characters
Tsukasaclass: wave master
about: The main character of .hack//SIGN who has an ambiguous voice and body features. In The World he's a Wavemaster class. At the start of the series, he wakes up to find himself in a dungeon in The World, except that he has no idea why he is where he is, or for that matter, who he is to begin with. In addition, he finds himself pursued by the Crimson Knights for dealing with an illegally modified character, who he remembers seeing, but does not know when, where, or why. At the start of the series, all he seeks is to be alone, but this simply leads him deeper into trouble. He is given a "Guardian," a golden-orange barbell-shaped monster that defends him. He is also led by the cat-like Macha to a hidden area, where he meets Morganna as just a voice (who he initially believes is his mother) and the unborn Aura. Tsukasa eventually brings Subaru to Morganna's hidden zone. Angered, Morganna sends (Data Drained, perhaps) Tsukasa into a temporary trance and moves the unawakened Aura to a new area. At the end of the series, Tsukasa, now revealed to be a girl in real life, wakes up from the coma, and eventually leaves the hospital. She encounters a girl in a wheelchair (who is Subaru in real life). It is implied from certain scenes in the TV show that Tsukasa had an emotionally unstable father and deceased mother and was ostracized by her peers as a child. Also, from the novel .hack//ZERO we learn that Bear adopts her and allows her to go to a boarding school, and she and Subaru still love each other despite the fact that Tsukasa is really a girl. It says that they are dating.
voice done by:Mitsuki Saiga (japnaese) , Brianne Siddall (English
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Subaruclass: heavy axemen
about: Leader of the Crimson Knights, a player organization designed to fight injustice in The World. At times she seems to be the only one preventing the Crimson Knights from running wild; she knows that they must restrain from abusing their power. She eventually joins in the search for Tsukasa, and builds a strong relationship with him. In real life, she is physically handicapped, which is why she spends so much time in The World; it is the only place where she can roam freely on her own, because she's a paraplegic in real life. She is friends with the player Crim and the two share a close bond. She is also a friend of Balmung of Azure Sky. In The World, she is a female Heavy Axeman. However, she is somewhat inexperienced in combat, as a result of others, such as Crim, Silver Knight, and even Balmung of Azure Sky, being overprotective of her and fighting her battles for her.
voice done by:Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Kim Mai Guest (English)
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Mimiruclass: heavy blade
about: Mimiru plays her character as a "tough-it-out-through-anything", devil-may-care fighter who is poor at planning things out and following through on them; however, she is skilled in the art of swordplay. She's the first player to meet Tsukasa, and later tries to form a bond with him in order to protect him from the outside world. Originally she was playing The World as a solo player but decided to team up with Tsukasa in order to help him log out and find the secret behind the Key of the Twilight. Tsukasa comes to trust her without fear and eventually sees her as a friend. In the real world she is a tenth grade student at a public school. In The World, her character is a Heavyblade. She learns from Bear that Tsukasa may have been a girl in real life living in Tokyo. Regardless, she remains Tsukasa's friend even after the truth is revealed, even asking that they should meet up one day and go shopping together in Shimonotaka.
voice done by: Megumi Toyoguchi (Japanese), Amanda Winn Lee (English)
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Bear:class: blademaster
about: An older player of the game as well as an author in real life, Bear plays a Blademaster in The World. He is a friend of Mimiru and B.T. He is cool and collected, and usually is the one to conduct research in the real world on Tsukasa in the attempt to try to figure out who he really is. He's the first one who discovers that Tsukasa is a girl in real life. He sees Tsukasa as his own child supposedly because of how he failed to take care of his real-life son, whom he meets up with later in the Lambda server root town, Carmina Gadelica. Additionally, Bear is perhaps the character who is most experienced with role-playing games, especially ones produced several years before The World. He adopts Tsukasa after she finally wakes up from the coma which she was put in by Morganna. He has met B.T. in the real world. Scenes of Bear and B.T. in The World suggest that they might have a relationship beyond just friendship.
