en.wikipedia.or... Awesome series, I recommend you watch it. :) High Quality as well. Only uploading the first episode, may or may not upload the rest, it depends on how many requests I get.
LMFAO this comment is so on point. J remember watching every episode but also not watching it because I would fall asleep. I still like the show though. Good memories.
hahaaa same here, man, that was my teenage years during the school week, passin out to this show while i was finishing up my homework the night before it was due lol the memories of 15 years ago, feels like it flew right by
I miss storytelling like this. A lot of small thru-lines going on at once. Slower pacing. Great care in dictation and the simplest physical behaviors making all the change in dialogue. I'll always love this series.
That was a great way to explain it. And actualy telling us the lore for BT's name. and how her and Bear are divorced adults. What other anime actually has that.
@@EinherjarV Exactly. The writer had a great talent for world building. They treated every character as if they were a real character in their world and asked what is this character like? How would they react in this situation? Where did they come from and how does that inform how they interact with the other characters?
Exactly my issue with most current anime. It’s missing that “something” that older anime often had. This in particular was so ahead of its time with the video game tie up that also had its own anime bundled with it. I don’t think anything like that will ever happen again haha.
2:47 The moment that changed the entire outcome of this series. I know it's trivial, but Tsukasa meeting Mimiru was the seed that ended up breaking Tsukasa free from Morganna Mode Gone. Mimiru was so concerned about Tsukasa, she even got others interested in Tsukasa. It ended up being the trifecta of Bear, B.T., and Mimiru that brought Tsukasa free. Subaru plays an instrumental part in Tsukasa's mental health, but the others located Tsukasa in real life. Mimiru is my favorite of the SIGN characters (along with B.T.) because she's so real. She is someone you meet playing an MMO. I've played World of Warcraft and man, coming across Mimiru-type people was so pleasant. I love .hack//SIGN. Best flipping anime ever.
This show has some of the most mature writing and has what is easily the best sound track. Having played MMOs I can say that I have experienced real people who are exactly like the characters in this anime. To me this makes the way the characters interact with each other and react to the unfolding story very realistic. You have Bear, the older salaryman with a wife and an empty nest, the divorcee BT, the executive who just got back from a big project, the aloof child, the kid who goes around PKing because he thinks its funny to ruin people's day.
Aahh... My original obsession~ My brother saw the first episode and told me about "a strange anime about a video game" he saw and thought I may find it interesting. I saw the second episode the following Saturday, and since then it was like a ritual- I snuck down stairs to our living room with a blank 8hour VHS tape, and recorded Every. Single. Episode from then on. I had an instant crush on Tsukasa XD (as my username suggests, and look closely at my sona on my icon- I have the cheek tattoos) and I'm pretty sure that was the only reason I kept coming back week after week. My mom eventually bought me the DVD set and begged me to stop sneaking down at midnight to record the episodes. I even have all the games- though I haven't been able to play through the first 4 all the way... My brother has them at his house, and my save data after beating the first one mysteriously disappeared- though my brother insists that he didn't delete it. I only recently got .hack//GU, but... I really dislike Haseo. like, even in //Roots. I know he's supposed to be a certain someone, but ech. I don't like his character arch. and I need to really sit down and play GU. I dragged my husband into this fandom when we started dating, and he just recently bought me the .hack//AI Buster novels for my 30th birthday, and it reignited my desire to indulge in my first serious fandom- as AI Buster is the first story in the .hack// Time line, I have been nerding out over everything I had already known in this universe in a way I had never had the opportunity to see before. Such an underrated series. Thank you so much for uploading. I'm so happy I'm not the only one who felt joy seeing this here
Takes me back to when I first seen this on Cartoon Network. I've been hooked ever since. Found the DVD's at EB games and watch the series from time to time
So nostalgia, I finally had a chance to search for this after 15 to 20 years ( i guess). Brings back a lot of memory watching anime secretly in the middle of the night.
I remember watching Hack//SIGN back in 2005, on Animax. At the time I was playing several MMO, MU Online and Lineage 2. I liked how this reflected some of my adventures in those online worlds. I think I will return and start again.
Ive been on a nostalgia trip for the past few days watching shows I used to watch as a kid. I remember watching this, DBZ, Inuyasha and a few more i gotta find out. Old memories are such good feelings to get back to
Man. I don’t care if people said this anime was boring asf. This is peak childhood memories right here. Especially the soundtrack. Takes me back to simpler times.
