.hack//Roots

[RyougaZell]

Kaijura is only doing the opening theme.

For all of those who say the ending of hack//SIGN sucks...

You really needed to play the PS2 games to understand what happened.

I mean... Sora's destiny. Helba's involvement. The truth behind Morganna and Skeith. Without playing the PS2 games (that aren't that good, but have an awesome story) you wont understand much.

And about the commet behind the "the burning was an excuse to change the gameplay".

Again, you need to play the games and read/see all hacks to undertand it.

I believe this was the "official" reason give to the public. But I am sure it was CCcorps excuse to get rid of Aura and Zephie.

hack Timeline:

- .hack//AI Buster (novel)
- .hack//Wotan Spear (small novel part of AI Buster 2)
- .hack//SIGN (anime)
- .hack//ZERO (novel)
- .hack//INFESTATION (PS2 games)
- .hack//ANOTHER BIRTH (novel based on games with Akira's point of view [BlackRose])
- .hack//LIMINALITY (OVA)
- .hack//AI Buster 2 (novel)
- .hack//Udeden (manga)

7 years later

- .hack//ROOTS
- .hack//GU
- .hack//JACK (not official title for new OVA)
- .hack//??? (new novels)

Roots tells the tale of Haseo, a PlayerKiller Killer.
GU continues Haseo's tale, where now he hunts Tri-Edge, an unknown character that has being Data-Draining other players.
JACK tells the tale offline, like Liminality.

EDIT:
Corrected things.

[AtHRunOwNZaLL]

RAW is out by saiyaman
http://bt.saiyaman.info/download.php...AW.avi.torrent

[Munsu]

Episode 1 by ASource:

http://asourcetorrents.atspace.com/[ASource]_Hack_Roots_01_[675BC599].mp4.torrent

Their Jigoku Shoujo releases haven't been good from what I've seen.

[RyougaZell]

Episode 1 by ASource:

http://asourcetorrents.atspace.com/[ASource]_Hack_Roots_01_[675BC599].mp4.torrent

Their Jigoku Shoujo releases haven't been good from what I've seen.

Until there is another group that fansubs this series... I'll have to download from them.

The raw intro ->
http://dothackers.net/media/[www.dothackers.net]roots_OP.avi

A video from the .hack//GU game ->
http://dothackers.net/media/[www.dothackers.net]avatar_datadrain.wmv

[Harima Kenji]

Kaijura is only doing the opening theme.

For all of those who say the ending of hack//SIGN sucks...

You really needed to play the PS2 games to understand what happened.

I mean... Sora's destiny. Helba's involvement. The truth behind Morganna and Skeith. Without playing the PS2 games (that aren't that good, but have an awesome story) you wont understand much.

The only thing that kept me playing the games was the story. Within the first 5 minutes you start to think: "What the hell is going on here?" and the rest of the games you slightly work your way to the solution and both Sign and Liminality start to make more sense.
Now that Roots is starting, I really want to see all of the series again and play the games.
I'll go buy the manga (they're all out in english, right?)while I'm at it

[RyougaZell]

The only thing that kept me playing the games was the story. Within the first 5 minutes you start to think: "What the hell is going on here?" and the rest of the games you slightly work your way to the solution and both Sign and Liminality start to make more sense.
Now that Roots is starting, I really want to see all of the series again and play the games.
I'll go buy the manga (they're all out in english, right?)while I'm at it

The 3 Legend of the Twlight Volumes are indeed out in english.
Sadly they no longer include color pictures like the 1st print (they are at the 3rd one)

Also the first 2 novels, AI Buster 1 & 2 are out in english.


Oh yeah... playing the games makes many things more clear.

Take for example the 2nd Liminality OVA. If you only see it you do not understand why everything exploded. If you play the game you find out it was caused when YOU destroy one of the Phases.

I saw the intro of hack//ROOTS this morning and HECK!!! they already include the Kite look-alike Tri-Edge. (this is no spoiler since its on the damn opening, so I can say who Tri-Edge resembles )

[Harima Kenji]

The 3 Legend of the Twlight Volumes are indeed out in english.
Sadly they no longer include color pictures like the 1st print (they are at the 3rd one)

Also the first 2 novels, AI Buster 1 & 2 are out in english.

The Tokyopop site says that they will release Volume 1 of Another Birth at 13th of June
Those novels, do they follow the story from BlackRose's eyes or is it just that she explanains some of the things that happened in the games?
In general, do the novels(including AI buster) have a good story, and are they readable(being a manga/anime based novel)?

I just ordered the box set of the Legend of the twilight bracelet manga

Back to roots: Is the ASource version watchable, or should I wait for a bigger group to pick it up?(I'm not really a fan of 'speedsubs')

[FelixZeroAlastor]

Just watched the episode. Well the series seems to off to a slow start just like .hack//SIGN which is good. The anime seems to have started off before the events of the G.U. game but I won't know that for sure until the game comes out later this year. Though Tri Edge is a big mystery at the moment I am more interested in what that transformation Haseo went though in the ending is about. Can't wait till the next ep comes out.

[RyougaZell]

Harima Kenji:

ANOTHER BIRTH indeed takes place during the games in BlackRose's perspective.
Without spoiling much, the very first chapter shows how Akira (BlackRose) choose the keywords "Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground" for Kazu, her little brother, who asked her to choose for him.

Basically it shows scenes from the real world, and parts where BlackRose was not available, like during the first half of volume 3 of the games.

It has 4 volumes, 1 for each game.

AI BUSTER has a great and deep narrative, sadly it commits great mistakes in translation, like naming Lios as Ryos, or naming Ohka as Orca.

Why would Ohka appear is she is a Legend of Twilight character?

Because AI BUSTER 2 is half book continuation of the events of the first novel, then the other half takes places after the games, before Udeden (Legend of Twilight / Tasogare no UDEwa no DENsentsu), and during Udeden.

There is another novel, called ZERO that takes place between SIGN and INFESTATION (games), seems TokyoPop is going to publish it after ANOTHER BIRTH.

I can't wait for June...

FelixZeroAlastor:

Sadly with all the information regarding .hack//GU spoilers are inevitable. Roots indeed takes place before GU, as the games will start at the very end of the series. I already know the premise of the games, but I won't mention it... and I advise you to not search for it... the games will not come out in english soon, so better enjoy the series for now.

Im currently downloading the episode, at 65%, so I wont be watching it until tomorrow night (had to download Otome 26 and xxxHOLiC first), so I do not know about the transformation you mention... unless its the same one as the games... hmmm

[Swallow Your Soul]

Only read the first AI Buster yesterday, enjoyed it quite a lot, cool to hear more manga and novels are coming out as well as the new games.

First episode was pretty promising, although the asource subs were so small it was a bit of a struggle to read them.

[RyougaZell]

Ignore this double post.