Did you guys have a particular series or manga that always stuck with you? For me it's always been .hack//Sign...

I think young me just acknowledged it and dropped it by the next episode honestly. It wouldn't have occurred to me that Tsukasa was a girl.

A few episodes after that he finds some more proof that Tsukasa was the comatose girl, though I don't remember the specifics. I think it has to do with her dad going kind of nuts and trying to pull the plug even though she wasn't brain dead or anything like that. She continues to deny it and the others just drop the issue around her though.

I think it's cool that Bear adopted Tsukasa after the series.

>Did you guys have a particular series or manga that always stuck with you?
Beet the Vandel Buster if we're talking about a childhood series. Own all the english volumes and keep up with the japanese raws but it's a story I can't walk away from. It is THE definition of generic shonen but I like the setting and the RPG-like nature of the powers. The designs are likewise very nice.

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I was thinking about this while thinking of rewatching it. It came out right around the time of a few other MMO isekais but took a completely different approach that was a lot more serious and thoughtful.

I've never heard of that but I like that you're really into it! What happens in it?

I listen to bits of the soundtrack at least once a month, and I have done this for a bit over 10 years now.

I really fucking love The World.

Man, I loved .hack's original aesthetic. It felt so mysterious. I'd love a game that were to expand upon it.

Shame GU went full anime designwise.

IN BLINDING LIGHT YOU ARE SIIIINGIIIIIIING A GLORIOUS HAAALLELUUUUAAAAAAH

Story is that the world has been terrorized by creatures known as Vandels for centuries. Vandels are basically demon lords that raise their own armies and use them to wreak destruction and death on humans. To combat this humanity developed Gates which are sentient constructs that can shield a town/village from monsters. And they also developed the divine arts which is a form of magic broken up into 5 elements (Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, Light) of which warriors known as Vandel Busters can learn them to help the fight against monsters. Vandels themselves also have the Dark arts which have comparable elements except replace light with Darkness. They also use the earth as their medium while humans use the air. Humans can use more than one although the more melee oriented busters favor a single element and a weapon of their choice. There are some people who specialize in fighting only with multiple elements Lastly, when a human reaches sufficient mastery over their divine element they manifest a weapon known as a Saiga which is a living embodiment of their power. Usually taking the form similar to the preferred weapon of the user and having special abilities in addition to an elemental effect.

Story is about a kid named Beet who is off to become the greatest Vandel Buster out there in the wake of his older Brother's Zenon's disappearance. Zenon was the leader of one of the most famous vandel buster groups known as the Zenon Warriors who all disappeared and were presumed dead after an encounter with a rising star vandel known as Beltorze.

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It was all still there for GU, but they just slapped a bunch of steampunk bullshit on top. Honestly the best thing about GU is remembering that the main character is the edgelord grade schooler who PK's women then asks for their member addresses from Sign

I rewatched .hack//SIGN recently and I finally understood the whole thing.
When I was a kid I watched it on TV and was just mesmerized by it, I didn't understand the story but I understood the theme that Tsukasa can't get out of the game because she didn't want to, because her real life is shit so she's using the game as an escape, literally. That's how I used to see the internet and online games, as an escape from the real world, but Tsukasa takes to an extreme while the other characters(other than Tsubasa) just uses is to relax every once in a while.

Of course, rewatching it now I can appreciate the story more but also understand the flaws better, a lot of things set up in the anime was just there so it gets resolved in the game series.

Same. I found the plot too obtuse to follow and staying up late made it hard to catch episodes but it was at a time where anime was weird and exotic to me so I still think about it out of nowhere.

open your heart is a masterpiece

I think my only issue with it was that it felt like the characters took the videogame stuff a biiit too seriously. You could argue that they were just roleplaying hard, and Silver Knight definitely was roleplaying too hard, but sometimes it felt like they were being a bit dramatic over a game, like even outside the actually serious stuff.

Key of the Twilight is still my favorite.

>Beet's still going
Holy shit. But yeah I remember it was fun and the girls were cute.

What went so wrong?

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They addressed that, Silver Knight was definitely roleplaying way too hard, that's what Crim was trying to tell him, he eventually eases up near the end.
Subaru took her duties as leader of the Crimson Knights too seriously too, Crim also tried to warn her about it.
Crim is the chillest, most balanced guy in the story, he didn't even take Tsukasa's issue seriously enough until he realized it really was a case of comatose with her mind inside the game.

