Audience reviews
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RyanSpring
Den-noh Coil is quite the polarized mixed bag of an anime with clear strengths and weaknesses. I will give it credit where it's due in the upcoming sections, but I'd like to jump head first into the elephant in the room. Den-noh Coil is, quite simply, too slow and too boring for too long. More than half of the program, probably closer to two thirds of it or more, moves at a snail's pace, does the absolute bare minimum to advance the plot and spends way too much time featuring characters that are ultimately minimally relevant. The "payoff" in the latter part of the show is overstated. Yes, it's significantly faster, more engaging and overall better than what came before it, but that's largely due to just how underwhelming the first chunk of the program is, which is not the correct way to do…
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INTRO [Kira-bugs! Got to catch ‘em all!]
Dennou Coil is one of the best family oriented action series I know of. Although it is aimed at a younger audience it also has a lot of attention in its writing, visuals, and storytelling, easily elevating it to something far more than a proxy battle anime. What sticks out the most is its great presentation of augmented reality. You know, like in Pokemon GO where the world around you is full of digital creatures you can only see and interact with by using a device. It does that here, plus it gives the players the motivation to look around for resources they have to gather so they can cash them in for digital currency and with it buy all sorts of weaponry. It’s not a throwaway gimmick, it builds an entire world around it and explores it in numerous…
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Interesting story and concept, but very bland execution.
Characters are dull, ranging between being annoying (Kyoko) to lifeless (Yuuko, Kenichi, Denpa), with very little in between. The art, while pleasant on the scenery, is very ugly here giving characters somewhat simian features with horrible pear-shaped heads and ape-like snouts. Only one characters stands out (Megabaa), and it's not for its beauty either. I won't mind a show with visually unappealing characters, but it just adds to the dissatisfaction and when so much of the show revolves around their feelings that stands as an obstacle against relating to them. Were there many redeeming features elsewhere this would've been a non-issue.
Then there's the one antagonist, the Searchy (Sacchi) which is constantly showing up to fire la…
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Taking place in a surprisingly plausible future, Dennou Coil's story revolves around a group of kids struggling to grow up in the first generation of a society influenced by the introduction of AR glasses. The glasses open up another side of reality, not unlike a child's imagination brought to life.
The show’s shy and squirrelly protagonist Yuuko Okonogi moves to a new city to live with her grandmother, accompanied by her younger sister and her AR dog. On her first day in town, she encounters a high-strung but good-intentioned girl named Fumie. She’s a talented hacker who's skilled at using the tool known as metatags and at avoiding the big red smiling robots known as searchamatons (or sachis) who serve as antivirus for the virtual side. The sachis zap away anything they find in outdated…
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This is a kid's show.
Yes, it deals with themes about death and moving on. Yes, it involves complicated plots and settings that'll have you double-guessing whether something actually happened in the show or not. Yes, it treats characters and events in a much more mature light than other kid's shows.
But none of that's gonna change the fact that this show, in its best and most genuine moments, is a kid's show.
This is a very different kind of show.
It's a show that frames mature events or themes through the eyes of a handful of innocently young children, all still in middle school. It's not a show about teenagers struggling through depression. Nor is it about adults struggling through life. It's about a handful of kids.
Because of this, the show is almost free from the limitations that…
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I'll say this first and foremost, this anime is not for everyone.
No spoilers review
When I see you reading here, I am expecting that you've already read the synopsis so I wont have to repeat it twice.
Story:
Viewer Ratings can be somewhat deceiving. As this show is rated G, the first thing that you will think of is that this anime is rather simple and lighthearted. But no, says this show, add a little twist and make it a little complicated. I hope this author knows that he overdid it. The First part: 6/10
This anime starts right off the bat without explaining even the tiniest bits of information(except for the synopsis). Well this is bad(but not very bad) in a sense that the viewers will not get most of it and instead it expects you to get it piece by piece. The story layout in the fi…
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Dennou Coil is a sci-fi series from that particular studio I have a love-hate relationship with, Madhouse. It's one of those uncommon anime that's not based on anything and was entirely studio created. It did get manga and light novel adaptations, however. I can't even give a good guess as to its quality since Madhouse has made both some of the best and the very worst anime I've ever seen. Let's take a look.
