.hack//GIFT is a single-episode OVA featuring characters from the .hack//Games and .hack//SIGN.
Setting
The entire episode of GIFT occurs in The World.
Story
The plot revolves around the characters racing to get to the Twilight Hot Springs first. There is also a little sub plot where they have to figure out who is PKing some of the characters.
Back cover of Japanese DVD case
Release
GIFT is available only as an extra in the fourth Liminality disc. In Japan, the only way to unlock it was to have all four Data Flags from the Games; the NA release does not require this.
Cast
| Role | Japanese VA |
|---|---|
| Tsukasa | Mitsuki Saiga |
| Mimiru | Megumi Toyoguchi |
| Bear | Kazuhiro Nakata |
| BT | Akiko Hiramatsu |
| Subaru | Kaori Nazuka |
| Silver Knight | Isshin Chiba |
| Sora | Hiroshi Yanaka |
| Crim | Shinichiro Miki |
| Aura | Maaya Sakamoto |
| Balmung | Nobuyuki Hiyama |
| BlackRose | Masumi Asano |
| Elk | Mitsuki Saiga |
| Emi | ? |
| Helba | Yumi Touma |
| Kite | Sayaka Aida |
| Mia | Minami Takayama |
| Orca | Yasunori Masutani |
| Piros | Masaya Onosaka |
| Uchiyama | Daisuke Uchiyama |
Trivia
- In GIFT, the characters are all drawn like ridiculous caricatures of themselves, being made up of triangles, squares and circles, and not acting at all like they normally would.
- GIFT is non-canon. The episode was created as a way to poke fun at .hack.
- GIFT is only available in Japanese audio because most of the jokes are something only Japanese people would understand and it would be hard to translate to English.