G.U.＋

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Title	.hack//G.U.+
Volume(s)	5
Author	Tatsuya Hamazaki
Artist	Yuzuka Morita
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten
Publishing Magazine	.hack//G.U.: The World Comptiq magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
ISBN Number(s)	ISBN 4047138290(Volume 1) ISBN 4047138630(Volume 2) ISBN 4047139068(Volume 3) ISBN 4047150096(Volume 4) ISBN 4047152102(Volume 5)
Japanese Release Date	June 23, 2006 September 21, 2006 March 26, 2007 March 26, 2008 March 26, 2009
US Release Date	February 12, 2008 June 17, 2008 September 16, 2008 January 2009 September 1, 2009

.hack//G.U.+ is a manga that follows an alternate version of the events of the G.U. games, akin to the relationship between the original 4 games and the .hack//XXXX manga. It was first serialized in .hack//G.U. The World, and three volumes have been released in graphic novel form in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten.

The first twelve chapters were serialized in the .hack//G.U. The World magazine and as of April 2007, in Comptiq magazine.

Contents 1 Story 1.1 Characters 1.2 Chapters 1.2.1 Part I 1.2.2 Part II 2 Gallery 3 Trivia

[edit] Story

Taking place seven years after the events of .hack//QUARANTINE, G.U.+ follows the player Haseo, a powerful PKKer known as "The Terror of Death". Haseo is obsessed with an infamous PKer known only as "Tri-Edge" who attacked a close friend of his sometime in the past. The manga details Haseo's search for Tri-Edge, and his eventual inclusion in a mysterious group known as "G.U."

[edit] Characters

• Alkaid
• Asta
• Atoli
• Bordeaux
• Endrance
• Grein
• Haseo
• Iyoten
• Kazumi
• Kuhn
• Negimaru
• Ovan
• Pi
• Sakaki
• Sakubo
• Shino
• Tri-Edge
• Yata

[edit] Chapters

[edit] Part I

• 1. Tri-Edge
• 2. The Lost Ones
• 3. The Epitaph Users
• 4. Endrance's Cat
• 5. An Avatar Awakens
• 6. Serial Murder
• 7. Logout Impossible
• 8. Azure Kite (Original serialization), Limits and Conflicts (Graphic novel)
• 9. Atoli's World
• 10. Breakdown
• 11. AIDA (Original serialization), AINA (Graphic novel)
• 12. Holy Ground - "Key of the Twilight"

[edit] Part II

• 1. Letter from the Dead
• 2. Security Division 2
• 3. Xth Form
• 4. RA Plan
• 5. Sample
• 6. False God
• 7. Cubia
• 8. Where it Began
• 10. Omen

[edit] Gallery

Volume 1 cover	Volume 2 cover	Volume 3 cover	Volume 4 cover
Volume 5 cover

[edit] Trivia

• Due to contradictions with the plotline of the games, G.U.+ is usually considered non-canon.
• Tatsuya Hamazaki, the story-writer to G.U.+, also made the storylines of the G.U. Games and G.U. Novels, and both the anime and manga versions of Legend of the Twilight.