[General Discussion] Anime and Manga Recommendations

I may as well try and offer one of my favorites up.. Please sirs, don't flog me.




.Hack//SIGN

Type: Anime
Number of episodes: I count 27
Genre: A dash of comedy and action with a heaping amount of mystery.
Setting: Fantasy


Almost the entirety of .hack//SIGN takes place within a game otherwise known as "The World" Which happens to be a hit MMORPG, or Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.

The anime follows the interactions between the characters Bear, Mimiru, BT, Sora, Crim, Silver Knight, Subaru and most importantly, Tsukasa within this game. For the most part, the story focuses around Tsukasa.. Y'see.. he has a little bit of a problem: He can't log out of the game for some reason.. Additionally various strange things tend to happen around him, things that would be deemed impossible by anyone else in the game world...

pictures: sorry folks, no pictures for you.

My Opinion: Personally I think this series is a work of art. The musical score from the opening theme to background music throughout the episode fits in very well. The character animations were pretty average, but I loved the art. So many different scenes and all of them done extremely well in my opinion.

The storyline is both confusing and enthralling at the same time... sometimes It jumps a little bit outside of the game dealing with some aspects of the character user's life and is never truly straightforward, meaning you have to pay attention to glean any sort of information on the user's back story. other times the story focuses on Tsukasa's dilemmas and how the other characters tie in to them.

The story picks up it's steam, but it picks it up slowly. Don't come into this expecting a lot of action, this anime is more based around mystery than it is action.

Pros:

-The story is enthralling, at least it was to me. You never truly know everything about a character or user and what you do find out you had to really pay attention in order to learn.

-It takes place in an MMORPG, that in and of itself was amusing to me.

Cons:

-Others will complain that the storyline is to slow and even more will complain that it lacks action.

Rating: 7/10

Jam it back in, in the dark.