Thursday, January 10, 2008

Dennou Coil

I have been watching anime for almost my entire life. The last 10 years or so I've lost some interest thanks in some part to Adult Swim's anime block. I do enjoy Hayao Miyazaki's films and some of the newr stuff coming out of Japan has knocked my socks off. Like Fooly Cooly and the new Witchblade series. Now thanks to the wonderful entity called the interweb I've found a streaming website called

http://animethat.com/

They got a ton of series they would never show on tv here in the states and a new intriguing one called Dennou Coil.

In 2026, eleven years after the introduction of internet-connected augmented reality eyeglasses and visors, Yuko Okonogi moves with her family to the city of Daikoku, the technological center of the emerging half-virtual world. Yuko joins her grandmother’s “investigation agency” comprised of children equipped with virtual tools and powerful metatags. She quickly crosses paths with Yuko Amasawa, an expert hacker of the virtual environment, as Amasawa relentlessly seeks to gain the powers of a mysterious cyber-entity known as Michiko. The protagonists are driven to unravel the mysteries of the virtual world in the shadow of a powerful hacker that came before them.



These are a couple clips from first episode (sorry it's only in Japanese with english subtitles)



I urge anyone who likes anime or animation in general to check out AnimeThat!, it's down there in the Missing Links section.

1 comment:

By George said...

Well I don't do anime. Except I did like the original Ghost in the Shell
the movie.

I Love! sci fi though and animation. Just not anime. I think part of it stems from when I liked in Okinawa between the ages of 9 - 12 Watching Japanese cartoons. Just didn't like it..I can however say that I did see the original Speed Racer's though.