.hack//sign opening

[@hidaninsanity]

*when you hear this opening for the first time in 12 years and nostalgia hits you so hard you cry*

[@jaceshaffer8104]

Yep

[@jareksochacki6540]

so much

[@Virjunior01]

*holds your hand*

[@mmaku89]

try to listen fake winds then :)

[@aztronomy7457]

Bro im high as fuck on Netflix, saw this shit and remember it tripped me out when I was like 10, now I'm equally tripped and nostalgiad out.

[@EastSide978]

I remember as a kid I would stay up late with the volume low trying not to wake the house by myself watching this.. Those were the days.

[@maximus451]

Same

[@DontTripChocolateDrip]

Oh god, I can relate so hard right now 😆

[@evilmidget]

That gold ole midnight slot on saturday nights when Adult Swim briefly abandoned their saturday block.

[@koko6745]

Mike Phom oh my god I thought I was the only one

[@mysqm3026]

I have never felt so connected to a complete stranger before in my life

[@oberdamujigae]

I feel like I didn't appreciate this anime enough as a kid. I'm rewatching everything now from an adult's perspective

[@DigitalPand3mic]

Same.....this show was so fascinating. Yet I feel like I didn't quite understand it as a kid

[@gutimar0328]

Relatable. I saw it when i was younger but i didn't understand what was going on lol. Im 27 now so it makes a lot of sense.

[@kylehyde89]

This is exactly how i felt rewatching all of ghost in the shell. I thought that anime was the most boring thing ive ever seen, but now that im older i can understand everything. Its my top 3 anime of all time now lol

[@1NotN]

@@kylehyde89 I tried watching it a few years ago maybe it picks up but I couldn't get past how boring it was n I'm 26 maybe try it again sometime but idk

[@HTFFanOfFlaky]

I didn't understand. Looking back at Tsukasa, it wasn't for the same reason other kids didn't know. I was in denial. Now i understand. More than anyone should have to. I recognize that stare she had. That is the only facial expression i dont have to fake. For the same reason. And just like her, i cant get out. I thought it was okay and it wasn't, and i thought they were protecting me, when they were actually slowly erasing what little of me was a person to replace with their own cheap copy with memories of doing things i never actually did

[@bonezyjonezy3403]

Love the symbolism in this show and it's emphasis on escapism. All the characters are being stripped from their avatars to symbolise their reality selves meshing with the game while tsukasa's reality is within the game itself, thus his skin peeling away.

[@xavierherndon1650]

Didn’t even notice that. Spot on

[@actionmaverick707]

*her :)

[@jonathankeith6971]

This is still hands down my favorite theme song of any anime.

[@nickj4281]

Jonathan Keith Big Fax cuz

[@sabytheblackcat]

same

[@mookiestewart3776]

This and inner universe from ghost in the Shell, and tank from bebop

[@KazeOrion]

@@mookiestewart3776 classics!! Nowadays I'd say Bloody Stream- JoJo 2 and ignite -SAO are pretty epic

[@badkarma368]

@@KazeOrion Don't forget Trigun

[@user-we9gd8gj3w]

リアルタイムでこのOP観た時トリハダが止まなかった…今観てもトリハダやばい

[@transcendentmuzic1398]

8 year old me watching this: Wtf is going on? 23 year old me watching this: Wtf is going on?

[@VenturousArtist]

This is my reaction to FLCL (Fooly Cooly) still as of today. It was weird times.

[@devontejefferson6520]

EXACTLY

[@DannyArguetaValencia]

29 year old me: Love and grief is an obsession, an addiction. Harold (?)'s attempt to save his dead wife's essence through the AI Morgana catalyzed the series. Both Harold and Morgana were sucked into the computer void - both metaphorically and physically- essentially Harold's obession became Morgana which then became crazily obessed with her programmed goal. Meanwhile, the main characters are obssessed with finding the key of the twilight and saving the kid. All them reveal their true selves in the game which is why they are naked in the promo. The series ends with the birth of the ultimate AI who absorbed all their thoughts.

