In the Case of Mai Minase

In the first volume of the .hack//Liminality series, a Japanese school girl Mai Minase and her friend Tomonari Kasumi became unconscious from playing an online computer game and was rushed to the hospital. Fortunately, Mai Minase regained consciousness, but Tomonari remains in a comatose state. Later after the incident, Mai is one day on her way to school until she ran into a man named Junichiro Tokuoka who claims to know what caused her friend Tomonari to be in a coma. At that time, Mai doesn't know or believes him. Later, Mai had no choice but to believe Tokuoka and tries to find out how the popular online game, "The World" did this to Tomonari. Can Mai and Tokuoka find out clues about "The World" and wake Tomonari Kasumi up out of his coma?

Crew

Koji Sawai

Storyboard Artist

Toshiya Washida

Animation Director

Toshihisa Kaiya

Key Animation

Tetsuya Nishio

Key Animation

Yoshiyuki Ito

Key Animation

Yuriko Ishii

Key Animation

Kenji Irie

Key Animation

Masahiro Sato

Key Animation

Akiko Yamaguchi

Key Animation

Yutaka Nakamura

Key Animation

Tsuyoshi Konakawa

Key Animation

Shoko Nakamura

Key Animation

Toshiya Washida

Key Animation

Jun Uemura

Key Animation

Atsuko Inoue

Key Animation

Kenichi Yamaguchi

Key Animation

Rieko Nakai

Key Animation