Well it is a MMO they have probably been playing for several years. So yeah, they would have to be pretty hard core to play it that long. Having played some of the Korean grinding MMOs I can say this is perfectly normal for players who have played those games for a long time.
I never got into this show as a kid. I always felt there wasn’t enough action, but this show was for more mature audiences. Especially when you understand the plot. It falls under the same category as Evangelion, but it’s not as superior. It’s not perfect, but it isn’t bad so I just go easy on it.
Ahh, MMORPGs used to start you with NOTHING maybe a skinning knife and a spell, now days its all map markers and directions for everything you need to do.
This was one of the first anime I remember watching on Toonami. I had almost no idea what was going on but I didn’t care. The opening song, Obsession by See-Saw, was more than enough to captivate me and the rest was icing on the cake. I love this anime and I always end up watching it all over again every few years. Thank you for posting these. They bring back such fond memories. 😊
9:28-9:55 hahaha there's no way I would've caught the double meaning of this as a kid when this aired. But now as an adult it's less of a joke and more something I relate with lmao
First time I saw this show was summer break, in middle school. August, essentially. Off a pirate website. I marathon'd the whole damn thing in many consecutive late nights. To say I was 'hooked' or 'binge watching' doesn't really begin to describe it.
Dam i was young when i watched this. I found this on a disc before we had internet. And as a kid i never knew defaq was goign on haha. Tiwm to finally watch it
Same here. Well, I wasn't a huge fan, but I played a bit of the games a long time ago and used to see //Sign on television at times, but I never knew what it was about or anything back then (too young at that time, but I could've understood it I just would miss a lot of episodes since it was live airing on tv, and I'd commonly be busy with other stuff when I was that age haha). But now, I've rewatched //Sign and all of the other masterpieces as an adult, and I can say I enjoy them a lot. The story, the animation/artwork/art style, the awesome tunes in each of the series (they all tend to have good BGM, even the video games), etc. I just love everything about the franchise, although there's a few of the newer releases (video games, film/animation, etc.) which I haven't seen yet, so I can't comment on them. But I'm sure I'll enjoy them when I get around to them. Have you ever played .Hack//Fragment for the PlayStation 2? It was an online MMORPG back at the time, but it's officially offline now (their servers are no longer up because they chose to take them down, unfortunately). There's still fan servers around that are active, apparently. I haven't got on them yet, seems complicated (anyone who tries should definitely just use an emulator, I'd imagine), but apparently it's possible and some players do exist. Anyways, even if you play .Hack//Fragment online or offline, you can make your own character, and play in the same 3D world from the //IMOQ PlayStation 2 video games (where you play Kite's story, which chronologically takes place in the overall .Hack timeline after the events of .Hack//Sign). It's really fun. I have a full playthrough (a longplay) video on my channel of me playing through the video game. I made my character Tsukasa. Even though Tsukasa briefly appears in the game's story itself. xD It's still a character that can be made. My understanding is that on the character creation screen of //Fragment, you can create any of the //Sign characters for the most part. Except Helba, I believe. But, a player can create Bear and play as him, or Tsukasa as I did, even Subaru, BT, Crim, and I'm pretty certain Sora's player character model as well. For that reason, and just the fact it's an awesome video game from the .Hack franchise, even when playing it offline; I really enjoyed playing through it. And my favorite part about the //IMOQ games (which //Fragment is literally the same 3D world as, they just built a different game in that same 3D world from //IMOQ to make //Fragment, I didn't notice much different but there may be some minor differences/new additions of sorts) is the fact that you can play in full first-person mode, instead of playing as third person (you can switch between each, which is awesome if you ask me). I generally play //IMOQ and //Fragment in complete first person mode, even though I'm not using a VR headset. But, I hear that VR headsets can be made to function with a well known PS2 emulator for Windows PC computers. So, one day, when I have the funds to invest in it, I'd really like to try to get a decent VR headset to function with a PS2 emulator, and play //IMOQ games and even //Fragment with it to see how it works... Imagine, playing .Hack games with a VR headset on. That makes things even funner. xD Just an idea I want to get to one of these days, unfortunately I don't think I'll get to it anytime soon. /: I'll stop babbling now. As you can see I like dotHack so much, I could probably talk about it for days... I may as well start a fan website, or something. xDDD Anyways, I think I'm going to go rewatch .Hack//Sign now that I think of it, it's been awhile (months) since I've done that. And I just finished rewatching The Big O, so this works perfectly.
