Dennou Coil was recommended by many people, starting with my friend Joe (not an animeblogger, a catblogger). It was a while ago and I remember how unimpressive screenshots were: very basic art, bleak color key, computerized inserts. Now that I've seen it, I can say that the vicarious impression was true. The main thing I did not appreciate back then was how ghiblified characters were.

Still, it's not bad at all. Maybe I should replace "basic" with "laconic". The animation is artistic without undue exhuberance, inserts are kept to a minimum.

Overall Dennou Coil reminds me of Windy Tales, which sported beautiful yet rather sketchy art. Windy Tales also had an outstanding story in the first couple of episodes, which was abrubtly replaced with episodic shit. The analogy makes me apprehensive, but we'll see.

UPDATE: In end of ep.04, Ureshii failed to identify and translate the name "michiko" that [main] Yuko saw in the corrupted data.

V.odd. Unfortunately, Dennou Coil is far too complex for me to take raw.