Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
.hack // Sign er en anime tv-serie instrueret af Koichi Mashimo og produceret af studiet Bee Tog og Bandai Visual, der gør op en af de fire oprindelige historier af .hack franchisen. Tyve seks originale episoder luftet på tv og tre ekstra bonus episoder blev udgivet på DVD som originale video animationer. Serien har karakter design af Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, kendt for sit arbejde på Evangelion, og manuskript af Kazunori Ito, der skrev manuskriptet til den første Ghost in the Shell filmen. Scoren er komponeret af Yuki Kajiura, mærkning hendes anden samarbejde med Koichi Mashimo.
.hack // Sign er påvirket af psykologiske og sociologiske emner som angst, eskapisme, og interpersonelle relationer. Serien fokuserer på en Wavemaster opkaldt Tsukasa, en spiller karakter af et virtual reality massivt multiplayer online rollespil spil kaldet The World. Tsukasa vågner op for at finde sig selv i et fangehul i verden, men han lider af kortsigtede hukommelsestab, da han spørger, hvor han er, og hvordan han kom der. Situationen bliver værre, når han opdager at han ikke er i stand til at logge ud og er fanget i spillet. Fra da af, sammen med andre spillere Tsukasa begiver sig ud på en mission for at finde ud af sandheden bag hans unormal situation.
Den-noh Coil, Coil — A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an emerging city-wide virtual infrastructure. It follows a group of children as they use AR glasses to unravel the mysteries of the half real, half Internet city, using a variety of illegal software tools, techniques, and virtual pets to manipulate the digital landscape.
Den-noh Coil, in development for over a decade, is the series director debut of Japanese animator Mitsuo Iso. It premiered on NHK Educational TV on May 12, 2007. Due to the animators involved in its production and its unusually high-profile television broadcast time slot, Den-noh Coil was highly anticipated.
Computer programmer Ken Gemberling – the titular "Fat Guy" – is accidentally sucked into his computer and learns he is destined to save cyberspace from a variety of evils.
Spicy City is an animated television series which was created by Ralph Bakshi for HBO. The series lasted for one season which consisted of six episodes.
In the year 2100, children have become Web divers and uploaded their consciousness onto global computer networks. They play in a cyber park called the Magical Gate. One day, a mysterious computer virus appears and begins to destroy the Magical Gate. Programs called Web Knights were created to protect the children from the virus but the virus turned all the Web Knights against the children. The only Web Knight to escape this is Gladion. Gladion seeks the help of Kento Yuki, a Web Diver who is in the fourth grade.
Three computer-savvy kids, Naoto, Yuka and Ippei created their own videogame superhero, but then discover it possessed by an inter-dimensional police officer, Gridman. Pursuing an evil program called Kahn Digifer, he merges with Naoto and fights Kahn Digifer's digitized monsters in order to prevent the computerized demon from wreaking havoc on the Human World.
.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.
A man uncovers a dangerous web of schemes and deceit when he accepts the presidency of a TV company.