Summer Madness!

Movie title: Summer Wars

Genre: Action,Comedy


From the director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Hosoda Mamoru.

The story is about Kenji, a high school student who works part time maintaining a virtual online world called Oz. Oz is just like your favorite MMORPG but instead of just games, services like banking,paying bills and other real life services are connected to Oz and can be used just by e-mail or cellphone. On the other hand Kenji has a crush on her sempai Natsuki whom invites him to work part time in the countryside over the summer. The job, Kenji finds, is to act like Natsuki's fiancé to please her Grandma!

As the story goes an A.I. virus called "Love Machine" starts unleashing hell on Oz and using the online infrastructure to throw the real world into utter chaos!

When watching this film one might feel like they are viewing a moving picture book, a family photo album turned back a few decades. The vibe is really Showa Era Japan, the good old days.

I won't say anything more about this movie because I don't want to spoil everyone.

The animation is good from the virtual world of Oz to the real world. Voice acting is also good and even the BGM the soft sound of summer!

Here are some screenshots from the movie.


Overall I'll rate it a 9.4/10