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I don't think that's quite the right basis for comparison. It's definitely true that characters are depicted differently from series to series, but this is mostly due to differences in art style. I think it makes more sense to compare the Kite in .hack//Link with the Kite from .hack//XXXX if only be...

I think this is about right. I might have made mistakes on some of the kanji though. hito no nami oshiyose te wa watashi o kasume toorisugiru itsu datte koko ni iru no ni nandaka nukegara tada nagame te botsuri tatazumu kodoku no hahen nomikon de hitori ni shinaide hanasanaide sono nukumori de tsuts...

I just watched the raw. I've only been taking Japanese for a semester and a half, but even the stuff I didn't know was pretty easy to understand just from the context. Thank you for the translation of the lines at the end though. Those were completely lost on me. Anyway, I thought that for what it w...

Here's a list of what I'd like to see, although the likelihood of it happening is another story. -More interaction with the environment (as in, more than two obviously breakable objects per dungeon) -Bounding boxes smaller than elephants ^^; -The ability to see a physical representation of all (or a...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/Cherrypink/Stolen.jpg The text in the image is actually the refrain from the poem "The Stolen Child" by William Butler Yeats. This is just something I've been working on for fun for several weeks now. I got the idea months ago after reading the poem i...

you sure that wasn't blackrose trying to twist the story to make herself the 'sweet and meek' one? In the original Japanese, the book was true to the game. If I remember what I'd read on Tokyopop's forums, the editors had thought that making the book exciting was more important than keeping it accu...

.hack//AI Buster is a very good read, actually. It describes much of the stuff you keep hearing about elsewhere, like the One Sin, how the Descendents of Fianna got their titles, and other points of interest. And yes, according to the timeline, it is the very first .hack story. .hack//Another Birth ...

About Ryou's personality could just be him not being a ten year old in GU That is true, but the change that really bothers me has to do with values. Sora doesn't really care about becoming stronger; he just wants to have fun. Haseo is obsessed with becoming strong and often seems incapable of enjoy...

I think Daichi meant that Ryou woke up after Unison, but that doesn't make sense timeline-wise. I believe Unison was always meant to be canon. It has been confirmed that the .hack//UdeDen manga is canon, and it's even referenced later in //G.U. At the end of the manga, we see Sora in one panel as we...

Shino: What do you think of my new outfit colors, Haseo? Now we match! Haseo: You can do that...? Cool! Shino: Of course you-- where are you going? Haseo: To read the manual. *logs out* Shino: ... Later... Shino: Hello again, Haseo-- uh... Haseo: You like my new colors? I got sick of listening to E...

On the topic of Aromatic Grass... I was recently reading volume 3 of .hack//Another Birth, and while I don't know what the consensus is on its being canon or not, I thought this was interesting. At one point, BlackRose is invited to go collect Aromatic Grass with Elk and Mia. She wonders why they co...

If you try to rationalize it, there are several possible reasons as to why Haseo failed miserably the first time. Low-level weapons, lack of a team, emotional... instability, the fact that his epitaph wasn't awakened... But here's another thought: (//Roots spoilers) Technically, even though Haseo wa...

4) "I don't care if he is a chosen one" - Pi - Yes the whole "connecting with you Avatar" thing was pretty cheesy,... it's an MMO! ...An MMO that puts players into comas and messes with their memories. ^^;;; It's actually not that much of a stretch. (Although the term "chos...

Well, admittedly each game has its share of shortcomings, but I think the main point everyone seems to be forgetting here is that //G.U. is a sequal, not a replacement. The story and characters, naturally, are different, but I don't think it's fair to say one's better than another in that respect. P...

It's not that surprising. Those sites mainly review Rebirth as a stand-alone game title. To be honest, if it was the first .hack title I'd ever gotten, I would have been really confused about most of the story, and story is what this series is mostly about. When you look at it that way, Rebirth does...

I agree that having a relatively small fanbase can be a good thing sometimes, but I get the feeling that this game simply isn't getting the recognition it should be getting. Bandai Namco's marketing was half-hearted at best. My guess is that they didn't expect the game to do well after seeing how un...

I think their excuse for not helping is that avatars go out of control when more than one of them is released. Pi said something along those lines when Haseo was first learning to fight AIDA. ^^; My favorite team would probably be Kuhn and Pi anyway. Their characters are awesome, and they do work we...

To me, the main pro in the game is that they chose to focus more on story than gameplay. As a result, we get much more interesting character development, deeper drama, and well-timed humor. The GU characters have a completely new level of depth, whereas the characters in the original four games were...