This anime kicked ASS. It was brilliant, amazing, wonderfully written, so sweet, and it has the bizarre power of taking you both 20 years into the future and 15 years back into the past... Superb series. Superb. :D

Synopsis: 11-year-old Okonogi Yuko has just moved into Daikoku City due to her father's job transfer. The year is 2026, and the real world is now blended with the digital world; children and adults now wear the so-called "Cyberglasses", which allow them to see digital things such as screens, pages, and even creatures (observe the dog in the picture: it is Yuko's cyber-pet dog, Densuke). Most kids are expert hackers even by the age of 10, and all of their digital actions can be seen as graphics or real events in front of their own eyes since the digital world is, for them, as real as the real one. Their only enemy is the antivirus program installed by the city council, Satchii, a big red robot-like blob which is designed to look and sound friendly but will attack any digital item that is out of the mainstream. As a result, the kids end up running from it quite a lot. When Yuko and her sister Kyoko have a run-in with a mysterious black cybercreature (enigmatically called "Illegal"), Yuko's adventure in the cyberworld will begin, and change her life and that of those around her in many ways.

Now there's a big mystery behind everything you see in this anime, and even if I try to explain I will be baffled in my own words so I have to say only ONE thing to you all: WATCH IT. IT FREAKIN' ROCKS. The music rocks (if you liked the Yami No Matsuei OST, well, it's the same composer = EPIC WIN), the animation rocks (Madhouse :D), the script is something beyond this world, and the characters are also one of a kind... Since they're like 11-12, they're still children. The things that they do, even though they're serious and they affect many things on multiple levels, are still like a game to them, in the way that all children like to play when they're around that age, wanting to solve mysteries and stuff. They reminded me a lot about myself, even though (as always with anime characters) they carried a lot of baggage and they often thought in rather mature ways. But they felt real. They felt like children. And that's awesome, because for once these children were children. not some kids-filled-with-super-awesome-pwning-powers-that-know-way-too-much. Because face it, 90% of anime series have characters of that sort. And while they're fun to watch, they lose the realistic feel one might expect from characters sometimes.
So, yeah. Great series. WATCH WATCH WATCH. :D

Oh, also please watch THIS.
Cellphone rant for the masses... This dude rocks. *g*