The Fine Art of Reading Three Point Text

[Shinsou Wotan]

There's an image from the trailer that I don't think has ever been discussed here:

If you look below the names, and above Welcome to "The World", you will see some exceedingly small type. Magnifying it doesn't help much, but looking back and forth between the original and two magnified versions, I can make out a substantial bit of it.

First comes a listing of "G.U." meanings, which I have attempted to transcribe:
gather up gateway of utopia g?????? u?????? guide to upheaval guardian of ubiquityg???? of u??????????
generation of u??????????? g?????? u?????? guilty universe geek's utopia G???? from Urd Genesis of Ultima Gate of Uroboros

The next two lines are more interesting. They seem to consist of various "AIDA" meanings (why did we assume that "Artificially Intelligent Data Anomaly" was the only one?):
Automatic ???? ????????? ?????????? Agent of ?? ????????????? ??? Anti-???????? Device for "AURA"
Appear from Illusions and ????? in the Actuality AI which ???????? ?? ??????? Automated Ideal Data Acquisition Abrupt ??????? ?????????? ???????

[The Partisan]

DANG! Your good, Shinsou. You never cease to surprise us.

I've tried looking through those credits as well, but only for song titles and artists. Your's are exceptionally keen eyes to notice such a monumentous spoiler.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never doubt the power of a fanboy.

[Vylen]

im most intrigured by Anti-???????? Device for "AURA"
it comes to show that Aura has some importance in this game....
iirc, there were previous arguments about whether or not Aura was still around due to her statue not being around... or something like that

[The unknown twin blade]

read the homepage not the bbs the homepage with all the .hack info it says that gu,is fragment.

[Dragoon2044]

I never thought about what those credits said in that picture. I want to know more of what it means. Device for "AURA". Also there is Anti-????????. From the question marks Morganna could fit inside or Tri-edge. Between the two I would say Morganna because I would believe Aura would have some kind of defense against possible remnants. Of course it might not be that either. It could be bracelet or ''hungry hippos'' for all we know.

[Umbra]

I never thought about what those credits said in that picture. I want to know more of what it means. Device for "AURA". Also there is Anti-????????. From the question marks Morganna could fit inside or Tri-edge. Between the two I would say Morganna because I would believe Aura would have some kind of defense against possible remnants. Of course it might not be that either. It could be bracelet or ''hungry hippos'' for all we know.

You must remember that the words have to fit the letters they stand for. For example, Anti-??????? Device for "AURA", the unknown word has to begin with 'I' to fit AIDA.

It could be 'Infection', 'Integration', etc.

[sirk]

the first reads
-automatic idea(?) demanding affection
then
-agent ?? dominational act(?)
as for the next one, the only word that comes close to that to me is intelligence.. so:
-anti-intelligence device for "AURA"
i doubt this next one.. but:
-appear from illusion and dance(?) in the actuality
-ai which decides an adversary
and
-abrupt invisible(?) devastation(?) ???

that's what i got...

[ashlay]

Automated Ideal Data Acquisition
Anti-???????? Device for "AURA"

hmmm...those two sound a little bit like morgana and the phases....
(and there was that morgana eye in one of the trailers....)

kudos for taking the time to try and read such small print. wonder why the listed those there though....

edit: one more thing. including the initial meaning:
1. Artificially Intelligent Data Anomaly
2. Automatic ???? ????????? ??????????
3. Agent of ?? ????????????? ???
4. Anti-???????? Device for "AURA"
5. Appear from Illusions and ????? in the Actuality
6. AI which ???????? ?? ???????
7. Automated Ideal Data Acquisition
8. Abrupt ??????? ?????????? ???????
same number of meanings as number of phases. might not mean anything, but worth mentioning.

[Grey]

-ai which decides an adversary

Ahem....Tri-edge, maybe?

[Ziegfried]

Hey, good job Shinsou Wotan, I never thought of that. And I'm the biggest ".hack//" nerd in existence! I'm gonna check that out too!

[Light Kagutsuchi]

Very interesting. G???? from Urd in particular.

Urd is the norn of the past in Nordic mythology so, it could be Ghost from Urd (Tri-Edge or perhaps Aura if she still exists.) or maybe even Gifts from Urd.

URD is also an acronym for User Requirements Document. Odd how a lot of these terms have secondary meanings in computer related fields.

apparently there's a Well of Urd too. From Wikipedia:

The Well of Urd (ON: Urðarbrunnr) is from Norse Mythology as the well in Asgard which fed one of the roots of the Yggdrasil. Also near the well in a hall are three Norns (or Nornir) that tend the well - Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, personifications of fate. They engrave the fate of all humans onto the trunk of the Yggdrasil and attend to the needs of the tree. Odin, the Poetry god, dropped his eye into the well to gain the "Gift of Knowledge." Odin completed two other tasks to gain the "Gift of Poetry" and the "Mysteries of Nature."

[adamgnome]

Why do they always have to have hidden meaningis or double meanings for everything in GU!! It's so confusing!! It's making me even more excited!!

"Automated Ideal Data Acquisition" Sounds a lot like what the 8 phases in the old games were orginally supposed to do.

I'm so glad they mentioned Aura though!!

I also caught the Urd mention, there was one of past, present, and future. I remember reading a lot about them but you already mentioned wikipedia so anyone can just find out there.