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INTEREST: Japanese Town Holds Dennō Coil Contest for Augmented Reality App


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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:24 pm Reply with quote
Whyyyyyy can't we get this show released over here. Sad
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:27 pm Reply with quote
Not enough boobs to make it over here. Luckily Siren Visual over in Australia has provided an affordable English language release.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:29 pm Reply with quote
Megiddo wrote:
Not enough boobs to make it over here. Luckily Siren Visual over in Australia has provided an affordable English language release.


What dvd region # are the dvds released in?
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:33 pm Reply with quote
Region 4.

Luckily region free DVD players (or ones where you can input a sequence of button presses to change it to region free) are quite cheap. And even easier, there is free legal media software that bypasses any of the region checking to play a DVD on the computer.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:37 pm Reply with quote
Top Gun wrote:
Whyyyyyy can't we get this show released over here. Sad
Too deep for American audiences. Not enough explosions? Chests too small? I cant think of a legit answer Sad
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:54 pm Reply with quote
I think this was once discussed on ANNcast.

With very few exceptions, the license-holder will only license for broadcast. The Australian release is an exception --- basically, the owner of the company went and camped out on their front-door until they agreed to license it to him.
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Chrno2



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:55 pm Reply with quote
Why am I constantly being teased about this show. It isn't fair. This has to be a cool event and inspirational for future developers. I got a question would Denno Coil be the first show covering AR? I was reading Animation magazine and they mentioned a show that got picked up from some country and they stated it was the first AR show. Of course I'm like, NO WAY 'Denno Coil' was. Hell, before Google glasses and stuff Denno Coil had that field covered before we got there. Help me out here.

Funny and we just got some news on a guide book for spots that appear in anime that are real.
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Shiroi Hane
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:04 pm Reply with quote
They were kids playing games that were essentially a form of augmented reality way back in Lain.
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dan9999



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:30 pm Reply with quote
Denno Coil is one of the very few masterpieces of the 2000s.

Kougeru wrote:
Top Gun wrote:
Whyyyyyy can't we get this show released over here. Sad
Too deep for American audiences. Not enough explosions? Chests too small? I can't think of a legit answer Sad


LOL,. not like it was super appreciated by the Japanese, no moe and no fanservice = no watch no sale.

If there is something the west love is complex stories, Dennoi Coil is one of them, much of its appreciation back then came and comes from western fans actually.
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Juno016



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:37 pm Reply with quote
Aide from Madoka, Dennou Coil is the other anime that really impacted me on storytelling in anime. Seeing it become relevant again brings tears to my eyes... ;w;
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kufirst



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 12:20 am Reply with quote
This makes me feel so good knowing this anime still has an influence. Hopefully we get a release in the States sometime.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:10 am Reply with quote
what a coincidence, am watching this right now haha.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:27 am Reply with quote
dm wrote:
With very few exceptions, the license-holder will only license for broadcast. The Australian release is an exception --- basically, the owner of the company went and camped out on their front-door until they agreed to license it to him.


I take it you mean licensing outside of Japan? Along with the original 2007 DVD release, there was a Blu-ray re-release in 2011?

I suspect it has less to do with the predilections of the rights holder than with the lack of sufficient audience overseas to make the costs of marketing and the like worthwhile. Shows about children, no matter how good they may be, have little appeal to the audience that buys discs in R1. Notice how other excellent shows like Kemono no Sou-ja Erin were never licensed for a disc release here either. Meanwhile a substantial number of ecchi comedies do seem get licensed every season.

dan9999 wrote:
Denno Coil is one of the very few masterpieces of the 2000s.

Absolutely. It pains me that Iso worked so many years to get his script produced then vanished from the industry. I give Madhouse a lot of credit for choosing to invest in his vision. I'm sure it cost them quite a bit of money to produce Coil, and I suspect even with sales averaging about 2,500 discs per release, they probably were lucky if they made much of a profit. The BD box sold a bit under 2,000 copies.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:57 am Reply with quote
dan9999 wrote:
LOL,. not like it was super appreciated by the Japanese, no moe and no fanservice = no watch no sale.

Sorry, but this myth, usually hiding some nationalistic or culture or aesthetic bashing agenda, needs needs to be struck down whenever it's brought up. Moe or fanservice don't guarantee video sales at all, where they include some of the worst sellers every year, and there are always best selling shows that defy this criterion.

The correct formula is: moe, fanservice, mecha, sports, fighting, action, drama, romance, etc, etc = buy manga and DVR and watch, no sale


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vanfanel



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:12 am Reply with quote
dan9999 wrote:
Denno Coil is one of the very few masterpieces of the 2000s.


I agree 100% for the first half. The second half stays so heavy for so long that it kind of wears out its welcome for me -- not a matter of storytelling so much as of tone. Maybe if they'd found room for just one more lighthearted episode before the end...
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