@@Xbuster6 Didn't expect the long reply, I was like "whoa, this guy's passionate about it!", but I'm glad to see that ya love it so much because I agree 100%. I rebought a ps2 maybe a year or 2 ago and paid like 100bucks I think for the Elusive Dot hack Mutation(I had the others) because I played them with my bro, but didn't have the chance to finish them and G.U. games came out on ps4, so I wanted to replay/rewatch things in order again. I've read about Fragment a few times, but I was years too late to even have a chance at playing it unfortunately, but I hadn't thought about checking out private servers for it. Thanks for all the information on it XD, and using VR for the immersion sounds really cool! If there were more fans of the game then I'm sure someone could create a few dot hack worlds for VRs. I've read there are a few for VRchat, but we need an all out game! Unfortunately I think it's too old in the "Video Game Anime" genre for people to consider now.
I put this on to go to sleep, remember watching it on adult swim. And then the OP ends and I see the Anime Supreme logo spin on, encoded by [MA]Debito, a named burned into my brain from spending so long figuring out how to request anime episodes from bots in the Anime Supreme mIRC room. Just a flood of 2003 middle school memories flowing back into my brain. Might have been the first and probably only place I was ever cyber bullied. So sick that this is still up, on YT. I'm sure my old burnt anime CDs are long gone.
YES!! Holy crap! Thank you for posting this I have been jonesing to rewatch this but it’s not on any of the streaming services I have. Much obliged. I know what I’m doing tonight
I was only 7 maybe 9 years old and I tried my best to stay up late at night after eating mom's best dinner only to fall asleep and boy did I tried so hard to watch up until 12 to 2 am in the morning. I could never keep up as much as I could. But now I have access to streams and ebay to watch or collect the series.
Sometimes this show was too deep for my 12 year old mind to understand. Kinda like a mix of Evangelion + The Matrix - giant mecha fighting = .hack idk correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks for uploading.
@@Whothefookisthisguy Fair enough. I saw it on television when I was like 9-13 years old. Some time back around then. Multiple times. But I never really paid it much of any attention except once I recall falling asleep or laying in bed staring at the tv screen while the ninth episode was playing. It never registered to me that I'd like it. Back when, I didn't watch much anime. But more recently, I tried it out. I thought I wouldn't like it at all. I ended up enjoying it a lot. If you'd like to know what I specifically enjoy about it - It's what it is (simply study/ or watch it, to figure out why I like it). By "it's what it is", any anime, or book, etc. is a story. I like an anime for its story. If it has a good story, in my opinion, then I enjoy it. From there, it depends how good the story is. .Hack//Sign, like any anime, sure, if I was the writer, I'd of done some things differently. But overall, I loved how it plays out. Very emotional, deep, grabbing, touching, etc. It gives off 'the feels' in every way. Not just that, awesome old school "retro" MMORPG days / anime days. What's not to love? Great old school early 2000s anime, well, it's not like it was that long ago. I just call it that because it looks so great. xD But yeah. The story. That's the main reason. I even played .Hack//Fragment, a PlayStation 2 game. My channel has an almost 12 hour longplay of that game from start to finish and it's all in Japanese text. In that game, the player can play as any characters from the .Hack//Sign anime series, so I decided to make my character as Tsukasa from //Sign. Just listing that as an example. I loved this anime that much, that after watching it, played through the entire PlayStation 2 game. The game isn't the same story as //Sign, but takes place in 'The World' MMORPG. I'm not an expert on it and when I played it earlier this year, it was all in Japanese. Again, that playthrough, and many other .Hack gaming videos can be found on my channel. : ) Hope this helps explain why I love it so much. I tried watching Sword Art Online, which people compare to this, I guess because they both relate to MMO games... But... I didn't enjoy any of SAO. .Hack is definitely where it's at. And we also have so many other great .Hack releases, such as .Hack//Roots, //Quantum, etc. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend watching it. c:
Watching this for the first time and the songs that play throughout sound a lot like NieR Automata's carnival theme, is there a genre for this kind of music? It's beautiful
Gosh they just dont make anime like this. Literally telling you the minimum possible for you to understand what youre supposed to, while leaving so much a mystery.
Anyone know of a good site to get DVD for this and other shows like Zoids and others ? It been a long time and I really would like to watch with my Grandaughter. .And maybe a place that would list shows ok for age .