The other characters all have issues of their own, BT is a lonely woman looking for companionship, Bear has issues with his son and ex-wife, Mimiru just wasn't sure what relationship she has with Tsukasa and why she's still playing the game. Bear's issue is the most relevant to Tsukasa because in the end he decided he would be a foster parent and take full responsibility instead of just half-assing helping her.

>Kajiura will never make music this good ever again
;_;

Oh I know, I meant narratively Silver Knight was deliberately written as roleplaying too hard

>I remember staying up late to watch it on Adult Swim when I was younger.
I remember downloading the subbed episodes as they were released.

The biggest mistake it ever made as a franchise was probably that time they tried to make an actual MMO. I have no idea what they're doing these days, and frankly the series is only on my mind now since I was finally playing through that GU bundle on steam that was on sale a while back.
The only other anime of it that I've seen other than sign was a couple episodes of Legend of the Twighlight and I can't even remember when or where I saw it, but that felt like a giant step down.
I think it just tried a little too hard to be a big franchise

Watch Quantum, it's a short OVA with references to the games and GU. It has HanaKana.

I remember when I found out about Legends of the Twilight. I thought "Oh cool, an adaptation of .hack? Gimme that shit" and went out and bought all 3 volumes.

Only to learn it was some comedy harem story for the most part taking place after .hack. I wasn't too amused.

God I wish someone would pick up translating the series in english since it looks like Viz has no intrest in ever publishing more volumes

I think I remember the Twilight manga being significantly different from the anime.

Bio boosted Armor: Guyver, was always my gateway drug. I never could unscratch the itch it embedded in me, regardless of its repetitive nature.

.hack//SIGN was great. People shit on it for being slow but I loved that it had a lot of time to just let the mood settle. And the OST is still one of Kajiura's best works to this day.

Manga: Fruits Basket - I still have the original Tokyopop releases.
Anime: Hamtaro - I remember rushing to get home after school for the new episodes. Now when I watch it I find it really relaxing. The games are pretty fun too, particularly Ham-Ham Heartbreak.

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Aura's theme is up there too.

Back when CR was first starting out.
I only watched it see if the midget got together with his crush.

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Definitely the first anime that hooked me back then. Kajiura's OST was definitely godlike enough to capture my interest very well even if the anime was pretty boring. Even so it was the reason why I got into anime in first place.

Too bad the franchise is fucking dead after the failure of 2 mobage. Now we have fucking nothing but SAO.

SDF Macross.
In particular, the scene when the Zents bombard earth and the soldier tries to shield the little girl has stuck with me since I saw it first in middleschool or maybe 6th grade.

(Really I guess it's Robotech...but not much was really changed about the SDFM portion)

gotta be full metal alchemist and steins gate. If I had never got around to those anime first, I probably would have not gotten into it at all

This anime definitely has the OST of the decade. EVERY song is incredible on it.

Yeah, I really identified a lot with the main character as a kid with no social life and serious escapist urges. I can't describe the way I felt when they finally left the game and met someone from it in real life and were happy.

The show felt so exotic and weird to me too, it was maybe the first time I encountered something that made no effort to be "familiar" and instead told its own story.

I loved the fact that it was so dialog heavy to be honest. It felt like all the characters were real people roleplaying as these virtual avatars and figuring each other out.

Hamtaro was my SHIT when I was a kid, user.

I only got into Macross/Robotech for the gamecube game and it looks like the series itself was pretty much dead afterwards. It's really unfortunate because I loved the mecha design.

I'm kind of jealous of people whose first series got to be FMA:B or S;G.

What about those whose first were Evangelion and Lain?

Equally or more so, obviously.

Why so? Also to add onto I also have a big soft spot for yu yu hakusho

I hate when I mention .Hack//sign as an rpg isekai trend setter some idiot invariably comes around and says "No. Sword Art online was already published by the time .hack was airing."

Well fuck you. Magic knight rayearth came out before sword at online and the whole joke of the first season was that the world was based in rpg rules so eat a nut.

No one would get into anime if the first one they watched was Lain
NGE would be extremely boring for a non-weeb and they would be annoyed by Shinji and the middle-school level existentialism also they would probably get pissed because of Asuka’s behavior

Umineko when they cry

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