History Anime / SummerWars

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: [[spoiler:Love Machine's hacking should affect the whole world, especially when it wants to crash a satellite onto a nuclear plant of its choosing, but seemingly, only our heroes in Japan are the ones doing something about it. Granted, no one else has Love Machine's creator under their roof. It's big head start.]]

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: '''Definitely''' on the side of idealism. Despite bad blood, misunderstandings, and tragedy, this family pulls together and saves the day.

* BlueWithShock: Kenji when he found out that the maths problem he solved was Oz's 256-digit decryption code.

* PlotTailoredToTheParty: In a story that revolves around the theme of family, there's no surprise that the 'war' the titles refers to is waged by pooling all the various family member's resources and skills each member has. Who would have thought being good at card games, maths problems, and fighting games would be so critical for survival? It's more believable than most examples. They are a fairly large family and one of the members invented the AI so they know how to beat it. They are obviously choosing to combat the AI on their own terms. For example, they could have challenged Love Machine to any game, but chose a specific card game the family was good at. Furthermore, the use of a fisherman's boat as a power source, a salesman's super-computers, and a trio of firefighters' skills come in handy at multiple points during the movie.

** Kenji is a maths genius.

* OldMaster: Mansuke (Kazuma's grandfather) taught Kazuma (and thus King Kazma) everything he knows about martial arts, attacked Love Machine (by this time an extremely strong martial arts master) by himself to buy Kazma time to recover, and he has a NINJA SQUID for an avatar. He does it all on a Nintendo DS!
* OneWingedAngel: Love Machine does this [[spoiler:twice]] as he assimilates more avatars. It's almost a literal example, as at one point he has actual wings. Admittedly he has two, but one is standing considerably higher than the other.

** Kenji's look when he sees that not only has Love Machine stolen his avatar and it's also hijacked a bunch of others. Then his temporary avatar gets punched in the face.

* MissionControl: Sakuma co-ordinates the Jinnouchi counter-attack on Love Machine from his dorm room because he's a minor OZ admin.

* HappyBirthdayToYou: After the first fight with Love Machine, there's a cut where some of the family are practicing this song. [[spoiler:After surviving family trauma, averting an cyber-apocalypse, and surviving the satellite equivalent of a nuclear bomb, the next day]], all of the family, [[spoiler:bar Wabisuke, and including Kenji]], sing this, with weird props, like plastic wands, party hats, a taiko drum, and even a puppet, to [[spoiler:the deceased]] Granny Sakae.

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: At the climax, a game of Hanafuda is played with avatars as currency. If Love Machine wins, it plans to [[spoiler: use a hijacked satellite as a ballistic missile to blow up a nuclear plant, causing untold collateral damage.]]
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Kenji [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable hacks into OZ's unhackable systems]] because he thought the numbers he was sent that night was a mathematical equation. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out he got one number wrong.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: Love Machine, a privately created AI who escapes from the army and starts a war with the real world. [[spoiler: Subverted in that it was released intentionally, and was following its programming the entire time]].

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: The Jinnouchi family have strong vibes of this. [[spoiler: Especially in the ending with [[ShipperOnDeck encouraging Kenji and Natsuki to kiss.]]]]

* ArmiesAreEvil: [[spoiler: The U.S. Deparment of Defense was the one who released Love Machine on Oz in the first place.]] On a lesser note, while the Japanese government isn't nearly as antagonistic, they still show shades of this along with some major incompetence what with Shouta's impulsiveness and the fact that an ''elderly woman with a land line'' was better able to organize a response to the cyber attack than they were.

--> '''Sakae:''' Are you man enough to die for her (Natsuki)?
--> '''Kenji:''' Yes.
* TheAssimilator: Love Machine works by absorbing avatars and their associated accounts until the bulk of OZ is part of it.

* CanineCompanion: The family is close to Granny Sakae's dog, Hayate, and [[spoiler: they're even more so, after her death.]]

** The cousin's conversation during the train trip implies that some of the people [[spoiler: Sakae]] rallies in the crisis are prefectural and national goverment ministers.
* ChekhovsGunman: Kazuma, who we see fighting other avatars earlier in the movie. He repeatedly fights Love Machine cyber-physically and is responsible for giving it [[spoiler: the Falcon Punch of a lifetime]].
* ChekhovsNews: There is a news report in the beginning about a satellite hurtling towards the Earth, but will land safely. After everything has gone down, the satellite has been hacked and is now hurtling towards the BigFancyHouse everyone's living in.

