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NEWS: Dennō Coil Wins Award from Japanese Sci-Fi Writers

It mainly features kids and uses more kiddy-like art but I don't think it's a kids show, just like Kaiba isn't a kids show. Certainly the level of appreciation would not be as high among the 4kids crowd.

Shiroi Hane wrote:

The thing about Dennou Coil is that it is a kid's series.

I wouldn't go that far. It's a story that can be enjoyed by children and the most of its main cast is children, but like Narnia or Wall-e or Miyazaki films, the story and the character relationships have excellent depth and solid writing, meaning someone of any age can get something out of it. One feature of a truly well-crafted story is that it can be enjoyed by multiple age groups and/or multiple times by the same person at different ages, and I think Dennou Coil fits that description.

- it is a kid's story that can be enjoyed by adults.

[quote=Shiroi Hane]The thing about Dennou Coil is that it is a kid's series.

After hearing great things about it, I tried looking up free fansubs on YouTube, but they had nothing on this series. I bought the first import volume straight from Japan. No English subtitles, but I could tell just from the look of it it would be something I'd like. But again it wasn't subtitled, it was only a couple episodes on a $50 disc, so I had no intention of getting the rest online.

So they better license this at *some* point. I realize they're nit-picking just the best of the best of what could sell, but if someone did a sub-only release like Media Blasters does, then nobody would lose so much money right? I'd appreciate a dub, but whatever it takes for me to make this a part of my library, I'll be appreciative enough.

pachy_boy wrote:

After hearing great things about it, I tried looking up free fansubs on YouTube, but they had nothing on this series. I bought the first import volume straight from Japan. No English subtitles, but I could tell just from the look of it it would be something I'd like. But again it wasn't subtitled, it was only a couple episodes on a $50 disc, so I had no intention of getting the rest online.

I'm not gonna advocate anything illegal, but if you paid for the show I think its ok to get those episodes in a way that you can actually watch them.

some say its a show for kids.

I hate how with pretty much anything people will chime in with 'children's show'. It's not clear cut. It also doesn't matter. Either a show is good, or it's not. If it's not, I don't understand why people feel it's worth the time to come bash it, usually on solely an emotional "oh I didn't feel grown up watching this". Go watch "Keys to the VIP" or some other big adult show then, grownup.