".hack//SIGN" (2002)
Movie: ".hack//SIGN" (2002)
“It is the year 2010. After the great network crash of 2005, online entertainment was restricted. Two years after, the CC Corporation released the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing game since the incident. The extremely popular game, called “The World” sells millions of copies. And when that many are playing, things are bound to go wrong. A mysterious boy, who calls himself Tsukasa, appears. He is very mysterious, and he claims that he is actually alive “in the world” – that he isn’t a person in front of a computer. He is branded a server malfunction by Ginkan and the Scarlet Knights, and is pursued. Written by Ultros9999″
- Release Date: 1 February 2003 (USA)
- Run Time: USA:25 min (25 episodes and 3 bonus episodes)
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation , Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Thriller
Tagline: The only thing he can’t do….Is log out
Trivia: As a special bonus for the fourth and final volume of the game series, Bee Train and CyberConnect2 (the companies who produced .hack//SIGN) created a bonus 29th episode entitled .hack//GIFT. In addition to a redesigned opening and a plot which features the characters from //SIGN and the games looking for a secret area called the Tasogare Onsen (Twilight Hot Springs), the episode contains radically different and cartoony designs for the characters that exaggerate their physical features.
Goofs: Factual errors: In the episode “Party” Tsukasa initially miscalculates the product of 331 and 3 in answering the second riddle. This is only in the English dub.