.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-

'ATTENTION: In order to avoid misunderstanding, this article is just my idea, not related to anything but certainly for purpose to let it out the ideas inside my heads, but do not worries as it's still remain unconfirmed about how MAMA's Saga has ended has lead to this, there could be possible revised or removed as the condition goes. But still, Beware that it is just idea purposed, since this titles are not truly means to end the franchise but led to another beginning of it's possible spiritual and reboot sequel.'

.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- is a new television anime series which produced by A-1 Pictures x MAPPA, licensed by NETFLIX Production and Streaming Service who associated with the production along with main creative production by CyberConnect2 and Bandai Namco Entertainment as the anime series will be the big ambitious project than any other anime. The story set two years following .hack//ReCODE -The Infinity God of the World-. While this is also a direct-sequel to .hack//Link -RISING GEAR-.

The story will continues Tokio Kuryuu 's journey in such unexpected direction of the events could happens with him and AIKA, along with new recruitment member, Yasuke Matsunari task to help a new president of ALGOS company, Alexander Christopher to investigating the secret reports that Veronica Bain had left behind following the organization's downfall two years ago which can only be found in the Quest Live Event, Glorious of the Night Treasure.

War of the Twilight anime series is considered as the ambitious anime project produced by two studios along with associated by NETFLIX production and main studios company. According to the producer, the anime could potentially to have more than 3 seasons, and there's an unexpected new development that brings ties to all .hack series altogether in pieces of puzzle.

Another confirmation, that this anime series project will be R-Rated story and it would be the darker stories of all indeed that came to blow your mind and expect major character death for that.

Development
Following the release of .hack//ReCODE -The Infinity World of the God- although they planned to developed for another game due to critically success along with the sells copies, but since making another two game would take more than just a year including the budget, they decide that the game development will be focus on making .hack//Link -The Final Twilight- while in order to keep the plans smoothly, they decide to use those big half budget for the anime instead in order to give more time for developers for the game is ready and finished.

The War of the Twilight is an ambitious, deeper, mature, darker and powerful anime in any .hack series than other anime was, since the story will reached it's turning point and where all the plots, including lores and mysteries coming together from the past since the start. But the most opportunity during the development according to the director and story writer is how they able to bring back CHRONO RiSING Trilogy characters since the RISING GEAR story and how they would meet up in a chance might be something that fans had been waiting for, but he can't do for all of them, but he make sure to impressed the fans in this face-off characters during the story, and promised for something that would surprise them. As now this story will also brings the conflict between Kuryuu's sons, Tokio and Akira will raging on like never before, but they careful to make the story that could surpassed fans expectation, while telling the story they would want to tell as well, which is the most challenging part to balance in order to make it really work, it took a lot times, but they finally crack the puzzle.

According to the animation director and producer, the animation has keep the stable through schedule and they intent to make it visualize the character emotions, expression, movements, actions, and more, with combining with Voice Actors great performance has bring something that feel unique and new to the fans, and while we also focus something that brings everyone surprise on the animation process, they also want to experience something god action or hand to hand combat, but sometimes since this is a bigger action, there's a lot a action and also unexpected direction that catch fans interest through the animation.

The story writer mentioned that first season is the "calm before the storm", while looking back how two and half years ago and also it seems like CHRONO RiSING Trilogy lores has opened and the connection through the story it seems keep stabilizing and right now producer and director is aiming something that combines Story and Crossover, but it might be something like what .hack//Link and even .hack//Link -Chrono Link- & -RISING GEAR- however, this is different than how it was, there's lot unexpected fate might could happen them, would be death or survive, the dice had rolled as the story progressed, and the highest stakes of all that brings lot things coming up together. Now that the second to fourth is something that brought us to the moment of the point and the fifth season will be ultimately plot twist, biggest shock and unexpected will arrive with many questions of everything, but fans will not ready for this cruel outcome.

Settings
Following two years and half year after Infinity God of the World and End of the Network Crisis, which those events is a mark for the fall of MAMA Organization and the end of CyberConnect Corporation's corruptions with leading to the restoration of network online, connections, internet, traffics, and all issues around the world due to those effect. Along with the companies decision to restructured by removing the former allegiance of the corruptions and connection from those organization.

