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By Ishaan . December 10, 2011 . 2:00pm

.hack//The Movie has a new trailer, and Anime News Network came across it on Japanese website, Cinema Today. The movie takes place in 2024, in a world connected by networks.

 

 

.hack//The Movie is directed by CyberConnect 2 president, Hiroshi Matsuyama. It’s slated for release on January 21st, 2012 in Japan.
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  • http://twitter.com/Linka13 Linka

    I really like how this movie is looking! I love the style used for animating/rendering it and I’m interested in seeing how it will all play out. :)

  • Solomon_Kano

    I’m loving the animation! I really can’t wait to see what else comes out of the .hack//3rd Season Project. *crosses fingers for new games and/or HD remasters*

    • solbalmung

      Ikr, Cyber Connect CEO hinted at a big announcent about the hack franchise later this month in Famitsu, hope its about new HD games >_< !!!

      • Solomon_Kano

        I’d probably do a backflip if that’s Famitsu’s reveal. That’s honestly the only thing that could possibly make me more happy than today’s MGS: Rising news.

        • Gatchaman1

          Aren’t you scared you’d land on your head?

          • Solomon_Kano

            Hm… you’re right. That idea’s not so appealing anymore. Front flip?

  • aoihana

    I’ve actually never seen the series, but this looks pretty amazing. I’m wondering though, can I just jump in the series, for example, starting with this movie? Well, I guess it’s best I start from the beginning! (◕‿◕✿)

    By the way, Sora looks so sweet and cute! (*≧▽≦)

    • http://twitter.com/Laith_Rem Laith Rem

      Considering this is the last part of the series… yeah, I don’t think so.

      • aoihana

        Ah ~ I didn’t know that. Thanks of the heads up! (◕‿◕✿)

        • http://www.youtube.com/user/EnvyMizuhashi Garyuu

          Considering this is still a .hack// movie, chances are you can still enjoy it. Like most spin-off series, they don’t really affect the continuity of the real story.

          • aoihana

            That’s actually what I meant by jumping in the series. If it’s really a spin-off, and it’s not connected to the real story, then I’d like to start with this movie. (◕‿◕✿)

    • http://www.facebook.com/keishenra Kyle D. Johnson

      Mmm, it’s really expansive, but I’d try to start from the first series of games. There are a good number of instances that are references to things that happened somewhere else in the timeline (Things like the events of the A.I. Buster novel leading into the first series, or Midori being such an inconceivably powerful player in the G.U. story arc from A.I. Buster 2, and why.)

      I think if .Hack//LINK were to ever be localized, That’d be a good source to understand a great deal of the connections between the large number of characters and events.

      • aoihana

        Ah ~ thanks a lot for the info, I’ll look into that. (◕‿◕✿)

  • http://thrust-the-sky.deviantart.com/ WildArms

    want more gamez

    • Pesmerga00

      me too

  • http://twitter.com/Laith_Rem Laith Rem

    The animation looks like a better version of the FMV of G.U which I like. And it seems like something-that-resembles-Aura is there too.

    Man I hope Bamco retracts their, this is the last .hack// product when they see the money coming in.

  • Kirbysuperstar2

    Oh, they haven’t finished crapping on the .hack series yet? Christ.

  • http://www.facebook.com/VirusChris Christopher Nunes

    Looks amazing so far! Also dothackers(dot)net had a message stated a PS3 .hack game along with the movie… most likely a PS3 .hack game.

    Anyway I feel like the series ended too soon and want it to continue on especially on the Next-Gen consoles, though I’m not a graphics fan, would look amazing and another great RPG series to the PS3/360, but at the same time I rather they not milk it too much.

    It’s hard to come up with new materials after everything they’ve done so far. I like to know what happen to Tokio after .hack//LINK, though not many people like him I for one love him as he’s really fun and interesting, since Tokio wanted to play “The World:RX” deeply.

    I really like a new .hack game where you actually the Hero, picking your gender, name, appearance, and class and different scenarios open up depending on your character’s gender (since relationships tend to happen between the Hero and Heroine

    *Possible Spoilers if you don’t know the character’s relationships*

    (Kite/BlackRose(sort of), Haseo/Atoli, Tokio/Saika/AIKA))

    *End of Spoilers*

    That would be an awesome .hack game! Sadly the character can’t say your name and maybe a somewhat generic appearance unless it’s unique to the player, but it would be an amazing experience where you get your own powers and such like the Protagonist in the series.