I'm always bothered by mimiru and tsukasa's interaction at 13:35. Tsukasa panicked and tried to run off, then mimiru yells at him to calm down and shoves him back where he was. Then Tsukasa understandably lashes out and yells at her to leave him alone. Then mimiru goes into an apeshit lecture at him. But we're supposed to see tsukasa as the bad guy in this scene?
I love this anime but can somebody please explain to me why these people always trying to govern the people that play the game even though they're not the ones who created it
And here I am again falling asleep to this show in my dark bedroom just like all those years ago.
Childhood ♥️
LMFAO this comment is so on point. J remember watching every episode but also not watching it because I would fall asleep. I still like the show though. Good memories.
hahaaa same here, man, that was my teenage years during the school week, passin out to this show while i was finishing up my homework the night before it was due lol
the memories of 15 years ago, feels like it flew right by
May you spare the life of the next one
💀💀💀 it sucks being 25 now
Tsukasa telling off Mimiru and then going off to ride his Grunty into a wall feels like one of the most MMO things I've ever seen in anime. I love it.
Well, time for my yearly .hack rewatch. Thanks for the reminder CZcams!
I love you
You watch yearly? I havent seen this since early 2000s when the franchise was still airing and Legend of the Twilight was brand new.
@@hayatotenryuu9850I'm on my second rewatch of the year personally. This show slaps so fking hard it's unreal
@@pariahlord3540 agreed. I'm going back and getting into the entire series. I binged this, and then read Epitaph of Twilight.
I miss storytelling like this. A lot of small thru-lines going on at once. Slower pacing. Great care in dictation and the simplest physical behaviors making all the change in dialogue. I'll always love this series.
That was a great way to explain it. And actualy telling us the lore for BT's name. and how her and Bear are divorced adults. What other anime actually has that.
@@EinherjarV Exactly. The writer had a great talent for world building. They treated every character as if they were a real character in their world and asked what is this character like? How would they react in this situation? Where did they come from and how does that inform how they interact with the other characters?
@@GeorgeMonet Thank you. I was fighting on the forums for this show when it came out.
Exactly my issue with most current anime. It’s missing that “something” that older anime often had. This in particular was so ahead of its time with the video game tie up that also had its own anime bundled with it. I don’t think anything like that will ever happen again haha.
2:47
The moment that changed the entire outcome of this series. I know it's trivial, but Tsukasa meeting Mimiru was the seed that ended up breaking Tsukasa free from Morganna Mode Gone. Mimiru was so concerned about Tsukasa, she even got others interested in Tsukasa. It ended up being the trifecta of Bear, B.T., and Mimiru that brought Tsukasa free. Subaru plays an instrumental part in Tsukasa's mental health, but the others located Tsukasa in real life.
Mimiru is my favorite of the SIGN characters (along with B.T.) because she's so real. She is someone you meet playing an MMO. I've played World of Warcraft and man, coming across Mimiru-type people was so pleasant.
I love .hack//SIGN. Best flipping anime ever.
Hack sign is basically SAO before it was a thing
And I love this anime
just no waifu
I can't even find DVDs of the .//hack series
the hack.// PS2 games were good too played hours on them
@@Cjoudan pirate 😁
I’d say .hack//sign and SAO are nothing alike. However, .hack//gu and SAO do share a lot of similarities.
The nostalgia just hit me like a train.
Even after all these years, I occassionally come back to this anime and it's exceptional atmosphere and music.
This show has some of the most mature writing and has what is easily the best sound track.
Having played MMOs I can say that I have experienced real people who are exactly like the characters in this anime.
To me this makes the way the characters interact with each other and react to the unfolding story very realistic.
You have Bear, the older salaryman with a wife and an empty nest, the divorcee BT, the executive who just got back from a big project, the aloof child, the kid who goes around PKing because he thinks its funny to ruin people's day.
This takes me back to my teen years.
I am nearly in my 30s and I used to watch Hack Sign as well in my teenageyears 🥰
Add on: This tv-show is the reason I am into gaming ^^
Yes
I was in my kid years, when It came on adult swim. Lol
I used to watch this as a kid like 8 or 9 maybe. Im 30 now, this got me in a nostalgia moment. Lol
I’m 32 used to watch this late at night on adult swim, those were the days
I love this . Anime back then was so mysterious and ominous
Aahh... My original obsession~
My brother saw the first episode and told me about "a strange anime about a video game" he saw and thought I may find it interesting. I saw the second episode the following Saturday, and since then it was like a ritual- I snuck down stairs to our living room with a blank 8hour VHS tape, and recorded Every. Single. Episode from then on. I had an instant crush on Tsukasa XD (as my username suggests, and look closely at my sona on my icon- I have the cheek tattoos) and I'm pretty sure that was the only reason I kept coming back week after week. My mom eventually bought me the DVD set and begged me to stop sneaking down at midnight to record the episodes.
