.hack//INFO

Actually... 'Silver Knight' IS the result of a translation error. The character's actual name is Ginkan, which would be translated best as 'Milky Way.' As in the galaxy. If you felt, for some reason, the need to translate it at all. The significance of the name is that Subaru's name translates to 'P...

Mistral was actually another term used for Magician, or someone who can sooth the hearts with tricks. That's at about best I can explain it, it's quite difficult. ... No. Not even CLOSE. mistral - A dry cold northerly wind that blows in squalls toward the Mediterranean coast of southern France. Mis...

Thanks for the help, Tsukasa! I was hoping someone who actually knew some Japanese would show up to make corrections, and you did just that ^_^;; The Sora translation I find particularly interesting, as every source I've ever seen has just assumed it meant 'sky,' like most anime characters named Sor...

Thoroughly and definitely not. The words 'Silver Knight' are never ONCE used in the entire .hack saga. They were completely an invention of the .hack translators. For some reason they decided to try and translate the name 'Ginkan,' even though it's a NAME and there's no reason to try to translate so...

... Kite is supposed to be an English word, not a Japanese one. That's why it's pronounced with one syllable rather than with two like Japanese words ending in 'e' (like Natsume) are. And kite in English is a word meaning 'bird of prey.' Also the name of a geometric shape and, of course, the thusly-...

The game's pretty vague about what technology was already out. What makes you think that whatever existed before 'Neuro Goggles FMD' wasn't extremely similar to the Neuro Goggles? It could just be an upgrade to the original visor model... Though I agree that there are plenty of plotholes and contrad...

Um.. The fact that there are different types of Data Drain has already been established. We all know the Guardians have a weaker type of Data Drain. That doesn't disprove my theory, since it could fit with 'my' theory just as well as it could fit with yours :? If Sora was Data Drained by a guardian,...

... Yeah, you COMPLETELY misunderstood and misread my post, thedudewhosadude. Actually, Sora fell into a coma because Skeith Data Drained him. I know. I just described that scene o_O;; I was just pointing out that the dialogue for that scene is yet more decent evidence for the theory that Data Drain...

Another thing that supports Dry's theory that after playing in the world for a while your nervous system has been 'locked onto' enough that you can be put into a coma permanently by Data Drain, is this dialogue from the last episode of .hack//SIGN (version translated by ANIME-kraze, and I won't see ...

The woman he fell in love with. She died.

Any more questions?

You might be looking a little too deep into this, or at least going down the wrong path. Maybe the connection is between Hermes and Liminality? On some level, the meaning of the word might be relevant, 'thrice greatest,' but the most obvious relevancy of it seems to be a connection to what the word ...

I guess cell phone waves interacting with the brain could work just as well for keeping people connected to The World ^_^ I was just trying to be dramatic~~ The first instinct of most people who hear the name 'Neuro Goggles' in the .hack games will probably be to write off the names as just being a ...

Yeah, I know. That's pretty obvious. My question was, why are you saying something that seems to have absolutely nothing to do with anything else discussed on this thread? o.O;; Did you misread one of the things I said about Macha?

Explain...

It's never stated outright that I know of, but there are numerous things throughout the .hack saga which strongly suggest that there just HAS to be some sort of direct neural interface (oh, hey, aren't some of the goggles named something like that? Neuro Goggles or something?) between the goggles an...

Hn, k, reply time. I don't understand your explanation for Tokuoka - aren't all the coma victims 'just human's? :P Mai's explanation is clearer, but I haven't seen that theory substantiated by the games or Liminality, and there are other possible interpretations for why she was the only one who came...