  • riceisnice

    Was she playing The World on a smartphone?

    • http://twitter.com/Laith_Rem Laith Rem

      Yes, the new The World is now played in Smartphones. Dothackers had an article that explained why.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Caronia/100001408827015 Ian Caronia

    WOW! Hey, Dreamworks? I’ve got a film I want you to see…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aaron-Cameron/100001055122940 Aaron Cameron

    wow a new movie after they said .hack was done so there hope for new games

  • Watahashi

    I’m getting a massive Girl Who Leapt Through Time vibe. Loving .hack and Tokikake as much as I do, I’m sooo looking forward to this.

    • SalomeHarras

      The Girl who Lept Through Time was a great movie, so that isn’t necessarily a bad feeling to have.

  • Crimson_Cloud

    Not digging the style. Childish 3D anime wannabe look isn’t for me. Then again, it’s much better then the style used in Link opening. Shame it’s the last thing we are gonna see from .hack// series. :/

    • J Beagle

      It reminds me a bit of Appleseed XIII.

  • evilmoogle

    AW sh**!
    Balmung telling kite “ilove you” … sensing massive yaoi fangirls screaming.
     

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/EnvyMizuhashi Garyuu

      I don’t see how yaoi fangirls are gonna squeal to two look-a-likes.

      • http://twitter.com/Laith_Rem Laith Rem

        You are underestimating Yaoi Fangirls.

        • http://www.youtube.com/user/EnvyMizuhashi Garyuu

          I underestimated fangirls, and then I took an arrow to the knee.

          • http://twitter.com/PafuPafu7 Kevin Lor

            Need a dislike button

      • J Beagle

        They will anyway, even if the one ‘Balmung’ is confessing to is a girl in RL.

        • theworldofnoboundries

          YAOI Fanboy power 100000000%

      • Gatchaman1

        Yaoi fangirls could make George BushXDick Cheney seem romantic and sexy in their eyes

        • RupanIII

          I lol’d. Then thought of rule 34 and became terrified.

  • http://twitter.com/Megawarrior345 Elle

    This reminds me. I have yet to finish the original dot hack on PS2. I need part 4.

    • http://www.facebook.com/shawn.dickenson1 Shawn SomethingOtaku Dickenson

      same her part 4 is rare

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/EnvyMizuhashi Garyuu

    Animation is breathtakingly good, yes. Doesn’t mean I approve of the look-a-likes. :/

  • J Beagle

    A movie’s nice and all (hoping it’s better than the trilogy*) but why can’t they make a game to get back to the original themes and save the franchise? Since no one knows when (or if) there’s going to be a Persona 5, Final Fantasy gets a lot of criticism lately and Disgaea might run out of steam there’s got to be something to rescue Japanese RPGs.

    On another note, they really couldn’t come up with new character design? Really, using the original ones is the best they could do? A female protagonist is cool in my opinion (now I just have to force them to let us play as Harvest Clerics) but the main characters are really the exact same as three important characters from the first series? Also is the music thing something normal in Japan? You’d think cities losing power, friends going into comas and climactic attacks would have something a bit more energetic.

    *Which admittedly had one great fight scene but as a whole felt very underwhelming**.
    ** I have never heard anyone use ‘whelm’ in a sentence.

    • theworldofnoboundries

      Well ur complain about the new character is the same with my complain about why Agumon is still spammed alll over the series rather than giving us new digimon.

      And want to knows what the irony both this and digimon series is all closely related to Bamco.

      • J Beagle

        Based on my limited knowledge of Digimon I thought the main character’s Digimon changed each series. Admittedly they’re usually a fire breathing dinosaur but at least they don’t look identical.

        • theworldofnoboundries

          Well the last two digimon games has agumon as the main char partner while for the anime agumon has shown up two times as the main char partner so i said it is most likely cause of laziness or just the same case as Pikachu for Pokemon

    • Solomon_Kano

      No one knows if there’s going to be a P5? Atlus already said they’re working on it, though it’ll be awhile before we hear anything. Part of Catherine’s purpose was to acclimate the Persona team to current-gen development.

