.hack//Sign
Sign in to save.hack//Sign (stylized as .hack//SIGN and pronounced "dot hack sign") is a Japanese anime television series directed by Kōichi Mashimo, and produced by studio Bee Train and Bandai Visual, that makes up one of the four original storylines for the .hack franchise. Twenty-six original episodes aired in 2002 on television and three additional bonus ones were released on DVD as original video animation. The series features each characters designed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and written by Kazunori Itō. The score was composed by Yuki Kajiura, marking her second collaboration with Mashimo.
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.hack//Sign
- Score
- 6.95/10 (87,776 votes)
- Rank
- #4963
- Popularity
- #1436
- Type
- TV
- Episodes
- 26
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Season
- Spring 2002
- Studios
- Bee Train
A young wavemaster, only known by the alias of Tsukasa, wakes up in an MMORPG called The World, with slight amnesia. He does not know what he has previously done before he woke up. In The World, the Crimson Knights suspects him of being a hacker, as he was seen accompanying a twe…
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Key facts
- Animanga/Header.name
- .hack//Sign
- Animanga/Header.image
- Hack-regular-6a.jpg
- Animanga/Header.caption
- Tsukasa (front), Aura (right), Subaru (left).
- Animanga/Header.genre
- isekai, Adventure, fantasy
- Animanga/Video.type
- ova
- Animanga/Video.director
- Kōichi Mashimo
- Animanga/Video.writer
- Kazunori Itō
- Animanga/Video.music
- Yuki Kajiura
- Animanga/Video.studio
- Bee Train
- Animanga/Video.network
- TXN (TV Tokyo)
- Animanga/Video.first
- 2002
- Animanga/Video.last
- September 25, 2002
- Animanga/Video.episodes
- 3
- Animanga/Video.episode_list
- List of .hack//Sign episodes
- Animanga/Video.title
- .hack//Intermezzo, .hack//Unison, .hack//Gift
- Animanga/Other.title
- Related works
- Animanga/Other.content
- .hack video games .hack//Liminality .hack//Legend of the Twilight
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 25
- FilmAffinity ID
- 896200
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- number of episodes
- 26
- start time
- 2002-04-04
- end time
- 2002-09-25
- title
- .hack//SIGN
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- Synopsis
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- Characters
- Concept and design
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- Music
- Themes
- Media
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- Publications
- Reception
- Notes and references
- External links
.hack//Sign (stylized as .hack//SIGN and pronounced "dot hack sign") is a Japanese anime television series directed by Kōichi Mashimo, and produced by studio Bee Train and Bandai Visual, that makes up one of the four original storylines for the .hack franchise. Twenty-six original episodes aired in 2002 on television and three additional bonus ones were released on DVD as original video animation. The series features each characters designed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and written by Kazunori Itō. The score was composed by Yuki Kajiura, marking her second collaboration with Mashimo.
The series is influenced by psychological and sociological subjects, such as anxiety, escapism and interpersonal relationships. The series focuses on a Wavemaster (magic user) named Tsukasa, a player character in a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game called The World. He wakes up to find himself in a dungeon in The World, but he suffers from short-term memory loss as he wonders where he is and how he got there. The situation gets worse when he discovers he is trapped in the game and cannot log out. From then on, along with other players, Tsukasa embarks on a quest to find the truth behind his abnormal situation.