.hack//SIGN - Intermezzo

Inu230 Apr 23, 2019

7

This OVA is better than the 26 episodes of .hack//SIGN for a few reasons. 1) Viewers don't have to watch the series to follow the story. 2) Viewers still get to enjoy some great music. 3) Viewers get a short story about how people fulfil a sense of purpose through gaming that helps them become better people off-line. That being said, after watching the slow pacing of .hack//SIGN potentially disliking Mimiru [as this review does] getting to watch her backstory that focuses on three gaming girls and how they influenced her was a nice addendum to the series. It also shows what the series could have been and how Mimiru was perceptive even back then {as an 8th grader}. Overall this OVA sheds some light on Mimiru but also leaves some questions, like why she was so focused on/stalking Tsukasa when she'd already encountered other players who didn't want to join a party as part of the game and had their reasons as Tsukasa did for solo play.