Beings who possess animal-like powers walk among humans in this alternate universe. These mysterious mutants, the +Anima, are shunned by society. Four outcasts in particular - Cooro, a boy with crow-like powers; Husky, a fish-boy; Senri, a bear +Anima; and a girl named Nana, who wields the power of the bat - search for others like themselves while trying to gain acceptance in a world cruel to anyone or anything that is different.
Story and art by Natsumi Mukai.
.Hack//Legend of the Twilight Graphic Novel 1 (192 pgs)
Old-fashioned role-playing games experience a renaissance on the World Wide Web. Twins Rena and Shugo are two middle school students who enter "The World" as level one game characters.
When Shugo's character dies he is transported to another level where he is entrusted to bear the Twilight Bracelet by the mysterious Aura. Shugo must find out who Aura is and why she gave him this powerful weapon to protect his sister from the peculiar characters in "The World."
Story by Tatsuya Hamazaki and Art by Rei Izumi.
.Hack//Legend of the Twilight Graphic Novel 2 (192 pgs)
Shugo and crew continue their journey and encounter the mysterious Aura... who proceeds to get in trouble with Kamui's Knights in Never Mont. Kamui and Barmunk give Shugo and Rena a little background about the dangers in The World, and Shugo begins to understand how The World works, he learns that not even players like Kamui are harmless.
Story by Tatsuya Hamazaki and Art by Rei Izumi.
.Hack//Legend of the Twilight Graphic Novel 3 (192 pgs)
Rena and Shugo entered The World with dreams of becoming legends. Those dreams have quickly drifted into the twilight now that they're in prison! As the controversy surrounding Shugo's bracelet shifts into overdrive, will our heroes be deleted... or is it end of The World as we know it?
Story by Tatsuya Hamazaki and Art by Rei Izumi.
.Hack//Legend of the Twilight Graphic Novel Box (1-3) (584 pgs)
Welcome to The World, the most advanced online game ever created. Fourteen-year-old twins Rena and Shugo are two middle-school students who enter The World as level-one game characters - and now they're ready to take on anything... or so they think.
When Shugo's character dies, he is transported to another level where he is entrusted to bear the Twilight Bracelet by the mysterious Aura. Shugo must find out who Aura is and why she gave him this powerful weapon to protect his sister from the dangers in The World.
Contains all three volumes of .Hack//Legend of the Twilight.
Night 1: Earthglow Night 2: Sea of Fertility Night 3: Maelstrom 111 Night 4: Posterity Night 5: Rendezvous Night 6: Discovery Night 7: Lucifer Rising
Join in humanity's exploration of the stars, from the first steps outside the solar system to the colonization of distant worlds. A stunning anthology of speculative science fiction stories charting a future timeline of space exploration.
This collection of Hoshino's culminates with "Lucifer Rising," a tribute to Milton's Paradise Lost. A multi-national exploration team journeys to the newly discovered tenth planet in our solar system. The heavenly body - not coincidentally - is named "Lucifer." As death and sabotage plague the space travelers, the awesome scientific anomalies of the planet sorely test the faith and reason ofone of the crew, Father Chavez, a Vatican priest and scientist.
Night 8: The Lights Of Heaven Night 9: Journey Beyond Tomorrow - Part 1: I Am Rocket - Part 2: A Gift From Earth Night 10: Medusa's Throne Night 11: A Stranger's Footsteps Night 12: Symbiotic Planet Night 13: Final Evolution Night 14: Elliptical Orbit
Since mankind has acquired the technology to travel vast distances through space, lives and loves have been sacrificed to the thrill of space exploration!
Now humanity must reckon with the responsibility that accompanies such awesome power. Due to greed, the first steps to colonize other planets end in violent confrontation. Yet resources on Earth are rapidly being depleted...
If the human species is to survive, people must learn to work together and share their advanced technology and the riches of the universe for the good of all!
Night 15: An Hour's Song in a Birdless Sky Night 16: Colony Night 17: So Brief, So Lasting A Love Night 18: Odyssey In Green Final Night: Children Of Earth
Humanity has colonized the stars, but will people's dream of finding or creating the utopia everyone longs for ever be realized? Is peace and fulfillment obtainable, or is it folly to think that we can ever leave the savage side of human nature behind?
Perhaps mankind's last hope lies in the new generation of humans, those who call themselves "Trachyonians," because, like particles moving beyond the speed of light, "We can't stop on a planet and settle down. We just keep pushing across the sea of stars until we die."
Story and art by Yukinobu Hoshino.
3 x 3 Eyes Graphic Novel 1: House of Demons (158pp)
Pai is a strange provincial woman who has come to Tokyo from the Tibetan highlands. Somewhere in Tokyo is a young man who can help her in her quest... to become human!
When Pai finally finds Yakumo, they set off in search of the artifact that can transform her, but it will take all of her mystical powers to keep the reckless Yakumo alive, even if she has to steal his soul to protect him!
Story and art by Yuzo Takada.
3 x 3 Eyes Graphic Novel 2: Curse of the Gesu (142pp)
Yakumo was an ordinary high-school student in Tokyo when he met an immortal girl named Pai, whose quest for humanity led them on a great adventure that has become a modern legend! Yakumo returns to Japan believing that he can resume his old life as a high-school student, ignoring Pai's warning that to do so will subject everyone he knows to the evils of hell itself!
Story and art by Yuzo Takada.
3 x 3 Eyes Graphic Novel 3: Flight of the Demon (208 pgs)
From a hidden world in the Tibetan highlands comes Pai, a strange and beautiful girl with a difference: three eyes and three hundred birthdays behind her! Sent to Tokyo by a dying anthropologist, Pai must find his son, Yakumo, to help her in her quest... to become human!
But when Pai merges Yakumo's soul with that of her immortal supernatural familiar to save his life, the urgency of their mission becomes even greater as Yakumo fights to reclaim his own humanity.
Pai and Yakumo discover the existence of a statue that may help end their quest, but to obtain it they'll have to take on the dwellers in the dark, who need the statue to revive a dread demonic lord and bring about an inhuman kingdom of immortal evil!
Story and art by Yuzo Takada.
3 x 3 Eyes Graphic Novel 4: Blood of the Sacred Demon (144 pgs)
Yakumo has been searching for Pai, the girl he loves, for years. When he finally finds her, she's in big trouble! The amnesiac Pai has forgotten all about her inhuman heritage and mystical powers, and an evil group of supernatural Puppet People are on the hunt for her! Can Yakumo use his new special attack moves to rescue Pai and restore her memories? Or will she run from him - and the truth - as well?
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