[@devontejefferson6520]

Danny Argueta is Morgana the little white girl in the opening or is it the other one I thought her name was Aurora

[@DannyArguetaValencia]

@@devontejefferson6520 The little sleeping white girl is Aurora. Morgana (Harold's AI) might be the dancing woman. I think the Dancing Woman might be a combination of Harold the programmer and Morgana the AI.

[@doorfortress]

Kids today don't know this, but this was what logging on in the early 00s really was like.

[@evecampbell3069]

I would have loved to go into my computer like that.

[@soft_and_wet_sailor3605]

I'm 14 and know this

[@dazzle9712]

I'm 14 and know this

[@tristianibarra1477]

I’m 14 and I know this

[@angeliquevanbeulen9548]

I'm 13 and I love this show

[@MetalHeadRed954]

I used to love watching this late night on Cartoon Network 😍😍

[@codeninja100]

PapiELRey954 exactly right after Duck Dodgers on Fridays! It was the best man..

[@wicho617]

stop with the nostalgia. I'm tearing up here

[@SolidBrianH]

PapiELRey954 Those were the days

[@tomspiegel5322]

Right on. Those nights were flavored with peaceful serenity and intriguing mystery.

[@MetalHeadRed954]

Brian Hendricks yes I miss this show it reminds of when i was a teenager deeply obsessed with anime!

[@jaesthetic6998]

Crazy to think I was like 7 or 8 watching this and I had no idea what it was really about, I just LOVED the music. From the opening to the ambient music throughout each episode, I couldn't get enough. I'm 25 now, I saw Hulu has this series so I rewatched it and memories of my childhood hit hard when I heard this song

[@Bladeninja76]

thought it was weird at first, but grew to love it as I understood how the words related to Tsukasa and why he had to endure suffering and seek the truth.

[@GalagaForever]

Bladeninja76 she*

[@ShiMusume]

@@GalagaForever *he Because using the avatar Tsukasa they refered to themselves as a male despite the real life gender.

[@cameronmoore7675]

I used to be _obsessed_ with this show back in the day. The music and intro still hold up so well!

[@elhajjmalikel6266]

I didn't watch this show until years later on YT. This theme is definitely one of those memorable themes on Cartoon Networks Saturday Night Action. I believe this one came on at 10:30 or 11:00, but it was later on in the night. Good times...

[@cameronmoore7675]

@@elhajjmalikel6266 Yes indeed. I remember having to choose between doing something with friends or staying home to watch .hack// on Saturdays. Broadcast TV without recording was a real bitch.

[@dallas9908]

This song is such a banger I don't care if people say the story wasnt that good or anything, the sheer vibe and aesthetic made in this show is top notch. Its simple and knows what it wants to be and has inspire shows that are huge now, such a SAO, log horizon etc. it was ahead of its time imo it knew what it wanted to be and still holds up for me, nostalgia aside.

[@KirbyGotenksabsorbed]

While the vibe and aesthetic are indeed incredible, the story was also really good. It's just that a somewhat decent attention span is required to grasp it because it's actually a psychological mystery dressed up as a virtual fantasy, hence why people who watched this as a child often didn't understand it but then love it when they rewatch it later when they've grown up a bit more.

[@Cloudsouth]

I loved everything about it and the games. I didn't go beyond GU but that era I loved. I even almost never saw SAO until much later. I felt like I was cheating on Dot//Hack: The show has that thing about it that is so damn deep it hits hard. But when I saw SAO I was glad that it was so different. I ended up loving both. Could tell Dot//Hack was from a whole other time when the internet was just a different thing.

[@Nekavandre]

24 years old now and I've never forgot this opening ever since Toonami used to air Anime in the morning. I was jamming to this opening as a child and I still do over a decade later. Shits so catchy and good.

[@IAmKentori]

I haven’t watched this anime yet and I don’t think I will cause I seriously don’t know where to watch it lol but I wish I could cause this is such a catchy opening

[@christoffere425]

2020, still one of the best openings. And the fact that VR is now a thing, makes this even better.

