Rate .hack//roots!

[Dragoon2044]

Despite that fact that it is Ovan that started everything? O.o

Not only that but it was Yata and Pi who destroyed the Twilight Brigade and Kuhn who inspired Tabby and introduced her to Seisaku in order to start the Paw Brigade.

Then there's Tri-Edge, who was also a major character in Roots, having been the focus of Haseo's transformation and the one thing that made him sane again.

I'd give...9/10

The story of Roots is brilliant, despite what people say, and the characters are all three-dimensional and bear different and unique personalities, which is quite a feat when the story focuses on at least twenty characters. The art is consistent throughout and it manages to look like an online game by having such a variation in character style while still retaining a common theme.

in every aspect it is simply an improved SIGN, the only reason it doesn't get 10/10 is because the music done by Ali Project isn't nearly as good as the music by Yuki Kajiura in SIGN.

I totally agree Umbra 100%. Though Ali Project's music does kind of grow on you after a while. i'll give Roots a 9 and add .5(the other .5 was simply the fact that Roots is a sequel to SIGN). People generally expect too much from sequels because they are so impressed by the original; them complain when they get more of the winning formula. Sure there are many new elements, but i think a lot of the hardcore reservists will be for hesitant to look at Roots as a brilliant story in the .hack timeline that does indeed stand on its own. my score is a 10 on a technicallity, but due to the sequel factor(its relation as an anime to SIGN makes it a sequel), Roots gets a 9.5

[Holybunny]

I Gave it a 10 because i thought the overall storyline was great. I honestly didnet even notice all the Stance scense first time i saw the episodes because most of em are important information as is "if you dont hear this you might aswell give up the hole story"'ish.
LOVED the opening :) Silly go' round ! even tho im also a big fan of Ali Project who made the ending typical her.

I Hated that the show ended without giveing Phyllo time to really die?...
i feel as if they wasted a lot of time/money/resources on the first episodes so when they got down to the good once (aka the last once) they were out of time/money/resources... comeon, whos in charge of the storyboard? who cares about virus cores ? do a - 3 days later scene and save a lot of money!

And to end this i thought it kinda sucked they didnet show HOW haseo got beaten up by Tri-Edge - we just got told that he lost the fight? but did he really? - PS. this is my first .Hack so if im missing some important factor on the hole Tri-Edge manor, Im Sorry :) kinda got the impression that this isnet he first time hes in a show.. - am i right? ...

[Umbra]

If you have such complaints, why did you give Roots a perfect score? O.o

As for the whole Phyllo death thing...Of course you wouldn't see him die, he died in the real world and you're experiencing Roots from the perspective of the game.

The Virus Cores were also integral to the plot, do a '3 days later' scene and people will complain about not seeing what happened in between. Not to mention the fact that we see how the Twilight Brigade's relationships develop and .hack//Roots is all about character development.

Finally, what do you mean they didn't show how he was beaten up? O.o They fought each other and you saw that happening...but if you mean that we still don't know everything about Tri-Edge, you'd be right. If you want to learn about Tri-Edge, buy .hack//GU.

[Dengar]

Well, we didn't see the actual part where he was data drained.

But that part IS shown in GU, so I don't see the problem.

[Marioshinobi]

Well, we didn't see the actual part where he was data drained.

But that part IS shown in GU, so I don't see the problem.

I think they were invading gaming territory now..they already changed a few things with TE being a ninja of sorts..

I'm sure they just wanted to end it so they don't screw up anything more to make people avoid the game and prefer the anime more due to NINJAS!!!

[pekerman]

you forgot the fact that some "key people" (Touta, Saburou, Tabby) in roots, makes no appearance in GU.

[Dengar]

Uh, my point was the fact that Haseo was the only major character to make it to GU.

About invading gaming territory, I don't see the big deal.

So it was drawn differently. Doesn't change what actually happened, though. Different artists and all, there's no problem.

[Prydefalcn]

7, which could have easily been higher if there were less... awkward pauses, and long stretches of recycled movement animation.

[cbjkelvin]

graphic not so good

[iuliathe3rd]

I'm giving Roots 9/10.
People are having the same problem they did with SIGN, wanting too much action when it's not about the action. Really, you don't see too many animes that have such great character development. Moments that people would find boring, like say episode 15 which was all about Tabby, I love.
As far as animation goes, it was solid throughout. I don't understand how people could think SIGN had better, when really they're both about the same quality.
I really loved the music, I thought it was appropriate at almost all times and it's nice to listen to (only a couple of tracks being the exception).

