As Madman Entertainment’s December 2012 releases have already been mentioned on The Otaku’s Study, I think it is only fair that I also mention Siren Visual’s set of three to be released on the 6th (This Thursday). This includes one new title and two complete box sets – one of which was my Australian Anime Release of the Year 2011.
Siren Visual’s release schedule is as follows:
New Titles
Number 6
DVD | Hybrid Dub | $49.95 | 300 Minutes
In 2013, after the great war devastated the world, six city states remain, created by The Babylon Treaty. Sion is a boy assessed as having the “highest-ranked intelligence” at age 2, allowing him access to the luxurious “Cronos” living area. On his 12th birthday, he meets a troublesome boy called Nezumi, who has just escaped from a reformatory and on the run from the authorities. As punishment for harbouring a fugitive, the Public Security Bureau strips Sion of all his privileges, resulting in expulsion from “Cronos”. After four years of banishment, Sion and Nezumi meet again, resulting in the revelation of the secrets and mystery behind the city No.6.
Box Sets
Dennou Coil
DVD | Japanese Dub | $79.95 | 640 Minutes
Dennou Coil (aka: Coil – A Circle of Children) is an Anime First sci-fi series animated by studio Madhouse and made it’s original run on Japanese television in 2007. Dennou Coil is set in the fictional Japanese town of Daikoku, the testing ground for an Augmented Reality project that involves crafting a cyberspace that overlaps the entire town. By using specific glasses, people are able to interact with this overlapping cyberspace, allowing them to carry on with their normal lives in addition to being permanently connected to the internet through their glasses, essentially concentrating all modern portable media devices (phones, MP3 players, Laptops) into one set of non-intrusive glasses. With the appearance of ‘glitches’ in this augmented reality, a thriving hacker culture soon emerges amongst the children of the city.
Dennou Coil tells the story of Yasako, a girl who moves to Daikoku together with her mother and little sister Kyoko with her virtual pet Densuke (an augmented reality dog that only people with glasses can see). Upon arriving in the town, she finds herself intergrated into the glasses community of the local children, and discovers that her shrewd grandmother has become a focal point for a major club of these children, called the Coil Cyberinvestigation Agency. This leads to later encounters with the enigmatic Isako, a girl with abnormally powerful hacking skills who seems to be hunting for computer viruses in the system known as “illegals”.
Over the course of 2011 Siren Visual released Dennou Coil over two collections as an Australian-exclusive English release and earned itself The Otaku’s Study ‘Australian Anime Release of the Year 2011″. Reviews can be read HERE and HERE.
Needless
DVD | Hybrid Dub | $79.95 | 600 Minutes
All of the Earth’s cities became targets of bombings and were bathed in frightful red flames. Half a century has passed since then. The contaminated former epicenter is still isolated from the city of Tokyo creating a hole in the middle of Japan commonly known as the Black Spot.
As time passed, people began to inhabit this wasteland. They were deemed unnecessary by those who lived in cities. Among these people were the ones who could command strange abilities – fire, wind, gravity… they had the ability to control these supernatural powers. Thus, those who possessed Fragments were regarded as… THE NEEDLESS!
Siren Visual released the series over two Collections during 2011. Reviews of these collections can be found HERE and HERE.
In Other News
Review of [C] will be the next to be released on The Otaku’s Study.
