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Denno Coil

I'm so curious about what it would be like to live in this particular city as a person who's completely clueless when it comes to electronic things. The kind of person who doesn't even know how to turn on a computer, you know? Someone on another forum mentioned how none of the adults (besides Granny) in the series so far have been seen wearing dennou glasses, so concepts like Densuke and Satchii and Mojo are completely abstract to them. They're completely detached from the cyber world.

Yeah... man, the series has been like on a non-stop improvement; it's REALLY good.

Until I checked the credits I almost expected to see Konaka's name, what with the digital/real world duality that has been explored by him in Lain and Digimon Tamers.

And this is where I would like to ask for help. I've done a crude google search for finding out where to buy it, and so far I've found only this site (JBOOKS.com) which... doesn't seem to ship overseas. I cannot find a single other site that stocks it yet! How could I possibly get this...? I would be very interested in obtaining a copy of this, so any information would be greatly appreciated. Currently my only option would be to get someone from Japan to help me order it and ship it over, but isn't there some other place...?

I've never enjoyed an anime like this on a weekly basis like Denno Coil. (Last possibility would've been Paranoia Agent, and I was still rather ignorant of a lot of anime at the time, never mind fansubs.) Every single minute oozes with sheer quality and imagination. I have it rated as "Excellent" right now, but if it goes on like this I wouldn't hesitate to give it a "Masterpiece" as it does so many things differently from what's expected of anime and it does them so well. It's simply phenomenal.

See, while I agree that it's a great anime so far I wouldn't go that far. The animation, writing and direction have all been top notch, but my biggest hang-up (aside from that character) is the fact that the world hasn't been fully developed. I realize it's early in the series, but little details like "how are the beams hurting them?" always drive me nuts when I'm watching stuff like this.

And despite the imagination put into it I can't shake the feeling that I'm playing some kind of video game.

... I think the show I'm most enjoying this year is Gurren Lagann, if only because of its "shonen heart"/Kamina being pure awesomeness.

I was under the impression that the beams weren't really hurting people...

Just screwing up the glasses (which is apparently costly)...

wao wrote:

And this is where I would like to ask for help. I've done a crude google search for finding out where to buy it, and so far I've found only this site (JBOOKS.com) which... doesn't seem to ship overseas. I cannot find a single other site that stocks it yet! How could I possibly get this...? I would be very interested in obtaining a copy of this, so any information would be greatly appreciated. Currently my only option would be to get someone from Japan to help me order it and ship it over, but isn't there some other place...?

Yikes, I have absolutely no idea where to find that Roman Album. My advice would be to go to dormcat; he's much better at digging up online retail deals than almost anyone else I know.

And you haven't taken to Madhouse until just recently, Cloe? They've been my favorite anime studio ever since I start to learn about which one is which, and I'm probably their second biggest fanboy on ANN (DKL takes the top spot). Their resume is the best in the business, since you have such a wonderful variety of works coming out from them with something that just about anybody can appreciate, which I can't say for other studios. They've also been around for ages.

One question that's been bugging me and others, even Japanese fans, is - why can't they just switch off their spectacles? I hope this isn't a spoiler, but for the sake of argument I'll just mention in ep 6 it's shown that they can switch off their spectacles and Sacchi does not attack them. Hence, if one was super concerned about the money they'd have to pay in getting their stuff damaged then they could avoid it all by shutting off their specs. But I suppose for gangs like Daichi's it's a. cowardly and b. inconvenient to switch it off - because after that I guess they feel like they've got nothing to lean on, they can't communicate the way they used to, and they'd have to get far away before they can turn it on again. It's like using a PC in real life, you could avoid a good amount of viruses if you keep your computer disconnected from the Internet until you really need it, but for people who value constant connectivity (especially when it's linked with services like mobile phones) they'd rather find various ways to stay online for long times and avoid getting attacked rather than keep switching it on and off.