Dennou Coil takes place in a futuristic world where people can use glasses to view and interact with a world of cyberspace. Our protagonist is the young Okonogi Yuuko. Her family moves to Daikoku City. Yuko quickly encounters a strange black being from cyberspace called an “illegal.” The story revolves around the mystery of illegals, obsolete space, and a young encoder named Amasawa Y…
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This is one of those stories that are neither particularly plot driven nor character driven. If anything, it's rather forgettable. The story is bland and the characters not likeable. The wham comes in at episode 21 and there are too many filler episodes before that to the point that I sometimes wonder why I even continue watching it until the end.
Story:
Well, the premise of the anime seems good but the execution isn't quite done right. There are too many coincidences that are there just because it has to be there. The plot is based on discovering hidden files from the past an re-remembering old memories rather than real occurrence and I find that pretty annoying. Throughout the story, there is this feeling that there is something big that is about to be revealed but it turned out that t…
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When people partake in the enjoyment of various mediums of storytelling, it seems a lot of people tend to forget about what sits at the center of it: the story.
Dennou Coil's obvious appeal is in its story. The setup is outstandlingly creative; no synopsis can really do it justice. There are aspects and mysteries about just the cyberspace itself that have to be seen to be believed. There are more than enough questions to keep those junkies guessing. It may sound simple at first, but there is simply much, much more to everything than meets the eye.
The story takes a little while to get rolling, but once it does, it'll grab you and won't let go. My only major complaint is that there's essentially no initial setup for you in the beginning; instead, we are plunged headlong into some action w…
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New problems arise when modern technology is being introduced.
In the world of Dennou Coil, this is yet another truth.
The story takes place in the near future, where glasses would allow us to interact with virtual entities. As a result, virtual creatures are being augmented in our reality. It became very popular to own cyber pets; A.I. that lives in a world parallel to ours, called the Cyberspace.
The viewer follows the story mostly through the eyes of a certain Okonogi Yuuko, one of the many kids who play around with the glasses. She recently moved in to Daikoku, a city with unique virtual features. For instance, there's Satchii, a giant robot-like creatures that governs the safety of citizens by attacking "illegal" cybermateria. These materia consist of mysterious creatures called Ill…
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Last week I started watching Dennou Coil and yesterday I already finished the 26th and last episode. Not many anime pull you in this vastly but Dennou Coil had me super-glued to my screen.
The story starts frenetically introducing the main character Yuuko "Yasaka" Okonogi who moved to Daikuko City just recently. One by one characters and elements are thrown to the audience but never spoiling the mystery which covers it all. Dennou Coil's plot is one of the greatest I've come by ever since I started watching anime. Everything has its place in a puzzle that's led down piece by piece.
At the beginning the art may not seem shiny eye-candy but its simplicity works perfectly for this anime and even adds depth to the surroundings and characters. The intro and ending songs made me sing along eac…
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OVERVIEW (10)
Dennou Coil is probably one of the most artfully constructed anime I've watched and yet it remains light-hearted and fun throughout. There were only a few episodes of "filler" but even these were pretty fun to watch.
The opening theme, "Prism", caught my interest right away, but it was the concept and character development that really sucked me in. As the story progresses, it really deepens, and you realize that the digital "layer" of reality is actually an extended metaphor for something much more.
This is a fresh take on the age-old "growing up" plot line. The interaction between the kids is very believable as are their internal struggles, which are far more age-appropriate than in other series, without being too childish for older viewers. There are some life-questions t…
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Dennou Coil might very well be the most difficult anime series to evaluate with nothing more than a simple numeric grade. It's odd combination of childlike charm and philosophical substance make it a very on and off show, yet the unique execution of it makes this a rewarding show for those willing to sit through it's few dragging bits.
Story; 10. The story in DC really does begin to develop as you would expect your average kid's show to progress. The elements are all there, however the plot is executed with far more complexity than a kid's show, and is interwoven in a way that allows it to stand center stage, yet coexist with the enticingly fun childish atmosphere brought about by the various other aspects of the series. Another interesting point is the "filler" in DC. There are a handful…
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TITLE: Dennou Coil
ANIME: Dennou Coil was directed by Mitsuo Iso (well known for his key animation work on early Ghibli movies and Neon Genesis Evangelion) and was produced by Madhouse (well-known for their work on Death Note and Paranoia Agent). It ran on Japanese TV from May 12th, 2007 till December 1st, 2007 and, as of the time of this writing, has not been licensed Stateside.
