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  • Audience-Alienating Premise: This is a likely reason why this series took so long to find an English license by a foreign publisher. The cute art style and young age of the cast seem to target children, but as the series goes on it starts touching on the sort of transhumanist, internet-related philosophical questions that would be right at home in series like Ghost in the Shell. Now, you could maybe tap into a certain market of childhood nostalgia clashing with such difficult topics, but the maturity of the story is also undermined by the persistence of soft sci-fi and Magical Realism, especially the ending.
  • Fan-Preferred Pairing: A large portion of the fanbase, particularly on Pixiv, seem to be supportive of Yasako and Isako, leaving Haraken to die for their favorite couple.
  • Les Yay: Yasako and Isako, who, based off events in the finale, go from zero to Almost Kiss in the span of three episodes.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Nekome manipulating Isako to the point of Mind Rape.
  • Paranoia Fuel:
    • Augmented reality works by processing input from cameras and other sensors to insert images of things that aren't really there. The glasses could well have sensors in them, which explains how it works when their pets are in front of them, but we regularly see the pets moving about where no one is looking, and they can observe and react to events that no glasses-wearing human was watching. They're used to spy on other glasses-wearers, as well, and they seem to do this just by looking at their quarry. So there must be sensors all over the place... even on private property, because the pets can walk around your home while you're not looking. Satchii is polite enough to ignore this, but a bunch of script kiddies have learned how to make their pets use those sensors to track your every move.
    • For the cyberbody separation of the Coil phenomenon to work there must be a constant overlay of the digital body on top of the real one when looking at someone through the glasses (same with making someone invisible - the glasses don't just add digital information they are replacing everything you see). When Daichi first discovers his "beard" (which is only visible through the glasses) he is naked in the bathroom. For this to work there must be a server first capturing then rendering his naked body.
  • Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading: Assuming that the Les Yay between Isako and Yasako wasn't the intended result. For most of the series, it looks like an All-Loving Hero trying to get the stoic, reluctant ally to come out of her shell, but then in the finale... Isako gives Yasako a charm which she has to watch over, Yasako goes through a downright brutal Rescue from the Underworld to get Isako back.
  • Tear Jerker: The three-episode-or-so-long endgame is just loaded with them.
    • The end of episode 13 also counts.
  • Ugly Cute: Densuke, Oyaji, and probably even Satchii.
  • The Woobie: Haraken, and later Isako.

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