Welcome to The World, the most advanced online game ever created. In The World you can be anyone you want to be, act out your adventure fantasies and through teamwork and determination, you can even become a hero. 14-year-old twins Shugo and Rena just won a contest that lets them play as the legendary avatars 'Kite' and 'Black Rose.' Armed with the power of the Twilight Bracelet, the two must discover what is causing rogue monsters to infect The World and carry on the legend of the .hackers. .hack is a multimedia phenomenon unlike any seen before. Released simultaneously in Japan as a series of Playstation 2 games, two different anime shows and a manga series, each piece helps tell the greater story of .hack. The first anime series is seen on Cartoon Network, the first of four Playstation 2 games is a top-seller and now the manga picks up the story with all new characters and adventures. Original character design for .hack was performed by Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, perhaps best known for his work on Neon Genesis Evangelion. The .hack//Legend of the Twilight manga was originally published in Japan by Kadokawa as .hack//tasogare no udewa densetsu (known more familiarly in the U.S. as .hack//dusk).