voice by:Kazuhiro Nakata (Japanese), Paul Mercier (English)
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B.T.class: wavemaster
about: A Wavemaster in the game. B.T. is a plotting, scheming character who forms friendships just to achieve a goal, only to watch the friendship crumble when the other person finds out that they've been used. She rarely ventures out to fight monsters, but is said to be good with both offensive and defensive magic. In The World, she teams up with Sora in order to find the Key of the Twilight and uses the other characters in order to find leads. B.T. appears to be the character least concerned with Tsukasa or his plight. She has met with Bear in the real world several times. While it is implied they are more than just casual friends, the degree to how far their relationship goes is unknown. In the real world she is a retired model in her late twenties. She named her character after her favorite food, the B.L.T. (bacon, lettuce, and tomato) sandwich, minus the L for lettuce (a food she doesn't hate but also does not particularly enjoy). There has been speculation among fans of whether it is also a reference to Bee Train, and still others speculate that it may be alluding B and T cells, which play a role in apoptosis, which Bear speaks of to Mimiru later in the series.
voice done by:Akiko Hiramatsu (Japanese), Donna Rawlins (English)
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Soraclass: twin blade
about:Sora is a ruthless player-killer of the Twin Blade class who isn't afraid to backstab people only minutes after allying with them. His method of Player Killing is usually to sneak up from behind and ask for his victim's Member Addresses, an in-game email address. Apparently he prefers "pretty girls" as victims, though he will kill male players as well, usually for information. He's maxed out his levels, making him a tough opponent that can kill most players in one or two hits. He doesn't like the player Crim, and can be seen fighting him throughout the series. He also hates to lose, perhaps a motivating force in his maxed-out stats, and has only lost (as we can see) once to Crim. This motivation inevitably brought him to search for the Key of the Twilight in order to become stronger. He switches sides constantly throughout the story; this habit eventually becomes his undoing when, after ensuring Tsukasa's escape from her, Morganna assimilates his character's data with the Phase known as Skeith, who uses "Data Drain" on him. In real life, he is a boy in the fourth grade who tries to keep his cool (and usually succeeds at it). A high level area revealed on the board early in .Hack//OUTBREAK says a "Red Wand was seen", though it is much too difficult for Kite to handle right then. After completing it, Sora appears and says "Thank you" before disappearing. Also despite his malice he's also rather goofy, and full of pep.
voice done by:Hiroshi Yanaka (Japanese), Dave Wittenberg (English)
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Silver Knightclass:blademaster
about: Second-in-command of the Crimson Knights. He possesses a strong sense of justice (becoming overzealous at times), but is also extremely naïve, leading him to end up as more of a tool to be used by whoever is in control. Late in the series, he tells Mimiru that he is 23 and works in a video store. (In the parody episode, GIFT, Subaru points this out while beating Silver Knight up with her axe.) He is extremely overprotective of Subaru, more so than anyone else.
Silver Knight also appears in the .hack//Legend of Twilight anime in an episode where he helps Shugo several times. Here he had left The World for some time, but returned much in the manner of Crim, no longer serious and foreboding, but friendly and spritely. After helping Shugo escape Cobalt Knights, he is captured and Kamui deletes his player data.
voice done by:Isshin Chiba (Japanese), Doug Rye (English)
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Crimclass:Long arm
about:A friend of Subaru who founded the Crimson Knights organization with her, but afterwards left it. He founded the Crimson Knights in the heat of battle as he fought to protect Subaru from Player Killers. Eventually, he left the order after being constantly chewed out by Silver Knight. Amiable, easygoing and sociable, his stated goal when playing the game is simply to have fun, rather than to simply gain levels or better items. He is an extremely skilled fighter, as good as (if not better than) Sora, and takes it upon himself to protect Subaru and the others. In real life, he is a business man who often travels. He and B.T. have met in real life. He is the only one who knows that Subaru is handicapped until he reveals the secret to Tsukasa in episode 23. As a token of their friendship, Subaru was given a phone number that could be used to contact Crim in the real world at any time and he encourages her to call him whenever she wants to talk (she never uses it though); he casually refers to this number as a "spell". While a tad overprotective of Subaru, he still encourages her to become stronger herself.
voice done by:
Shinichiro Miki (Japanese), Lex Lang (English)
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