I've never fully understood what was the sequence of understanding the whole story of this . It's always been a mystery to me so if anyone can guide me towards it I'd be grateful.
It's one of my favorite series and I wanna understand the whole story of it.
Please guide me as soon as possible,
Thanks.
I would start with the first .hack games, g.u. last record or link to get a gist of what the series is about. Each media however is usually both it's own thing but connected in the background. Timeline wise, below is how the series operates.
LN: Epitaph of Twilight
LN: AI Buster 1
LN: AI Buster 2: 2nd Character
Anime: Sign (Episodes 1-26)
Anime: Sign (Intermezzo)
LN: Zero
Game+Anime: Infection > Liminality Ep1 (Mai Minase)
Game+Anime: Mutation > Liminality Ep2 (Yuki Aihara)
Game+Anime: Outbreak > Liminality Ep3 (Kyoko Tohno)
Game+Anime: Quarantine > Liminality Ep4 (Trismegistus)
LN: Another Birth (The games from another perspective)
WN: New Trial (Web novel of games with new background information)
Event: Zero - The Phantom Mind (Original Version of Events General Story shown in Link)
Manga: U.D.D.E.N. Complete Book - Ouka's Story
LN: AI Buster Rumor
LN: AI Buster Kamui
Anime: Sign (Unison) ((PXZ1)) & ((PXZ2))
Archive 03: Legacy
LN: AI Buster Firefly
Manga: Lucky Hack Pack & Rena
Manga: Legend of the Twilight Complete Edition
AD: Let's meet offline
Event: Chap Chop Case (Original Version of Chap Chup Case from Link & No not a typo)
Game Report: End of The World
Event: The 13th Bansyoya File
SS: G.U. Trilogy New World Guide: Shugo & Rena
Manga: Gaspard's Go Go The World
Manga: Alcor
AD: First Login
Game: GU Rebirth (Stop after tutorial quest)
Anime: Roots (Episodes 1-12)
AD: Roots Sound Form 1
Anime: Roots (Episodes 13 - 17)
AD: Roots Sound Form 2
Manga: GnU
Anime: Roots (Episodes 17 - 20)
LN: Cell
SS: Journal of The Dark and The Wicked
Anime: Roots (Episodes 21 -24)
Anime: Roots (Episodes 25 -26)
Game: GU Rebirth (Continued) > Online Jack
Game: GU Reminisce > Online Jack ((PXZ2))
Game: GU Redemption > Online Jack
AD: GU Radio
Manga: 4koma - Peco's Story
Anime: Roots (Returner)
SS: GU After Story
Anime: GU Trilogy (Movie Sum. - Ending Credits)
AD: Innocent Call
Game: GU Reconnection
LN: GU Ragtime
Play: End of The World R:2
Manga: LINK - Twilight Knights Bonus Chapter
Game: Link (Main Story)
Game: Link: (Main Altered Timelines)
Game: Link (Extra Generated Timelines [Main Continuity Versions of Previously Parallel Materials] :
1. GIFT
2. XXXX
3. G.U. +
4. G.U. Novels / GU Epitaph Users
5. G.U. Trilogy )
Game: Link - X'over
Game: Link: Integration Unision
Play: After 2021
Manga: Quantum (I)ntroduction
Anime / Manga / Novel : Quantum, +, Twin Hearts
WN: Bullet
Anime & Manga : Beyond the World
Game: Versus > Thanatos Report
Game / Visual Guide : Guilty Dragon
Game: New World
What do you think?