I even have all the games- though I haven't been able to play through the first 4 all the way... My brother has them at his house, and my save data after beating the first one mysteriously disappeared- though my brother insists that he didn't delete it. I only recently got .hack//GU, but... I really dislike Haseo. like, even in //Roots. I know he's supposed to be a certain someone, but ech. I don't like his character arch. and I need to really sit down and play GU.
I dragged my husband into this fandom when we started dating, and he just recently bought me the .hack//AI Buster novels for my 30th birthday, and it reignited my desire to indulge in my first serious fandom- as AI Buster is the first story in the .hack// Time line, I have been nerding out over everything I had already known in this universe in a way I had never had the opportunity to see before.
Such an underrated series.
Thank you so much for uploading. I'm so happy I'm not the only one who felt joy seeing this here
As slow as this series is, I'm excited to watch it after so many years. This is also just a great background show for painting, working, gaming, etc.
I have the deepest respect for this series and beyond. It got me into mmorpgs 12 years age and of course anime
For those who dont know. The dancing Lady...That is Helba. Female hackers are so awesome.
Takes me back to when I first seen this on Cartoon Network. I've been hooked ever since. Found the DVD's at EB games and watch the series from time to time
Aww man. EB games. Do they still exist?
@@kalebpiper8107 I think they are part of Gamestop now or have been for awhile. I know all the local EB games I used to go to are no longer around :/
Yo I remember EB Games!!!
I had completly forgot about them and Hollywood video oh shit and as I'm typing this I just remembered strawberries the fuck!
I feel like something awoken in me when I heard the intro song. Like I've heard this alot as a kiddo.
Yeah I perked up a bit tbh
So nostalgia, I finally had a chance to search for this after 15 to 20 years ( i guess). Brings back a lot of memory watching anime secretly in the middle of the night.
I remember watching Hack//SIGN back in 2005, on Animax. At the time I was playing several MMO, MU Online and Lineage 2. I liked how this reflected some of my adventures in those online worlds.
I think I will return and start again.
I played L2 too! And yep I always thought it was kind of similar. At least in terms of the people.
Ive been on a nostalgia trip for the past few days watching shows I used to watch as a kid. I remember watching this, DBZ, Inuyasha and a few more i gotta find out. Old memories are such good feelings to get back to
hell yeah same, rurouni kenshin and yu yu hakusho are on my list too
This show had such brilliant writing. Best thing to happen to Adult Swim!
Didn’t it use to come on at like 5am?
@@southernbandit93 Lol It definitely was in that midnight to 1AM range for me.
@@southernbandit93 that was inuyasha coming on at 5am
This show was a fever dream on toonami
Any time I try to remember this show all I can remember are the scenes of Tsukasa sitting and that's it.
Man. I don’t care if people said this anime was boring asf. This is peak childhood memories right here. Especially the soundtrack. Takes me back to simpler times.
People have been spoiled by fast food anime, and it's a shame because storytelling should be #1.
Behold the most hardcore RPers in existence. Even the characters who say it's just a game treat it like the most serious of business. 😂 Nerrrrrrrds. 😂
lol
Exactly my thoughts lol.
Well it is a MMO they have probably been playing for several years. So yeah, they would have to be pretty hard core to play it that long.
Having played some of the Korean grinding MMOs I can say this is perfectly normal for players who have played those games for a long time.
I always pretend that Mimiru is Blackrose's twin sister.
Didn't intend on finding this, but hell man, this takes me back!
of all the shows i watched in my childhood - weirdest one by far. i never understood wtf was going on…… but i kept watching anyway….. lmao
I never got into this show as a kid. I always felt there wasn’t enough action, but this show was for more mature audiences. Especially when you understand the plot. It falls under the same category as Evangelion, but it’s not as superior. It’s not perfect, but it isn’t bad so I just go easy on it.
