.hack//Link -Shade-

'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 -Shade- is a new television anime series which produced by A-1 Pictures x WIT Studio, licensed by NETFLIX Production and Streaming Service who associated with the production along with main creative production by CyberConnect2 and Bandai Namco Entertainment, the anime will be boldly, but not big ambitious as The War of the Twilight, but has an unique phenomenally something bolder and phenomenon which combines between Anime and Cinema direction and also given new depth story of Akira Kuryuu or as Schwarz.

The story continues after Ending E and following the Assassination New World Order International Organization Mission for three years, and the Shade anime series will be a newly full experience told the story of his point-of-view and how those this connected of his action during .hack//Link 2, .hack//ReCODE -The Infinity God of the World- and later on .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- and Final Twilight. According to the director and creative story writer, it will also explore a lot of new side on Akira which was never even seen or never even shown in three of those game and Shade anime given the chance for fans to experience a new direction of the story and the twist as it progress, promises that it will completely sense of how it would lead up to this.

Fans are very recommended to watch .hack//Link -RISING- and .hack//Link -ChaosWort- in order to experience the story of Shade, it's also recommended to watch .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- and play .hack//Link -The Final Twilight- because the anime story contains a lot spoilers of it, but fans can watch it without experience two titles if you can ignoring the context. A lot of easter eggs from CODE: 81311 and secret reference will be shown.

Development
.hack//Link -Shades- is already in production following the Final Twilight releases and as a promise to all fans demands following .hack//Link -ChaosWort- releases, the developers is very enthusiast to explore a new side of the "Real" Akira Kuryuu in this new anime, while they also planning to incorporated several elements that match to his story, character and personality, but also expected their interest to combine between anime and cinema direction or something unique through of it within realism and fiction aside. But that aside it's still anime in a little deep down to it. In animation process as there will be a big action and anything, they also wanting to focus how to explore the expression, deep three-dimensional character development, point-of-view and character study, which deep down making something unique for anime is something that can combine between generic and unique things, that aside unexpected direction is what focus to this series.

Hand to hand combat animation is something they also want to focus in the Real World, he might be powerful god-like in the online game, but in the real world, he's just a man whose really invincible with having all experience of fighting skills, harsher situation, violence, and more since he long been in the battlefield and mission he take for three years has worth for him. They want to do something in a martial arts and hand to hand combat animation in fluids way and human ways, while those skills is brutal and so they also want to depicted the brutality on his hand to hand combat through the animation, it might be too much for them to animate it, even to watch it, but their experience brings something fresh and new that doesn't need too much budget for bigger action.

In the online world however, the animation will be somehow needs to be superior and bigger than how they draw hand to hand combat, they want something else more like blast and explosion, but sword fight, hand to hand combat, gun shooting and more is also important, while the athletic style and timing dodge attack is a challenging one of how they could animated those scene, since Akira could dodge or even deflect any kinds of weapon and guns in the right timings, because it shows how not just brutal he is, but how badass he is, when it comes to kill the s*it out of them.

The story will goes on mature approached and for those who had played all trilogies of CHRONO RiSING from childhood, including ChaosWort might understand twist growth of his character. Mature storyline might there's possibility that it contains Blood & Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, and Sexual Content because due to how his side of the stories and the way of living is opposite to Tokio Kuryuu, as how Akira lives in Violence, Underground, and Organized Crime World, for additional notes he's the most wanted criminal and Ranked-SSS+ Criminal & Hacker, which is the most thing that is his story depicted in darker tones and atmosphere. And so the themes concept is much "defy" every concept of .hack franchise, but that doesn't mean it losing spirit of it, but instead it reimagining those in more darker way.

By reintroducing hackers, PKK, Underground Guild, Dark Webs, Hoax, Rumors, and Cheater, also the dark depths of human minds, that also lives on in The WORLD online game, that same goes in Force Era and which gives a dark atmosphere and twist in the world of ,hack that goes actually it was in reality. Exploring the dark atmosphere within not just in online game, but in all network social, internet, corruptions, conspiracy and more that gives a new side of the franchise in contrast to the light fantasy atmosphere, and Dark Fantasy is also happened in depth lore and some occasional that can happened during action or the other way around in unexpected plot twist, while also introducing Horror which brings the story of his journey in more horror and haunted, also visual can also shift into something that really terrifying, but mature story approached is how it tackle those things together, also LGBTQ+ is also possibility to be shown in the anime, but Akira is not LGBTQ+, but for Tokio, maybe. It's a gray area, where neither light vs dark could be a thing

As for one genre, romance will goes a lot different way given insight how Saika Amagi is his love interest, it started in rocky or in rough way in their first met, but progressing on and on is something how it lead to the War of the Twilight story between Saika and Akira in romantic sexual way, but another meaning is how it purposely to re-learn about his lost of humanity and the promise that he had keep, also nostalgia about his memories with her in Akashic World and his story also how to redeveloped those relationship and love with her that he hadn't do for a long time since, which also to rebuild his humanity inside of him, but expect the turning point and plot twist in later season which how it makes War of the Twilight story and his action behind become more meaningful and sadder, but Akira's love for Saika is how it progressed his story development and that become his part of the story since RISING GEAR, but the love is how that become his weakness in some occasional. Lot unexpected scene can happen as the episode progressing through, including possibility sex scenes and content could happen between them in dramatically way.

