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NEWS: New .hack//Quantum Game Anime Green-Lit


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Ashen Phoenix



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:52 pm Reply with quote
Magari-Yari wrote:
garfield15 wrote:
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(not the biggest .hack fan in the world here) Is that a gender-flipped Kite?


...Yes, why yes I think that is. Including expys of Blackrose and Balmung too.

Ho boy. Not sure how I feel about that, but I can't help thinking the character designs are super cute.

Anyone know if the character designer for this anime is the same as //Link?
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Covnam



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:13 pm Reply with quote
Always enjoyed .hack (though I still have GU in my backlog Sad) but I do wish they would come up with some new character designs. It's a bit pathetic to see the same character reused so much. At least with the Sign and the first game quartet it might make some sense from a gaming perspective to have pallet swapped characters and all, but at this point I think the gaming industry has moved past that and there really isn't a reason other than laziness or a quick cash-in that they couldn't come up with yet another Blackrose.
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 3:45 am Reply with quote
Dessa wrote:
I was excited when I saw the headline, until I saw that it was based in the LINK "World". Now I'm skeptical, because I've heard nothing but bad things (and I mean bad) about LINK.


.hack games in general don't score very well, but that hasn't stopped me from enjoying every one of them. I'm still anxiously awaiting an English release for Link.

AuraShadow wrote:
As much as I LOVE the .hack series I think this is getting into the realm of the unoriginal and the ridiculous. This is yet another incarnation for Kite and Balmung and the second for Blackrose.


Actually, this would be the fourth "character model" of Blackrose. Allow me to prove my geekiness:

Blackrose x4-
original .hack games, .hack//Twilight (Rena), .hack//Link, .hack//Quantum (Mary)

Kite x7-
original .hack games x2 (pre and post bracelet), .hack//Twilight x2 (Shugo and Kite himself in the manga looking like Azure Kite), .hack//G.U. (Azure Kite), .hack//Link, .hack//Quantum (Sakuya)

Balmung x5-
.hack//AI Buster (pre One Sin/wings), .hack//Sign & games, .hack//G.U. (Azure Balmung), .hack//Link, .hack//Quantum (Tobias)

I don't think I missed any major variations...

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