.hack

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.hack (delivery " dowry hack") is the generic name of a tentacular project whose history was declined under various formats: Manga S, cartoon and video games.

The history is cut out in each one of these formats, it is necessary thus all to have to be able to know all the history.


A little history

December 24th, 2005 occurs an tragic event (fictional) called " Pluto' S kiss" : this day there, all the computers connected to Internet simultaneously fall broken down into the whole world. Moreover, all the control systems of the network crumble.

The network could be given partially in function later only 77 minutes.

Lexicon

Altimit OS

Created by CyberConnect Corporation , this operating system is one of the rare survivors of the " Pluto' S Kiss". Following this event, it profits from broad governmental funds for its development and becomes a standard " mondial" (it is besides under this system that the play the world turns).

Altimit OS is an operating system " universel" : it is also available for the computers, PDA, cellphones, etc

CyberConnect Corporation

This company produced the play The World and deals with its administration. It also created the operating system Altimit OS . Its seat is in San Francisco (California).

It was founded by the development project of the prototype The Fragment (ancestor of the current play), whose party certain programmers of the Altimit OS make.

Pluto' S KIS

Pluto' S KIS is the name given to the events of December 25th, 2005, when all the computers connected to Internet crashèrent simultaneously.

The responsible author du/des virus (S) would be a 10 year old schoolboy who lived with San Francisco (California). Its identity being unknown of the public, it is impossible to know il/elle was succeeded in escaping or il/elle had stopped.

The World

The World is a play massively multijouor (MMORPG) in and around of which is held the adventures of .hack

The play rests on a system of virtual reality: the player is immersed in the universe of the play using a helmet (actions being carried out however with a joystick)

The World is an evolution of a prototype play named The Fragment .

Initially left in December 2007, produced by the CyberConnect Corporation , it is a question of the first online game to be appeared after the catastrophe due to the Pluto' S KIS .

  • 2017 : 12 million players (source)

In 2020, it is used by more than 20 million players.

The Twilight Incidental

The Twilight Incident refers to the following event: one day, from tens of players fall suddenly into the coma while they played The World .

Detail of works

Televised series

  • 2002 : .hack//SIGN in 26 episodes
  • 2003: .hack//tasogare No udewa No densetsu in 12 episodes (not to be confused with the manga a same name because they do not share the same history).
  • 2006 : .hack//Roots in 26 episodes

OAVs

  • 2002 : .hack//liminality (compound of 4 OAVs, one provided with each video game).
  • 2003 : .hack//Intermezzo - history parallel with .hack//SIGN on Mimiru, sometimes considered as episode 27 of .hack//SIGN
  • : Other names: .hack//SIGN: Bangai-hen, .hack//Another Story
  • 2003: .hack//Unison - regarded as episode 28 of .hack//SIGN
  • 2003: .hack//GIFT - episode is delirious car-satirist of .hack//SIGN, sometimes regarded as episode 29 of this series (provided in Europe with .hack//QUARANTINE).

Mangas

  • .hack//tasogare No udewa densetsu by Tatsuya Hamazaki and Rei Izumi, 2002, published in France by Generation Comics
  • .hack//GU+ by Hamazaki Tatsuya and Morita Yuzuka
  • .hack//GnU by Azuka Coffee and Takashi Tanegashima
  • by Kikuya Megane and Matsuyama Hiroshi
.hack//GU+, .hack//GnU and is mangas published in a new magazine launched recently called " .hack//GU The World".

Novels and news

  • .hack//AI buster
  • .hack//AI buster 2
This two news tells what occurs before .hack//SIGN
  • .hack//Another Birth
Setting in news of the plays .hack, the point of view of BlackRose, extending on 4 volumes.
  • .hack//ZERO
This news tells what occurs between episode 26 from. Hack//SIGN and the beginning of 1st play PS2. Hack//Infection.

Video games

  • .hack//INFECTION (.hack// 感染拡大 Vol.1 Expansion - Vol.1)
  • : This play was provided with the OAV1 of .hack//liminality: " In the box off May Minase"
  • .hack//MUTATION (.hack// 悪性変異 Vol.2 Change - Vol.2)
  • : This play was provided with the OAV2 of .hack//liminality: " In the box off Yuki Aihara"
  • .hack//OUTBREAK (.hack// 侵食汚染 Vol.3 Pollution - Vol.3)
  • : This play was provided with the OAV3 of .hack//liminality: " In the box off Kyoko Tohno"
  • .hack//QUARANTINE (.hack// 絶対包囲 Vol.4 Encirclement - Vol.4)
  • : This play was provided with the OAV4 of .hack//liminality: " Trismegistus"
  • .hack//G.U
  • .hack//fragment : MMORPG

Card decks to be collected

  • .hack//ENEMY (2003)
Published by Decipher, conceived by Mike Reynolds and Chuck Kallenbach. For 2 players and duration a 30 minutes.

Bandage sound

“.hack//”
  • “.hack//GAME MUSIC Perfect Collection”
“.hack individual // SIGN”
  • “Obsession”
  • “ORIGINAL SOUND & SONG TRACK 1”
  • “ORIGINAL SOUND & SONG TRACK 2”
  • “.hack// EXTRA SOUNDTRACKS”
“.hack//Tasogare No udewa No densetsu”
    individual
  • “NEW WORLD”
  • individual “Emerald Green”
  • ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
  • Character Song & Story
“.hack//Liminality”
  • “edge”
  • “君がいた物語”
  • “ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK”

External bonds

  • Official site of .hack

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