


Almost Kiss: At the end of the series, Itsuki is about to put his arm around Rina.How are you supposed to know that Itsuki's Gunslash and RINA's Twin Machineguns are named Radiant and Fray Fiora respectively? The show certainly never tells you.However, they are using real attacks from the game, but since no one ever mentions them, the viewer has to have at least a little knowledge of the existing Photon Arts to know what attacks are what. No one calls their attacks throughout the show.Action Prologue: The very beginning of Episode 1 kicks off with Itsuki and a multiparty mowing down waves of Darkers set to a mix of the Mining Base Defense theme, culminating in a battle between Itsuki and Dark Vibrace.Aborted Arc: The Phantoms are mentioned off-handedly once or twice, but are ultimately never dealt with and don't appear in the scope of the show their mention only serves to confirm the ties between the show and the game.A-Cup Angst: The Episode 5 outro card shows Tia as having this toward her bustier twin, Pati.Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation provides examples of: What connection do they have with Phantasy Star Online 2, and how is the strange transfer student Aika Suzuki linked to the darkness on the horizon? However, the game's rising popularity has also brought with it a rise in mysterious disappearances that are resolved as fast as they occur.

Itsuki Tachibana, an average high school student with no interest in the so-called " PSO2", is suddenly dragged into the world of online games when the Student Council President, Rina Izumi, recruits him to prevent the banning of PSO2 on Seiga Academy school grounds. In the country of Japan, the operating system "ESC-A" introduced a massively multiplayer RPG known as Phantasy Star Online 2, which is now a national phenomenon played by youth to old. It is now 2027 AD, where from Ether the "Ethernet" was born, a revolution in internet technology where anyone, anywhere has access to high-speed internet. In the year 2016 AD, a new particle known as Ether was made known to the world, capable of lightning-fast data transfer unlike anything the world had seen. Developed as the 8th project as part of the 15th anniversary celebration of the original Phantasy Star Online, Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation is an original 12-episode Slice of Life/ Science Fiction anime based on the popular MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2.
