Review of Den-noh Coil

Dennou Coil is an anime that portrays the overlapping of a virtual world and reality, but focuses mostly on children and how their lives and relationships are affected by it. Story: 10 The series present a very intriguing plot, with secrets being revealed little-by-little, without blatant verbal explanations by the characters like those sometimes found in other sci-fi anime. Each episode starts with the main character mentioning some sort of rumor or urban-legend related to that specific episode, bringing up more how mysterious the actual functioning of the virtual world is, and how important are those rumors spread among children themselves in order to solve those mysteries.The plot darkens and speeds up around the second half of the anime, but the first half is nowhere near boring or overly "happy".

Art:9
The virtual realm has a very interesting design. Mixing with the real world in the background, artifacts such as old version incompatibilities, dennou terminals and encodes seem realistic and functional.

Sound:7
The intro and outro songs fit well with the overall theme and pace of the anime, the background music is good and has a varied selection, but doesn't manage to impress.
Voice acting is solid and has a couple big names in the cast, the actors portray their characters beautifully, but the dialogues themselves don't offer much of a challenge in order for them to stand out very much.

Character:9
The main characters have very interesting back stories, personalities and goals. Those are often revealed slowly throughout the series along with the plot, and it is fun to watch how they juggle school, family, friends and other duties along with the investigations for the mysteries involving the glasses industry and the virtual world.