The restructured of the companies leads toward a new names known as CyberConnect 2 Corporation or name as CC2Corp in the act of their redemption for their crimes along with merging companies with ALTIMIT Corporation in promise to deliver the promise qualities, system admin protection, prices and the deliver the best experience for the next version of online game, The WORLD, which currently the previous version, The WORLD: Force Era being shut down due to the big incident two years ago and the decision to closed it's service was deemed to be a best way, along with their plans to developed a new reboot and sequel to the previous version. Fans had waiting for next version of the online game to be released, while another fans just moved forward and leave the game behind following the events which caused a lot pro and cons toward their opinions. Their planning to announce their next version of the game at the June 2028 on CyberConnect New Era Expo at Fukuoka, Japan.

While NAB is currently catch any remnants of the hackers who poses a threat to The World or they had any involvements with the former organization, MAMA. With the two worlds, now head for it's major restoration, the government around the world begin to opinion about the pro and cons also whether another Network Crisis could took a place that still left them in a doubtful place and even though the restoration has happened, it left something to be un-desire by many societies opinion.

Due to the hackers are still remain in hiding plain and sight, doing their illegal activities even after the end of Network Crisis and Immortal Dusk that possibly their plans to bring distortion to the online network once more. However, instead of that become an problems, the two ranked-SSS+ cybercriminal are still on the surface which is still active even following the Network Crisis, the group of terrorist which was known since 2024 A.D. known as The Watch Dogs, and the shadow hackers, Black CoDE who still remain hiding following the events of Black Morse Incident several months ago. But only one ranked-SSS+ cybercriminal, the legendary PKK and hackers, Schwarz is remain inactive ever since two and half years ago,

In the statement from NAB Director, Relena Northstein that even though MAMA organization has been compromised, a new problems could possibly set afoot in the middle of the restoration era, while the focus on catching the hackers is still continues, however the three ranked-SSS+ cybercriminal are very hard to catch, and the difficulties could arise, however, no one could predict any of their next move unless they need to extra careful to address the situation.

Even though the MAMA Organization has been compromised along with the death of Veronica Bain, Eleanor, Emma Wielant, and Dominique de Mirabeau, there are still many questions that are kept in the dark and left unanswered as it seems, every pieces of puzzle still not getting through of is this even connected to how past events came together so far, and Schwarz which is the biggest mystery of all is seems that become a key toward answer, but this however, still left in dark for that moment.

Synopsis
MAMA, the radical organization who responsible for every length of events happens in the previous network crisis and the reason behind the actions Aura's birth existence to using her for committing the operation to Real-Digitalize every humanities on earth in goals to reduced a global warming and pausing the human's activity from earth. But their actions failed in 2020, and the group became divided into two groups.

One group who still want to use Aura for their goals, and another group who wants to using their new creation of gods in order to fulfilled that, however, everything came to their fall as the Hacker finally put at end to their reign and finally put at stop their goals altogether as The World starting to restructured after MAMA's reign and CyberConnect begin their rebranding to become a CyberConnect 2 as the new name companies as part of redemption after being broke free from MAMA's reign.

However, their secrets remain unknown, even though people now had a knowledge about MAMA's secret, but there's still more and more secret that is beyond reach that even people, NAB, CC Corp, and even Hackers know anything what they actually hiding for, something that never actually come to light and are hidden deepest inside of society, even now.

Pro-Players

 * Tokio Kuryuu - 9
 * Saika Amagi - Panzer Saika
 * Aika Amagi - AIKA
 * Yasuke Matsunari - Zenon
 * Tanaka Kakeru - Gondo
 * Sora Yuuki - Kite
 * Aida Asumi - Sakuya
 * Touha Tanagami - Hermit
 * Iori Ikuta - Tobias
 * Eri Etou - Mary
 * Kazumi Ito - Kite
 * Shino Nanao - Shino
 * Aina Indou - AINA
 * Akira Hayami - BlackRose
 * An Shoji - Tsukasa
 * Alexander Bourodox - Licht
 * More...

