Welcome
to The World, the most advanced online game ever created. In
The World you can be anyone you want to be, act out your adventure
fantasies and through teamwork and determination, you can even
become a hero. 14-year-old twins Shugo and Rena just won a
contest that lets them play as the legendary avatars 'Kite'
and 'Black Rose.' Armed with the power of the Twilight Bracelet,
the two must discover what is causing rogue monsters to infect
The World and carry on the legend of the .hackers.
.hack is a multimedia phenomenon unlike any seen before. Released
simultaneously in Japan as a series of Playstation 2 games,
two different anime shows and a manga series, each piece helps
tell the greater story of .hack. The first anime series is
seen on Cartoon Network, the first of four Playstation 2 games
is a top-seller and now the manga picks up the story with all
new characters and adventures.
Original character design for .hack was performed by Sadamoto
Yoshiyuki, perhaps best known for his work on Neon Genesis
Evangelion.
The .hack//Legend
of the Twilight manga was originally published
in Japan by Kadokawa as .hack//tasogare no udewa densetsu (known
more familiarly in the U.S. as .hack//dusk).