* DarkIsEvil: [[spoiler: [[TheSwarm Love Machine's massive, multi-avatar body looks like wriggling darkness.]]]] Yet it ''still'' manages to invoke LightIsNotGood, with [[spoiler:the angelic wings that form OZ's main building on its back, and the Deva Halo Rings re-appearing when it absorbs King Kazma]]

* DeepImmersionGaming: The fighting events and Hanafuda games are played from the perspective of the avatars. [[spoiler: When King Kazuma faces a giant Love Machine demon formed by million of stolen accounts, Kazuma acts as if he's facing it himself.]]

* {{Eagleland}}: Mixed overall. A fair share of Americans pitch in at the climax, just like everyone else. [[spoiler: However, the Department of Defense deliberately ''chose'' to unleash Love Machine on Oz as a test, making them directly responsible for everything that followed. All in all, it portrays the people as good, but the government itself as [[ArmiesAreEvil amoral.]]]]
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: [[spoiler: Even the dead Granny Sakae's memorial photo is making a chuckling face at the end.]]

** The first time we see Wabisuke, he's [[PetTheDog petting the dog]] and asking if he's forgotten him. [[spoiler: It's a hint that in spite of his bastard demeanour and strained relationship with grandma, he's not so bad after all.]]

** Grandma Sakae's epic use of her [[spoiler: address book and a rotary dial phone to bring order to the ''entire nation of Japan'']] after Love Machine starts sowing chaos.
** [[spoiler: When Love Machine gets the upper hand in the Hanafuda battle and Natsuki doesn't have enough accounts to bet with. The whole world, who was watching the battle, starts sending their accounts to help her out.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: One suspects that the US military did not expect Love Machine to be able to cause ''quite'' so much real-world damage in its attack on OZ.]]

* HairRaisingHare: After [[spoiler: swallowing Kazuma's avatar]], Love Machine grows bunny ears. It doesn't make it any less scary at all.
* HappyBirthdayToYou: After the first fight with Love Machine, there's a cut where some of the family are practicing this song. [[spoiler:After surviving family trauma, averting an cyber-apocalypse, and surviving the satellite equivalent of a nuclear bomb, the next day]], all of the family, [[spoiler: bar Wabisuke, and including Kenji]], sing this, with weird props, like plastic wands, party hats, a taiko drum, and even a puppet, to [[spoiler: the deceased]] Granny Sakae.

* HeroicBastard: Through the "heroic" part is a bit of a stretch [[spoiler: until the climax of the film,]] Wabisuke is the illegitimate son of Natsuki's great-grandfather but was adopted by Sakae anyway.
* HeroicBSOD:

** Natsuki verges on one [[spoiler: when she loses too many accounts to ante up for the ultimate hand of Hanafuda, but rallies when hundreds of thousands of Oz users offer up their accounts for her to use.]]

** [[spoiler: The spamming encryption passwords is plausibly a form of numerical CAPTCHA for the support team. In general, nobody who didn't know the formula to crack the numbers would be able to do anything with the mess of numbers in front of them on the screen.]]

** Love Machine, the world's greatest internet troll. [[spoiler: Willing to hit your house with a satellite out of spite for beating it at cards.]]

* KickTheDog: At the climax of the film Love Machine is shown [[spoiler: guiding a falling space probe]], zeroing in on the family dog while doing so.

* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Grandma Sakae becomes this towards Japan by calling everyone and motivating then to stopping the chaos. Love Machine takes notice and is implied to cut her heart monitor, leading to her death.]]
* MissionControl: Sakuma co-ordinates the Jinnouchi counter-attack on Love Machine from his dorm room because he's a minor OZ admin.

** Wabisuke's mom (the woman who had an affair with Granny Sakae's husband)
* ModestyTowel:

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler: Wabisuke insists that the American government is at fault for Love Machine's attack on Oz because they chose to test it out there, regardless of the fact that he designed the AI. At least, until he finds out that it indirectly killed Sakae.]]

** Twice family members inadvertently sabotage attempts to defeat Love Machine just as it was on the verge of defeat, first the kids piling in and distracting Kazuma, then Shota [[spoiler: taking the ice blocks, causing the supercomputer to fry just as Love Machine had almost been contained.]]

* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler: The name of Kazuma's father wasn't revealed. Even when the guy showed up in the end.]]

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: By the end of the film, Natsuki and Kenji are no longer pretending to be a couple.]]

* PeacockGirl: Natsuki's avatar gains a peacock tail and angelic wings when [[spoiler: John and Yoko, the virtual guardians of Oz, grant her a rare kimono for her avatar to give her the strength to beat Love Machine at Hanafuda.]]

* PleaseWakeUp: [[spoiler: The family's initial reaction to finding Sakae dead, even the adults.]]