I can't give Roots a perfect score though, because it's not a perfect anime, just pretty darn good in my eyes.

[wave killer]

An 8/10 for me, Roots was a good anime but the later episodes seemed to drag the series along after Haseo became a PKK.

[Requiem]

I give it a 9.

Why only 9? Because the last episode made like, no sense. Silver Knight? Tabby talking to Haseo after he gets DD'd? An extreme mutilation of the scene where Haseo fights Borduex as the Terror of Death?

Seriously, they could have just ended it by having most of the scenes happen before he got DD'd, and then cutting out that part with Silver Knight because there was no reason to throw him in there.

Why DID they put SK in that part, anyway? A better choice would have been Sora, if they were going to go all non-canon on us. At least Sora's cool.

[wave killer]

Why DID they put SK in that part, anyway?

Some say to symbolize the end of Project .hack and the beginning of Project G.U.

[Kouen]

Sora's cool.

Yeah but Sora quit. Heck if I were trapped in some rock formation's red stick I'd be traumatized and avoid the game.

[T'Orlyn]

Meeh...

I watched //roots back when it came out in Japan and was pretty much completely unimpressed. It seemed to drag a bit to much, even for a .hack anime which are well known for extensive dialogoue, which I typically like in animation. It also took a quite few episodes to pick up, which is allright, just a criticism. I don't like action anime...I find it insipid in all honesty...but Roots does start out and end in a crawl.

When it comes to the characters, eh, I like pretty much everything in //GU better. Tabby was irritating although she also served fairly well as a comic relief at points. The characters were more 3-dimensional then in most anime, but that doesn't keep them from being annoying. The only character that kept me watching week to week was Haseo. I do appreciate the character development though, it's a rare thing to see in anime.

The storyline was deep and complex, very much expanding and improving on //SIGN. I have no problems with the storyline actually since I highly enjoyed that aspect of it


I do like the //Roots soundtrack..this is my one majour pluses for the series. ALI project definitely isn't Yuki Kaiiura, but they did a pretty excellent job in my opinion.

All in all it's a solid 7/10 from me. Maybe I should give it less, since it certainly didn't restore my faith or intrest in the franchise, but I think that score is fair. I listen to the soundtrack when I'm painting and I've even recomended it to others..
I still don't think it's as good as //SIGN though.

[Kite669]

SIGN will forever be in a place in my heart, why Roots.........a door STOMP. Animation was good don't get me wrong there but the soundtrack just plan SUCKED. Of all the music in there, I was only able to find three songs I liked. Silly-Go-Round being one of them.

Story line was OK but could of been better. I didn't like it how it was slow at first then picking up the paste after episode 13. Then around the end, it starts to slow down.

Besides the G.U. characters, the Roots characters just didn't seem that interesting to me. Every character in SIGN just grew on me why Roots characters didn't. There were only two Roots characters that ever grew on me, Saburou & Tabby. (I would say three because of Shino, but shes G.U. right?) So didn't really like most of the characters.

Now the show of course was mostly character inter action then action pack, Just like .hack//SIGN but I was thinking since they were doing something new to the franchize that they would put a little more action then SIGN had. Maby show some graphic scenes, because that's what I was thinking with this new .hack, DARK & graphic.

Now I know I shouldn't be comparing it to SIGN like this, because SIGN and Roots are completely different animes. BUT guess again, there both .HACK. and what I mean by that is, be different in your story lines and such but don't be TOO different in elemental standards. Roots should of had the same style of music as SIGN and the paste being always high up. Roots again didn't have this so when I saw it, I was disappointed. I was expecting something more and fast paste then slow and boring.

Roots isn't the worst anime I ever saw but it could of used a touchier up. That is why I give it a 4-10.

[Tenji]

Roots is good, SIGN is better... to me it´s as simple as that.
Roots is more dinamic but SIGN is better in everything elase. (music, stroy line, animation, other anime issues and stuff...always talking about the animes and not about the porjects )

That´s all, if i say more i´m going to have to speak about the old .hack project and the new .hack conglomerate project and i realy don´t fell like it.

BTW, i won´t give it a qualification because to me... the hack world can´t be qualificated separately.