Old-fashioned role-playing games experience a renaissance on the World Wide Web. Twins Rena and Shugo are two middle school students who enter "The World." When Shugo's character dies he is transported to another level, he is entrusted to bear the Twilight Bracelet by the mysterious Aura. Shugo must find out who Aura is and why she gave him this powerful weapon.

Rena and Shugo entered The World with dreams of becoming legends. Those dreams have quickly drifted into the twilight now that they're in prison! As the controversy surrounding Shugo's bracelet shifts into overdrive, will our heroes be deleted... or is it end of The World as we know it?

Welcome to The World, the most advanced online game ever created. In The World you can be anyone you want to be, act out your adventure fantasies and through teamwork and determination, you can even become a hero. Fourteen-year-old twins Shugo and Rena just won a contest that let's them play as legendary .hackers avatars Kite and Black Rose, and now they're ready to take on anything - or so they think...

Three years after the popular video game The World was shut down, Tokio Kuryuu cannot wait for The World R:X to come out. Unfortunately for him, he forgets to reserve a copy and finds himself with no access to the game. That is, until a mysterious new transfer student forces him into the game and makes him her servant!

This bundle contains all 6 volumes of .hack//Roots as well as an artbox, CD soundtrack, video game demo, and t-shirt!

See the events within The World from the protagonist Kite's point of view as he searches for a cure for the comatose Orca. Deviating from the original .hack story, XXXX includes incidents such as Aura defeating Tarvos on her own and Cubia having a human avatar!

As the link between the power of Kite's bracelet and the incidents on- and off-line grow, Kite must decide who - and what - he can really trust in The World. The final showdown with the Phases and the secrets of Aura and her bracelet are revealed in this final volume!

Haseo is obsessed with taking revenge for the loss of his beloved, Shino, who succumbed to the ferocious attack of Tri-Edge, a mysterious player killer. The World R:2, a virtual universe where everybody assumes the role of a game character, is being threatened by a dangerous virus called "A.I.D.A.," causing human players to fall comatose in the real world.

It has been four years since the incident that has come to be known as the Twilight. Many of those who witnessed it no longer come to "The World." It is a different place. A safer place. Shugo and his twin sister Rena are two of the newest players to join "The World." And they've won a very special prize in a contest - they get to use the character likenesses of the legendary Kite and Black Rose.

Shugo and his twin sister Rena are two of the newest players to join "The World." And they've won a very special prize in a contest; they get to use the character likenesses of the legendary Kite and BlackRose. Such a prize is very rare indeed, and it makes them the center of a lot of attention. The pair will encounter friends and allies, but it soon becomes very clear that they are not ordinary players...

Taking elements from what was to be a different game, "the World" is reborn as "The World R:2." However, as millions of players, both new and old flood the servers, they soon discover that this new version isn't as forgiving as its previous incarnation. Being one of these new players, Haseo finds himself not only the target of countless Player Killers, but of two rivaling guilds who hope to use him in pursuit of their own agendas.

Taking elements from what was to be a different game, "the World" is reborn as "The World R:2." However, as millions of players, both new and old flood the servers, they soon discover that this new version isn't as forgiving as its previous incarnation. Being one of these new players, Haseo finds himself not only the target of two rivaling guilds who hope to use him in pursuit of their own agendas. Includes an artbox, CD soundtrack, video game demo, and t-shirt.