en.wikipedia.or... Awesome series, I recommend you watch it. :) High Quality as well. Only uploading the first episode, may or may not upload the rest, it depends on how many requests I get.
LMFAO this comment is so on point. J remember watching every episode but also not watching it because I would fall asleep. I still like the show though. Good memories.
hahaaa same here, man, that was my teenage years during the school week, passin out to this show while i was finishing up my homework the night before it was due lol the memories of 15 years ago, feels like it flew right by
I miss storytelling like this. A lot of small thru-lines going on at once. Slower pacing. Great care in dictation and the simplest physical behaviors making all the change in dialogue. I'll always love this series.
That was a great way to explain it. And actualy telling us the lore for BT's name. and how her and Bear are divorced adults. What other anime actually has that.
@@EinherjarV Exactly. The writer had a great talent for world building. They treated every character as if they were a real character in their world and asked what is this character like? How would they react in this situation? Where did they come from and how does that inform how they interact with the other characters?
Exactly my issue with most current anime. It’s missing that “something” that older anime often had. This in particular was so ahead of its time with the video game tie up that also had its own anime bundled with it. I don’t think anything like that will ever happen again haha.
2:47 The moment that changed the entire outcome of this series. I know it's trivial, but Tsukasa meeting Mimiru was the seed that ended up breaking Tsukasa free from Morganna Mode Gone. Mimiru was so concerned about Tsukasa, she even got others interested in Tsukasa. It ended up being the trifecta of Bear, B.T., and Mimiru that brought Tsukasa free. Subaru plays an instrumental part in Tsukasa's mental health, but the others located Tsukasa in real life. Mimiru is my favorite of the SIGN characters (along with B.T.) because she's so real. She is someone you meet playing an MMO. I've played World of Warcraft and man, coming across Mimiru-type people was so pleasant. I love .hack//SIGN. Best flipping anime ever.
This show has some of the most mature writing and has what is easily the best sound track. Having played MMOs I can say that I have experienced real people who are exactly like the characters in this anime. To me this makes the way the characters interact with each other and react to the unfolding story very realistic. You have Bear, the older salaryman with a wife and an empty nest, the divorcee BT, the executive who just got back from a big project, the aloof child, the kid who goes around PKing because he thinks its funny to ruin people's day.
Takes me back to when I first seen this on Cartoon Network. I've been hooked ever since. Found the DVD's at EB games and watch the series from time to time
Aahh... My original obsession~ My brother saw the first episode and told me about "a strange anime about a video game" he saw and thought I may find it interesting. I saw the second episode the following Saturday, and since then it was like a ritual- I snuck down stairs to our living room with a blank 8hour VHS tape, and recorded Every. Single. Episode from then on. I had an instant crush on Tsukasa XD (as my username suggests, and look closely at my sona on my icon- I have the cheek tattoos) and I'm pretty sure that was the only reason I kept coming back week after week. My mom eventually bought me the DVD set and begged me to stop sneaking down at midnight to record the episodes. I even have all the games- though I haven't been able to play through the first 4 all the way... My brother has them at his house, and my save data after beating the first one mysteriously disappeared- though my brother insists that he didn't delete it. I only recently got .hack//GU, but... I really dislike Haseo. like, even in //Roots. I know he's supposed to be a certain someone, but ech. I don't like his character arch. and I need to really sit down and play GU. I dragged my husband into this fandom when we started dating, and he just recently bought me the .hack//AI Buster novels for my 30th birthday, and it reignited my desire to indulge in my first serious fandom- as AI Buster is the first story in the .hack// Time line, I have been nerding out over everything I had already known in this universe in a way I had never had the opportunity to see before. Such an underrated series. Thank you so much for uploading. I'm so happy I'm not the only one who felt joy seeing this here
So nostalgia, I finally had a chance to search for this after 15 to 20 years ( i guess). Brings back a lot of memory watching anime secretly in the middle of the night.
Ive been on a nostalgia trip for the past few days watching shows I used to watch as a kid. I remember watching this, DBZ, Inuyasha and a few more i gotta find out. Old memories are such good feelings to get back to
I remember watching Hack//SIGN back in 2005, on Animax. At the time I was playing several MMO, MU Online and Lineage 2. I liked how this reflected some of my adventures in those online worlds. I think I will return and start again.
Well it is a MMO they have probably been playing for several years. So yeah, they would have to be pretty hard core to play it that long. Having played some of the Korean grinding MMOs I can say this is perfectly normal for players who have played those games for a long time.
