.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 .hack series installment and new television anime series produced by MAPPA x IG Production x A-1 Pictures which was licensed by Aniplex who associated with the production with CyberConnect 2 as the main creative production for the ambitious anime project which compared to every other anime.

The story continues focus on Tokio Kuryuu following the event of .hack//ReCODE: The Infinity God of the World- and now facing total unexpected twist that leads his real tragedy begin.

Development
Following the release of .hack//ReCODE -The Infinity World of the God- and .hack//RE: ReMISSION Code: Truth which was critically acclaimed successful with more than 4 Millions sales copies, they planned to created another two games to complete the final season saga of .hack series to finish Aura Saga, however, due to the budgets problems which is impossible to make two game at the same time.

As the discussion has coming through, they made decision to make one game instead, however, they also decide to making another one of the title which lead up rebranding The War of the Twilight into an anime series project as they using their half of it’s budget to create a big anime project as it is also to give developers more time for developing the game.

The War of the Twilight is a new anime project which in accordance from directors and producer that it is an ambitious, deeper, mature, darker, and highest stakes story compared to any stories anime from past titles of .hack. And the series would reaching it’s turning point where all mysterious surrounding plots and lores in the universe will coming together as a whole, although not all could solve that as it was intentionally to save it for the another titles of the game series.

But the most opportunity during anime development as according to directors, producers and storywriter as how they be able to bring back all RE: Project Saga characters into one anime series, and how they would meet up in a chance something fans might not expecting it, but actually needed, while how they would trying to ties all things together through as how to bring face offs and perspectives between Tokio, Schwarz, Saika, AIKA and other characters, how they continue where it left off from previous title series.

As now this story would also bringing the conflict between two of those characters, Tokio and Akira which set up something that never expected before as it continues to tell the stories they want to tell, which is the most challenging part for story writer and screenplay to balance those in order to make a perfect timing and perfect work to bring all those together, while it took a lot times to crack the puzzles.

According to the animation team, including director and producer, the animation is on stable, organized and really in proper production schedule. They intent to make visualize the anime characters design more general & complex emotions, expressions, movements, actions, and much more, while combining the great performance from it’s seiyuu voice actor brought the anime into unique and cinematic like Attack of Titan-esque, while also want viewers also experience something on god action or hand to hand combat, or fantasy combat, but sometimes since this anime had an bigger action, so viewers would expecting lot of actions, tensions, stakes, risk and unexpected direction that would catch fans and viewers interest.

The producer and anime writer mentioned that the first season would be “Calm before the Storm”, while looking back on how three seasons and RE: Project Saga is starting to open directly and established connection together. They were aiming to combines between story narratives, character driven and crossover, although it is something beyond everything that they could imagine. The story begins in second season which where the war is finally starting all together.

History & Settings
Two years ago…

The Second IMMORTAL DUSK and The Final Network Crisis was written as the “Worst History of all mankind” in accordance toward the human race, and it is also the mark of the end of reign corruption that beneath in CC Corp. The World is now currently enter the Restoration Age with economics, social, community, politics, online network, internet, traffics and much all issues around the world which were damaged by that event has now been cleared.

CC Corp is now currently on restructuring by removing all former allegiance and employers who had a connections with those organization and eco-terrorism which was lifted by Veronica Bain whose also the CEO President and founder of CyberConnect Corporation, and removing her along with her alliance could bring restoration to the company from the damage that she has done. While merging the companies with ALTIMIT Corporation thus restructured companies leads toward rebranding which called as CyberConnect 2 Corporation or in short as CC2 Corp which is part of an act as a redemption for the crimes that companies had committed to the all players around the world. Which promising for better security and better system, also the restoration of the MMORPG, The World into a new shape.

As it was explained that the previous version, The World: Force Era has been shut down following the events, and the reboot was been initiated in progress following the rebranding companies name. Although the pros and cons came together following that incident and worried whether network crisis would happen again, and CC2 Corp is now progressing to restoring and majorly improve the system in order to avoid the same events to happen.

As a new version of The World was going to be a long-awaited anticipation from many fans around the world, it was revealed to be announced on CC New Era Expo 2028 in Fukuoka, Japan at June 20, 2028.

While NAB is currently catch a remnants of hackers who poses a threat to The World as due their involvement with former organization, MAMA. With the two worlds is headed for restoration, the international council government began to opinion about pros and cons whether another network crisis would take a place that still left them in doubtful with the restoration. Now due to hackers now in hiding plain and sight, continue doing an illegal activities even after the Final Network Crisis could bring possibly for another crisis to the network. The worst is how they had to handle the three ranked SSS+ Cyber Terrorism Criminal that are now currently active even before and after the final network crisis took place.