Sorry to comment twice, but I never realized Tsukasa's voice actress is the same one that voiced Mithos Yggdrasil in the Tales of Symphonia game!
ever noticed that Tsukasa also outlasted every other Wavemaster in a melee fight?o.O
@@riktorheverez1068 Yeah, even without his guardian, Tsukasa's got good dodging skills and endurance apparently XD
She's also Jim from Outlaw Star if I'm hearing it right.
Good catch amazing game still play symphonia from time to time
@@mookiestewart3776 I need to dust off my gamecube and do the same once in awhile 😅
Ahh, MMORPGs used to start you with NOTHING maybe a skinning knife and a spell, now days its all map markers and directions for everything you need to do.
I miss UO.
@Lemon Party hah same I played lake superior for years
This was one of the first anime I remember watching on Toonami. I had almost no idea what was going on but I didn’t care. The opening song, Obsession by See-Saw, was more than enough to captivate me and the rest was icing on the cake. I love this anime and I always end up watching it all over again every few years. Thank you for posting these. They bring back such fond memories. 😊
So.... as a 90's kid, I'm starting my pilgrimage today.
I miss my highschool days 2001_2004 getting stoned and watching Saturday night anime
Stoned.
These games/this anime will forever be a moment we all cherish.
9:28-9:55 hahaha there's no way I would've caught the double meaning of this as a kid when this aired.
But now as an adult it's less of a joke and more something I relate with lmao
I didn't even catch it at all until your comment made me go back to it again lol.
First time I saw this show was summer break, in middle school. August, essentially. Off a pirate website.
I marathon'd the whole damn thing in many consecutive late nights. To say I was 'hooked' or 'binge watching' doesn't really begin to describe it.
Dam i was young when i watched this. I found this on a disc before we had internet. And as a kid i never knew defaq was goign on haha. Tiwm to finally watch it
Such a good show.
I never noticed before but why do the Crimson Knights look like Digimon?
Thanks for the vid! Rewatching them after years and playing the games afterwards. Dot hack's always been one of my favorite series because of Sign.
Same here. Well, I wasn't a huge fan, but I played a bit of the games a long time ago and used to see //Sign on television at times, but I never knew what it was about or anything back then (too young at that time, but I could've understood it I just would miss a lot of episodes since it was live airing on tv, and I'd commonly be busy with other stuff when I was that age haha). But now, I've rewatched //Sign and all of the other masterpieces as an adult, and I can say I enjoy them a lot. The story, the animation/artwork/art style, the awesome tunes in each of the series (they all tend to have good BGM, even the video games), etc. I just love everything about the franchise, although there's a few of the newer releases (video games, film/animation, etc.) which I haven't seen yet, so I can't comment on them. But I'm sure I'll enjoy them when I get around to them.
Have you ever played .Hack//Fragment for the PlayStation 2? It was an online MMORPG back at the time, but it's officially offline now (their servers are no longer up because they chose to take them down, unfortunately). There's still fan servers around that are active, apparently. I haven't got on them yet, seems complicated (anyone who tries should definitely just use an emulator, I'd imagine), but apparently it's possible and some players do exist.
Anyways, even if you play .Hack//Fragment online or offline, you can make your own character, and play in the same 3D world from the //IMOQ PlayStation 2 video games (where you play Kite's story, which chronologically takes place in the overall .Hack timeline after the events of .Hack//Sign).
It's really fun. I have a full playthrough (a longplay) video on my channel of me playing through the video game. I made my character Tsukasa. Even though Tsukasa briefly appears in the game's story itself. xD It's still a character that can be made. My understanding is that on the character creation screen of //Fragment, you can create any of the //Sign characters for the most part. Except Helba, I believe. But, a player can create Bear and play as him, or Tsukasa as I did, even Subaru, BT, Crim, and I'm pretty certain Sora's player character model as well.
For that reason, and just the fact it's an awesome video game from the .Hack franchise, even when playing it offline; I really enjoyed playing through it. And my favorite part about the //IMOQ games (which //Fragment is literally the same 3D world as, they just built a different game in that same 3D world from //IMOQ to make //Fragment, I didn't notice much different but there may be some minor differences/new additions of sorts) is the fact that you can play in full first-person mode, instead of playing as third person (you can switch between each, which is awesome if you ask me).