* ThePowerOfFamily: A major theme of the film. The Jinnouchi family all have their quirks as well as their disagreements like any family. But when the situation with the A.I Love Machine begins to escalate [[spoiler: to the point [[ItsPersonal it becomes personal]] when the family's matriarch, Sakae, is inadvertently killed by the A.I keeping her heart monitor from signaling her heart failure]], the family slowly starts to come together to help bring it down. Bonus points for including the film's main character, Kenji, a friend to family member, Natsuki, as much of a factor as the rest of the family to the point by film's end the consider him one of their own. Likewise poignant with Love Machine's creator, Wabisuke, who was considered a bastard child within the family and acts like a bad egg, [[spoiler: but he loved his grandmother all same that his actions in making the A.I were to actually try to help her despite the family thinking he was doing it for selfish purposes and instantly helps the family destroy the A.I after being informed of Sakae's death. Even when they have a row in the middle of the film, it's very clear Sakae still cares for him and pleads with the family in her final letter not to push him away.]]

* PsychicNosebleed: Kenji suffers one after being forced to crack the third encryption in a row [[spoiler: while trying to divert a runaway satellite from crashing into the Jinnouchi's house.]]

* RomanticFakeRealTurn: [[spoiler: Natsuki and Kenji begin the story in a fake relationship for her grandmother's sake but become a real couple by the end of the film, and her entire family (bar one) ships them.]]
* RousingSpeech: [[spoiler: Comes post-mortem from Sakae in the form of a letter that serves as the major turning point of the film due to the way it finally unites the family- Natsuki convinces the prodigal son to come home, the men put aside the war long enough to have a meal and mourn their loss with everyone else, and the women are finally convinced to help fight the war against the virus.]]

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Kenji and Natsuki. In this case computer savvy and "silly goose" antics. [[spoiler: This is especially the case after the two become an OfficialCouple.]]
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: [[spoiler: Wabisuke's revelation on selling Love Machine to the US Government to restore the family wealth]] does not go down with Sakae.
* {{Scrub}}: Like the ComputerIsACheatingBastard example above, this one is in-universe. Kazuma identifies Love Machine as one by name; loves games but has no skill at playing them, and compensates with an overpowered character, cheating, and [[spoiler: flipping the board by way of attempting to bomb the family's house.]]
* SeriousBusiness: Hanafuda, koi-koi version.

* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler: After Kenji saves the day,]] the whole family (sans Shota) literally pushes Kenji and Natsuki together and says they should be engaged for real.

* SmoochOfVictory: [[spoiler: When the day is saved, the family invokes this trope with the leading guy and leading lady. She is glad to give it.]]
* SoProudOfYou: "Good job, son." [[spoiler: Courtesy of Kazuma's dad to his son.]]
* SoreLoser: While Love Machine is programmed to love games, it apparently wasn't taught anything about sportsmanship. When Kazuma beats it, it turns itself into a GameBreaker to take it in the second round. When Sakae used her connections to help Japan cope with all the carnage he unleashed [[spoiler: he disabled her heart monitor, allowing her to die of a heart attack. Finally when Natsuki beats it in Koi Koi, Love Machine tries to nuke her house and kill her entire family with a falling satellite.]]

* SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom: Love Machine isn't nearly as pleasant a program as its name would lead you to believe. Justified in that [[spoiler: it was named by a Japanese programmer with an odd sense of humour]].

* TookALevelInBadass: Kenji went from spending all night solving Oz's 256 bit encryption key using pencil and paper to solving it in minutes using one sheet of paper to [[spoiler: to solving it in his head in a matter of seconds]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mansuke has a liking towards squid. He has three whole crates of the stuff. The rest of the family does not share his favouring.

* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler: Wabisuke]] through and through. [[spoiler: Going to America, developing Love Machine, selling it to the American Government, all of it was an attempt to gain enough money to make his adopted family wealthy again so they would accept him.]]

* YouCantThwartStageOne: [[spoiler: Two attempts to stop Love Machine fail due to internal sabotage, leading to the climax.]]

* BadassFamily: The Jinnouchi family is extremely close knit, warm, and hospitable... and will [[TheDeterminator stop at nothing]] to keep a rogue AI from taking over TheMetaverse and [[spoiler: [[ColonyDrop dropping a satellite on a Nuclear reactor.]]]]

** Kazuma [[spoiler: breaks down after being defeated by Love Machine a second time]] feeling like he failed to protect his mother and unborn sister.

