.hack//Another Birth: vol. 2//Mutation
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Overview:
- Title: .hack//Another Birth: vol. 2//Mutation
- Author: Miu Kawasaki
- Year: 2006
- ISBN-10: 1598164481
- Publisher: TokyoPop
- Price: $7.99
- Pages: 207
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: .hack//Another Birth: vol. 2//Mutation
- Notes:
- Originally published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. in 2004.
- The second of four volumes that adapts the anime series that was based on the video game into novels.
- Supervised by Kazunori Ito, character designer.
- Profusely illustrated by Tomcat and Waka of CyberConnect2 according to Miu Kawasaki's Postscript in volume one.
- Translation by Duane Johnson, and English adaptation is Stormcrow Hayes.
- Character Files is two pages of thumbnail character biographies and portraits, and is reprinted in all four volumes.
- History of the World is short history of the on-line reality game world.
- Art Files is several pages of character designs for the anime.
- Epitaph of Twilight is written by the off-stage deceased character Emma Wielant and is the basis for the creation of The World and the excerpts are buried in the text of the novel.
- There is a German edition.