Early in the film, Kenji is invited by Natsuki Shinohara to attend her great-grandmother’s 90th birthday in rural Ueda. ![]() Kenji, along with his friend Takahsi Sakuma, are part-time employees in OZ - an all-encompassing virtuality reality/social network/governmental mechanism/bank/store/insert service here that most everyone on Earth has an account on. Kenji Koiso is a high school mathematics prodigy who has just missed out in representing Japan in a prestigious international competitions for math. ![]() Hobbled by eye-rolling dialogue (disclosure: I saw the dub, not the sub) and a collection of all-too-neat coincidences, the final product feels like it has more to say and instead of standing up to make any sort of meaningful statement - it instead elects to fight its way through the problems without giving them much thought. Hosoda and screenwriter Satoko Okudera balance the optimism behind these new developments with their trepidations of what this brave new world might bring. ![]() The interconnectivity of cultures and societies has only been bolstered by social media and is a pillar to the narrative found in Mamoru Hosoda's Summer Wars. There have been many benefactors from the economic and social globalization associated with the last few decades - anime being one of them.
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