Tsukasa is the main character in .hack//SIGN. He’s a contradiction in many ways: he’s a Wave Master (Juumontsukai or spell-caster) who doesn’t use magic; he’s wary but kind; shy but fierce. He’s clearly suffered some sort of trauma in the past, but never speaks of it. And most contradictory of all, Tsukasa may not even be a “he” at all…
The story of .hack begins when Tsukasa finds himself locked inside the online game The World. Not only can he not log out, he doesn’t even seem to see the computer he should be playing on! Wandering around disoriented, he attracts the attention of the Crimson Knights, a group of system moderators. Luckily, he has allies: a silent cat-like character named Maha, a voice, and a glowing, dumbbell-shaped “guardian” with a mysterious power that seems to affect players even outside of The World. But what do they want? Why is the area they haunt inaccessible to normal users? And who is the ethereal child who sleeps there?
