Koiso Kenji is an eleventh-grader math nerd who works in the summer as a part time computer technician for the virtual world of Oz, he is invited by the most popular girl at his high school Natsuki to her big family’s home for a summer job, the job is to pretend he is her fiancé to please her grandmother. And it’s all started when Kenji received a strange mathematical puzzle on his cell phone that he solved, and that turns out to be the security code for the world of OZ. Once Kenji solved the puzzle and sent it, a virus called Love Machine penetrated the whole system and starts to dominate the world of OZ beating other avatars and sucking out their powers. Thus it controlled the infrastructure of the real world too.
The movie was directed by Mamoru Hosoda the same man who directed The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and produced by Madhouse. I really don’t know how to categorize this movie, is it a funny one, action, love story, or family, because it has all of that. It’s a sci-fi for sure but it emphasizes on the bonding of the family and the importance of living and relying on the real world other than the virtual ones such as the world of OZ in this movie. People should stick together and help each other by letting everyone doing his/her part in the society. We use technology to assist us get through the hardness of this life not to replace us. Imagine your country defense line was compromised because someone is just too good to hack facebook! That what I got from Summer Wars, besides it’s done by Mamoru Hosoda and from Madhouse so I can’t add much for the brilliant picture they’ve produce. Except I hoped for more King Kazuma fighting scenes, other than that it’s beautiful!
