OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS. Dennou Coil is so good! SO GOOD. I just marathoned it over the course of 3 days.

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Such a sweet show! And so charming and imaginative! And those kids were all so adorable I wanted to squeeze the everloving piss out of them! (Except Daichi, he was probably covered in boogers.)

It's billed as sci-fi but it's really more science fantasy with a healthy dollop of horror. TV tropes describes it as "Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex meets Hayao Miyazaki," ahahaha that's kind of accurate.

The "strong female characters" are so out in force here I'm sure it's got to be deliberate. The girls and women do almost everything in this show. PLUS IT HAS THE MOST AWESOME OLD LADY EVER. A cantankerous old hacker lady. Also, re: Yasako and Isako...

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AND MIGHT I MENTION THE CRACK. Jfc, when this show does crack, IT DOES IT HARDCORE. The sentient beards episode. The sentient beards episode. No seriously, exactly what were the writers smoking when they came up with that plot? How do you even get to that point? "I KNOW, guys, what we need is some sentient beards! And they should start an inter-facial war!"

I just.



TERROR.