What if what you do as a player in a game impacted your real world? What is reality?
A fourteen year old boy named Kite ponders just this in the .hack series. While playing the game, .hack, both Kite and his friend are attacked by an unknown monster. As a result, Orca enters a comma in the real world. Despite his friend's condition, Kite continues to play the game in hopes of finding a solution to his friend's mysterious state. Kite is eventually endowed with the very same power that put his friend in a comma, and he is forced to struggle with this power and prevent it from consuming him.