The episode starts again with Yasako and another rumor she heard on the Net. She said that before glasses hit the market, the Nakatsu Crossroad was a mysterious place where many accidents occured. The statement is unrelated on the currents [...]
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Dennou Coil continues to be my favourite show of the season as we’re introduced to more details surrounding Kanna’s death when her diary is found by Yasako. The awkwardness between her and Haraken is portrayed with the restraint and eloquence that I’ve come to expect from this show but sadly the second of the two [...]
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Rejoice: Dennou Coil is back! Apparently, the break and recaps weren’t meant to give the animators some time off, or to catch up or something similar; the timeslot for Dennou Coil was just occupied with baseball. Sorry about that. Anyway, with this episode, the story gets fired off again, with a very high emphasis on [...]
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I think it’s better for me to keep doing updates at regular junctures, rather than committing myself to episodic summaries - I have neither the time nor the inclination these days. That said, I feel slightly guilty for doing this to Dennou Coil. It’s by far the best anime of the year by anyone’s reckoning [...]
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“You know, I’m all for giving the animators enough chance to catch up and all, but I’m beginning to get really pissed off when there hasn’t been any Saiunkoku Monogatari or Dennou Coil for FOUR SUCCESSIVE WEEKS! Because yes, this week is yet another recap. This time, told in the perspective of Akira. Seriously, I’m [...]
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Recap. It’s nothing special, though. Unlike Bokura no, this really isn’t a series where a recap works. Basically, it was aimed at young children, to explain the plot and characters a bit to them. Throughout, we see a few shots of the voice-actors for Isako and Fumie, explaining this, sometimes accompanied by a giant Sacchi-balloon, [...]
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電脳コイル Dennou Coil - 02: Cyber Investigation Agency Summary: In the last Episode Yasako and Fumie were running away from Satchi. Fumie uses a "Wall Barrier" to ward off Kyuu-Chans and "MetaTag Spray" to distract Satchi. Today's Poll: Do you have Anti-Virus programs in your computer?
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You may have noticed I’m not doing episode-by-episode reviews any more. Basically, blogs such as T.H.A.T. and Star Crossed are quicker than me on that front, and do it better into the bargain. Watching several in a row before reviewing them is easy with Dennou Coil though, mainly because it’s an absolute joy to watch [...]
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Now that I’m getting used to the terminology in this show, I’m finding it easier to follow the story and get taken along for the ride. Yuuko Amasawa is introduced properly as a new classmate to Yuuko Okonogi and Fumie (I’ll be calling the Yuukos by their nicknames from now on to prevent confusion!), and [...]
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電脳コイル Denno Coil - 01: The Kids with glasses Generated by Flickr Album Maker I really nearly missed this one if not for Balureiter blog who wrote something about this anime. Its really a treat to watch and something different from the anime out there today. Video the first episode here or read the summary. Summary: Our Story begins in Daikoku City with Yuko, Kyoko and Denskue (a virtual pet) coming to the city by train to meet their mother. While waiting for their mom The 3 later discover an illegal and Denskue gets lost while chasing it. Yuko then for the first time meets the Cyber Investigation Agency
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Episode 8 “Kids that have fallen asleep with their glass on end up going to the other side.” Yasako had a dream being on the mysterious staircase again. There was that, probably, male voice calling to her and telling her to be careful [...]
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This episode continued to flesh out the Illegals. While the previous was a comedy, this one was a tragedy. There’s no Daichi this time, or Kyoko. This episode was all about Denpa, and it turned out really sad and overall an incredible episode. Only a heartless bastard would not be moved at the end of [...]
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So the responses to yesterday’s full-frontal assault GITS-style on the blogosphere were mixed, interesting, and nothing less of what I’d expect from you guys. Among others, Mike shows his true elitist colours. Roxas made a pie-chart. DS talked about illusion of depth. JP Meyer pulled an Abyssal One, sounding a lot like Riful in the [...]
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This episode was wrong on so many levels, but I think everyone can see that by looking at the screenshots. It’s not what it looks like, honestly. ^^; Basically, those hairs are tiny illegals who have settled on the faces of people. It looks quite hilarious and wrong if you don’t know what’s going on. [...]
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Remember the very first piece of promo-art that got released for Dennou Coil? The one where we saw Yasako, underwater with strange beasts swimming around her? This episode tries to shed some light on that by showing a new kind of Illegal: a fish who feeds on scenery. This fish has its own surrounding of [...]
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“Metabugs” are the underground currency traded according to their “stock market” value for software and other goodies in the virtual world (this explains why Daichi and co. are able to repair the massive amounts of damage their cyber-glasses suffer if they’re hording this stuff). Both the Hacking Club and the Coil Agency make a [...]
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*STILL no screencaps since VLC has decided to throw a temper tantrum* There have been a couple excellent shows this season that have proved that we as fans are as spoiled as a rich kid on Christmas morning…my coverage of them has sadly gone on temporary hiatus now that they’re licenced. With a bit more spare [...]
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The building up of the first number of episodes has finally started to pay off. Until episode eight, this was just a show with a large amount of imagination and some interesting fights, but starting with episode 9, I started to really care about the different characters. This episode provided a great aftermath for that [...]
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Episode 4 Amasawa is new to the class, but is giving everyone a cold shoulder including Daichi who was asking her her to join his all-boys club. Daichi wouldn’t let that pass and makes a prank against her. It only backfires causing his system/glasses to overload. He won’t stop though [...]
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Whoa, this episode is not to be missed! It starts out like random filler, but ends up to be the perfect example to demonstrate all good qualities of Dennou Coil. It’s got hilarious moments, the mystery is excellent, a huge amount of characters play some kind of role, and some major revelations are made. Everything is [...]
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