Dennou Coil
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電脳コイル (Dennō Koiru) |
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| Genre | Science fiction |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Mitsuo Iso |
| Written by | Mitsuo Iso |
| Music by | Tsuneyoshi Saito |
| Studio | Madhouse |
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| Original network | NHK-E |
| Original run | May 12, 2007 – December 1, 2007 |
| Episodes | 26 |
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| Written by | Yūko Miyamura |
| Published by | Tokuma Shoten |
| Original run | April 4, 2007 – November 20, 2010 |
| Volumes | 13 |
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| Dennō Coil The Comics | |
| Written by | Mitsuo Iso |
| Illustrated by | Kuze Mizuki |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Magazine | Ciao |
| Published | July 3, 2007 (magazine) October 31, 2007 (tankōbon) |
| Volumes | 1 |
Dennō Coil (電脳コイル Dennō Koiru, lit. Electric Brain Coil or Computer Coil), Coil—A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality (AR) technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an emerging citywide virtual infrastructure. It follows a group of children as they use AR glasses to unravel the mysteries of the half real, half Internet city, using a variety of illegal software tools, techniques, and virtual pets to manipulate the digital landscape.
Dennō Coil, in development for over a decade, is the series director debut of Japanese animator Mitsuo Iso. It premiered on NHK Educational TV on May 12, 2007. Due to the animators involved in its production and its unusually high-profile television broadcast time slot, Dennō Coil was highly anticipated. An English dub Den-noh Coil was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Maiden Japan in June 2016.
In 2026, eleven years after the introduction of internet-connected augmented reality eyeglasses and visors, Yūko Okonogi moves with her family to the city of Daikoku, the technological center of the emerging half-virtual world. Yūko joins her grandmother's "investigation agency" made up of children equipped with virtual tools and metatags. As their research turns up mounting evidence of children who have been whisked away to the mysterious "other side" of reality, they find themselves entangled in a conspiracy to cover up the dangerous true nature and history of the new technology.
Dennō means "computer" and is analogous to the archaic English term "cyberbrain". In the series, the word is used to differentiate between virtual and real, e.g. "dennō cat". The title of the show itself, Dennō Coil, refers to a dangerous separation of one's digital self from the physical body.
The children access the virtual world through Internet-connected visors, which they refer to as megane, the usual term for protective or corrective eyeglasses. The visors allow them to see virtual reality superimposed on objective reality. To visually confirm something as virtual, the children often lift their visors from their eyes. The visors also work in conjunction with futuristic ear monitors placed behind the ear, which allow the wearer to hear sounds from the virtual environment.
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