“Children in AR-driven Daikoku City investigate virtual corruption as Coil detectives, uncovering dark truths behind mysterious viruses.”
Den-noh Coil
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Synopsis
Children in AR-driven Daikoku City investigate virtual corruption as Coil detectives, uncovering dark truths behind mysterious viruses.
In the near future, augmented reality has become a key part of daily life. A gentle middle school girl named Yuuko "Yasako" Okonogi and her family have just moved to Daikoku City despite rumors of people disappearing. There, her grandmother, nicknamed "Mega-baa," runs a shop called Megasia that specializes in illegal tools which interact with parts of the virtual world. Mega-baa also hosts an unofficial detective agency called "Coil," a group of children around Yasako's age who find and handle corruption of the virtual world. Yasako gets involved with the group when Fumie Hashimoto, a playful member of Coil, helps rescue her cyberdog Densuke after getting trapped in virtual space while chasing a mysterious virus. Also investigating these corruptions and viruses is an abrasive hacker named Yuuko Amasawa, who the others take to calling Isako. Can Coil discover the truths behind the mysterious viruses and corruption, and if they can, at what cost?
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Community consensus
Derived from 56 sampled reviews
What 56 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.38 · some divergence
4.8 pts
Recommenders 8.8 · others 4.0
↑ 0.39
Running avg · Nov 2007 → Dec 2025
- 9 “Look, Denno Coil has a great story, good characters, a pretty nice soundtrack, and everything you'd expect from a great series. I have no criticisms to offer regarding this show. You should...”
- 10 “Dennou Coil: A Circle of Children was an unexpectedly great show, and definitely one of my favorites (if not the most favorite)! This is a story about kids with glasses that allow them to see a...”
- 9 “The series was very slow and child-like in the very beginning...but about halfway through it was CRAZY AWESOME! The plot thickened with every episode and the cliffhangers were outrageous. The...”
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- Format 26 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 50m all episodes
- Aired May 2007 – Dec 2007 Spring 2007
- Source Tv media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-1982 catalog
Produced by
- Bandai Visual Producer
- NHK Producer
- Tokuma Shoten Producer
- Mediarte Entertainment Works Producer
Licensed by
- Maiden Japan Licensor