12 Minutes of .hack//The Movie Streamed

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Namco Bandai Games is streaming a 12 minute video covering the beginning of .hack//The Movie (.hack//Sekai no Mukou ni) which was theatrically released on the 21st of January.

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Synopsis

The story takes place in 2024 in a world connected by computer networks. A 14 year old girl named Sora Yūki has no interest in games accepts an invitation from her friends Kakeru and Tomohiko to go into a popular network game called “The World.” However, after an accident in the game, reality starts to suffer anomalies and strange events.

Produced by CyberConnect2, the director is Hiroshi Matsuyama who is the president of CyberConnect2 and has written and directed different entries in the .hack// franchise. The character design comes from the legendary Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion, FLCL, Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water) and the screenplay comes from Kazunori Ito (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor: The Movie. Kokia (Gunslinger Girlo: Il Teatrino opening) is credited with the theme song. Sora is voiced by Nanami Sakuraba (Natsuki in Summer Wars), Kakeru by Toori Matsuzaka and Tomohiko by Kei Tanaka.

<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2012-02-14/hack/the-movie-cg-anime-1st-12-minutes-streamed">Source</a>
 
I will never understand why people want to watch things like this, or the "first 30 minutes of Mass Effect 3" video I saw advertised on Eurogamer, for example.
 
Warner Bros. Japan are doing this for so many anime movies and movie adaptations of manga... not that it makes much difference because Berserk and Wild 7 aren't/didn't perform all that well in the charts.

How will the forthcoming Kenshin movie do?
 
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