Dennou Coil Episode 1 – A World Half-Submerged in Technology

In the world of Dennou Coil, the world you see in front of you isn’t exactly what it seems. With the help of these special glasses, a world you never imagined before appears around you.

Even after watching this episode a bunch of times (with subtitles), a lot of things were still not quite understandable. So, please bare with me on the names and such… I tried as best as I could, honest ^^;

Summary

Okonogi Yuko, her sister Kyoko, and their cyberpet dog Densuke are moving to Daikoku City to live with their grandmother. As they’re riding on the train, they notice an ominous fog which Yuko describes as a bad omen.

In the meantime, a dark creature called an illegal appears somewhere in the Daikoku City. A young girl (Isako?) attempts to capture the illegal by using a cybercat as bait. However, she is interrupted by a flying sentry drone called Kyuu-chan. The Kyuu-chan attacks the illegal and they all run off in separate directions.

While waiting to get picked up at a fast food place, Kyoko runs off with Densuke and Yuko chases after them. They find a trail of black cyber-substance which leads to the illegal that appeared earlier. The illegal starts to run away and Kyoko and Densuke run after it while Yuko tries to catch up. However, Yuko loses sight of them after they take a turn at the corner.

We then meet Fumie. She’s part of a group called Coil Cyberinvestigation Agency which is a group of kids that search for lost cyberpets. Anyways, Fumie’s on a job to catch a cybercat named Hepburn but, as she’s about to catch him Daichi, a boy from the same organization, startles the cat and it gets away. Fumie and Daichi get into an argument and go off on their own ways to find Hepburn.

Yuko mistakenly catches Hepburn thinking that it was Densuke and Fumie finds her and accuses her of stealing her job. However, Yuko has no idea what Fumie is talking about and Hepburn gets taken away for a sum of 200 meta (which seems to be some sort of underground currency since Yuko doesn’t know what it is). Yuko also receives Fumie’s business card in the confusion.

Yuko remembers that she can track Densuke with the help of technology and brings up a map of his whereabouts. While searching for Densuke, she is attacked by the illegal and accidentally creates a hole in the cyberspace when trying to hit it away with her virtual map. Densuke then comes running to save Yuko from the virus and in the scuffle the illegal and Densuke go through the hole as it was closing, trapping them both in some sort of obsolete cyberspace.

Kyoko finds Yuko at the scene of the incident and they try to look for Densuke. We then get a flashback to when Yuko was younger and when she first received her glasses and when she first met Densuke. Yuko and Kyoko get picked up (by their mom?) but, Yuko continues to look for Densuke without Kyoko.

Yuko calls Fumie to help look for Densuke for the sum of… 200 meta. Fumie asks Yuko how exactly Densuke went missing and thus Yuko told her about the hole in the wall and the illegal. When Yuko mentions something about a mysterious living creature, Fumie realizes that it was an illegal and informs someone over the phone about its presence.

Fumie and Yuko investigate the area and enter an empty construction site. Fumie asks Yuko to hold up a piece of metal as she sprays “Kuro bug spray