      As for whelm, I’ve only heard it used in a cartoon lol. EDIT: Oh wait! My physics teacher said it once too.

      • J Beagle

        I had not heard that. I had assumed that by now (some time after P4) they would have already had the project going.

        At last! Someone else uses whelm! It’s one of many great words that should see more usage.

        • Solomon_Kano

          I’ve really been meaning to weave it into my vocabulary lol.

          But yea, I recall them saying that they’ve started work but it’s going to be quiet for a bit. I’d imagine that’s part of the reason they’re throwing P4 everywhere now.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aunna-Terrell/100001267508146 Aunna Terrell

        lol, Young Justice ftw. :P

        • Solomon_Kano

          Yesss :)

  • eliel

    the trailer looks interesting :D anybody else hoping that the .hack//link will come to the us(at least psn download only)…

    • Solomon_Kano

      I was, but I heard it wasn’t very good from some people who imported.

      • http://www.facebook.com/snelkin Sarah Louise Nelkin

        Yup. I played it. I have it. It’s not that fun. It’s really repetitive, the graphics are pretty cardboardy, and the story is basically just one big review of the entire series. The battle system is like playing monkey in the middle…
        …They were pretty lazy in many places of the game. It’s great for the voices and some extras, but other than that…

        • Solomon_Kano

          Oh? Well there it is. Further support for why I don’t care about it anymore.

      • Gatchaman1

        it was also fan translated

  • Chris Hansen

    Did they really…retcon Kite into being a girl? Really?

    • http://twitter.com/Linka13 Linka

      They didn’t retcon. This is just a future version of Kite that people saw essentially a teaser of in .hack//LINK, I believe.

      .hack//INFECTION (the first game) and this movie are separated by 14 years in-universe.

      • Mr_SP

        Yeah, this is a new character using Kite’s character model. Like Shugo from Legend of the Twilight Bracelet.

        • http://www.facebook.com/keishenra Kyle D. Johnson

          Or Sakuya from Quantum, as well.

  • Champ W

    Is it just me or that The World has been cursed with misfortunes ever since the day it came out?  :P

    There’s got to always be something that makes people end up being comatose!

  • http://twitter.com/PafuPafu7 Kevin Lor

    I dont dig the human world 3D graphics too much. I kinda wish they would make new characters and I think I can tell how the story is gonna end up just by watching this trailer.

  • Kitestwinblades

    Sigh* I’m almost starting to forget what Kite looks like. Infact I’m gonna change my avatar back to the original.

    I really wish they would just make the first 4 games into a anime. The story was fresh, and they practically already made something with G.U.(although it was mostly cutscenes). Its time for the original to come back XD

    Didn’t they say this would release with some unannounced game?

    • Solomon_Kano

      Yea. It’s going to be one of those hybrid deals and there’s going to be game on-disc with it, I believe.

      • Kitestwinblades

        Excellent! xD 
        I’ll have my fingers crossed for the oldest games although G.U. is cool too.

        • Solomon_Kano

          I would love for them to remake any (or all!) of those, but I’m kinda expecting a new game. It’d make more sense for the remakes to be done separately as a collection.

          Then again, they never did specify what kind of game (new, remake) the movie would be coming with.

  • http://twitter.com/DanijoEX DanijoEX

    Visuals look really good. Hope it has good potential.

  • SalomeHarras

    I think the way they used CG here works quite nicely with .hack, if anything, this movie is visually appealing.

    That being said, I’m not sure if we really need more .hack at this point.  I personally thought Quantum was a great way to end things (from an animation pov), and ironically enough, it did that by rejecting a lot of the principles that Sign established (which would become the basis for the majority of .hack animation, with some exceptions [Tasogare]).  .hack’s story, in my eyes, is basically done, and to re-tell this story (with the same avatar no less) isn’t necessarily a good sign for maintaining the integrity of the series.  

    I would love to be pleasantly surprised, and I did get a good impression from this trailer, but I think it’s time to move on and try to establish a new IP in its place.

  • http://www.facebook.com/shawn.dickenson1 Shawn SomethingOtaku Dickenson

    so for the movie they made Kite a girl… .. why eh,,,, anyway the CG is wow

  • Learii

    i wish i can watch  <3

  • http://www.facebook.com/snelkin Sarah Louise Nelkin

    It’s like CyberConnect has no ideas for original
    characters anymore. Where’s the BlackRose remake? She’s gotta be
    somewhere!