AI

 * Aura

NAB

 * Ryou Misaki - Haseo
 * Junka Nimura - Carl
 * Relena Northstein (Director)
 * Balmung
 * Corona Sapphire
 * Yoshimura Sanada
 * Naoki Hanjimura

ALGOS

 * Alexander Christopher
 * Yuki Shion
 * Shino Ninomiya - Kyushu
 * Hanz
 * Juzo Shirogane
 * Horishima

Former-Schicksal

 * Ryuji Sogabe - Fluegel
 * Nomura Kaname - Metronome
 * Koharu Nene - Klarinette
 * Yoda Maseo - Posaune
 * Toramaru Shin - Trommel
 * Ninomiya Takeshi - Orgel

CC2 Corp

 * Hiroshi Matsuyama - P-Piros
 * Tomonari Kasumi - Kuhn
 * Takiyoda Kuroda
 * Luis Hoerwick - Helos Pierce
 * Matsumoto Shioda
 * Han Kurongi
 * Shin Kazuma
 * Seiichiro Kudokawa

Netslum

 * Helba
 * Kouji Tsuchiya - Lios
 * Zelkova
 * Takumi Hino - Yata

Hacker

 * Okano Tomohiko - Balder
 * Reiko Saeki - Genome
 * Layla "Miller" Frost
 * Durga Fiida Sharma - Genius
 * Toki-Runty

Online Jack

 * Salvador Aihara - Kazubolo
 * Michiru Tajima

Civilian

 * Jyotaro Amagi
 * Ryoko Amagi/Koshizumi
 * Junichiro Takaoka
 * Hiroto Niizato
 * Miyuki Kuryuu
 * Mr. Kuryuu
 * Mrs. Kuryuu
 * Tachiro Sugai
 * Kyon Atsuga
 * Gemomaki Junya
 * More...

Subject of Doubleware

 * Akihiko Hozuki/Akira Kuryuu - Schwarz

Watch Dogs

 * Emilia de Mirabeau - Mereleona
 * Hiroshi Nagatori - Kruger
 * Souma Shigemura - Sol
 * Chiko Nomura - Neil
 * Nishiki Kyojima - Nishijima81
 * Sohei Nihei - Allen
 * Mio Shinomura - Alibaba
 * Alyssia Siesta Silva - Miki-Seven
 * Hiroyuki Nakita - Gray Fox

Legion Unity - The Main Guild

 * Kazama Matsunaiga - HanShi
 * Zeron
 * Falco
 * Kuroda
 * Albert
 * Gon
 * Yaoti
 * Taro
 * Missy-White

Legion Unity - Red Dead Guild

 * Gunter
 * Faust
 * Ren
 * Kylo
 * Guldar

Legion Unity - Blue Moon Guild

 * Terattion
 * Esteria
 * Tsukichi
 * Shinoya
 * Aoi

Legion Unity - Raven Guild

 * Natsume
 * Zero
 * Vanissa
 * Soel
 * Dio

Alliance

 * Jingweon
 * Lionel Green
 * Makoto Shoumura - Helos
 * Jorou Hitoshima
 * Jack Frost - Jack

Matsunaiga Family

 * Junji Matsunaiga
 * Shiori Matsunaiga
 * Shinra Matsunaiga
 * Hide Matsunaiga
 * Miaya Matsunaiga
 * Akiroda Matsunaiga

Former-Exterminator's Survivor

 * Yasuo Nagi - Saburou
 * Soto Funijima - John77
 * Loreiz Zofie - Lorenzo
 * Nagisa Kurigaya - Hyokawa1
 * Emi Kitagawa - Elexa

Former-Akashic Line Staff Developers

 * Kio Kitagawa
 * Nash Kurigiri
 * Nagi Totei
 * Hiiragi Amagi

MAMA's Survivor

 * Vannese Cali
 * Leon Vestige
 * Nock Oarsmen
 * Noel Gunnitch

Others

 * Yggdrasil - The Ruler of the World System Network
 * Jun Bansyoya
 * Harald Hoerwick
 * David Steinberg
 * Yuuji Shigemura - Davis
 * Shouma Brook - Slayer
 * Emma Wielant
 * Dr. Octa Asgrodia
 * Noriyuki Matsunaiga - Waltz
 * Veronica Bain
 * Eleanor
 * Dominique de Mirabeau
 * Akihiko Kuryuu - Seventy-Seven

Season 1
Synopsis: Alexander Christopher the current CEO of ALGOS Company after being promoted two years after the last incident of Network Crisis, recruiting Tokio Kuryuu, AIKA, and a newcomers, Yasuke Matsunari in the purpose to commencing their secret operation known as Operation Frontier Mission in order to locate any remaining secrets that MAMA and their remnants hiding from the face of the world, and it can only be found in the digital world. All that connection and it's key of the mystery are in the Quest Live Event, Glorious of the Night Treasure.

