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Funimation Entertainment License Rescue a Number of .hack// Anime Series

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I am left with almost no expectations of any further .hack// games to be released internationally, with .hack//Link and .hack//Versus being passed over by Namco Bandai (Heck, PAL regions didn’t even get .hack//G.U.). That being said with Funimation Entertainment releasing .hack//Quantum last year I still take respite in the fact that the anime series are still going well. There was just one problem…

With Bandai Entertainment closing the doors of their anime division last year, a number of the .hack anime series were also dropped. This mean’t that unless you resided in a region outside of North America where a publisher still had rights to the series (Eg. Australia with Madman Entertainment) your chances of finding the game brand new were dwindling. Fortunately search no longer as .hack//Sign, .hack//Roots, .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet and .hack//G.U. Trilogy have all had their licenses rescued by Funimation Entertainment. Unfortunately for those wanting to check out .hack//Liminality which was bundled with the four volumes of the first game series, they have not picked these up.

.hack//Sign serves as a prologue to the original .hack games and follows a timid and cynical Wavemaster who is unable to log out and serves to introduce the viewer to the mysteries of “The World” as well as some of the players. .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet takes place after the initial game series and is generally a light-hearted series and follows the Brother and Sister duo Shugo and Rena who acquire the avatars of Kite and Blackrose.

.hack//Roots is a prologue to the .hack//G.U. Trilogy and stands to introduce the concepts needed to fully appreciate the game series and main character Haseo. Finally we have .hack//G.U. Trilogy which is a CG-animated film that recaps (and subsequently cuts out much of) the events from the game series.

OF COURSE, to fully appreciate any of these games you need to have played the games which were all on the Playstation 2 era of consoles and can be very hard to come by.

Sam
Sam
Founder of The Otaku's Study. I have been exploring this labyrinth of fandom these last fifteen years, and still nowhere close to the exit yet. Probably searching for a long time to come.

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