.hack//The Movie Trailer

[Genkina Hito]

Japanese movie website Cinema Today is streaming a trailer for the upcoming .hack//The Movie (.hack//Sekai no Mukou ni) which will be theatrically released on the 21st of January, 2012.

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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 Matsuyama Hiroshi 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 ater) 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/2011-12-09/hack/the-movie-3d-cg-trailer-streamed">Source</a>

 

[ilmaestro]

They just keep on releasing .hack stuff, and I keep lapping it up... until maybe this one.

 

[Rui]

I am definitely going to stop buying .hack stuff. I have Quantum in my saved basket, but I'm totally not going to buy it! And I'll ignore this too!

*puts fingers in ears and closes eyes*

R

 

[Ryo Chan]

i'll probually buy it XD

or atleast get chaz too

 

[ilmaestro]

I am willing to bet that Rui will buy //Quantum, but safely ignore the movie.

 

[teonzo]

I am definitely going to stop buying .hack stuff. I have Quantum in my saved basket, but I'm totally not going to buy it!

This combined to...

I am willing to bet that Rui will buy //Quantum, but safely ignore the movie.

...this, and adding this:

http://forums.animeuknews.net/viewtopic.php?t=1371&start=7835 (don't know how to highlight one single post)

make for an interesting situation.
I'm getting pop corn and beer and observing how it will evolve.



Teo

 

[Rui]

Hahaha. Darn it.

R

 

[Vashdaman]

Well, the movie looks alright to me and I don't even know what Hack is!

 

[ilmaestro]

lol, teo.

I might even be wrong about Rui avoiding the movie at this rate!

 

[Vashdaman]

Why would Rui avoid the movie? It doesn't look that bad, does it?

 

[ilmaestro]

Because... er... she said so a little further up the page? ^^;

 

[ConanThe3rd]

What gets me is the fact that, because GU did as poorly as it did they're desperate, DESPERATE, to recapture the lightning in the bottle via the Orange Twin-Blade character design.

Unless this is the same Orange Twin-Blade player that appeared in //Quantum, because they actually did play with her not being a good player and getting two Clans so ticked at her by interrupting their big bonus boss battle. You know, stuff that could actually happen in a mumorpuger. I'd be totally OK if this is her origin story.

Also, would it kill them to have something other than a coma be the big deal when something goes wrong in The World (//dusk sort did this but...)?
I mean by this point, we're fictionally some 25 years into The World's existence, you'd think they'd be able to pinpoint the part of the game that sends out the murder music every three and so years and stop it from happening at this point.

That said, this looks a lot like the CG Iron Man cartoon with a bigger budget, looks wise, I wish more things tried that.