In according to the report, two SSS+ Cyber Terrorism Criminal are The Watch Dogs, the group of hackers which they’ve been starting their active operation since 2024 A.D. and the shadow hackers, Black CoDE whose now remain anonymous following the events of Black Morse Incident several months ago. And Another one SSS+ Cyber Terrorism Criminal, the legendary PKK and hackers, Schwarz is shockingly inactive two and half year ago and no sign of his movement ever since.

In the statement from NAB Director, Relena Northstein that even though MAMA has been compromised, a new problems could a set foot in the middle of restoration era and they hunt for hackers are still continues as of today, however, the biggest challenges is three-ranked SSS+ whose now harder to capture and this difficulties arise in the eyes of the public and government regarding the doubts about the restoration age took place, but no one could ever predict their next move unless they need to take an extra measures to secure the restoration process and address this situation.

The people from communities, players from the world, society and government has so many conversation and so many discussion, with MAMA been compromised with the death of Veronica Bain, Eleanor, Emma Wielant and Dominique de Mirabeau, there are still many missing pieces beyond the mystery of The World and it seems all these connection start coming together which how connected to it’s past event. But Schwarz and Octa Asgrodia, along with Matsunaiga Family has still more secrets that left the world in the dark…

Synopsis
MAMA…

The radical organization who said to be responsible for the every length of the previous events to happen such as Network Crisis, Immortal Dusk, Bloody Christmas and The key behind Aura’s birth existence in solely for committing the operation for real digitalize the humanity on earth…

In hope… to reduce a global waring and pausing the human’s activity from earth… but now their actions failed… every options, every choices and every paths are failed to commence… causing the fall of their organization… the fall of MAMA.

With MAMA has fall, thus the corruptions within CC Corp also fall into that matters, thus two worlds began to reshaping itself, coming with an age of restoration and CC Corp began for total restructured and rebranding it’s name as CyberConnect 2 Corporation as part of an act as redemption and free-will from MAMA’s reign.

However, hackers are still hiding in the shadow, and the secrets that was kept by Emma, Bain, Harald and Aura are still remain unknown. More secret are beyond it’s reach that even for NAB, CC2 Corp and hackers are knew nothing and that secrets would never come to the light and stay hidden in beneath of the shadow society…

Even now… until the chaos is coming…

Original Side

 * Lead Side
 * 9 – Tokio Kuryuu
 * Pro-Players
 * Noise – Saika Amagi
 * AIKA – Aika Amagi
 * Zenon – Yusuke Matsunari
 * Gondo – Tanaka Kakeru
 * Kite – Sora Yuuki
 * Sakuya – Aida Masumi
 * Hermit – Touha Tanagami
 * Tobias – Iori Ikuta
 * Mary – Eri Etou
 * Kite – Kazumi Ito
 * Shino – Shino Nanao
 * AINA – Aina Indou
 * BlackRose – Akira Hayami
 * Tsukasa – An Shoji
 * Licht – Alexander Bourodox
 * More…
 * AI/Artificial Intelligence
 * Aura
 * NAB
 * Haseo – Ryou Misaki
 * Carl – Junka Nimura
 * Relena Northstein
 * Balmung
 * Corona Sapphire
 * Yoshimura Sanada
 * Naoki Hanjimura
 * ALGOS
 * Loid – Alexander Christopher
 * Shiva Emilia
 * Kyushu – Shino Ninomiya
 * Hanz
 * Juzo Shirogane
 * Horishima Noguchi
 * Ednoct Edgerton
 * Former Schicksal
 * Fluegel – Ryuji Sogabe
 * Metronome – Nomura Kaname
 * Klarinette – Koharu Nene
 * Posaune – Yoda Maseo
 * Trommel – Toramaru Shin
 * Orgel – Ninomiya Takeshi
 * CC2 Corp/ CyberConnect 2 Corporation
 * King of Piros – Hiroshi Matsuyama
 * Kuhn – Tomonari Kasumi
 * Takiyoda Kuroda
 * Helos-Pierce – Luis Hoerwick
 * Matsumoto Shioda
 * Han Kurongi
 * Shin Kazuma
 * Seiichiro Kudokawa
 * Netslum
 * Lios – Kouji Tsuchiya
 * Zelkova
 * Kaede
 * Yata – Takumi Hino
 * Hackers
 * Balder – Okano Tomohiko
 * Genome – Reiko Saeki
 * Layla “Miller” Frost
 * Genius – Durga Fiida Sharma
 * Toki-Runty
 * Civilian
 * Jyotaro Amagi
 * Ryoko Amagi/Koshizumi
 * Junichiro Takaoka
 * Hiroto Niizoto/Shopkeeper
 * Miyuki Kuryuu
 * Mr. Kuryuu
 * Mrs. Kuryuu
 * Tachiro Sugai
 * Kyon Atsuga
 * Gemomaki Junya
 * More…