I generally play //IMOQ and //Fragment in complete first person mode, even though I'm not using a VR headset. But, I hear that VR headsets can be made to function with a well known PS2 emulator for Windows PC computers. So, one day, when I have the funds to invest in it, I'd really like to try to get a decent VR headset to function with a PS2 emulator, and play //IMOQ games and even //Fragment with it to see how it works... Imagine, playing .Hack games with a VR headset on. That makes things even funner. xD Just an idea I want to get to one of these days, unfortunately I don't think I'll get to it anytime soon. /:
I'll stop babbling now. As you can see I like dotHack so much, I could probably talk about it for days... I may as well start a fan website, or something. xDDD Anyways, I think I'm going to go rewatch .Hack//Sign now that I think of it, it's been awhile (months) since I've done that. And I just finished rewatching The Big O, so this works perfectly.
@@Xbuster6 Didn't expect the long reply, I was like "whoa, this guy's passionate about it!", but I'm glad to see that ya love it so much because I agree 100%. I rebought a ps2 maybe a year or 2 ago and paid like 100bucks I think for the Elusive Dot hack Mutation(I had the others) because I played them with my bro, but didn't have the chance to finish them and G.U. games came out on ps4, so I wanted to replay/rewatch things in order again. I've read about Fragment a few times, but I was years too late to even have a chance at playing it unfortunately, but I hadn't thought about checking out private servers for it. Thanks for all the information on it XD, and using VR for the immersion sounds really cool! If there were more fans of the game then I'm sure someone could create a few dot hack worlds for VRs. I've read there are a few for VRchat, but we need an all out game! Unfortunately I think it's too old in the "Video Game Anime" genre for people to consider now.
really wish Bandi would re-release the first four games on Steam like they did with the GU series with Last Recode
@@riktorheverez1068 SAME! I don't understand why they didn't do that first then release G.U.!
@@Shaznit ikr....i mean Capcom released the entire Megaman and Megaman X games on Steam, to which i picked them up as soon as they were released again
so this is the first anime on the Kissanime A-Z list........ interesting
alphabetical order lol
Posted 6 years ago. Comments are from the past week.
I'm sad I never really watched this back in the day. I knew about it, was always interested, but only just now finally started watching it. O.o
“Aw shit, here we go again.”
The nostalgia that hits when I hear this. Sooo good.
One thing I didn't notice until now is that he grunts every time he moves. Must be arthritis
She*
very typical of old anime dubs
I put this on to go to sleep, remember watching it on adult swim. And then the OP ends and I see the Anime Supreme logo spin on, encoded by [MA]Debito, a named burned into my brain from spending so long figuring out how to request anime episodes from bots in the Anime Supreme mIRC room. Just a flood of 2003 middle school memories flowing back into my brain. Might have been the first and probably only place I was ever cyber bullied. So sick that this is still up, on YT. I'm sure my old burnt anime CDs are long gone.
YES!! Holy crap! Thank you for posting this I have been jonesing to rewatch this but it’s not on any of the streaming services I have. Much obliged. I know what I’m doing tonight
Was looking for it last night, too! Googling found out it’s sub is streaming free on Tubi! I’m watching it on the IOS app now, on episode 7.
I feel like a kid again watching this
I was only 7 maybe 9 years old and I tried my best to stay up late at night after eating mom's best dinner only to fall asleep and boy did I tried so hard to watch up until 12 to 2 am in the morning. I could never keep up as much as I could. But now I have access to streams and ebay to watch or collect the series.
Sometimes this show was too deep for my 12 year old mind to understand. Kinda like a mix of Evangelion + The Matrix - giant mecha fighting = .hack idk correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks for uploading.
i heard about this anime recently and it keeps coming back into my mind so thanks for this
Same here I use to fall asleep trying to watch this late nite!
Why?
@@Whothefookisthisguy Probably because: " *
@@Xbuster6 I know, but why?
@@Xbuster6 Tell me why.
@@Whothefookisthisguy Fair enough. I saw it on television when I was like 9-13 years old. Some time back around then. Multiple times. But I never really paid it much of any attention except once I recall falling asleep or laying in bed staring at the tv screen while the ninth episode was playing.
It never registered to me that I'd like it. Back when, I didn't watch much anime. But more recently, I tried it out. I thought I wouldn't like it at all. I ended up enjoying it a lot.
If you'd like to know what I specifically enjoy about it - It's what it is (simply study/ or watch it, to figure out why I like it). By "it's what it is", any anime, or book, etc. is a story. I like an anime for its story. If it has a good story, in my opinion, then I enjoy it. From there, it depends how good the story is. .Hack//Sign, like any anime, sure, if I was the writer, I'd of done some things differently. But overall, I loved how it plays out.
