.hack//SIGN Episode 2

Episode 2: Guardian

Mimiru and Bear are worried as Tsukasa is unable to logout of the game. The Crimson Knights look upon Tsukasa as an illegal character and are out to capture him. He arranges to meet with Mimiru and Bear to show them his guardian monster.

Wow, where to begin with this episode. Again just a lot more stuff that I’m not really sure about. Turns out the Crimson Knight that Tsusaka’s guardian owned ended up passing out in front of their computer and waking up with amnesia. Shenanigans!

Tsusaka meets up with Bear and although he chats with him for a quick second doesn’t really spend too much time dealing with him, not to mention completely blowing Mimiru off.  We meet a new character Sora, I’m not sure who that blond chick is yet, or maybe I just missed them saying her name not to mention that other chick with the “wings” and axe. Anyway, Sora is a Twin Blade Player Killer who seeks out attractive female characters and attempts to obtain their personal member addresses.

I’m still trying to understand this cat character and what its deal is. Also, how crazy do you have to be to hear voices in real life let alone hear voices while you’re stuck in a game world? The cat’s talking but nothing is coming out of its mouth and Tsukasa is yessing it and then follows it! Often times on the internet people usually create an alter ego, someone they can’t be in real life, because lets face it if you’re spending that much time in a game it’s usually because you’re trying to get away from something that’s going on in your life or you just don’t have friends. I’m beginning to think that Tsukasa isn’t just emo in the game but is emo in real life too. I can’t understand for the life of me why someone would want to create a sad, moping alter ego to act out on the Internet. There have been subtle and not so subtle hints of not really wanting to get back to the real world.

So now Tsukasa is walking through walls much to Sora’s chagrin and he’s off finding pretty floating girls with a teddy bear and a bed out in the middle of the woods. It’s like an outdoor bedroom.

Haha, I wish someone WOULD tell me to reset the terminal ONE more time! It’s like they’re so obsessed in thinking that it’s impossible not to be able to log out that they just keep circling back to, “oh he just needs to reset his terminal” eye roll am I the only one listening? Dude already said he’s not sitting in front of his monitor he’s IN the game, like IN it to WIN it.

What’s the point in having a Guardian you can’t control and then magically gaining a soft spot of Mimiru? Tsukasa needs to make up his mind and Bear needs to simmer down before he ends up like that Crimson Knight. Although having the power to move about the servers with out the use of the gates is pretty sweet.

It’s definitely like an RPG in the sense that you start out by yourself and then as you try and figure “something” out usually a quest you pick up people a long the way to form your group. Even though most of them are interchangeable we all know that you have your core group which Tsukasa’s is currently made up of himself, Mimiru and Bear… and who knows, Sora might be a floater… I don’t know what Sora is, or those other two chicks, at least in relation to Tsukasa.