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So instead of watching the raw version of .hack//LIMINALITY, I thought it was time for episode 13 of .hack//SIGN last night. And it was easily the best episode so far. Sarcastic Mimiru vs Sora talk, Tsukasa coming to terms with what he really wants, in fact the whole episode was so action-packed (in a story-developing sense). And I so loved the ending sequence with Krim and BT. BT is such a cool character *_* (And who’s that character that appeared right in front of Bear??) What a cliffhanger!
I managed to get a copy of Asuka 8 after all! X is briliant as always. There was nothing else that caught my attention, unfortunately, besides Onodera Akira’s Hayabusa, but that series is being released every 3 months only which makes it quite hard to follow.
Kazumi Yuana’s new series started in this issue. I haven’t read the chapter yet, just flipped through it. It’s called Fukai nemuri no hana and it has that very same weakness that all of Kazumi-sensei’s manga seem to have: It’s the same character scheme/set-up, again and again – two guys, one blond (usually the nice guy), the other with darker hair and a girl with long curly hair. Aaaa, boring.
I looooove Onodera Akira’s Hayabusa though. He mixes traditional Japanese settings and clothes with bits of modern fashion so well and thus creates a whole new version of the supposed ‘future’. The characters are all gorgeous (bishounen anyone?), I just wish that the series appeared more often than just once every three months.
I think I’m going to stop buying Asuka nevertheless. Unless Gouhou Drug returns this autumn (which it is supposed to, but you never know…), it’s goodbye to the glorious Asuka times. I always loved the fantasy stories in it but as I might have complained about earlier, the characters in most of the series are getting younger and younger and I just don’t like manga centering around 12-year-olds.
In other news, I got the OVA that came with the .hack game for PS2. .hack//LIMINALITY is the OVA’s title, it runs 45 minutes and the quality is awesome! I only managed to get a raw copy of it (I think no one has subbed it yet) and I only had the time to watch the first 10 minutes of it but I’m so amazed by its quality. The chara design is quite a bit different from the one in the game and the TV series but it’s the first time you get a view of the outside world, the real world, as the TV series concentrates on what’s happening with the characters in the game and you pretty rarely get to know what’s happening in the real world (but that’s part of the mystery, isn’t it). Speaking of which, .hack//SIGN 13 ranks number 2 of things to watch (it’s on my HD, ah), right after .hack//LIMINALITY so I better stop here ^-^
I think .hack could become the next Evangelion. In the past years, anime series were released with the makers’ comments of those series being the next big thing, the next EVA. All of them were mecha series. I don’t think an anime has to have any sort of mechs in it to be the next Eva. The fascination wasn’t caused by the giant robots, it was because of the story that created a (semi-)plausible world of its own and this is what .hack is achieving with every new episode of .hack//SIGN that is aired, with every new .hack product being released. .hack//SIGN creates the same kind of mistery surrounding the storyline and the characters, and makes the viewers eagerly wait for every new episode, hoping more of those mysteries will be revealed.
I cannot wait for Sadamoto Yoshiyuki’s .hack manga, I hope there’ll be an artbook anytime soon, too. I own two of his artbooks (Alpha and Der Mond) and love them.