.hack//Liminality

S01E02: In the Case of Yuki Aihara

In the second volume of the .hack//Liminality series, Yuki Aihara was a school girl who one day went to a school theater and while watching a movie, the words "The World" suddenly appeared on the big screen and suddenly, the entire town of Yokohama was blacked out due to power shutting off. People are desparately trying to escape and Yuki tries to get out as well. Suddenly, a mysterious woman who claims that she happens to work at the school theater helps Yuki find the way out of the theater. Can Yuki escape from the black out crisis and join up with Junichiro Tokuoka to get the answers about "The World"?

Overview

.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.

Episodes

S01E01 In the Case of Mai Minase

June 20, 2002 5.0 30 min
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...

S01E02 In the Case of Yuki Aihara

September 9, 2002 5.0 30 min
In the second volume of the .hack//Liminality series, Yuki Aihara was a school girl who one day went to a school theater and while watching a movie, the words "The World" suddenly appeared on the...

S01E03 In the Case of Kyoko Tohno

December 12, 2002 5.0 30 min
In the third volume of the .hack//Liminality series, Junichiro Tokuoka travels to Tokyo, Japan to talk with a girl named Kyoko Tohno about the mysteries of "The World", an online computer game that put some...

S01E04 Trismegistus

April 10, 2003 5.0 30 min
Several weeks after the meeting in Hida-Takayama on Christmas Eve, Junichiro Tokuoka, Kyoko Tohno, Yuki Aihara, and Mai Minase all gather on a dinner boat in Tokyo Bay, to prepare for their risky (and most...

Cast

Soichiro Hoshi
Soichiro Hoshi
Masaya Makino (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi
Sanae Kobayashi
Mai Minase (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai
Takahiro Sakurai
Tomonari Kasumi (voice)
Masashi Ebara
Masashi Ebara
Junichiro Tokuoka (voice)
Saeko Chiba
Saeko Chiba
Yuki Aihara (voice)

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