This was one of the first anime I remember watching on Toonami. I had almost no idea what was going on but I didn’t care. The opening song, Obsession by See-Saw, was more than enough to captivate me and the rest was icing on the cake. I love this anime and I always end up watching it all over again every few years. Thank you for posting these. They bring back such fond memories. 😊
Man. I don’t care if people said this anime was boring asf. This is peak childhood memories right here. Especially the soundtrack. Takes me back to simpler times.
Ahh, MMORPGs used to start you with NOTHING maybe a skinning knife and a spell, now days its all map markers and directions for everything you need to do.
I never got into this show as a kid. I always felt there wasn’t enough action, but this show was for more mature audiences. Especially when you understand the plot. It falls under the same category as Evangelion, but it’s not as superior. It’s not perfect, but it isn’t bad so I just go easy on it.
Gosh they just dont make anime like this. Literally telling you the minimum possible for you to understand what youre supposed to, while leaving so much a mystery.
Same here. Well, I wasn't a huge fan, but I played a bit of the games a long time ago and used to see //Sign on television at times, but I never knew what it was about or anything back then (too young at that time, but I could've understood it I just would miss a lot of episodes since it was live airing on tv, and I'd commonly be busy with other stuff when I was that age haha). But now, I've rewatched //Sign and all of the other masterpieces as an adult, and I can say I enjoy them a lot. The story, the animation/artwork/art style, the awesome tunes in each of the series (they all tend to have good BGM, even the video games), etc. I just love everything about the franchise, although there's a few of the newer releases (video games, film/animation, etc.) which I haven't seen yet, so I can't comment on them. But I'm sure I'll enjoy them when I get around to them. Have you ever played .Hack//Fragment for the PlayStation 2? It was an online MMORPG back at the time, but it's officially offline now (their servers are no longer up because they chose to take them down, unfortunately). There's still fan servers around that are active, apparently. I haven't got on them yet, seems complicated (anyone who tries should definitely just use an emulator, I'd imagine), but apparently it's possible and some players do exist. Anyways, even if you play .Hack//Fragment online or offline, you can make your own character, and play in the same 3D world from the //IMOQ PlayStation 2 video games (where you play Kite's story, which chronologically takes place in the overall .Hack timeline after the events of .Hack//Sign). It's really fun. I have a full playthrough (a longplay) video on my channel of me playing through the video game. I made my character Tsukasa. Even though Tsukasa briefly appears in the game's story itself. xD It's still a character that can be made. My understanding is that on the character creation screen of //Fragment, you can create any of the //Sign characters for the most part. Except Helba, I believe. But, a player can create Bear and play as him, or Tsukasa as I did, even Subaru, BT, Crim, and I'm pretty certain Sora's player character model as well. For that reason, and just the fact it's an awesome video game from the .Hack franchise, even when playing it offline; I really enjoyed playing through it. And my favorite part about the //IMOQ games (which //Fragment is literally the same 3D world as, they just built a different game in that same 3D world from //IMOQ to make //Fragment, I didn't notice much different but there may be some minor differences/new additions of sorts) is the fact that you can play in full first-person mode, instead of playing as third person (you can switch between each, which is awesome if you ask me). I generally play //IMOQ and //Fragment in complete first person mode, even though I'm not using a VR headset. But, I hear that VR headsets can be made to function with a well known PS2 emulator for Windows PC computers. So, one day, when I have the funds to invest in it, I'd really like to try to get a decent VR headset to function with a PS2 emulator, and play //IMOQ games and even //Fragment with it to see how it works... Imagine, playing .Hack games with a VR headset on. That makes things even funner. xD Just an idea I want to get to one of these days, unfortunately I don't think I'll get to it anytime soon. /: I'll stop babbling now. As you can see I like dotHack so much, I could probably talk about it for days... I may as well start a fan website, or something. xDDD Anyways, I think I'm going to go rewatch .Hack//Sign now that I think of it, it's been awhile (months) since I've done that. And I just finished rewatching The Big O, so this works perfectly.
@@Xbuster6 Didn't expect the long reply, I was like "whoa, this guy's passionate about it!", but I'm glad to see that ya love it so much because I agree 100%. I rebought a ps2 maybe a year or 2 ago and paid like 100bucks I think for the Elusive Dot hack Mutation(I had the others) because I played them with my bro, but didn't have the chance to finish them and G.U. games came out on ps4, so I wanted to replay/rewatch things in order again. I've read about Fragment a few times, but I was years too late to even have a chance at playing it unfortunately, but I hadn't thought about checking out private servers for it. Thanks for all the information on it XD, and using VR for the immersion sounds really cool! If there were more fans of the game then I'm sure someone could create a few dot hack worlds for VRs. I've read there are a few for VRchat, but we need an all out game! Unfortunately I think it's too old in the "Video Game Anime" genre for people to consider now.
