Cooro and the others discover the first Yellow Valley Race, a race exclusively for +Anima. Cooro and Senri decide to enter, and while waiting for the race to start, they run into Lyra, a girl whom Cooro knew when he was younger. But when Cooro knew her, she wasn't a +Anima... How can she be one now - and is that the only secret she holds?

It's a manga! It's a novel! It's both! This limited edition introduction to .hack features the first volumes of two popular .hack series: the .hack//Legend of the Twilight manga and the .hack//Another Birth novel.

In a world where the Cold War never ended, East and West continue to battle for technological and political supremacy. Mylene Hoffman, field commander of the elite Zero Zero Organization, exists in this world with her eyes open and her body always ready to do battle. She puts the intelligence into "intelligence agent" and her body into "body of evidence"!

Teito Klein is a top-grade military academy student with unsurpassed skill in the magic of Zaiphon. But when word reaches him that the officials at his school were behind the murder or his father and the fall of his birth kingdom, he flees to find a way to make things right again... and finds help in the most unlikely place: the Church. There may be the answer he needs to learning secrets about himself and the truth behind the legendary protectors of the state: the Seven Ghosts.

His best friend's fate spurs Teito into trying to master the Bascule - a powerful weapon that can harness and focus his innate power. Friends become enemies and rivals become allies as Teito begins to fulfill his destiny, and protect his fallen country from the minions of his former masters.

Krumb is an awkward, scatterbrained widow in her thirties whose teenaged daughter, Rok, has to take care of her more often than not. Meanwhile, Rok's jaded, twenty-something cousin Belle Woo suffers a messy breakup with her boyfriend, Beau Nahn - and ends of having to move in with the mother and daughter. But because Rok dreads the thought of growing up, and Belle is dragging even more adult baggage into the household.

Jay Jin is the headstrong teenage rebel, determined to prove she's serious about making art. J. Max is the tall debonair foreigner, in Korea on business, with more - much more - to his background than he lets on. On the surface, it would seem as though Jay and J. have nothing in common - until a chance encounter in a hotel lobby sparks a mysterious attraction. Will true love prove strong enough to overcome the language barrier, not to mention the thousands of miles separating them?