Comments on: Summer Wars

By: Manga Therapy

Manga Therapy — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:53:48 +0000

I managed to catch the English-dub premiere this past weekend. I have to say is that it’s a good movie that shows the importance of family.

Though I feel that the movie is telling us to be more responsible when it comes to technology.

I wrote about the movie at: http://www.mangatherapy.com/post/1659502530/summer-wars

I wonder what will happen when we see a world like Oz in the future….

By: Linkit

Linkit — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:11:47 +0000

Make OZ real is my view of things. The movie is moving for it isn’t all romance. Just a little while family bonds are being made and fantastic action sequences are in place! The animation is good, but back to the fact that OZ would be awesome. It would be a huge hit i’m sure! Todays technology should hurry up and upgrade!

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:43:25 +0000

As an IT student I enjoyed this movie very much, I find the OZ plot as a very important spice in the story, there’s so much into Summer Wars that I can’t leave on my seat while watching it.

By: Skye

Skye — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:03:56 +0000

Watched this sometime back at Cathay. Yah, knowing alittle japanese does help.
Generally, it was a rather so-so show for me. Pretty hard to compare with Tokikake, Tokikake had more time for character development and growth. For Summer wars, the focus was on the crisis in OZ ,although they were trying to talk about family values and how family should stay together in time of crisis (I think). I actually saw OZ as the equivalent of the “real-life”, how the family got together to trap “love-machine”, okay, in this case, just the men got together.
But on the other hand, it attempted to demonstrate the different personalities in a family.
The exciting part was actually at the Hanafuda match, where the little guy came to lend his account… haha… (I could have been bored by then… I don’t know or maybe it was cause I rushed down from work).
I think the producer was trying to link the idea of family in time of crisis and trying to modernize it for easy relation. But I guess this was not really brought forward clearly…

But as a pure entertainment show, this will do.

By: raidragon

raidragon — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:57:22 +0000

I thought this anime just a copy paste from Digimon movie…just change Omegamon into that rabbit that the best black-skinned shota character have^^

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:32:37 +0000

Well I for one thoroughly enjoyed the OZ back story. The graphics are amazing and everything about it just looks so cool and whimsical. I know we already have Second Life, but I think a real life OZ-like virtual network would be even cooler. That said, I also enjoyed the family aspects of the movie; it was a compellingly realistic and nostalgic foil to the fantastic futurism of OZ. Overall, this was a terrific movie for me.

By: Grimmer

Grimmer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:33:53 +0000

It could’ve been great if they didn’t add the entire Oz thing. Heck, the movie didn’t even require any sort of ‘conflict’. It’s just producers and writers playing safe…It’s a lot harder to sell a movie in which ‘nothing really happens’…adding a doomsday scenario is just taking the easy way out. More emphasis on relations, emotions, social interactions,…and it could’ve been magnificent.

I’m also getting tired of the verrrrrry bland vision most anime directors have of the future. Or the world has perished and it’s a post-apocalyptic scenario…or somehow the entire world has embraced cartoony stuff as serious business. Oz is the latter…it’s just so freakin’ hard to take serious…it’s so obviously the dream scenario of some otaku on LSD.

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Kurogane's Anime Blog » Summer Wars Impressions. — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:58:22 +0000

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By: Mimi

Mimi — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:22:17 +0000

After talking with Hosoda Mamoru about Summer Wars and chilling with him before the New England premiere at my school, …well I guess that makes me obviously biased. xD I really enjoyed it because it kept me thinking for a long time afterwards. Like about the power of the old, the role of the internet, family, etc. Compared to Miyazaki, Hosoda really knows how to appeal to a modern audience. There were to many times in the movie where I thought about my family and how we’re so alike. Idk…

By: jakey

jakey — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:48:29 +0000

The Miyazaki thing may have to do with the female leads. Throughout the movie, Natsuki has shown to be made of tougher stuff than Kenji

Personally I thoroughly enjoyed the movie with it’s family aspect. I was expecting more from OZ after Hosoda’s interview at AFA but I guess any depth was sacrificed for a more entertaining movie, not that I mind though.