.hack//Link

Set in a fictional version of 2020, .hack//Link takes place in a new version of The World, the popular MMORPG series known as The World: RX. The story follows Tokio Kuryuu, a second-year junior-high student who is transported into The World: RX by a new student, Saika Amagi. After entering the game, Tokio is tasked by an artificial intelligence version of Kite with becoming a hero. He must use a tower of the Akashic Records to save the Twilight Knights, a group of artificial intelligence versions of characters based on casts from previous .hack games. Through the Akashic Records, Tokio travels back in time to earlier .hack entries, encounters past characters, and works to unfreeze the Twilight Knights' data.

In .hack//Link, junior-high student Tokio Kuryuu is drawn into The World: RX by the mysterious Saika Amagi. Guided by an AI version of Kite, Tokio travels through the Akashic Records to earlier .hack eras in search of the frozen data of the Twilight Knights.