* BrattyHalfPint: The younger kids. Part of the reason Kazuma loses his first fight with Love Machine is because they're dicking around with the computer during the fight. Then (in the manga at least) have the nerve to say "Aw, you got hit!" Yeah, that tends to happen WHEN YOU'RE DISTRACTING HIM.

** [[spoiler: The asteroid explorer satellite in orbit.]]
** [[spoiler: The Hanafuda card game.]]

--> '''Kana:''' What's a war? (To Granny Sakae)

* {{Cyberspace}}: In the far-flung future of [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2010]], the Internet has supplanted by Oz, a somewhat whimsical cyberspace setting that nevertheless gets plenty of use from government agencies and businesses. It's mentioned that there are almost as many Oz users as there are cellphone owners.

** Kazuma (shy teenager martial artist) is the one controlling King Kazma (A bunny that looks like a street-fighter)

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''Summer Wars'' is a 2009 anime ScienceFiction [[GenreBusting and]] SliceOfLife film. The film focuses on a timid eleventh grade math genius named Kenji Koiso (voiced by Ryunosuke Kamiki) who has been falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world and, with the aid of a classmate's extensive family, must prevent the real and computer simulated worlds from colliding. It was produced by the Japanese animation studio Creator/{{Madhouse}} and was directed by Creator/MamoruHosoda. The film also stars Nanami Sakuraba as Natsuki Shinohara, Mitsuki Tanimura as Kazuma Ikezawa and Sumiko Fuji as Sakae Jinnouchi.

The film is similar to the same director's earlier work, the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' feature film ''Our War Game'' (2000), released in English as part of ''Digimon: The Movie''. The premise of an internet virus causing real world problems is similar and the artistic design of TheMetaverse is shared between both films, depicting the virtual realm as a white void decorated with floating two-dimensional shapes in which all characters have red outlines, as well as with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhsxMqL7PQc "Superflat Monogram,"]] a Louis Vuitton promotional video also directed by Hosoda.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sakae is still dead, but her family managed to save the world from Love Machine. Wabisuke is making amneds for his actions. Kenji and Natsuki are apparently a couple by the end.]]

* {{Adorkable}}:
** Kenji is shy and easily flustered.
** Surprisingly, [[CoolOldLady Sakae Jinnouchi]], when she makes her big goofy smile.

* OhCrap: There are several moments of the characters realizing that they are in serious trouble.

** Love Machine, using Kenji's hijacked avatar, dons a blue cape with stars on it and stands atop a rocky point waving his arms about directing his stolen avatars, strongly resembling the scene in [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"]] where Mickey directs the stars in the sky. Love Machine's final form of a great dark shape with two protrusions on its head, shown from the waist up coming out from atop the ruins of the prison it broke out of, also bears a very strong resemblance to Chernobog in Night on Bald Mountain. For that matter, the music sounds like Night on Bald Mountain.

** Kenji's hijacked avatar carrying an enormous key is a blatant reference to [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts Sora]].

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: John and Yoko the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent "Guardian Angels of OZ"]], obviously named after ex-Beatle Music/JohnLennon and his wife and fellow artist/musician Music/YokoOno.

** On the other hand, simulated combat as a distraction to lure a program/bot-net into some undescribed structural trap or betting accounts on a card game, is purely this trope. [[TropesAreNotBad Lots of]] RuleOfCool.

* WomanInWhite: Natsuki.

* PettingZooPeople: King Kazma is a bipedal bunny.

* BadassGrandpa: Mansuke (Kazuma's grandfather, filling this requirement) taught Kazuma (and thus King Kazma) everything he knows about martial arts, attacked Love Machine (by this time an extremely strong martial arts master) by himself to buy Kazma time to recover, and he has a NINJA SQUID for an avatar. He does it all on a Nintendo DS!

* TheBeard: Kenji has to be Natsuki's fake boyfriend.

* RomanticFakeRealTurn: [[spoiler: Natsuki and Kenji]]

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: [[spoiler:Love Machine's hacking should affect the whole world, especially when it wants to crash a satellite onto a nuclear plant of its choosing, but seemingly, only our heroes in Japan are the ones doing something about it.]]

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: Grandpa Mansuke's avatar. Plus, it's a ''ninja'' squid!

** Kenji initially thinks it's his fault that Love Machine acquired access to OZ's mainframe because he cracked the code. [[spoiler:It's ultimately subverted: not only did several people around the world solve it before him, but he had made a mistake on the last word anyway.]]

%%* SpiritedYoungLady: Natsuki.

** Cyber-physical combat as a distraction to lure a program/bot-net into some undescribed structural trap or betting accounts on a card game, purely this trope. [[TropesAreNotBad Lots of]] RuleOfCool.