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.hack//Alcor
¡¿Un nuevo rival para la campeona Alkaid?!
Nanase, una usuaria del universo The World, está enamorada de Silabus en secreto. Pero a Silabus le gusta Alkaid, la popular campeona del Torneo de la Arena. Para acercarse a él, la tímida Nanase entra a formar parte de su gremio, y conocerá a varios PJ con los que no está segura de poder llevarse bien. Lo peor de todo es que acaba provocando las iras de Alkaid...
¡Una nueva historia dentro del universo .hack//G.U.!
Nanase, una usuaria del universo The World, está enamorada de Silabus en secreto. Pero a Silabus le gusta Alkaid, la popular campeona del Torneo de la Arena. Para acercarse a él, la tímida Nanase entra a formar parte de su gremio, y conocerá a varios PJ con los que no está segura de poder llevarse bien. Lo peor de todo es que acaba provocando las iras de Alkaid...
¡Una nueva historia dentro del universo .hack//G.U.!
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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December 28, 2025
3/5 Sometimes our admiration of others causes us to lose ourselves. Named after an invisible constellation, Nanase struggles to shine on her own. She lacks coordination, isn’t the smartest tool in the shed, and socially awkward. She constantly compares herself to the most popular girl in class and can’t advocate her herself. Rather, all she does is imitate others. Instead of facing her problems she turns to playing an online game to escape. Will she be able to find herself and embrace who she really is?
.Hack//alcor is a cute, albeit empty read. What could’ve been a fun adventure about self discovery ends up being a rushed mess. The character growth is there, but so many details are glossed over that you’ll be scratching your head. Regardless, the supporting cast are all likeable and Nanase is easy to relate to. Somewhere in here is a sweet story about a budding friendship between two opposites but author Amou Kanami struggles to flesh things out and offer higher stakes. Fool triumphant stories require deep transformation to be compelling. Nanase’s change is just so rushed it isn’t believable.
If not for its semi-likable characters and adorable art, .hack//alcor would be completely skip-able.
.Hack//alcor is a cute, albeit empty read. What could’ve been a fun adventure about self discovery ends up being a rushed mess. The character growth is there, but so many details are glossed over that you’ll be scratching your head. Regardless, the supporting cast are all likeable and Nanase is easy to relate to. Somewhere in here is a sweet story about a budding friendship between two opposites but author Amou Kanami struggles to flesh things out and offer higher stakes. Fool triumphant stories require deep transformation to be compelling. Nanase’s change is just so rushed it isn’t believable.
If not for its semi-likable characters and adorable art, .hack//alcor would be completely skip-able.
September 28, 2020
Silibus-sempai...notice me!
To be honest this has not been the best of the .Hack manga to come out. Perhaps it is because it is a one shot so it is pretty short and maybe it is because there is not a major glitch or villain for the main character to overcome but it is not a bad story.
So basically this is a story about a girl who uses the name Nanase when she play in the World. With a bit of an inferiority complex she tries to mimic people she admires but her shyness and fears inhibit her imitations. Wishing she could be braver and more impressive like the famous Alkaid Nanase wants to be noticed by her guild leader whom she has a crush on. So as a story about a girl discovering the strength to be herself it is a good story but short of having characters connected to the .Hack universe and being set in the World this story is not going to affect any of the other stories including G.U. where I think this book is taken from.
To be honest this has not been the best of the .Hack manga to come out. Perhaps it is because it is a one shot so it is pretty short and maybe it is because there is not a major glitch or villain for the main character to overcome but it is not a bad story.
So basically this is a story about a girl who uses the name Nanase when she play in the World. With a bit of an inferiority complex she tries to mimic people she admires but her shyness and fears inhibit her imitations. Wishing she could be braver and more impressive like the famous Alkaid Nanase wants to be noticed by her guild leader whom she has a crush on. So as a story about a girl discovering the strength to be herself it is a good story but short of having characters connected to the .Hack universe and being set in the World this story is not going to affect any of the other stories including G.U. where I think this book is taken from.
November 13, 2021
It's just a cute one shot story of a girl learning to become her own person. The art is cute and the story is fine, I don't really have any complaints. Super short read, but if you do not know what goes on during the games of .hack//GU (or the light novels), then I wouldn't recommend trying to read this.
