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“Former .hack characters receive Ovan's email, attend festival, meet peaceful AIDA Chim Chim hinting at Ovan's return.”
.hack//G.U. Returner
.HACK//G.U. RETURNER
6.67
6,591 rank · 22,743 viewers · 31 favorites
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Fantasy
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Synopsis
Former .hack characters receive Ovan's email, attend festival, meet peaceful AIDA Chim Chim hinting at Ovan's return.
The characters from previous .hack//G.U. Games and .hack//Roots receive an email from Ovan. He is requesting them to go to Hidden Forbidden Festival where is set up a mysterious summer festival. There they find an AIDA Chim Chim who wishes to peacefully co-exist with the other players of The World. It then transforms into the word "Returner", so they assume it to mean that Ovan will return to The World. (Source: ANN)
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Derived from 5 sampled reviews
8.0
/10
What 5 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 6
σ 1.41
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Mostly aligned
σ 1.41 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 2.00
Running avg · Feb 2008 → Apr 2012
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “It's a sequel to the three .Hack//G.U. games for ps2 console. I personaly completed all three games and the storyline was outstanding! This special episode contains spoilers of the 3rd .Hack//G.U....”
- 8 “Well so I finished .hack//ROOTS some while ago and that was a huge waste of time Then I read somewhere that .hack//G.U. Returner was somewhat like Roots so I watched this in hopes of an answer to...”
- 9 “Before i start my review i would like to point out i have actually never played the game and in my personal opinion you don't need to have played the game to understand what the series is about....”
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Medium · 60%
Long · 0%
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- Format 1 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 24m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2007 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-2666 catalog
Produced by
- Bandai Visual Producer
- CyberConnect2 Producer