (he pulls weapons out of his armor like a scythe, vibro twinblades, he shoots a ball of magic, and he also uses a super cool hybrid between a giant two handed sword/chainsaw/pruining shears to totally decamate the pkers (all the while it quick shows sketchy scenes and flashbacks) then it goes to name 8 people and gives them the titles of the 8 phases (the guy in black armor's name is haseo and it calls him the terror of death the nickname given to skeith) also noteworthy is haseos abilities that far outrange any character to date besides kites bracelet (pulling insane weapons out of his armor and using weapon types of 4 totally different classes that cant interchange weapons or abilities (just so you know heavy blade, twin blade, long arm, and wavemaster ). after it goes through the NEW 8 phases it shows haseo in the church (delta forbiden holy ground) where kite first used the bracelet and tsukasa and co fought off the mu guardians (with machas help) but a key to note is the aura statue is gone. then after this you hear the infamous PING noise and a glowing black sphere appears and blows haseo back. after this haseo is blown back as the orb forms into a twisted version of kite. soulless eye (he is missing one as far as we know) green tinged skin, and stiched together clothes (not to mention he doesnt speak a word and glows green whenever he is hit like a data bug does) haseo proceeds to pull out the twinblade weapons and go after kite which will be henceforth known as tri edge after a translated quote haseo makes about kite and the unkiteness of this new figure. tri edge proceeds to block every attack (though when it hits a green ripple goes over his body) with on weapon easily all haseos enraged attacks. then haseo is knocked back with a flick of tri edges wrist and he proceeds to pull out the longsword of awesomness (i want one badly...) and charges triedge which simply blocks the spinning teath of death and simply as before pushes him away which sends him through the air. then kit pull out a red and twisted (watch the trailer to see what i mean plus it is missing a prong (maybe where blackrose destroyed it in quarintine)) and data drains haseo. now here is where it gets confusing. the corbinik player comes in and with a very very strange (like a voice modifer) voice says "welcome....to the world) and the reaches down for him. then between the bandais and cyber connect brands you see haseo in a blue energy feild, then you see a mutated looking skeith and then you hear haseo screaming bloody murder, very confusing i shall also post pics later of tri edge and the depowered haseo (there are two forms one with armor and one that looks like he lost his armor (perhaps due to data drain?)) [/spoiler]

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Postby desperado » Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:20 pm

ok here is the pics i promised, one is of tri edge, onethe ending with the twisted skeith that somehow haseo turned into while screaming as if he was being murdered, and one is of haseo in armor with the weapon of pure awesomness

the thing though with the .//hack universe (excluding lottb because thats fodder and never happened in my oppinion) is that there all interconected, the games the mangas and the new games are all interconnected, so to really undestand hack you must look at all of them

also forgot to mention that site i gave you should answer all if not most of your .//hack questions that are known
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Postby dreamhacker » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:39 am

Too bad I don't have a PS2, so I could play the games :(
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Postby desperado » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:39 am

yeah the anime sign was a prequel to the major event the which happened in the games. finding out about morganna to acctually defeating her
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Postby eva-boy7985 » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:07 pm

Wait what are those pics from? The new games? An MMORPG could be phat depending on how they do it; needs a superb character creation system for one thing, and maybe some more job classes/races than are in the anime/games...

Should be interesting nonetheless. I hear that at least one of those games is supposed to be released here before the end of the year. I know the Cowboy Bebop game is slated for this year sometime (I work at an Electronics Boutique).
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Postby desperado » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:56 pm

thats from the offline game G.U. and there are almost no pics avaliable from fragment (the online one) except for a article that is translated that has a pic or two
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Postby dreamhacker » Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:30 am

But, what did Bear work with? We never got to know, and Mimiru didn't use the last chance to guess it :)
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:05 am

dreamhacker wrote:But, what did Bear work with? We never got to know, and Mimiru didn't use the last chance to guess it :)


You mean his job? Dunno if they actually said it on the anime or not but there were clues to point out that he's a novelist apparently.
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Postby Mi-Ru-Me » Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:20 am

hey you guys forgot about .hack//gift

ha ha it really has nothing to do with the series its just a really bad animated short episode for fans who bought all the games to lagh at and it was funny.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:10 pm

What's interesting about .hack//legend is that while they do have some scenes
in the REAL world they never show you the characters actual faces.
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