Subject of Doubleware

 * Lead Side
 * Schwarz - Akihiko Hozuki/Akira Kuryuu
 * Watch Dogs
 * Mereleona – Emilia de Mirabeau
 * Kruger – Hiroshi Nagatori
 * Sol – Souma Shigemura
 * Neil – Chiko Nomura
 * Nishijima81 – Nishiki Kyojima
 * Allen – Sohei Nihei
 * Alibaba – Mio Shinomura
 * Miki-Seven – Alyssia Siesta Silva
 * Gray Fox – Hiroyuki Nakita
 * Legion Unity - The Main Guild
 * HanShi – Kazama Matsunaiga
 * Zeron
 * Falco
 * Kuroda
 * Albert
 * Gon
 * Yaoti
 * Taro
 * Missy-White
 * Legion Unity – Blue Moon Guild
 * Terattion (Leader)
 * Esteria
 * Tsukichi
 * Shinoya
 * Aoi
 * Legion Unity – Raven Guild
 * Natsume (Leader)
 * Zero
 * Vanissa
 * Soel
 * Dio
 * Alliance
 * Jingweon
 * Lionel Green
 * Helos- Makoto Shoumura
 * Jorou Hitoshima
 * Jack – Jack Frost

Matsunaiga Family

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

Former-Exterminator's Survivor

 * Saburou – Yasuo Nagi
 * John77 – Sato Funijima
 * Lorenzo – Loreiz Zofie
 * Hyokawa1 – Nagisa Kurigaya
 * Elexa – Emi Kitagawa

Former-RE: Project Staff Developers

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

MAMA's Survivor

 * Vannesa Cali
 * Leon Vestige
 * Noct Oarsmen
 * Noel Gunnitch

Others

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

The First Season
Synopsis:

Alexander Christopher, the current President CEO of ALGOS Corporation Company recruiting Tokio Kuryuu, AIKA, and a newcomers, Yasuke Matsunari in purpose for commencing their secret operation known as Operation Frontier Investigation in order to locate any remaining secrets that were hidden by MAMA and their remnants which were hiding from the face of the world. The only leads to it’s mystery are in the Quest Live event, Glorious of the Night Treasures.

Episode List:


 * 1) Yasuke
 * 2) Immortal Dusk
 * 3) Briefing
 * 4) Deliberate Past
 * 5) Commence Operation
 * 6) Re: Glorious of the Night Treasures
 * 7) Matters of the Kind
 * 8) MAMA’s Hidden Files Folder
 * 9) Eyes of the Unseen World
 * 10) Terror
 * 11) RISING
 * 12) Tokio Kuryuu

Second Season
Synopsis:

CC New Era Expo 2028 has finally begin, all fans, pro-players and including the legendary players from previous revision of The World version, all celebrity, and all governments are gathered from around the world, ready to witness the next announcement of the new shape era of the most popular MMORPG, The WORLD, but their participants are the most rare written in history as the first largest people invited for the new era expo. And one of that reason because the head of Matsunaiga Family, Junji Matsunaiga would be hosting the announcement while bringing the speech for celebration of two years following the end of the Network Crisis.

Meanwhile, Tokio and his friend, along with his old partner, Saika Amagi came to the event, but something wasn’t even right to begin with, as the speech, atmosphere, and government who were come to the new era expo causing tremendous ill feelings. Meanwhile, Jyotaro Amagi returned to his shop and once again met with his old acquaintance, the person he knew very well indeed.

Episode List


 * 1) Saika Amagi
 * 2) Intertwined of Fate
 * 3) CC New Era Expo 2028
 * 4) Recall of the Haunting Past
 * 5) Bloody Crisis Begin
 * 6) The Eyes of the Sinister Death
 * 7) Anger and Pain
 * 8) Tragedy

Third Season
Synopsis:

All worlds had witnessed the atrocious and tragic event following the massacre happens in Fukuoka, Tokyo. All Governments around the world began to discussed on commencing the war against Yunari Island and eliminating Schwarz’s true identity, Akira Kuryuu who revealed to be a mastermind behind the attack, while every peoples of society now mourned, heating up and in trauma following the tragic events has brought their loves ones into it’s death very cruelty.

However, things got much worst in Yunari Island, Akira Kuryuu sentences for the rest of his life in prison for his action killing over 3.000 peoples during CC New Era Expo, as well his action brought their islands in the flame of war, as his action is same as how Saika did as Schwarz back then.