Episode List


 * 1) Yasuke
 * 2) The After Days
 * 3) Briefing
 * 4) The Deliberate of Past
 * 5) Commencing the Operation
 * 6) Immortal Dusk
 * 7) Re: Glorious of the Night Treasure
 * 8) The Kind of Matters
 * 9) MAMA's Hidden Files
 * 10) Eyes of the Unseen World
 * 11) Terror
 * 12) RISING
 * 13) Tokio Kuryuu

Season 2
Synopsis: The CyberConnect New Era Expo is finally begin, all loyal fans of The World gathered from around the world ready for the next announcement of The WORLD sequel, but surprisingly that all-Pro Players from previous revision of The World all gathered as well, and all government, including celebrity from all world coming together, which this is very rare history, one reason is that the head of Matsunaiga family will be hosting the announcement along with his important long speech regarding the history they've had gone through from the first to last network crisis that were ended two and half years ago.

Tokio and his friend, along with his old partner, Saika Amagi came to the event as well, but strangely that his speech just feels odd and the feelings and atmosphere didn't seems right. The next thing that Jyotaro return to his shop, and once again met with his old acquaintance, the person that he knew very well indeed.

Episode List


 * 1) Saika Amagi
 * 2) The Entwined Fate
 * 3) Shadow behind the Curtain
 * 4) CyberConnect New Era Expo
 * 5) Recall from the Haunting of his past
 * 6) Declaration War
 * 7) The Eyes of the Sinister Death
 * 8) Assault
 * 9) Anger and Pain
 * 10) Tragedy

Season 3
Synopsis: All World has witnessed the horrible and tragedy following the destruction and massacre in Fukuoka, Tokyo, all government begin discussing to attack Yunari Island and eliminated Akira Kuryuu whose the mastermind behind the attack, every societies is now getting heated up and trauma for their loves one died in Fukuoka. But things got even more heated up in Yunari Island, Akira Kuryuu who was sentences for the rest of his life in the prison, now that one of his friend died causing a lot of heated up and feuds between them regarding about Akira's action in Fukuoka for massacre the people, same as how ENTIES or Saika used to, but Akira still doesn't answer anything about his action nor reason behind of it.

On Tokio side along with everyone prepared for invade Yunari Island to save Saika, AIKA and Yasuke with gathering all Pro-Players and Former Schicksal with Alex as a captain, but Akira wait for the right moment for his next move. Now Saika, is on the jail along with AIKA, feeling depressed and confused about Akira's action and saddened for the death of his brother, Jyotaro Amagi, but one day, the pink short hair girl came to free them in exchange to touring them on the island under her watch, what happened now after that... The World is in chaos right now....

During the escort they suddenly once again met with Ryuji Sogabe once more, but does got mixed feelings from Saika of how she thought he already death, but what is he doing in Yunari Island?...

Episode List


 * 1) Past of Summer
 * 2) Feuds
 * 3) Escorting
 * 4) Intel Briefing
 * 5) Fluegel
 * 6) Guiding
 * 7) World Measures Line
 * 8) Infiltration
 * 9) Seek for Meaning
 * 10) Cruelty
 * 11) For Whose
 * 12) Purpose of Living
 * 13) Heaven vs Hell

Season 4
Synopsis: The great battle which Helos-Pierce described it as "The War of the Twilight" has begun. The twins of Kuryuu is starting to fight face to face each other and all hackers and former Schicksal, including Pro-Players join together for the war against them and it's all out battle on it's finest that nothing it could stop. Meanwhile, Saika and Mereleona finally able to escape from Akira, while Yasuke and AIKA along with the prisoners are able to escape thanks to Klarinette. Now, the only things at chance is them fighting against Akira and his rebel, while Alexander come up another plan in order to take back the Trinity keys of System.

But Helos-Pierce plan begins in a very unexpected turns of events, and Alex couldn't even handle but didn't see how much he had planning all of this. Meanwhile, Yuki Shion, the assistant of Alex, or should she call her true name as Shino Ninomiya or as Kyushu came to Hiroyuki, but his injures got a look bad to it.

