Nerd Tip Of the Day: "Dennou Coil" and Frakking Up MUNI Style!

I really should be updating my "real" blogs (I have some good stuff for both) but it's the end of a nice sunny day and I'll post those pieces shortly. For now, it's time for some good old fashioned nerdy anime chatter. My pimpslap of the Bay Guardian and a look at the latest plan to "save" MUNI will come later, in more formal forums....

Thanks to the anime reviewer at Memento I found out about what looks to be a very interesting anime from Japan, Dennou Coil . Although I am not watching this in HD (an 867 mhz G4 12" powerbook just can't do it without hiccups), it's been said that if you DO get an HD copy, it looks really good. Looks aside, what makes this series interesting is the world it posits, just a decade (or perhaps a decade and change) from our world . In the world of Dennou Coil, people (in this case kids) wear special visors that add a layer of the virtual world on top of the physical world.

Thus, in this series, a young girl has a pet "dog" that only exists in the virtual world, and without the clear visors, one cannot see nor interact with it. However, the "dog" interacts with the physical object of the world outside, walkign around obstacles and the like if he was real (although sometimes he gets clobbered with an object and the dog's "body" gets all  static-like).

This series just started in Japan a few weeks ago, and I'm getting the unlicensed version via BT for now. I don't know that this series will be imported into the US ever - for a US market that wants More and More Craptacular anime like "Naruto" and other similar teenage tripe, a "Family" show like this may not make it past the US importers.

Thus, it is up to the "fansub" folks at this website to give us a chance to see what is possible with animation these days.

Helpful Unrelated Hint: When you write a really long and involved posting with lots of links, for that blog everyone seems to like , whatever you do, temper your enthusiasm to get it done "fast" and bypass your Rule About Not Composing Online. You can avoid a MUNI Style Screw Up really easily that way!