[@andreay9935]

Heehee you know this is ONE of the main reason I will never do VR, I do not want to be trap in it. Still a bop opening

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

@@andreay9935 being trapped in it, we are trapped in life anyways, theres nothing wrong with being trapped in vr

[@abyssstrider2547]

@@andreay9935 Yeah well It's not a full immersion VR. Real VR would let you use your brainwaves to control the virtual character.

[@jennikifm2]

2023 now and it’s still one of the best openings.

[@Mystline18]

lol I remember when Toonami played this show back in 2002.

[@cameronmoore7675]

Back in the days before DVR. The biggest first world problem of my teenhood was trying to catch this show every Saturday with no one interrupting.

[@cunningsmile4166]

Actually this was part of Saturdays before Adult Swim

[@iconiclit8945]

@@cunningsmile4166 no it was broadcasted on toonami (albeit on a short-lived saturday afternoon variant of the block that ran alongside the regular weekday block a while before the block itself actually permanently moved to saturdays) for a short while but it was moved to SVES due to poor ratings

[@user-mj1fg6ji8m]

海外ではこんなにも評価されているのに、日本ではなぜこの名曲が評価されてないんだ、、、

[@遥-i1k]

演出自体は単純なものが多いのに、めっちゃ魅せられるんだよなこのOP映像

[@Homegrowntone666]

probably one of THE most slept on shows that came on toonami

[@Malinkadink]

Same for the games imo, they remastered the GU series but not the first 4, i still have the complete set for PS2 completely mint, replay every so often on a CFW CECHA01 PS3 :)

[@HerusLight13]

This anime. Brings back memories of my child hood good stuff.

[@Schizophrenia222]

Okay so this was real and I wasn't having a seizure in my sleep.

[@Nirvash89]

God, I love this theme song, and I still get it stuck in my head, so many years after first seeing it. Always love the look on my co-workers faces when they hear me trying to sing it.

[@Movie_Guy1609]

I watch this every Christmas as a tradition. I woke up to this theme on Christmas day when I was young because I left the tv on and this was playing real early in the morning.

[@Konatoast]

this show is a masterpiece not to mention the ost is makes it 100x greater

[@charntsabre3463]

This opening song always randomly pops in my head and I end up rewatching it again on KZbin.. I love it. This was when I would watch these shows by myself in my room in highschool.

[@panfilo2221]

Saw this once around 2003 and haven’t seen this opening in about 18 years.

[@JW-um5pg]

I remember watching this when I was 8 late at night in a basement my dad rented. Tried so hard not to wake anyone up so used headphones in my sleeping bag next to the TV. This show gave me high hopes for the future and fortunately didn't let me down. Virtual reality is legit now.

[@AkinaUchiha14]

Hit right in the nostalgia feels...One night I was staying over at a friend's house and we binged the crap out of this show. I still remember something her little sister said to me to this day (this being like 15ish years or so ago) about this song. She said something like, "It sounds like they're saying 'Hack on my coleslaw.'" I still hear it to this day. xD

[@briansingleton7985]

You just ruined this song for me as all I can hear Hack on my coleslaw....LOL

[@smasher1200]

Reminds me of the original Digimon opening. As a kid I always thought the line was "Digimon, digital monsters, digimon garlic champions!"

[@EmptyHeaded093]

Watching this makes me remember rushing home from school to just catch the opening start. Man I feel old.

[@demonkiller8000]

Ths opening kicks so much ass, more art needs to go ham like this

[@SidneyMosley]

This intro gave me such life as a child...

[@fataleflare]

I forgot or never noticed that Tsukasa never is seen with a visor in the opening on like the other characters. Repenting that they couldn't leave and return to reality.

[@LordZiTan]

I absolutely loved this series. Both as a show, and as a game. Even to this day the show makes me want to play the game, and vise versa. The character depth was far ahead of its time, the music was beautifully hypnotic, and the story... the story was just soo fulfilling on so many levels, frankly it was astounding. Truly, Great works of art, and more people should know about it.

[@Overt_Erre]

"ahead of its time". If only. Anime like SIGN are rare in every time. You get IDEON in the 70s with this level of depth (if not more). Then Infinite Ryvius. Lain. Maybe Gad Guard. These anime have always been tough sells, even more so today than in the past decades.

