2022 #art | #ドットハック

this was a little christmas gift we coordinated with a bunch of people. at the time we hadn’t officially come out with the name “mode gone” so including myself in it was kind of as brazen as it got

alright i'll play a new pokemon for the first time in like... 10 years

the photo is in the net cafe I drafted a lot of the plot in. the chapter also takes place in a net cafe. this is probably all of my .hack knowledge at full force while trying to maintain any semblance of “storytelling,” all based on one line of prose in the original bullet that didn’t sit right

we need to stop saying “pieces of media”

this photo was taken by me at a climate protest in toronto

this photo was taken by my friend when she was a teenager. the same friend would go on to make the soundtrack for infinite red!

maybe my favourite chapter

amazing japan nightmare unlocked; I brought a bunch of small coins that had piled up to be counted at the bank and it actually costs a hefty sum to deposit them as they need to be counted. I am literally losing money

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this was one of, if not the best chapter I wrote. the illustration was done by Zyunoe, who used my terrible 30 second sketch as a base for the illustration (see attached)

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In case you didn’t know: I translated ALL of .hack//Versus—a .hack fighting game from 2012—from 0, and it’s been fully playable in English for almost 5 years! Check it out!!!!!! falions.net/installation #dothack #ドットハック

新作めでたい！！🥳

Don’t have much to say about new .hack info other than what has already been said!! But here’s a quickie doodle of “what’s Their deal?” Haha

man we are so back

A new face to learn #art | #ドットハック

my prized .hack possession is probably this illustration of flugel by Matsuyama himself (just for me!)

Want to get into .hack but don't know how? I made the .hack//LIST for that exact reason: a handy way of organizing literally EVERYTHING .hack-related by release order! take a look: falions.net/dothacklist #dothack #ドットハック

A new Famitsu interview about .hack//Z.E.R.0. has dropped with new info & new concept art for the title! It explains how this new game will be the culmination of everything CC2 has learned & how it will restart dot hack from scratch. www.famitsu.com/article/2026...

there are two old guys in a car WE WON

.hack is .back

this is in my neighbourhood in Toronto; this chapter in particular was inspired by Matsuyama’s book about the food he would eat when he was poor

色塗りってさ・・・よくわからん。

this is the Yamaha keyboard I used from ages 6-13 in a failed attempt on my parents behalf of turning me into a pianist

photo taken near my old dormitory; there used to be a cheap kaisendon place around here. the old man never said anything to me, but the very last day I went there (I was moving so I knew it would be the last) he said “hot today isn’t it?” and I was so moved all I could do was nod like a maniac

Satoshi Kon talks about how Requiem for a Dream took from his film Perfect Blue (1997)

one of the few that was a stock photo. the other interesting thing in this chapter is the “home movie” ryuuji talks about is actually my own

This isn’t even Japan!!! It’s a photo I took in Taipei!!!

this chapter was a short story I wrote way before any kind of bullet sequel had been decided. it’s mostly untouched but it makes sense for it to be here

picked up the new kojima game

#art | #ドットハック PinkSea

#art | #ドットハック PinkSea

my life is just a cycle of charging my suica and contemplating riding the chuo line as far as it can go but going to work instead

the only thing that remains a true japan mystery to me is the distance between kitchen counters and cupboards. at 185cm the counters are too low to use without straining myself, but the cupboards are too high to see inside head-on. who is this for?

the origin of this screenshot is integral to understanding the intention of this chapter. it’s not a photograph

The title of this is of course a reference to the first episode of SIGN, which is because a character from that era appears here ever so slightly. The photo is somewhere in Nakano.

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It says Kobe, but this photo was taken in Kanazawa. I had never been to Kobe at the time of writing this, but someone had told me a story about someone they met there which led to it being where this character is from. eventually I became a kobe regular myself (teehee)

ハセヲ #ドットハック

these are obviously coin lockers, I think in osaka station? probably 2017

a restaurant in yokohama I believe no longer exists. I had only been living in Japan a month at the time, I was excited to go to Yokohama to see the ferris wheel at minatomirai that was also in .hack//liminality 2

somewhere in toyama prefecture; a road trip I went on with some friends

the background of this photo is taken from the 54th floor of Mori Tower in Roppongi; long exposure. I was just there the other day for an Evangelion exhibition and saw this exact vantage point for the first time since then, very nostalgic

almost every chapter preview that isn’t custat’s art is a photo I took. this is the view from my dormitory balcony when I was 20 years old, on the 8th floor facing tokyo skytree

.hack//XXXX読みました #ドットハック

(R:1) #ドットハック

Blue and Strawberry Shortcakes manga creator Kiriko Nananan died a year ago at age 52. Her death was revealed one year later at the wishes of her and her family.