.hack//Sign - by Arislyn on 08:23 11 Feb 2004
The lastest anime DVDs to make it into our household are of .hack//Sign. We had started watching it on Cartoon Network and were introgued by it. Unfortunately, the whole storyline is just nebulous enough that if you miss a couple in a row, despite the fact that it is fairly slow moving show, you find yourself thinking, "Huh? I missed something. Who's that girl? What happened to her? Why is the old man crying?!"
The basic premise of the show is that people are logging into The World, a MMORPG, and for some odd reason, going into comas. The show focuses around Tsukasa, a young player who can not log out of the system. He exists solely within the World. However, it looks like he was one of the young people who fell into a coma while playing. (You see snatches of real world action, now and again, mostly as silent, black and white shots). You find out that there is something called the Key of the Twilight which will let a player exist outside of the system's rules and it is this that everyone wants.
Tsukasa, though, already exists outside of not only the World's rules, but the rules of the real world, as far as we can tell. He is a mystery and player sought by "the law" within the World.
The Key of the Twilight has something to do with the World's creator and a bit of hope that he wanted to give life to within the game....a bit of hope that is being warped and changed by something outside of anyone's control.
The really intriguing part of .hack//Sign is figuring out what is happening in the real world. You only catch glimpses of it now and again, and get tidbits of information filtered through the characters as online chat. At the point where Runt and I are in the series, we're trying to figure out whether Tsukasa is even alive anymore. We have a sneaking suspicion that he is quite, quite dead.
So far, we've watched the first 5 episodes on DVD. We should be getting the second DVD here in a couple of days. (Go, go eBay!) The third DVD, which we received first, is still sitting and waiting to be watched.
The lastest anime DVDs to make it into our household are of .hack//Sign. We had started watching it on Cartoon Network and were introgued by it. Unfortunately, the whole storyline is just nebulous enough that if you miss a couple in a row, despite the fact that it is fairly slow moving show, you find yourself thinking, "Huh? I missed something. Who's that girl? What happened to her? Why is the old man crying?!"
The basic premise of the show is that people are logging into The World, a MMORPG, and for some odd reason, going into comas. The show focuses around Tsukasa, a young player who can not log out of the system. He exists solely within the World. However, it looks like he was one of the young people who fell into a coma while playing. (You see snatches of real world action, now and again, mostly as silent, black and white shots). You find out that there is something called the Key of the Twilight which will let a player exist outside of the system's rules and it is this that everyone wants.
Tsukasa, though, already exists outside of not only the World's rules, but the rules of the real world, as far as we can tell. He is a mystery and player sought by "the law" within the World.
The Key of the Twilight has something to do with the World's creator and a bit of hope that he wanted to give life to within the game....a bit of hope that is being warped and changed by something outside of anyone's control.
The really intriguing part of .hack//Sign is figuring out what is happening in the real world. You only catch glimpses of it now and again, and get tidbits of information filtered through the characters as online chat. At the point where Runt and I are in the series, we're trying to figure out whether Tsukasa is even alive anymore. We have a sneaking suspicion that he is quite, quite dead.
So far, we've watched the first 5 episodes on DVD. We should be getting the second DVD here in a couple of days. (Go, go eBay!) The third DVD, which we received first, is still sitting and waiting to be watched.