![]() ![]() It is explained that a metabug represents a special kind of software bug, and from their unique properties they can be refined into tools or metatags by skilled craftsmen. The market value of a metabug can change according to its supply and demand. The underground virtual currency of Daikoku is known as meta, which is equivalent to the Japanese yen, and is traded in the form of "metabugs". In one scene, Fumie Hashimoto uses a metatag to control a traffic light. It is also shown that the virtual space represented in Daikoku is tied to the city's electronic infrastructure. Eventually Searchmaton reformats the obsolete space. Due to a version mismatch between the dog and the space, Densuke finds himself glitching and destabilizing in the environment. In the first episode, the virtual dog Densuke falls into an obsolete virtual space outside of the spatial reality of Daikoku. The virtual side of Daikoku is shown as an emerging space, requiring constant maintenance. Searchmaton, the maintenance & antivirus bot of Daikoku, is constantly on the lookout for illegal objects and damaged space, which includes corrupted or obsolete space, computer viruses, and the pets and tools that the protagonists own. ![]() ![]() While users of dennō eyeglasses cannot be physically harmed by virtual weapons, their costly personal data and virtual possessions can be damaged. For a virtual object or pet to be deleted from cyberspace, it can be attacked by a virtual weapon, such as Searchmaton's beam weapons. Virtual objects and pets are also susceptible to a form of "death" by data corruption or deletion. Virtual objects such as pets cannot be recalled or reset when a pet runs away, it must be chased and caught in 3D space. ![]() Metatags, which can be used to damage virtual objects or enhance them with certain properties, are visually represented as o-fuda (paper talismans). a fishing rod) which occupy 3D virtual space and must be manipulated by hand. Software tools are visually represented as tactile tools (e.g. Interaction with the virtual world is handled in a similar fashion to contemporary video games. The visors also work in conjunction with futuristic ear monitors placed behind the ear, which allow the wearer to hear sounds from the virtual environment. To visually confirm something as virtual, the children often lift their glasses from their eyes. This allows them to see virtual reality superimposed on objective reality. The children access the virtual world through Internet-connected visors called dennō eyeglasses. Yasako uses her augmented reality eyeglasses and ear monitors. Literally translating to "electric brain" The title of the show itself, Dennō Coil, refers to the dangerous phenomenon of the separation of one's digital self from the physical body. As their research turns up mounting evidence of children who have been whisked away to the mysterious "other side" of reality, they find themselves entangled in a conspiracy to cover up the dangerous true nature and history of the new technology.ĭennō is the word used in the series to differentiate between virtual and real, e.g. Yūko joins her grandmother's "investigation agency" made up of children equipped with virtual tools and metatags. In 2026, eleven years after the introduction of internet-connected augmented reality eyeglasses and visors, Yūko Okonogi moves with her family to the city of Daikoku, the technological center of the emerging half-virtual world. ![]()
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