.hack// Another Birth Volume 3
Akira once again enters the online game- The World in order to save her younger brother, who has lapsed into a coma. With the virus infection now spreading to protected areas, she joins forces with Kite to unravel the mystery of the Epitaph of the Twilight and the Cursed Wave. But the two of them couldn’t battle it out alone! Should they make a deal with Balmung? And should Akira reveal the secret of her brother’s condition?
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".
u guys said it. dot hack kicks so much ass! anyway, i can't wait to read this one either. u see, i only had enough to buy the 1st 2 books, but then i was so hooked, that i read them all in one overnighter! now i really want to know what happens next.....
JOSHGONYEA
11.19.2007 11:03 AM