#Den noh Coil

[regarding-stories]

Satisfying mystery: Den-noh Coil

I'm not going to spoil this one, since it's such a satisfying story to experience. "Den-noh Coil" is a mystery story revolving around 6th grade children that use augmented reality (AR) glasses. The town they live in is an experimental space where the technology was tried out first. Kids, the most enthusiastic users, are drawn to the many wrinkles in the technology, hacking and spamming each other and the town's very aggressive (yet cute) AR "anti-virus", Searchie.

The show starts playful with the kids' shenanigans, but gets increasingly serious and dark, with horror overtones as it goes into its last third. The reasons why I recommend to watch it are several:

A deep mystery, involving multiple layers, that is completely resolved and explained towards the end of the show.

Rich world-building, with information about the setting being introduced partially through show-not-tell, partially through exposition dumps.

For all the episodes of the show that feature the main plot, rather good pacing, with the children being dragged along by events escalating and the viewer struggling to keep up with following what is revealed (but can manage).

Consistently great artwork, memorable characters, and fantastic imagery.

The story is emotionally touching and portrays emotions very well. In fact, all the main characters have an emotional motivation that they would follow well beyond the bounds of reason.

It is self-contained! You can walk away after having watched the show and would need no further media (no manga or light novel needed to continue), and you do not need to wait for sequels or anything.

Given how much ground the show has to cover, I was quite surprised that it even manages to contain a filler/recap episode, just to remind us of all the plot developments up to this point.

With the last episodes I was reeling. I was not sure the plot threads would resolve, nor the mystery, or if the end could be satisfying. The mystery grows as more elements and actors are introduced, but if you stay till the end, you would find that it does so in a logical fashion. Given the complexity of the matter, the end remains satisfying and follows from what was presented in the show.

As for the name, "den-noh" ("dennou" in more typical transliteration) means "electric-brain" or "computer" or "cyber." What a "coil" is will be revealed late in the show. Given that the show premiered in 2007, it's odd that it took a long time to really make its appearance in the West, but now you can stream it.

Highly recommended.

[avillanappears]

my grandpa he is zero years old

[dude1818]

While doing some research for a submission to the @hauntthenarrative poll, I found an old Reddit post discussing a timeline paradox in Dennou Coil and I cannot figure a way out either. Basically, the inciting incident for the story goes like this:

Yasako's grandfather dies and she goes to Daikoku City for his funeral

He bequeaths her a pair of cyberglasses and a Nintendog (cyber pet)

While playing with the glasses, Yasako accidentally wanders into the Coil domain

She meets and befriends 4423, and gives him a kiss

Isako sees this and freaks out, destabilizing the Coil domain

Yasako runs away and meets the cyberecho of her grandfather, who guides her home

Meanwhile, Isako's doctor sees that the Coil domain is collapsing and goes in to rescue her

Isako is woken up but the doctor dies

The problem? Isako's doctor is Yasako's grandfather! His death is what caused this chain of events in the first place!

[bluecube92]

Some roles by Brittany Karbowski.

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[myanimediary]

Den-noh Coil

ENG Title: Cyber Coil

JP Title: 電脳コイル

Adventure・Comedy・Drama・Mystery・Sci-Fi TV・26 Episodes Year: Spring 2007 Studio: MADHOUSE Character: Yuuko Okonogi ( 小此木優子 ) Fumie Hashimoto ( 橋本文恵 ) Oyaji ( オヤジ)

[murmurlilies]

my favorite anime of all time 😩👓

[lady-laureline]

starting my first watch of Den-noh Coil, on a scale from 1 to 10 how broken am I going to be

[drink-n-watch]

Top 5 Grandparents in Anime

Top 5 Grandparents in Anime

As I write this, tomorrow is apparently international grandparents day, and you know what that means. It means! It means anyone who is a grandparent gets to commit one crime without consequence. Just one! Buckle up! If we all survived international grandparents day and are still around when this post finally publishes, I have decided to put together a little tribute to anime grandparents hoping…

[etakeh]

Hey I've seen this show!

It's fine.

Totally fine.

Nypd pigs ain't shit as per usual

[eshasunrise]

My dad bought Girl by Moonlight. How do I recommend he watch Serial Experiments Lain?

Question is more nuanced than that, but it's still a good overview. Basically, my dad bought an RPG book about magical girls and queerness called Girl by Moonlight, and he was having trouble wrapping his head around the fourth category of play: Maze of Dreams. My brother and I immediately thought of Paprika and Lain. The problem is, we'd have to explain either of those shows to my father, which would be an uphill battle mostly due to the surreal, dismal, and conspiratorial nature of both shows' plots, plus the inherently dissociative and obscured structure of each show.

My first idea was a sort of "warm up playlist' to work his way into Paprika. Starting with "Technology as Dissociation" as a premise, I would recommend Ghost in the Shell (95), Psycho Pass, and Den-Noh Coil. Maybe Flip Flappers. From there, I'd push him towards Lain, for the more psychological aspects, and then Paprika after he was accustomed to digging through layers of obscurity. The problem is, my dad likes media to be happy and be with friends. He's an inherently social person who likes media that other people like. I engage with these shows passively, watching them and then digesting them over long periods of time. It's hard to gush about them because they aren't meant for that sort of enjoyment.

My brother's suggestion was instead to find a video essayist who made videos analyzing these kinds of stories to get him invested in, or at the least understanding, the concepts behind them. The problem there is finding video essays that both understand the point of the shows, and act as appealing watches in their own right. I don't have that much time/patience to dig through multiple multi-hour videos about an intentionally depressing topic.

If anybody has recommendations of introductory anime or video essays to recommend to him, please let me know. I think this is the kind of story he would love (he loves the concepts behind World of Darkness properties, but dreads the edgelord players it attracts, plus he actually understands the Matrix and Madoka Magika), but convincing him of that with deliberately hard to watch anime is hard as hell.

Bonus points of you can manage this without giving him gender dysphoria.

[some-movies-ive-seen]

Den-Noh Coil (2007, 26 episodes)

Rating: 8/10, honestly probably a 9.

I'm not huge into anime; I used to be as a kid/teen. But this was so fricking cute. Just really well thought out, lovely animation, beautiful story. The ending was sad, sort of reminded me of that anime "dango, dango, dango, .... daikazoku". Forgot the name, but that song was in there.

No this was just really special. VA was flawless, as with pretty much any anime tbh. Loved the soundtrack and sound design.

The story really hooks you, and I love love love the twist. Could've been better, and there were a few episodes which felt like filler, but overall it was so good. I will absolutely watch this again.

[mollyjames]

me every time I make a friend sit through all of den-noh coil and we get to the last two episodes

[dude1818]

Imagine having an e-girl on your apocalypse survival team. She is so funny. I also love that she had internet-enabled hair color in the first episode, but obviously that’s disabled now

Don’t you just hate it when the space crabs attack?

Dennou glasses!

It’s also interesting that the digital signals the moon-kids are picking up with their implants feel very imago-like. Even some of the imagery, like the alchemical sigils for hacking, overlap

The faces in this show are also incredibly well-done. So expressive

[bluecube92]

Same Voice Actor #19

[subtexter]

okay i'm gathering image for a project and... THEY REALLY MADE THE "SORRY YASAKO IF THIS LOOKS GAY TO THE VIEWERS" SCENE THE COVER OF THE LAST DEN-NOH COIL DVD???