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"Released in December 2007 after the regulation of the internet, "The World" is the first online game released since "Pluto's Kiss," an event at the height of an internet hacking maelstrom that led to millions of computers across the globe shutting down. Running under ALTIMIT, a secure network operating system, "The World" has grown rapidly in popularity with millions having downloaded the game in the first month alone, and more than 20 million players by 2010, the time of the .hack//SIGN story. "The World", which is administered by the CyberConnect (CC) Corporation, began as a prototype game called "the Fragment" which gradually developed into the current version of the game. Programmers from the ALTIMIT development team left the company to work on "The World", forming the CC Corporation, and now act as the game's system administrators."





Set in the year 2007, .hack//sign takes place entirely in an MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) entitled "The World." The anime is based around a player named Tsukasa and his inability to mentally log out of the game. In the real world Tuskasa's body goes into a comatose state.

Episode list

1. Role Play
   
2. Guardian
   
3. Folklore
   
4. Wanted
   
5. Captured
   
6. Encounter
   
7. Reason
   
8. Promise
   Epitaph
   Compensation
   Party
   Entanglement
   Twilight Eye
   Castle
   Evidence
   Depth
   Conflict
   Declaration
   Recollection
   Tempest
   Despair
   Phantom
   The Eve
   NetSlum
   Catastrophe
   Return
   
   OVA episodes:
   
9. Intermezzo
10. Unison
11. Gift