[@mulchmeat9715]

God this opening hits me with a nostalgia hammer

[@おいしいお茶-e5x]

.hackシリーズで1番好きな曲

[@Shawnipeek]

This intro, listening to it when I was younger and to this day has such a powerful feeling to it.

[@FMC2k23]

I could listen to this for an hour and I wouldn't get tired of it

[@Lark88]

I was listening to The Ancient Magus' Bride OP and it reminded me of this.

[@yuuuu607]

懐かしすぎてヤバイ なんで急に思い出したんだろ

[@saweebmsotra7682]

Animax days😊 One of the first anime I got to know I remember as a kid being really facinated by this medium and more than 15 years later Im still fixated on it

[@GuardianDiancie]

Good old childhood memories. One of several animes, I was obsessed with watching daily / whenever it was airing

[@ADucote]

its almost 2020, Im still trapped in reality

[@alimgraham7803]

.hack inspired my obsession for mmorpg 😂😂

[@prinnygod1073]

It's back!!!!

[@randomanimefan0154]

Hah i see what cha did there. XD the name of the song is [Obsession] by the way.

[@DoctorKhaos]

Alim Graham pretty clever there

[@fulltimepassgiri]

I played Ragnarok Online afta watching this

[@kingp.7656]

It did for me too. I think Phantasy Star Online had the most .hack inspired usernames lol

[@michaelhoule2134]

I used to watch this on YVT's anime block on saturday nights, this, ghost in the shell stand alone complex, Gundam Wing, Eureka 7 good times

[@reyonXIII]

What none of us ever knew when first watching this show. The origins of a great hero, and probably the biggest character story of the franchise. And he started...as a bratty kid acting out as an annoying Player Killer. He started out seeking the Key of the Twilight, unaware that one day he would become that Key.

[@CallumTheCalamity]

isn't that roots' and gu plot, not sign?

[@Mochi_Madness87]

Man, seeing this intro again makes me feel old. Loved this show and the games.

[@remylov661]

the first ever anime soap opera and it still kills to this day.

[@projectmessiah]

Remy Lov nah legend of the galactic heroes came way before this

[@benjaminsanchez1869]

Hot Damn! This brought me back to high school. Played the 4 part game on PS2 right after finishing this series and wanted more! Still do. I should get back into this franchise.

[@seen.3]

i remember watching this when I was 8 on friday nights. i was so confused but so intrigued at the same time. i would play this song in my head sometimes when my dad would be driving at night

[@erivida64]

I never saw this anime, and only heard the opening a couple of times, but over a decade later, and the song is still stuck in my head 😂😂

[@zachyates1961]

Every time i'd get the chance I would jump on the couch and wait for the opening song to play. Because it was sooo different and cool from whatever I have already listened to.

[@TheDorianTube]

OG Mmo anime, probably one of the first ones. Aahhh nostalgia.

[@badkarma368]

FINALLY FOUND IT! I remember watching this when i was a kid and forgetting about it years later but was always humming the opening theme but just couldn't remember what it was from!

[@spookykitten5022]

I have been searching for it for 10 years atleast and finally found it!

[@Delaney-and-the-Starlight]

This show just reminds me of old gaming friends and makes me so happy and so sad at once.

[@TheCabalNoob]

Old MMOs were so awesome. This is the game genre that means the most to me. Getting out of school and going home to play with people from all over the country and all over the world in a video game was so insane to me.

[@Azieru82]

One of the best openings in the entire .hack series.

[@mikec5400]

this anime was so awesome even tho i had no idea what was going on..the idea of an anime taking place in an online video game fascinated me so much...this series had my looking up and playing any random mmorpg i could find back in early 2000s

[@Redblaze27]

I only just realized this entire theme is sung in English.

[@angelikabrown4247]

if i was honest with myself, I'd admit the opening was better than half the anime but the nostalgia...