    But I have to say, it’s funny to see Balmung confessing his love to Kite… XDDD (Although I’m a BalmungxBlackrose fan myself)

    …I still say that the lead’s voice is TERRIBLE. They really should
    have gotten a voice actress, and not a regular actress. She’s not
    trained for this kind of work, she she sounds really bad.

    I’m disappointed by the animation choice… It looks very old. Although
    fluid, it’s colors/shapes are very old, and I don’t know how to describe
    it…

    • http://orangtunes.blogspot.com BIG MAC

      I agree with the actress. When she was talking it felt like I was watching some cheesy J-drama. I’m also not to fond of the animation. I wasn’t so sure how to describe it either, but old came to mind too. It looks like it could the opening to a PS2 game when the PS2 was still in its younger days. 

  • amagidyne

    That guy with the bicycle looks like the P4 protagonist’s non-union Mexican equivalent.

    • haqua

      you are my favorite person
      I seriously was thinking that and acting as if Souji just stole Yosuke’s bike.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/HAEBCODVH3BGFIHE47BKNDXD2I Jonathan

    huh, well this reminds me of the anime. What with the girl playing (sorta) as a boy.

    although this one doesn’t look like it’ll have a surprise yuri ending lol

    • amagidyne

      That scene was beautiful. In the immortal words of Guitar Wolf, “Love has no borders, nationalities, or genders!”.

  • haqua

    >Me: (lacking audio for the computer) “Kite! He’s real adorable, although he looks feminine. He still looked like a guy in the original games. Well, still…”
    >This Kite is a girl

    Quit being a fuckass, world.
    Also, /not a yaoi fangirl
    Feels good.

  • http://twitter.com/RizduanS RizduanS.

    has it ever even occured to those yaoi fans that balmung already knew kite was a girl in the movie? and eventhough we all knew kite as a boy, it really is interesting to see how the story goes with this.

    From the way i see it, “Kite” is just a character you use in game, so the person controlling it can either be a boy or a girl, it doesnt mean that the original game shows kite as a boy, it has to be like that all the way.

    For all we know, this movie could be wayyyyy after the original kite has played the game.

    • J Beagle

      Based on the description it’s set in the year 2024. The original .Hack games were set in 2010. I think it’s safe to say that this is not the movie adaptation of the first .Hack games, not unless they’ve decided to change just about everything.

  • http://amc9988.deviantart.com/ amc99

    If only they made a movie based on the .hack//cell novel… I want to see that Midori animated…

  • Mister_Nep

    I’m hoping this gets a Blu-ray release with English subtitles. I would not hesitate to import it if they did.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aunna-Terrell/100001267508146 Aunna Terrell

    Yay~ My birthday!

    lol, anyways… I’m FAR behind in the .hack series. XD But I’ll check out reviews/etc when the movie’s out to see if I’m really interested in it. Even tho people mentioned the girl’s voice being kinda weird to ‘em.. Tanaka’s (Megane-kun) voice just doesn’t really sit well with me either. XD

  • Gatchaman1

    Why didnt they just make this CGI for a PS3 game

  • Okuni-chan

    I want to be excited about this I really, really do… Just a wee bit hard to get over Kite being a girl >_<. It's probably due to my first impression of Kite in the .Hack games… but I just always saw him as a guy. Also kinda hoping there might be a new .Hack game. Doubt it but I can dream D:

  • MarkMario

    Me Gusta.
    Except for the fact that Kite is a girl, but I’ll deal with it.

  • AzureNova

    Dot Hack has always been epic, and there’s no doubt in my mind that this won’t be either. =^_^=

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alexander-Groce/100000039461956 Alexander Groce

    Wow.. this looks amazing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/JoseNelsonMayenMiranda Jose Nelson Mayen Miranda

    This is great and I can’t wait to see it as I am a huge .hack fan….

     BUT WHERE THE HELL IS MY .HACK LINK LOCALIZATION!!!!!!!!!!

  • shuratan

    KOKIA and Sakuraba Nanami <3~

  • Loran Cehack

    When can we play MMO RPG’s like this? Damn! Screw my life! I wish i was born 100 years later!

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