Old-fashioned role-playing games have experienced a renaissance on the World Wide Web. Twins Rena and Shugo are two middle-school students who enter 'The World' as level one game characters. When Shugo's character dies, he is transported to another level where he is entrusted to bear the Twilight Bracelet by the mysterious Aura. Shugo must find out who Aura is and why she gave him this powerful weapon to protect his sister from the peculiar characters in 'The World'.

Shugo
14-year-old Shugo always assumed RPG's were overly complicated games that someone like him could never understand. When his sister invites him to play the mega-popular MMORPG 'The World,' Shugo is instantly hooked. Inside 'The World,' Shugo plays as the avatar 'Kite,' one of the legendary .hackers. After a rough start, he and his sister find themselves on a quest to save 'The World.' As an adventurer Shugo is impulsive and inexperienced, but he makes up for it with his heart.

Rena
Shugo's twin sister, Rena won the 'avatars' of the legendary .hackers which she and her brother now use inside the MMORPG 'The World.' She plays as 'Black Rose,' and unlike her brother, she picks up on the nuances of online gaming pretty quickly.

Tatsuya Hamazaki is the author of several Gundam manga, as well as the several One Piece novelizations. .hack//LEGEND OF THE TWILIGHT marks his first collaboration with artist Rei Izumi.

Rei Izumi is the artist of .hack//LEGEND OF THE TWILIGHT, currently serialized in Kadokawa's 'Computeek' magazine.