.hack//The Movie

[Ore-sama]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-08-23/hack/the-movie-to-open-in-3d-in-january

.hack//The Movie 3D Anime to Open in January

Latest animated project from game developer CyberConnect2

The videogame developer CyberConnect2 opened a website to announce that the 3D animated .hack//The Movie will open in Japanese theaters next January. A promotional movie is streaming on the film's website.

The story is set in 2024, when children have lived their entire lives since birth in a world connected by networks. A cheerful 14-year-old middle school girl named Sora Yūki (Summer Wars' Nanami Sakuraba) has no interest in games, but her friends get her to go into the popular network game "The World." However, due to "a certain incident" in The World, anomalies start occurring in the real world.

The film is directed by Hiroshi Matsuyama, a franchise alumni who worked on .hack//G.U. Returner, .hack//G.U. Trilogy, .hack//Liminality, .hack//Quantum, and .hack//Roots. Kazunori Ito, writer of previous .hack works, is writing the script for the feature. CyberConnect 2 sai, the animation arm of CyberConnect2, is animating the film. Tōri Matsuzaka will play Sora's classmate Kakeru Tanaka, while Kei Tanaka will play Sora's childhood friend Tomohiko Okano.

Beginning in 2002 with .hack//SIGN video game series, the .hack franchise expanded into three television anime series, six original video anime, the .hack//G.U. Trilogy film, and several manga series.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gx1LASCJGg"] Official Trailer[/ame]

CyberConnect2 Website for .hack//The Movie

Official Website

Oh and on a quick note, the "The World" they're referring to is The World ~Force Era~. But then again, from watching the trailer, you would probably already know that.

Sadly though, this movie has been confirmed to conclude the whole .hack franchise. So this will be the last .hack-related media ever.

 

[Orichalcon]

HNNNNG

Tell me this is coming over to US shores.

 

[Kaji Motomiya]

If they get Link over, probably. Kite (Sora) was teased in the Link game, so...

 

[Ore-sama]

Nobody else is replying. Sigh. Guess me, Orichalcon and Kaji Motomiya are possibly either the only .hack fans here or the only ones who are looking forward to this movie.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

You don't wait very long, do you?

I think it looks...interesting. I'm really not a fan of CGI in general, but it looks like could be a decent movie. I still need to catch up on the franchise and watch the previous movie.

 

[Kaji Motomiya]

It reminds me of Kingdom Hearts when it's not game animation. (Like the opening sequence or the end movies before the credits)

 

[Ore-sama]

You don't wait very long, do you?

I think it looks...interesting. I'm really not a fan of CGI in general, but it looks like could be a decent movie. I still need to catch up on the franchise and watch the previous movie.

Er yeah. Sorry. I can be pretty impatient sometimes.

 

[Hidden Masta]

Did it say roadshow? .hack//roadshow?

 

[Winter Chevalier]

Roadshow is what they call the release date of their movies in Japan.

 

[Hidden Masta]

Roadshow is what they call the release date of their movies in Japan.

Oh...I don't think they know what that word means. Any way I'm going to go watch Antique's Movie Premiere.