On Tokio side is now in trouble with the news that Helos-Pierce is a traitor to the world as he too was kidnapped by Watch Dogs, they ready to prepare for invading Yunari Island to save Saika, AIKA, and Yasuke by gathering all pro-players and former schicksal with Alexander Christopher as a leader. And Saika currently on the same sentences in Jail with AIKA, feeling depressed, sadness and confused over his action that leads for her brother’s death.

One day, the pink short-haired girl came to free them in exchange for touring them on the island under her watch.

And what happens after that… The World is now much further into a chaos…

Episode List


 * 1) Past of Summer
 * 2) Feuds
 * 3) Escorting
 * 4) Intel Briefing
 * 5) Fluegel
 * 6) World's Measures Line
 * 7) Infiltration
 * 8) Meanings to be Seek
 * 9) Cruelty beyond Twilight
 * 10) For Whose
 * 11) Purpose of Living
 * 12) Heaven vs Hell

Fourth Season
Synopsis:

The Great Battle as according to Helos-Pierce described it as “The War of the Twilight” begin…

Bloody battle has started between Twins of Kuryuu, Akira and Tokio along side with all Hackers, Former Schicksal, and Pro-players, against The Rebels of the Knights is now fight for out blood and fighting is not something they could stop it, it was impossible for them to stop.

Meanwhile, Saika and Mereleona finally be able to escape from Akira, while Yasuke and AIKA are still in the prison along with the prisoners and are able to escape thanks to Klarinette. The only things is now is for Alexander to commence his plan to take back the Trinity Keys of the System.

For Helos-Piece plans however, comes in unexpected show to them, and right now the plans are starting clashing down.

The two side of the same coins will now fight in the chest play by Helos-Pierce.

Episode List


 * 1) The War of the Twilight
 * 2) Solid Plan
 * 3) Counterattack
 * 4) Turning Point
 * 5) Depression
 * 6) Inevitable Truth
 * 7) Unbearable Choice
 * 8) The Point of no Return
 * 9) After Battle
 * 10) Briefing
 * 11) Ignorance
 * 12) What Was Worth to Fight
 * 13) Promise and Truth

Final Season
Synopsis:

Akira now finally obtained all Trinity Keys and Chrono Link core, with Helos-Pierce they were headed to the Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground in order to find the door that leads to the Yggdrasil which is the place where Harald Hoerwick’s used to go.

The realms between all connection source of the network system outside spec of everything and source of the stream network connection, where true god, Yggdrasil was hiding beyond the center of the web to fulfilled their last goal.

Meanwhile…

The two sides, the hackers and Watch Dogs had finally put aside their feuds and making decision working together to stop Akira for commencing the Infinite Creator System and as it was heard by Miller, he will used it to destroy the whole world which means the real world is in great risk of the danger.

Watch Dogs begin to revert their group name as they once used for the old time sake as Chrono Guild and began cooperating together as alliance group with Tokio and his friend in order to avoid something that is even total disaster and utter chaos than the final network crisis.

But the problem arise with Saika is now disappeared and revealed that she went to where Akira is and decide to move fast headed to them before it’s too late.

Episode List


 * 1) One standing cooperation
 * 2) Time’s ticking
 * 3) Full Battlefield
 * 4) One standing point
 * 5) To See Smile Once More
 * 6) One Last Agony,,,
 * 7) For Whose to be
 * 8) Brothers
 * 9) The God of all World Network
 * 10) Siege of Memories
 * 11) Salvation and Destruction
 * 12) The New God
 * 13) The End of the World
 * 14) The Fall
 * 15) 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- "Judgement"

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 was considered as the 1st Part of the Final Season of .hack project as it which conclude the story of Aura and Twilight Saga, while War of the Twilight and Final Twilight was not meant to be a series finale.
 * All previous season project of .hack series title, including RE: Project Saga will also finally connected to each other throughout story development.
 * The WORLD Force Era has stopped it’s operational following the event of .hack//ReCODE -The Infinity God of the World-.
 * For the first time that Tokio Kuryuu would be a main protagonist in the anime series, while being third time having that roles since .hack//Link and .hack//Link 2, although it is also the first time for Saika Amagi to become a main protagonist in this anime series on Subject Doubleware sides.
 * According to the directors, The War of the Twilight would be three-times darker and horror than RISING GEAR and ReMISSION Code: Truth, while balancing the tone of gray story development within the anime storyline.
 * Hiroshi Matsuyama, the behind players of all Piros’s version as an CEO of CyberConnect 2 Corporation is also referenced in the real-life of Hiroshi Matsuyama who also as an CEO President of CyberConnect 2 which is the developers studio production of all .hack franchise.

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