January 13, 2020
As a long time .hack// fan I really enjoyed this story. While it doesn't lend overly much to the world of .hack// as a whole I found it to be a cute story that ties in well with the main series. I think it is nice to see The World from the viewpoint of people that aren't main characters.
September 2, 2019
2,5/5
El dibujo esta bueno, la historia no me termino de atrapar
El dibujo esta bueno, la historia no me termino de atrapar
February 4, 2021
Not the best rpg/mmo mangas out there, the story isn’t that good but I liked the character designs and art was pretty good😁❤️🎮
January 14, 2022
A decent read on a character that doesn't have a huge impact on the story
December 14, 2023
It's a cute little side story to the GU series! Only one volume, so a very quick read, and well worth.
September 28, 2014
You know, for a .hack// spin off, there wasn't a whole lot of anything to this.
This is my second time reading it, and I honestly couldn't remember a thing about it when picking it up again. Turns out it's not because I have a bad memory but because there was nothing to remember.
This piece of fluff follows a character named Nanase, who if she appears in the .hack//G.U. game serves no purpose other than unmemorable NPC you can talk to. She interacts with Silabus, Gaspard, and other important G.U. characters, but her interactions provide no extra or special insight into the already well-developed .hack// universe. Nanase was part of the PK guild Kestral and then switched to Canard, and then I think Moon Tree at the end. She's insecure, and that insecurity provides the backbone of the plot.
Honestly, this tale didn't even need to take place in the .hack// world. It could have been any generic MMO, as nothing particularly special about "The World" is instrumental to the plot. We don't see any data bugs (well, I think we do for, like, two panels, but it's not important to anything and could have been cut). We don't learn anything particularly interesting about any of the characters who appear in medias. We don't even get the Silver Knight cameos I've come to expect of most .hack// incarnations. Fact is, this doesn't add anything. It's just a fluff piece.
Also worth noting is that the Tokyopop release has some printing issues (or at least the copy I've got). Because TP didn't reproduce any of the color pages, some of the formerly colored pages are so dark and fuzzy that it just looks like black ink spewed on a page. Yeah, you can read the speech bubbles and kinda make out what's in the picture, but it just looks terrible. All black-and-white color pages are like this.
So overall, you're not missing much.
This is my second time reading it, and I honestly couldn't remember a thing about it when picking it up again. Turns out it's not because I have a bad memory but because there was nothing to remember.
This piece of fluff follows a character named Nanase, who if she appears in the .hack//G.U. game serves no purpose other than unmemorable NPC you can talk to. She interacts with Silabus, Gaspard, and other important G.U. characters, but her interactions provide no extra or special insight into the already well-developed .hack// universe. Nanase was part of the PK guild Kestral and then switched to Canard, and then I think Moon Tree at the end. She's insecure, and that insecurity provides the backbone of the plot.
Honestly, this tale didn't even need to take place in the .hack// world. It could have been any generic MMO, as nothing particularly special about "The World" is instrumental to the plot. We don't see any data bugs (well, I think we do for, like, two panels, but it's not important to anything and could have been cut). We don't learn anything particularly interesting about any of the characters who appear in medias. We don't even get the Silver Knight cameos I've come to expect of most .hack// incarnations. Fact is, this doesn't add anything. It's just a fluff piece.
Also worth noting is that the Tokyopop release has some printing issues (or at least the copy I've got). Because TP didn't reproduce any of the color pages, some of the formerly colored pages are so dark and fuzzy that it just looks like black ink spewed on a page. Yeah, you can read the speech bubbles and kinda make out what's in the picture, but it just looks terrible. All black-and-white color pages are like this.
So overall, you're not missing much.
July 29, 2012
I don't understand why this needed to be a .hack tie-in manga - this story could have just as easily taken place in any fictional video game universe and been exactly the same. Also, having the character designs for both video game avatars and their real-world player counterparts be the same is super lazy. Certainly not the best addition to the .hack universe.
April 21, 2010
A cute story of a girl who idolises another girl at her school, along with one in the online game The World, but it leads her to discover she doesn't need to copy others, and just needs to be herself.
August 15, 2012
I think it could have used more story. It kind of just ended without really explaining what was going on. Otherwise it was a pretty good little story.
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