Ok this is my first anime review, so it could
be a bit confusing but i'll try to do my best.
All
the story is about a kid, called Tsukasa, who's
playing a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online RPG). He is cold,
shy person (It's kind of like Shinji but less stupid).
Tsukasa wakes up on a game called "The World"
without any memories, he cannot remember anything, on the first
episode he meets one of his friends called Mimiru,
who will be one of his friends on this anime. He found a special
item, it told him that he'll be his guardian, that he'll protect
him. By this time Tsukasa realized that he couldnt log-out..
Then rumors started to spread out about him, because it seemed
like his existence wasnt on the logs. The World was threatned
by a Hacker, so, the Guards and their leader Subaru
tried to catch him thinking that he might have a connection to
him. Then when they sent a guard to get him, suddenly when Tsukasa
was in danger, a strange shaped thing appears, and stabbed the
guard with soem strange ray that looked like it destroyed the
information (U can see his binary code). Then you see a report
to Subaru-Sama that it said that the guard they sent to get Tsukasa
has fallen into a comma.
The
story is way more interesting than this, with lots of cheerful
characters, and a superb character design (By Yoshiyuki Sadamoto,
character designer from the all known Evangelion anime, and currently
writing its manga). It takes a dark turn on the last episodes,
and it has a strange ending. (Im not telling you what is it, u
gotta watch it :oD )
Its one of that animes you must have. :D It's composed of 26 episodes
of about 24 minutes each. Available for download on Kazaa.
There
are currently 2 more series about .Hack. Its .Hack//Liminality
(4 Ovas, 3 released) and the new .Hack//Legend Of The Twilight
Bracelet (6 Released, 5 Fansubed so far, by AnimeJunkies.