Episode List


 * 1) The War of the Twilight
 * 2) Judgement
 * 3) Solid Plan
 * 4) Counterattack
 * 5) Turning Point
 * 6) Depression
 * 7) Inevitable Truth
 * 8) Sin
 * 9) Unbearable Choice
 * 10) The Point of no Return

Season 5
Synopsis: Akira now already obtained all the Trinity Keys and The Chrono Link Core, right now he and Helos-Pierce now headed to the Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground in order to find the door to open that leads them to the place where Harald Hoerwick had used to go, the realms between all connection to the network system outside spec of The World, that leads them to the source of it's core of the internet, to where the true god, Yggdrasil was hiding beyond the deepest and darkest web of all in order to fulfilled their last purpose and goal. Now because Akira will reached to the Yggdrasil's place, The two sides, hackers and Watch Dogs needs to put aside of their feuds and decide to work together to stop Akira before he commencing the full control of over the Admin Creator System, that could become a threat not just to society, and networks, but to The World and it's core are now in great danger.

Watch Dogs decide to revert their group name what they once used too for old time sake, Chrono Guild and begin cooperating together with Tokio Kuryuu and his friend to avoid another The Second Network Disaster. But the problem is that Saika is disappeared, revealed that she's now went to where Akira is, and decide to make it move fast before it's too late.

Episode List


 * 1) What was worth to fight
 * 2) Promise
 * 3) Brothers
 * 4) One Stand Point
 * 5) One Last Smile...
 * 6) For Whose to be
 * 7) The God of all World Network
 * 8) Memories
 * 9) Salvation and Destruction
 * 10) The New God
 * 11) The Fall
 * 12) Hate
 * 13) The...End?

OVA

 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- "Bad Stream"
 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- "The Sea of the Network"
 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- "Watch Dogs"
 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- "Reckoning"

.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Blu-Ray BOX 1

 * .hack//Link -Operation Frontier Mission- Episode 1-3
 * Book Visual Art: Character files + World View Setting + Depth Character Info by Designer.
 * Key Visual Illustration by Kikuya Megane.
 * Special Commentaries by VAs and Director regarding about ".hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-" Ep. 1-3 including a hidden special illustration bonuses by Megane Kikuya.

.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Blu-Ray BOX 2

 * .hack//Link -Operation Frontier Mission- Episode 4-7
 * Book Visual Art: Character files + World View Setting + Depth Character Info by Designer.
 * Key Visual Illustration by Kikuya Megane.
 * Special Commentaries by VAs and Director regarding about ".hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-" Ep. 4-7 including a hidden special illustration bonuses by Seiichiro Hosokawa.

.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Blu-Ray BOX 3

 * .hack//Link -Operation Frontier Mission- Episode 8-10
 * Book Visual Art: Character files + World View Setting + Depth Character Info by Designer.
 * Key Visual Illustration by Kikuya Megane.
 * Special Commentaries by VAs and Director regarding about ".hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-" Ep. 8-10 including a hidden special illustration bonuses by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.

.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Blu-Ray BOX 4

 * .hack//Link -Operation Frontier Mission- Episode 11-13
 * Book Visual Art: Character files + World View Setting + Depth Character Info by Designer.
 * Key Visual Illustration by Kikuya Megane.
 * Special Commentaries by VAs and Director regarding about ".hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-" Ep. 11-13 including a hidden special illustration bonuses by EBAC.

Season 2
[Coming Soon!]

Prequel Ties-In Project

 * .hack//Black CoDE
 * .hack//JOKER
 * .hack prequel -PROTOTYPE-

Sequel
See .hack//Link -The Final Twilight-

Trivia

 * The War of the Twilight is considered as the first part of the final chapters and which concluding the story of AURA and the Twilight Saga, however it is not a series finale.
 * The story will connects all previous titles of .hack, including Bullet, Thanatos Report, RIVES, Chrono Link, RISING GEAR.
 * The WORLD Force Era has stop it's operation operations even after the events of .hack//ReCODE -The Infinity War of the God-.
 * For the first time that Tokio Kuryuu will be main protagonist in anime series, while also become a second time for having that roles since .hack//Link. While for the first time that Saika Amagi will also become a main focus in the series as well later in second season.
 * It is promised that The War of the Twilight will be three-times darker than RISING GEAR, while also balancing the gray tone of the story directions.
 * Hiroshi Matsuyama, the behind players of all Piros's version as an CEO of CyberConnect Corporation is referenced to the real-life Hiroshi Matsuyama who became a CEO of CyberConnect 2 the production studios of all .hack franchise.

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