.hack is a multimedia phenomenon unlike any seen before. Released simultaneously in Japan as a series of Playstation 2 games, two different anime shows and a manga series, each piece helps tell the greater story of .hack. The first anime series is seen on Cartoon Network, the first of four Playstation 2 games is a top-seller and now the manga picks up the story with all new characters and adventures.

Original character design for .hack was performed by Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, perhaps best known for his work on Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The .hack//Legend of the Twilight manga was originally published in Japan by Kadokawa as .hack//tasogare no udewa densetsu (known more familiarly in the U.S. as .hack//dusk).

.hack Vol. 1

Old-fashioned role-playing games have experienced a renaissance on the World Wide Web. Twins Rena and Shugo are two middle-school students who enter 'The World' as level one game characters. When Shugo's character dies, he is transported to another level where 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 to protect his sister from the peculiar characters in 'The World'.

.hack Vol. 2

What do you do when a game starts playing by its own rules?

Shugo and Reina only recently started playing The World, the most advanced online game ever created, but they are already well on their way to becoming heroes. They've got a great party of friends, cool new items, and now they've been joined by Zefie, a Vagrant AI who acts outside the rules of the game. As intelligent as Zefie may be, the CC Corporation isn't about to let an unstable element run free in The World -- not after what happened four years ago. So with the notorious debugging team, The Cobalt Knights, on the prowl, Shugo and company had better watch out!

.hack Vol. 3

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? Don't miss the climatic end to the best-selling multimedia manga in The World!