A strange boy named Tsukasa appears in the online video game "The World". He claims to be alive, and without a computer.
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- Spencer MBAugust 25, 2026I love the OG IMOQ series but SIGN is a mixed bag: low budget animation (that's typical of the era) where characters just stand around yapping for 5 min stretches, a plot that basiclaly doesn't kick in until Episode 9 and then just kinda mianders until the last 6 episodes, but man, those final six are solid. The music is the real highlight tho, consistently fantastic beginning to end. This show could be trimmed down to like a perfect 12-16 episodes. And I'll warn you, there's no real "end" to this anime and I get the feeling they wanted a second season. There's no point in watching this unless you intend to play the PS2 games as they provide the conclusion for everything set up here.
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.hack//SIGN has 3 seasons.
.hack//SIGN has 64 episodes.
The key characters in .hack//SIGN are Tabby (voice) (Megumi Toyoguchi), Shino (voice) (Kaori Nazuka), Balmung (voice) (Nobuyuki Hiyama).
.hack//SIGN was directed by Koichi Mashimo, Yuuki Arie, Shinya Kawatsura, Hiroshi Morioka, Shigeki Takagi, Masayuki Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Kurokawa.
.hack//SIGN was produced by Kouji Morimoto, Kazunori Takagi, Ryouji Maru, Kuninori Egawa.
A strange boy named Tsukasa appears in the online video game "The World". He claims to be alive, and without a computer.
.hack//SIGN is rated TV-14.
.hack//SIGN is a Drama, Fantasy, Anime show.
.hack//SIGN has an audience rating of 6.8 out of 10.
.hack//SIGN episodes are 25m long.
No, this show was canceled after 3 seasons.