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.hack//sign Volume 6:

Terminus (DVD)

With Helba’s intervention, the team has been assembled to try and fight the unknown force and possibly save Aura. But will Tsukasa show up?

Episode 23: Net Slum

The team enters Helba’s gate and ends up in the “Net Slum” a world created by hackers from file fragments from The World. Back in the normal game, Tsukasa finally arrives at the meeting point and travels with Subaru into the Net Slum. There the team learns more information about Aura and the Force that wants to corrupt her. Helba explains that Aura’s growth is tied to Tsukasa’s mental state as he is happy Aura grows normally, and conversely as Tsukasa is upset Aura is corrupted.

Sora continues to talk with the Force, or more exactly negotiate for something interesting. The Force offers Sora a copy of Tsukasa’s guardian to go depress Tsukasa, but Sora refuses because he doesn’t find the offer interesting. The Force

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then orders Macha (the cat-being) to attack Subaru with the copied guardian, believing that destroying Subaru will cause severe damage to Tsukasa. The team tries desperately to repel the guardian but are only successful at stalling the being, and they tell Tsukasa to escape with Subaru. Seeing its prey running away, the guardian chases after Subaru.

Episode 24: Catastrophe

After defeating the guardian, the team

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decides to head to a new stronghold and make a new plan of attack. BT temporarily leaves the team to get re-supplied, but she is searched down by Sora who interrogates her and after she doesn’t tell him anything, kills her.

When BT re-spawns, she meets up with the rest of the team. While the team interacts, Bear speaks to Tsukasa and offers to become Tsukasa’s foster parent in the real world (it’s his way of expressing that he is committed to helping). After this, Sora arrives outside the stronghold and challenges Crim to battle; so BT heads into the stronghold and sees that the team is under attack from another guardian. Although the team orders Tsukasa to retreat with Subaru, Tsukasa finally acts and joins in the fight by supporting as he can. With the whole team, the guardian is destroyed and Crim manages to make Sora retreat. Just as they try and savor victory, three new guardians arrive but Macha stops the beings from killing the team by intercepting their attacks (and subsequently being deleted).

Episode 25: Return

A strange final episode to the series.

Tsukasa, Mimiru, and Subaru awaken on a new battlefield but separated from each other. As each character searches for their companions, they are confronted by a simulacrum of one the other people who tries to emotionally traumatize them – but Tsukasa isn’t fooled by the doppelganger of Mimiru and identifies it as being part of the Force. The fake battlefield is removed, and the three characters wake up in the staging area for the Force where it holds Aura. Watching all of this is Sora, who waits and absorbs all the happenings. After a lengthy conversation between Tsukasa and the Force, Tsukasa is able to awaken Aura and the team decides to escape to the Net Slum. Sora chooses this moment to appear, and helps the group escape but not before tormenting the Force one last time… except the Force data drains Sora (and you see a young boy lose consciousness in his home). The Force then creates a new monster, Skeith and sends it out to the Net Slum after Tsukasa and Aura.

Now in the Net Slum, the team meets Aura just before Skeith appears to attack the team. The teams asks Helba for help, but she is only able to state that they cannot delete the enemy and are retreating. We don’t see the final battle, but we are treated to a scene of the live Tsukasa leaving the hospital and walking by Subaru riding in a wheelchair towards the hospital. Both stopping, they realize who the other is and greet each other with open arms.

Bonus Episode 26: Intermezzo

An episode that covers Mimiru’s history in The World – she recalls a trio of high school girls who created a character and shared time leveling up the character. This powerhouse helps a young Mimiru save her teammate from a dungeon that generates enemies of all strengths. An interesting look at how gamers can create their own set of rules and interactions that are isolated from reality.

Bonus Episode 27: Evidence

The recap episode. Much like the series, it bounces all over the place giving small tidbits of information at a time leaving the viewer to try and maneuver the pieces into a coherent picture. The episode does an interesting job of distilling 25 episodes into 30 minutes, but don’t expect any sort of amazing revelations here.

- Tazman

(May 5, 2004)

“Rocko, are you reading Cosmo?”

“Yeah, it's a buck cheaper than Juggs and it smells like chicks.”

- Nitz and Rocko (Undergrads)