.hack//Liminality

Name: .hack//Liminality
Genre: Mystery, Action & Adventure, Drama, Animation
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Soichiro Hoshi, Sanae Kobayashi, Takahiro Sakurai, Masashi Ebara, Saeko Chiba

2002

★★★★☆ 7.3/10

📺 1 Season

🎬 4 Episodes

📅 Ended

🌐 JA

⏱️ 30 min/episode

MysteryAction & AdventureDramaAnimation

.hack//Liminality is an OVA series directly related to the .hack video game series for the PlayStation 2, with the perspective of Liminality focused on the real world as opposed to the games' MMORPG The World. Liminality was separated into four volumes; each volume was released with its corresponding game. The initial episode is 45 minutes long, while subsequent episodes are 30 minutes long. The video series was directed by Koichi Mashimo, written by Kazunori Itō with music by Yuki Kajiura. Primary Animation production was handled by Mashimo's studio Bee Train which collaborated for the four games as well as handled major production on .hack//Sign.

Seasons

Season 1

2002 • 4 Episodes

In the first volume of the .hack//Liminality series, a Japanese school girl Mai Minase and her friend Tomonari Kasumi became unconscious from playing an online computer game and was rushed to the hospital. Fortunately, Mai Minase regained consciousness, but Tomonari remains in a comatose state. Later after the incident, Mai is one day on her way to school until she ran into a man named Junichiro Tokuoka who claims to know what caused her friend Tomonari to be in a coma. At that time, Mai doesn't know or believes him. Later, Mai had no choice but to believe Tokuoka and tries to find out how the popular online game, "The World" did this to Tomonari. Can Mai and Tokuoka find out clues about "The World" and wake Tomonari Kasumi up out of his coma?