[@InfoBinger]

I had an obsession over this anime 3 years ago! Watched some episodes as a kid but never really cared about it. I started to get into mmorpg's (maplestory) when I was in high school and after high school I saw Final Fantasy 14 and it brought me back to this anime I watched all the episodes listened to all songs and even did background searches over the main characters mainly Haseo. Haseo because he was so interesting since he was in .hack//Sign and .hack//Roots and I wondered why he was so clueless and emotional in Roots when he was a cocky piece of shit in Sign but it made sense because he absorbed Skyth which caused him to go into a coma. The story is complex and has a hell of a lot of plotholes but that's what I love because it made me do research I wouldn't consider this anime a casual anime like Dragon Ball Z or any other shonen anime. It's dark and the story's complexity is mind boggling.

[@astein1187]

This song is named and has become my *Obsession*. Well played .Hack sign

[@malictory]

This anime is totally my fav. The music, the characters, just the vibe of it all works so much for me:O

[@kaindestuto2053]

this and last exile was my first animes i watched. When the intro song just randomly drops out of the ether, man the flashbacks of me hurrying home from school to catch an episode :D

[@onkelmorra87]

Never liked the show but loved the music and stlll listen to it from time to time!

[@Hotshot2k4]

I never actually watched this exactly, but found this song through some other context, maybe a Warcraft 3 custom map, and really liked it. That first guitar riff is super memorable, and like a decade later when I heard it in Hunter x Hunter, and was able to mentally track it back to this anime I never watched lol. Seriously the riff is almost exactly the same in HxH, maybe meant as an homage.

[@InuGirl19]

I just LOVE this opening!!! OwO

[@MeganRose420]

Ah, this bring back memories of my childhood, now that I'm twenty-six, though, I should understand what's going on... nope, I still don't! This song is so memorable that even someone with a bad memory can recall it! xD

[@andreay9935]

I got you, to sum it up every person here is hook up to a video game system. It has them go to a fantasy world, but it all a game not reality. Thing is there one player that cannot log off, and their confuse why, and don't remember who they are in the real world... The story that unfolds is the un-log player and their friends trying to get them to get out of the game.

[@wdcain1]

As a kid, I thought the woman in red was Misato Katsuragi from Evangelion so I had this headcanon that she was a secret gamer girl. It definitely fits Misato's personality.

[@BladeoftheDarkmoon]

Heh

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

When i was a kid growing up watching this after Ghost in the Shell I always thought both openings was by the same person but this was my favorite .Hack sign show and this was that original isekai anime. I'm ashamed as a kid I never seen ALL the episodes of this but now being 30 I may have to revisit this and complete it. If time machines were real man...., I'd go back and relive my childhood in a heart beat!

[@anim242]

Just remember this was part of a huge multimedia project and so not everything does get resolved by .hack sign's end as it leads into the games that came out on the ps2.

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

@@anim242 I remember I bought the games.

[@鈴一-b4n]

オープニングが素晴らしい .hackのような先進的な作品達がクールジャパンを今の地位まで繋げてきてる。 ただ残念なのは今の子供たちは.hackを知らない子が多い SAOも面白いけど.hackも観てもらいたい

[@Lilliaace]

One of the best opening songs 😁

[@RavenDarkHeart1]

I've always loved watching this anime growing up and I still love to theme.

[@Celti_]

They snapped with this song. So ahead of their time.

[@joke312]

What a world they built with this anime and the successive games that came after. .hack//IMOQ and G.U are still my favorite PS2 games of all time.

[@seraphine8142]

I love this opening... it has lots of meaning behind the anime. even though the story wasn't exactly the best. and I'm kinda hoping that someone could redo it (and not like sao) it was a great anime.

[@hianerawr81]

Log horizon was also pretty good if you haven't watched that yet I'd suggest giving that a try

[@Mor1adim]

Yeah I'd say Log Horizon is a pretty good alternative

[@RavenDarkHeart1]

What was the meaning behind the theme.

[@Alex-ve6ey]

SpyroGamesHere log horizon is better

[@KirbyGotenksabsorbed]

What exactly was wrong with the story?

[@gerozeal2410]

I remember seeing this show on Bionix! Oh man, the memories.

[@ultimaT]

This song was and is still so hype. But man the anime was so confusing. But hey, it introduced me to the games and man were they fun.

