

In episode 4 of _Dennou Coil_ Yuko Amasawa is ambushed by the Daichi's Hackers
Club and during the inital ambush Yuko is hit by a bullet from one of the Hack
Clubs Straiters (the machine guns), much later Yuko ends up defeating the club
by having the Mojo steal a bunch of Straiters and ambushing the club in the
Science Room.

Following that while Fumie is trying to get information on Yuko she fires a
beam at the back of Yuko's head before Yuko starts to push it back.

considering that these bullets and beams seems to be apart of the virtual
world visible only though Glasses, what happens to a person when they get hit
by these? Yuko seems like she was hurt when her hand got hit by a bullet but
all what happened was a distortion of the graphics of her hand which i assume
she wouldn't see if she wasn't wearing her glasses


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What happens when you get hit by an attack?


I don't think those visuals are physically painful; it's a psychosomatic
reaction. The brain sees a bullet hitting your hand and responds as though a
bullet actually hit your hand. Pain is at least partially neurological; you
can feel pain even if your nerves don't fire.

Once the brain "checks" with the nerves in the affected area and realizes that
the hand is okay, the phantom pain will subside, but in the meantime the
lizard brain takes over.

I think that neatly ties into the themes of the show. The virtual world isn't
just a fantasy realm with no actual impact on the real world; what you do
there has actual consequences.


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