STORY: The year is 2026, eleven years after the technology to turn the internet into augmented reality by the use of immersive "cyberglasses" was developed. Yuko "Yasako" Okonogi, a young girl in sixth grade, moves to Daikoku City, the center of the technology behind the glasses, and is strongarmed by her grandmother into joining her "investigation agency", composed of children with powerful illegal software cod…
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I will say this first: there are very few series that have wrung out such a wide array of emotions from me in such a way that Dennou Coil did. One of my friends even said I was cold-hearted for the way in which I didn't cry at anything she cried over. Still, Dennou Coil has made me laugh, cry, and feel downright freaked out (as in, scared, not "OMG THIS IS AMAZING" freaking out, though I do think this anime is quite amazing).
I will admit that the first half of the series is a bit ridiculous and feels very episodic. It's more of a "slice of life" anime than anything else, but I still got the sense that there was something much deeper under the surface - and I was right! Don't get me wrong, though. The first half of the series is still enjoyable, but it just doesn't feel deep enough to rea…
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I almost dropped this series halfway through, but I'm so very glad that I didn't.
STORY - Dennou Coil's story is a very unique and interesting take on a popular old subject: digital technologies and the human consciousness are both subjects that have been explored for years. Usually though, a series' protagonists are similar in age to its primary target audience, but that doesn't seem to be the case here as Dennou Coil's themes are actually rather sophisticated and suggest a complexity beyond what may be expected when the characters are in the 10-11 year old range. The connection between the consciousness and a digital projection of oneself has been examined in series such as Ghost in the Shell, but it's definitely interesting to see this sort of stuff with Digimon-aged characters. The st…
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Dennou Coil is an anime that portrays the overlapping of a virtual world and reality, but focuses mostly on children and how their lives and relationships are affected by it.
Story: 10
The series present a very intriguing plot, with secrets being revealed little-by-little, without blatant verbal explanations by the characters like those sometimes found in other sci-fi anime. Each episode starts with the main character mentioning some sort of rumor or urban-legend related to that specific episode, bringing up more how mysterious the actual functioning of the virtual world is, and how important are those rumors spread among children themselves in order to solve those mysteries. The plot darkens and speeds up around the second half of the anime, but the first half is nowhere near boring or o…
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Dennou Coil is an anime series about a circle of children who are growing up in a city that is becoming increasingly virtualized. The female lead, Yasako, owns a cyber pet. Giant robots named Satchii wander the city applying software patches (even the city buildings are part virtual) and eliminating viruses and other illegal or malicious software-- using lasers, apparently. The characters wear special cyberglasses that have all the features of modern computers and much more. It's all pretty cool if a tad unrealistic and I was hooked after the first episode, although it took me pretty long to finish the rest.
To start off, the story is pretty good. The anime slowly draws you deeper and deeper into the central mysteries of the series, always letting you know enough to keep you satisfied but…
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Denno Coil in my opinion is not a good anime and I cannot recommend the series so therefore it gets a very low 4 rating.
The story borrows heavily from full metal alchemists and the collection of kirabugs to open up to the "otherside" is completely unoriginal.
The art is great in the way it combines cg and cartoon seamlessly however, the colors are not vibrant and the drawings are a bit 2d looking and plain.
Sound is nothing special voice acting is average and the soundtrack is poor despite a great opening theme song.
Characterization has some depth and it tries to be complex, however, one of the main characters is the dog, densuke. He is a great character but unfortunately is hardly in the tv-series, he plays a major part later on, but the tv series would of been much better if he pl…
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Dennou Coil is a very intriguing Sci-fi anime showing the fun possibilities of mixing reality with virtual reality, whilst including supernatural elements that adds a lot of suspense and mystery to the story. ^_^
The story basically follows the adventures of different elementary kids who are trying to uncover the secrets of this augmented reality. As the series begins it doesn’t give the viewer much to go on, except a few things you’ll notice and able to pick up on straight away. Once having a basic understanding about what this whole plot and story is about, it becomes very interesting to watch, as these little kids end up discovering different mysteries. The characters themselves are pretty ordinary and don’t really do much for the story, accept later on once the story…
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