Summer Wars

Summer Wars

Synopsis

Timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by his secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job. Turns out Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiance, for the celebration of Natsuki’s spunky grandmother’s 90th birthday. There, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving it. As it turns out, his solution creates chaos within the virtual world of OZ, translating into anarchy in real-life.

Official Site: s-wars.jp

Singapore Release Date: 25th February 2010, Thursday

Running Time: 114 minutes

Ratings: PG

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Cast: Ryu-nosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Sumiko Fuji, Mitsuki Tanimura, Ayumu Saito

Crew: Director (Mamoru Hosoda), Producer (Seiji Okuda, Takuya Ito, Yuichiro Saito, Nozomu Takahashi, Takafumi Watanabe), Writers (Satoko Okudera), Music (Akihiko Matsumoto), and Editing (Shigeru Nishiyama)

The Trailer

The Review

I’ve always been fascinated by anime since I was a kid, but “Summer Wars” for me was quite passe.

The voice-over was alright, but the animation and music could be better.

Story-wise it could have been much tidier too, some loose-end sub-plots that doesn’t make sense.

Entertaining but classic it is not.

The Good

• The characters was adorable
• Has great moral lesson to be learned

The Bad

• Some of the voices doesn’t match the character

Editor’s Ratings