Very emotional, deep, grabbing, touching, etc. It gives off 'the feels' in every way. Not just that, awesome old school "retro" MMORPG days / anime days. What's not to love? Great old school early 2000s anime, well, it's not like it was that long ago. I just call it that because it looks so great. xD
But yeah. The story. That's the main reason. I even played .Hack//Fragment, a PlayStation 2 game. My channel has an almost 12 hour longplay of that game from start to finish and it's all in Japanese text. In that game, the player can play as any characters from the .Hack//Sign anime series, so I decided to make my character as Tsukasa from //Sign. Just listing that as an example. I loved this anime that much, that after watching it, played through the entire PlayStation 2 game. The game isn't the same story as //Sign, but takes place in 'The World' MMORPG. I'm not an expert on it and when I played it earlier this year, it was all in Japanese.
Again, that playthrough, and many other .Hack gaming videos can be found on my channel. : ) Hope this helps explain why I love it so much.
I tried watching Sword Art Online, which people compare to this, I guess because they both relate to MMO games... But... I didn't enjoy any of SAO. .Hack is definitely where it's at. And we also have so many other great .Hack releases, such as .Hack//Roots, //Quantum, etc.
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend watching it. c:
3:57 - 5:21
When law enforcement come around asking questions
One of my core memories
I watched this when I was little and I miss it was also part of my intro into anime
The instrumental themes are amazing as well
I was confused years ago and still till this day 😆. Going to watch all of it I need answer lol
Watching this for the first time and the songs that play throughout sound a lot like NieR Automata's carnival theme, is there a genre for this kind of music? It's beautiful
I was trying to find this forever. Now next anime to find my only memory is the character riding in a dragon looking robot kinda made of bones?
Any chance the anime you're looking for is escaflowne?
急におすすめに出たので懐かしさできました
I'll take this over sword art anytime
Ya know if this was COD that kid's little ambian trip would end in about 20 seconds
The Orginal S.A.O.
Nice if you also have seen Liminality - I have the whole collection on dvd.
Gosh they just dont make anime like this. Literally telling you the minimum possible for you to understand what youre supposed to, while leaving so much a mystery.
My room is covered in .hack// posters ❤️
I've been searching for the dub thanks so much u made my week
This was my first anime as i kid i watched when i was a teenager. Man im old.
This anime was the first to have this concept and it was amazing, but now with sword art online it's play out
This show is why I use an Oculus
I started reading a book series called Viridian Gate Online that reminds me of this, and made me want to re watch this series.
I’m here cause I love mmorpgs and anime
Amazing soundtrack
Anyone know of a good site to get DVD for this and other shows like Zoids and others ? It been a long time and I really would like to watch with my Grandaughter. .And maybe a place that would list shows ok for age .
8:15 Woooooobuffet!
GOOD ANIME
18:45 Anyone know the name of the song that plays during Tsukasa and Silver Knight's fight? I haven't been able to find it.
bridge01 from .hack//extra ost. there's a playlist on youtube
Mimiru and Tsukasa have more chemistry.
I agree, I ship him with her more than Subaru.
I'm always bothered by mimiru and tsukasa's interaction at 13:35. Tsukasa panicked and tried to run off, then mimiru yells at him to calm down and shoves him back where he was. Then Tsukasa understandably lashes out and yells at her to leave him alone. Then mimiru goes into an apeshit lecture at him.
But we're supposed to see tsukasa as the bad guy in this scene?
Fantastic. Thank you!
I swear, I recognized a sample from the Postal soundtrack here.
Yea please 🖤
i was thinking how come this was allow on yt, then eng dub hits
The cat is Macha right?
2024!
is this the first "mmorpg" type isekai ?
I love this anime but can somebody please explain to me why these people always trying to govern the people that play the game even though they're not the ones who created it
People in games can have power trips.
Man. Why are these english dubs so hard to find? Lol
Episode 2
When is 2
@@thatredkid2545 I think it is -18 years afo
Dudegirl called mc a "wave user." There are also "wave controllers" in Tower of God. Is the word "wave" associated with magic in Japanese?
What song plays at 21:07!?!?
Its so beautifullll
Yasashi Yoake
@@ren9955 thank you very much!
This is why i play ML and SW
This isn't an anime like overlord
Why is Mimiru sticking her tongue out @ 11:37
Uuugh im so old -___-
Friday evening on YTV :)
where can i see hack//Sign anime
Animelab
eat the chicken