A long time ago, I was in the middle of watching .hack//SIGN. It was twenty six episodes long and I was nearing the end of it. Then, I went to watch episode 22. To my surprise, the disc didn’t burn properly or some such garbage like that. I got pissed off at it and stopped watching right there.

Now, a year or two later, I have nothing to watch, save for Naruto. I’d kept myself busy watching Rurouni Kenshin, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Gundam SEED Destiny. Now I needed something else to watch, since Naruto fillers are getting dull. So I decided to try finishing .hack//SIGN. To my amazement, my computer (now Linux) read the disc perfectly fineI hate Windows.. So I ended up finishing it yesterday and can now talk about it in its entirety.

.hack//SIGN is pretty damned depressing. And there wasn’t much of an ending. Most of the series revolves around Tsukasa moping around. It was only in the last two or so episodes that he/sheIt’s revealed near the end that Tsukasa is a girl in real life. For those of you who don’t know, Tsukasa’s a guy in the MMORPG world. Don’t ask me why. begins to not feel sorry for himself. And then there’s the fact that everyone starts fighting like it’s an MMORPG and not EverquestYes, I know, Everquest is an MMORPG. The running gag is, however, that everyone just talks on Everquest. Ba-dum ch.. I was kinda expecting that, oh, twenty four episodes ago.

At the end, they begin trying to fight this machine thing that the World turned Sora (who was a kid who got shocked into paralysis in the real world at the end in the process of turning into the machine thing) and Helba shuts the place down. Tsuaka then checks out of the hospital and passes by this girl in a wheelchair, who she instantly recognizes as Subaru, her wonderful friend from the MMORPG world. Then they start running (or rolling at high speeds that made me wonder how she’d safely stop herself) towards each other.

Makes no sense, is confusing, is depressing, lots of talking, not enough fighting. Now, I’m not one of those people who just watch anime for the fighting. In fact, a lot of it is quite repetitive and tiresome. But honestly, this is an MMORPG. The fights sucked. And the ending just got Deus Ex Machina’dAn unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot..

Not the anime for me.

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