.hack//Link -RISING-

.hack//Link -RISING- is a original video animation which is unlockable footages by transferring the Save Data Clear from .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- and it is considered as the prologue stories to .hack//Link -RIVES- produced by A-1 Pictures.

Set a months after IMMORTAL DUSK Events starring Saika Amagi who were participating in Ultimate Psychological Memories Session as it means wanting to altering or even deleting her memories about the events that she wants to forget or even trying to pretending those happens never really happen to her, however, her memories become a keys how system virtual got backfired and how does it lead up to the CHRONO RiSING Saga.

You can play the original video animation at Title Screen Menu which you can select the Bonus and play it which is an accessible bonuses from Transfer Data from RISING GEAR. Although it can also be available on online streaming service at NETFLIX which will be released 5 days after, which was aimed for those who already finish .hack//Link or .hack//Link -Chrono Gear, but didn't play all CHRONO RiSING Trilogy.

Synopsis
The death of Jyotaro Amagi and AIKA becomes hard traumatic for Saika Amagi, especially how she using Tokio Kuryuu and risking him to go to the top of Akashic Records which caused infecting Aura to start the IMMORTAL DUSK events, and AIKA's Sacrificial was more devastated same as for how his brother dead.

One months after the disastrous events, she transferred into another school and her life seems become hikikomori due to how she had feeling insecured, feeling despair over responsibility and burden that she had caused to Tokio, AIKA, and every players because of that events, even though she's an accomplice to Geist, and feel shame about herself which seems that she blaming herself for all times she had spent, wishing to die, but cannot. She search the internet and saw events registration for Ultimate Psychological Memories Session which was brought by Akashic Incorporation, deciding to participate those sessions in order to hope they can erasing her memories about those events.

After successfully registering, she was brought by the team developers to the uninhabited island known as Yunari Island which is old ancient island which was now being taken charge by Akashic Incorporation in order to participate the session with an Ultimate Virtual-Reality known as Akashic Line featuring the system which called as Soul Augmented Digitalization in order to rehabilitate in a brand-new reality by erasing her memories which means to restarting her life in Akashic Line reality, it need for succession at least a year in order those memories about IMMORTAL DUSK completely erased.

However, somethings wrong, the system suddenly got backfired and resulting error to compressing her soul augmented digitalization into a Akashic Line, causing impacting toward her memories, but one things worst, those system causing backfired that can impacting the SS-RANK classified subjects of Akashic Line causing everything beyond their control. And what's next... everything in those reality, starting reboot and recreating the story that wasn't even exist...

Characters

 * Saika Amagi
 * Tokio Kuryuu
 * AIKA
 * Fluegel
 * Jyotaro Amagi
 * Genius/Durga Fiida Sharman
 * Dr. Octa Asgrodia
 * Dr. Shwarman Hijimura
 * Subject No.0001/ Akira "Tokio" Kuryuu

Trivia

 * The backfired that was happen in Ultimate VR, Akashic Line has brought a major impact not just Saika Amagi, but all classified SS-Rank Subjects which over 10.000 was also got impacted as well. Because of this, Saika Memories had recreated a new realities, new directions and recreating the IMMORTAL DUSK events in a possible different direction, and it also brought an impact to the Subject No.0001 causing her memories had given him a Tokio's persona which was came from her memories with Tokio.
 * As results, the memories of Saika had brought a new and recreated IMMORTAL DUSK Events has starting in Akashic Line VR World, and causing the story got a major different directions, which starts the beginning how it lead up to the Massacre of the Players which become a part of IMMORTAL DUSK Events.