[@LeonValCh]

This show was good for whoever was already a fan of .Hack. For other people...not so much. Had they made a good, faithful adaptation of the .Hack games, nobody would be talking about SAO.

[@warangelcloud]

I bought .hack//infection because of this anime. "The Matrix" had a lot to do with my love for this show. Ironically, I think this is better than the Ghost in the Shell anime. SAO was just there because .hack was gone.

[@cameronmoore7675]

This was my first (and only) exposure to the .Hack franchise, and I freaking loved it.

[@Tsukasa6669]

This WAS the start of .Hack so anyone that liked it to begin with were the only real fans

[@erasedsword3323]

UrielTheJudge I really like both shows actually but I prefer the .hack series a little more but I have not played any of the games seeing I don’t have a ps2 but I have a PS4

[@Alex-ve6ey]

UrielTheJudge nah lol. people would still talk about SAO regardless of .Hack's situation

[@KupoChanX3]

poor tsukasa having to go through so much~

[@princessbinas]

M.Sidney Atkins A lot of main characters get handed a shitty deck no matter the series. What makes them good characters depends on what they do with it.

[@lordtyrus1]

dot hack sign is so good one of my favorites of all time

[@ellomynameisjohnny]

I haven't seen this since I was 8 years old. It would always come on right after Cartoon Cartoon fridays an it blew my mind that they were showing partially nude characters. When the bit where the characters are falling and their clothes come off, I started singing along. It's amazing how memory works

[@swordinthehanger]

Toonami days 2003 nostalgia hitting me again!

[@DarkFoxV]

Love this show!!!😍😍😍 I've senn it to many times 🔥💖

[@rinsouldemon95]

Damn this brings me back❤❤

[@GiantParfait]

Sometimes I come back to this song.. Just because. This anime was more than just a show to me when I was watching it as a child.

[@AttisSoul]

It's so hard finding the full version of this on youtube now wth x.x

[@jonathankeith6971]

Attis Rebirth I know. 😢

[@erasedsword3323]

What’s the link I can’t find it in America

[@rubberbandba11craft]

Vrv

[@bittybears5287]

I've been looking for song since I was 4. Found it in 2012. Never did find out who was that woman dancing in the opening.

[@juanasttopp171]

Es probable que esa Helba.

[@icantthinkofaname1009]

This and the OP track to Noir always mesh into one song in my mind

[@ShdwZro7]

Boy, this intro takes me back to my childhood.

[@jonathankeith6971]

To me there will never be a greater intro song for any anime. Period.

[@SabbatarianCalvinist]

This beat go hard!

[@WailOfDoom]

One of the first and actually good Isekai's. Awesomeness.

[@SatoshiMaiko]

In Tsubasa's point of view it is an isekai but to everyone else it isn't an isekai Wait..... what if people who are comatosed secretly isekai protagonists in another world and them waking up with no memories of that world means the world was saved?

[@karite2]

The original mmo anime/comic/video game franchise before sao or log horizon or anything else. I'll forever be a dot hack fan boy.

[@nostalgiaofgodlymegatron9304]

I was frustrated when I didn't know where to start watching. I wasted my earnings on disks, and time watching in confusion. The main drive or perhaps reason was because of the opening. You bet I was headbanging and captivated by the opening. Finally with the internet I can grab it for the taking. Jokes on you Block Buster! Muahahhahaha I owe myself all these years to finish it. This time from the beginning to the end. Long live the laughs!

[@nimeotaku8828]

Это одно из моих самых любимых аниме, я смотрел его 4-5 и мне до сих пор нравится, особенно музыка тут прекрасна.

[@Turk.Khanate]

Это классика

[@DarkFoxV]

I love everything about this anime, top five for sure! XD

[@josstarfluff5052]

I love this opening wish more people knew about it

[@vitortgg6056]

Saw an ep back when I was 13. Finally saw the whole thing at 18 l9ve it

[@NeutralReacts]

love this song so much

[@juliancardinal9787]

This song gives me flashbacks of wen i was a kid and plus love this song