First time I saw this show was summer break, in middle school. August, essentially. Off a pirate website. I marathon'd the whole damn thing in many consecutive late nights. To say I was 'hooked' or 'binge watching' doesn't really begin to describe it.
Dam i was young when i watched this. I found this on a disc before we had internet. And as a kid i never knew defaq was goign on haha. Tiwm to finally watch it
9:28-9:55 hahaha there's no way I would've caught the double meaning of this as a kid when this aired. But now as an adult it's less of a joke and more something I relate with lmao
Sometimes this show was too deep for my 12 year old mind to understand. Kinda like a mix of Evangelion + The Matrix - giant mecha fighting = .hack idk correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks for uploading.
I was only 7 maybe 9 years old and I tried my best to stay up late at night after eating mom's best dinner only to fall asleep and boy did I tried so hard to watch up until 12 to 2 am in the morning. I could never keep up as much as I could. But now I have access to streams and ebay to watch or collect the series.
YES!! Holy crap! Thank you for posting this I have been jonesing to rewatch this but it’s not on any of the streaming services I have. Much obliged. I know what I’m doing tonight
I put this on to go to sleep, remember watching it on adult swim. And then the OP ends and I see the Anime Supreme logo spin on, encoded by [MA]Debito, a named burned into my brain from spending so long figuring out how to request anime episodes from bots in the Anime Supreme mIRC room. Just a flood of 2003 middle school memories flowing back into my brain. Might have been the first and probably only place I was ever cyber bullied. So sick that this is still up, on YT. I'm sure my old burnt anime CDs are long gone.
Watching this for the first time and the songs that play throughout sound a lot like NieR Automata's carnival theme, is there a genre for this kind of music? It's beautiful
@@Whothefookisthisguy Fair enough. I saw it on television when I was like 9-13 years old. Some time back around then. Multiple times. But I never really paid it much of any attention except once I recall falling asleep or laying in bed staring at the tv screen while the ninth episode was playing. It never registered to me that I'd like it. Back when, I didn't watch much anime. But more recently, I tried it out. I thought I wouldn't like it at all. I ended up enjoying it a lot. If you'd like to know what I specifically enjoy about it - It's what it is (simply study/ or watch it, to figure out why I like it). By "it's what it is", any anime, or book, etc. is a story. I like an anime for its story. If it has a good story, in my opinion, then I enjoy it. From there, it depends how good the story is. .Hack//Sign, like any anime, sure, if I was the writer, I'd of done some things differently. But overall, I loved how it plays out. Very emotional, deep, grabbing, touching, etc. It gives off 'the feels' in every way. Not just that, awesome old school "retro" MMORPG days / anime days. What's not to love? Great old school early 2000s anime, well, it's not like it was that long ago. I just call it that because it looks so great. xD But yeah. The story. That's the main reason. I even played .Hack//Fragment, a PlayStation 2 game. My channel has an almost 12 hour longplay of that game from start to finish and it's all in Japanese text. In that game, the player can play as any characters from the .Hack//Sign anime series, so I decided to make my character as Tsukasa from //Sign. Just listing that as an example. I loved this anime that much, that after watching it, played through the entire PlayStation 2 game. The game isn't the same story as //Sign, but takes place in 'The World' MMORPG. I'm not an expert on it and when I played it earlier this year, it was all in Japanese. Again, that playthrough, and many other .Hack gaming videos can be found on my channel. : ) Hope this helps explain why I love it so much. I tried watching Sword Art Online, which people compare to this, I guess because they both relate to MMO games... But... I didn't enjoy any of SAO. .Hack is definitely where it's at. And we also have so many other great .Hack releases, such as .Hack//Roots, //Quantum, etc. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend watching it. c:
Anyone know of a good site to get DVD for this and other shows like Zoids and others ? It been a long time and I really would like to watch with my Grandaughter. .And maybe a place that would list shows ok for age .
I'm always bothered by mimiru and tsukasa's interaction at 13:35. Tsukasa panicked and tried to run off, then mimiru yells at him to calm down and shoves him back where he was. Then Tsukasa understandably lashes out and yells at her to leave him alone. Then mimiru goes into an apeshit lecture at him. But we're supposed to see tsukasa as the bad guy in this scene?
I love this anime but can somebody please explain to me why these people always trying to govern the people that play the game even though they're not the ones who created it
