Product Details

• Actors: Artist Not Provided
• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Bandai
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 2004
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00026L8XU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #109,037 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

As this fantasy-adventure continues, the tone darkens and links to battles waged four years earlier in .hack//Sign emerge. A cabal of kids known as the Group of Four are using illegal software to create havoc in the computer realm of the World. They try to eliminate Shugo, whose powerful bracelet can thwart their plans, but trap Rena by mistake. She joins the growing number of players who have vanished from the game--and lie comatose in the real world. As Shugo and his friends search for Rena, they encounter another foe: the Cerulean Knights, the enforcers of the CC Corporation, and their icy commander, Kamui. The stakes are being raised, inside and outside the World. The filmmakers juxtapose these threats with the bright, imaginative designs of the game world to create a engaging balance of danger and humor. (Rated 13 and older: cartoon violence, minor risqué humor) --Charles Solomon

Product Description

Studio: Infinity Resources Inc Release Date: 07/27/2004 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: 13up

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't quite live up to promise, September 13, 2004

By	Scott Mattson "anime/Sci-Fi junkie" (St Paul MN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love the whole .hack idea. A online roleplaying game where people call into comas for no appearent reason. While the legend of the twilight has more action than the .sign shows, the animation leaves more to be desired.
I say doesn't live up to promise because there could be more action and trying to solve the coma deal, and it would only add to the series.

3.0 out of 5 stars The Plot Thickens..., February 5, 2009

By	James F. Neel "Jemcollector" (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

The unevenness of this latest incarnation of .hack continues in the second set of episodes. At first the action bubbles along as fast-paced as before, with a few new ( and one old ) characters added to the mix. The story encounters a major roadblock, however, when Rena falls victim to a mysterious group of child hackers and disappears from The World. The remainder of the entire series deals with Shugo's attempt to locate her missing avatar, BlackRose, and thus revive his twin sister who has fallen into a coma - the Nightmare of the title - in the "real" world.

If the "children in a coma" sounds familliar, it's because the .hack writers who created this could come up with nothing original to advance the story, resorting to Tsukasa's dillemma from SIGN. Only this time to make it even more "dramatic", the comas have reached epidemic proportions, claiming dozens of victims! ( One can only imagine the glee of injury trial lawyers going after the fictitous C.C. Corp. - owners of The World franchise - in a class-action lawsuit if this was an actual event! ) It is this mostly turgid development which causes the entire series to grind to a screeching halt.

The rest plays out in a predictable style, as the heroes go to ground trying to figure out how to rescue Rena, while avoiding the Cerulian Knights who seek to delete them from the game as bad influences. Their leader Kamui and her delusions of grandeur form the only interesting sub-plot in this set of episodes. In a rather wasted "guest appearance", Ginkan/Silver Knight from SIGN attempts to thwart this even-more-repressive version of his old Crimson Knights, failing miserably. His fate is also deletion for interfering with their "witch hunt" for unauthorized player modification. Again, this is all "borrowed" from SIGN with no improvement over the original.

In one of the more painful examples of how a once-popular actor can fall, the Japanese seyuu Masami Kikuchi ( Tenchi Muyo! himself ) takes the small role of Komian the Third, a really annoying classmate of Shugo and Rena, whose main function is to act the fool and be the butt of all misfortune. Some of his antics are mildly amusing, though the character is basically ripped off from that of Hanagata in the Saber Marionette series. That's just another example of the lack of any originality in this so-far disappointing series.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hack link, October 7, 2008

By	N. Alhuda Alkhateeb "saleh" (makkah, Saudi Arabia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love the whole .hack idea. A online roleplaying game where people call into comas for no appearent reason. While the legend of the twilight has more action than the .sign shows, the animation leaves more to be desired