.Hack / Hamazaki, Tatsuya

Shugo and Reina join forces with Zefie, a Vagrant AI playing an advanced online game, but Zefie's attempts to play outside the rules of the game threaten the entire online universe.

Rena and Shugo's dreams of becoming legends are fading when they end up in prison and a controversy looms over Shugo's bracelet.

Contains five stories, each told from a separate characters perspective, including Hakuto's retelling volume one and other stories where Cobalt Knights fight off the growing number of artificial intelligence within cyberspace.

Haseo decides that he is done with The World, a massive multiplayer online game, he receives a letter from Aina--the first of the Lost Ones and Ovan's little sister--and embarks on one last mission to save those he thought were gone forever.

Haseo, continuing his mission to stop the rogue killer Tri-Edge, fights Endrance's Macha and tries to prevent his friends from becoming Lost Ones.

Shugo and Reina are becoming real heroes in The World, with a party of friends and an AI, Zefie, who acts outside the rules of the game. The CC Corporation has sent in the Cobalt Knights, a debugging team, to take care of the unstable elements, and Shugo and company had better take care.

A prequel to the ".hack" anime, games, and manga, following Albireo, a solo adventurer in the online role-playing game The World, as he tries to discover the purpose of Lycoris, a non-playing character in the form of a silent little girl, he encounters in a dungeon.

Fourteen-year-old twins Shugo and Rena win a contest that allows them to play as legendary hackers in an advanced online game; but when a high level monster attacks the Level One players, the twins set forth to solve the mystery and save the virtual universe.