Product Description
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From the visionary directory of the Girl Who Leapt Through Time
(2007 Japanese Academy Award winner, Best Animated Feature) comes
the story of an ordinary family going to extraordinary lengths to
avert the impending cyber apocalypse! Kenji is your typical
teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends
most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online
community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has
until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring
role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get
stranger from there. a late-night email containing a cryptic
mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI intent on
using the virtual word of OZ to destroy the real world,
literarily. As Armageddon looms on the horizon, Kenji and his new
family set aside their differences and band together to save the
worlds they inhabit in this near-perfect blend of social satire
and science fiction.
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Kenji, the teenage hero of Summer Wars, is an alternate for the
Japanese Math Olympics team, but math is the only thing he's good
at. He works part-time doing maintenance for the global computer
network Oz, so he jumps at the rtunity when his pretty
classmate Natsuki offers him a job--until he discovers she wants
him to pose as her fiancé at her grandmother's 90th birthday
celebration. Kenji has his hands full coping with Natsuki's
large, eccentric family, who constantly refer to their samurai
ancestors as they squabble with each other. But when a malicious
AI program known as The Love Machine attacks Oz, Kenji has to
solve a series of complex mathematical puzzles to prevent the
cyberterrorist from causing a disaster. Mamoru Hosoda captures
the oppressive heat of the Japanese summer in the sequences
involving Kenji and Natsuki; Oz is rendered in a brightly
colored, hallucinatory style. Hosoda worked with Takashi Murakami
on the "Superflat" project, and the avatars that populate Oz
reflect its depraved cuteness. Summer Wars was a critical and
box-office hit in Japan, and deserves a wide audience in America.
Hosoda, who also made The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006), is
clearly one of the most interesting directors working in Japan.
(Suitable for ages 12 and older: brief nudity, cartoon violence)
--Charles Solomon
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Review
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Spectacular! Visionary! Staggering!-- Variety --variety
Decades from now, Summer Wars will be seen as the official
arrival of Mamoru Hosoda into the realm of historically important
anime directors. -Anime News Network --animenewsnetwork.com
It is a charming and funny piece of work, one that has a spot-on
understanding of human nature, one blessed with an extensive cast
of stunningly detailed and authentic characters -Todd Brown,
Twitchfilm.net --twitchfilm.net
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