The post at OGIUE MAXIAX is an old news, but I meant to mark it as a perfect example of what a trained critic sees in Dennou Coil. Look at the big paragraph in the middle with "the storytelling is subtle without being excessively obtuse" and such.

Myself, I suddenly suspended it at ep.08, right after giving it accolades. Then, the watchings quietly continued at a rate of one episode in three months and crawled to the finish of ep.12, where Nanoha put an end to it. The nuclar war filler was retarded anyway, I fast-forwarded quite a bit.

This view, I guess, would bang me together with comment-polluting naysayers at OM (which is not that bad of a company, even Omo lifted a paw there), but it's difficult to say if Dennou Coil itself was no good, or I just burned out in general. In any case, I'm not looking forward to R1 DVDs.