FEATURES - .hack Part 1: Infection A fourteen year old boy named Kite is invited by his schoolmate, Orca, to play the online game The World. While playing the game both Kite and his friend are attacked by an unknown monster. As a result, Orca becomes comatose in the real world. Despite his friend's condition, Kite continues to play The World believing he'll find a way to revive Orca. While playing The World, Kite accepts The Twilight from Aura, a mysterious girl in white. Kite is transformed into an Outlaw player within the game wielding the very same power responsible for Orca s condition. While paying the online game The World, two junior high school game club friends, Mai Minase and Tomonari Kasumi both lose consciousness. Mai recovers but Tomonari remains in a coma. Although CC Corporation, the maker of The World, insist there is no relationship with the strange events and the game. A mysterious man named Junichro Tokuoka approaches Mai and suggests they both set out to investigate the CC Corporation and the reasons behind the phenomenon taking place throughout the world.