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.hack// Another Birth Volume 1

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PAGES: 240

ISBN: 1-59816-447-3

EAN: 978-1-59816-447-3

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.hack// Another Birth Volume 1

.hack// Another Birth Volume 1

In order for Akira to save her younger brother, who suddenly lost consciousness in the middle of playing in The World, she enters The World as the swords-woman BlackRose. There BlackRose squares off against the double-knife fighter, Kite. Written from BlackRose's perspective, this adaptation of the popular franchise is the first installation of yet another hit .hack novel series.

Welcome to The World, the most advanced online game ever created. In The World you can be anyone you want to be, act out your adventure fantasies and through teamwork and determination, you can even become a hero!

AI buster, the prequel to .hack//SIGN, is the story of Albireo,a debugger, who used to play 'Fragments,' the beta version of 'The World.'

Albireo encounters Lycoris, whom he assumes is an event NPC (an AI character) but she's actually a failed version of Aura. She is blind, deaf, and mute, because Albireo debugged her and broke up important files. The missing files are hidden as items in the World, and when returned to Lycoris, she gets a function back. When she gains them all, she changes into a teenage form with purple hair who looks like Aura. Because of his acquaintance with Lycoris, Albireo cannot log out of the game and exit the World ...

Writer Tatsuya Hamazaki is the writer of several Gundam manga, as well as the author of several One Piece novelizations.

English Version By: Stormcrow Hayes

Albireo
A debugger and the main character. He is also Watarai and the Captain.

Balmung
Balmung a legendary player that is known all over the World. The wings were part of a mod he obtained during .hack//AI BUSTER. He was one of two players that destroyed the One Sin, during the "One Sin avent".

Lycoris
She is deaf, blind, and mute.

Orca
Orca: Like Balmung, Orca is a lengendary player. In the video game series, he is Kite's classmate that convinces him to play, "The World".

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I loved this book :) can't wait to read the rest of them :) :D

KITTYKATMOON

05.04.2008 08:38 AM

Ahhhh blackrose! i loved her in the games ahhhhh really awesome looking

MANGALUVER72893

03.22.2008 08:35 AM

These novels are amazing! They follow along with the games, but from Black Rose's perspective instead of Kite's. Whether or not you have the time or money to follow the games, these are great(and have a neat tie into the manga!). Oh, and xxKamixx, each volume corresponds with a game, so they sort of have the same plot, but with different details and emphasis because of the viewpoint and lapses into the real world.

RYORIN

03.17.2008 01:39 PM

wow the .hack searse its confusing -.- is this .hack the same or different ???

XXKAMIXX

09.24.2007 08:22 PM

. hack rules...

AUSTINCALVERT

07.21.2007 10:15 AM

This Series is awesome. You finally get to find out what life is like in the "real world" in these novels set in the original four games' storyline. I know you get to see a little bit from the Liminality OAV, but with Black Rose--Akira, it's on a more day to day basis and you follow her story from the first time she logs onto the "world"!

WHITECHERRY

07.17.2007 06:44 PM