The first season will start at the setting prior to .hack//Link 2 but later episode can go through during the event, fans will explore behind the scene of the events that focuses on Akira doing a mission, along with a lot plot-twist and several things that never even explored in the game only appeared in this game, which players can views his point-of-view toward the event and how this connected to things each other, that lot of side of the story that never even told in those game event. Although, Akira didn't actually appeared in .hack//Re:CODE -The Infinity World of the God-, however, as directors says that he did appeared, but not involved and the second season will covered what he's doing during that event as well, and it's very original story that features returning characters and new one will appeared. For the third and fourth will told a bridge a gap between The Infinity World of the God and The War of the Twilight, and it's story is a lot important to developed his character, how he spending his time in normal life with Saika and his relationship with her has given him to relearn who he used to be, his humanity, and realization of the consequences that he had causes, it's something important to relieve and bring back what he used to be and the memories and promise to her that he had lost, come into his realization and questioning about his regret in the past in Akashic World.

While fifth season giving an emotional and heartwarming return of Chrono Guild character like Kruger, Alibaba, Neil and Sol, but one characters that had major change is Miki-Seven since their separated following RISING GEAR, how she become lot different from her Akashic version counterpart and how she changed so much and views Akira as her big brother and the second things to note that in the first half we would see a lot new things about family, which something that he couldn't experienced it again comes how he realize their still place he can go back home. But the second half is how it all started, and the turning point, plot twist, and everything will change it's direction completely and how leads to the War of the Twilight, which we know one truth can changes everything that goes for Akira and this major twist character development of him is a greatest turn development of all, that comes from his despair and extreme sadness, it's more heated up and conflict could happen between them and Miki if he tell the truth, that changes a thing.

And now with Sixth and Seventh Season is the most phenomenal change toward his character, and this become game changer to his development. As how in the side of the War of the Twilight, it shows how he really was and his display of expression, emotions, and anything is anger and emptiness, much based on how Eren Yeager was, however, Shade anime is keep those shoes, while given more to explore his side of point-of-view toward the event as he lied for fighting for vengeance and hatred that he wants to destroy the world, but the truth his heart, soul, emotion, expression, and everything that he felt tired and hurting to begin with, while he still shown an extreme sadness in different expression it shows, but feeling that he has option he could find, he felt despair, and how his context, focuses, and more things could delve a better understand behind his action.

According to the story writer, Because he's made his choice that cost everything on his friend and his love ones, he fight for it so he could truly find a meaning of his life and existence of his born, the reason of why he was deserve to be alive, but only found in sense of pointless and nothingness. He's not doing for vengeance, but rather to put an end where everything he started and put at end not just humanity, but himself as well, because how he think that Saika shouldn't sacrifice herself to revive him to begin with, and felt extremely guilty because he's the one who took away all of her happiness and her chance to make things right, still blaming himself for everything he had done up until this point and all meaning the crime he had committed just to protect her, he's keep moving forward and proceed his original goal not vengeance but in order to set things right as redemption (in twisted way), to find a place where he had no regret to die, because he should from the start. For the conclusion, he's the man who wants finish what he start ever since his childhood and searching for meaning to die.

Story writer just sadly that they can show more story about Akira's time in his travelling to the world, due to the pacing development and episodes that which could only shown in three-episode, however, they could tell more during the episodes or in a seasons as a flashback and how it gives meaningful toward his focus in the episode, while it's also possible to show it more in OVA series.

Story
"Have you ever heard the legendary hacker and PKK, Schwarz? Those rumors are all over the places, but not just that, the whole world know those too. They said that he travelled over the world and just killed some sh*t out of it, he can even hack all the masterclass of security that ordinary hacker couldn't, he can even infiltrated through all of highest peak system security without being seen. You might thought he's some kind clowns and prankster behind a mask that could do invisibility, but he's not something you can underestimate with, better off you can make fun of him, not even FBI, CIA, Military Force, Special Unit, or Mercenary or even NAB able to kill him. Once you met him, fight him, the last things you can hope, is death..."

Akira Kuryuu or he now call himself as Schwarz become a known legend for his most committed crime for murdering few members of government, celebrity, majority civilian, military captain, patriots, and minor as those who were a member and leader of New World Order that became his target during Assassination New World Order International Organization Mission. And now he's return to the Tokyo, Japan for his relieves, but one things that still can be undone, the conflict still continues to pissing him off, and he forced to go back in action in lot annoyed ways.

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