Love this movie. It has nearly everything I enjoy about animes.

Summer Wars OST - 09 - Sakae In Action

I didn't like it. For the love of me, I just thought it was lame garbage and all sorts of weak. Maybe anime is no longer as charming as it used to be. You can thank generic Shounens becoming even more regurgitated and moe shit like Uppote for that one.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was by the same director and has a very similar art style and stuff

>>76171
So you hated it for being neither?

>>76171
>moe

I fucking hate this fad SOOOOO much. Apparently Japan is so expensive with its anime only Otakus can afford the Blue Rays and now they are killing the industry with them being pandered to.

I seriously hate the studios for pricing themselves into this corner. Otakus may have money, but they are a small minority group. Its the studios and their GREED what has secured this shitty fad and I blame them for the mediocrity of the industry.

I liked it, but I wish they'd spent more time in the virtual world, which was visually interesting, and less in the real, which was not. Also the romance seemed really painfully tacked-on and devoid of chemistry, so they could have done that better.

And I have one really, really nitpicky complaint - I loathed the hair King Kazma suddenly got during the second part of the film. Turned a really cool character design into a really stupid-looking one. But that may be just me.

>>76179
I'm inclined to disagree about the digital world. The movie, in the end, was more about people coming together during a really difficult time, not about wacky hijinks or fights in another reality. The digital world was just the backdrop and catalyst for the human driven elements in the film, it wasn't it's sole purpose.
Totally agree with you on Kazma's design change tough.

Feelgood emotional switchboard garbage the director did better in half the time a decade ago.

Was pretty, though.

>>76179

At first, I had a strong suspicion that Kenji's illogical utter refusal to have anything to do with this hot chick that has the hots for him was due to his being homosexual. (Probably wishful thinking.) In the end, his reluctance to proceed with the relationship was never explained at all, right through to the final gag. I didn't get it. They were trying WAY TOO HARD to push the weakling, submissive male protagonist character, and I don't think it worked at all. He just kind of annoyed me in any scene that didn't have to do with math.

Everyone knows that Kazuma was the real protagonist, though. I mean, just check out the porn. 95% of the stuff has him in it. That's the ultimate proof.

>>76202
Yeah, that's how I felt about their romance. I mean, all movie romances need to get me to believe them is some give-and-take and a little bit of banter to show how they fit each other, but this film had like... none.

>>76233
TGWLTT is a lot better about this, probably because it's more of a character study instead of trying to be ~*awesome*~

>>76253
>>76233
>>76202
You are all good people and I respect your opinions.

Am I the only one who thought this film had an unnaturally stupid portrayal of the American Government? Like, even more so than we'd see in our own fucking movies?

I mean there's "We keep this giant event classified" and then there's "We release this advanced Computer Virus onto a public and widely used internet program all so we can see how good it is. Oh yea and if the President's account on this network gets hacked it could totally fire nukes. YEA WHOOPS, OUR BAD!"

I mean Jesus there's gotta be a smarter way to test a virus than that... in fact. Why the hell would protocols that let you fire nukes even be on a public network like that!? Wouldn't the Government have their own private networks that'd require personal authorization or something?

I dunno, it just seemed like a REAL stretch of how technology actually work.

>>76268

Presumably there are sections in OZ that really are private networks, but all somehow linked. Love Machine just managed to hack its way through any and all firewalls (can happen in real life, too) courtesy of hundreds of dumbasses solving the codes and sending them to him.

Also, who's to say that the "testing" thing wasn't just the US's cover story? Suppose it was actually a targetted attack toward a foreign power, but it then got loose on OZ completely. (Also happened in real life...)

I couldn't get into the movie as much as I wanted because the creators have no idea how the internet works.

>>76175

Hey dunkass.

>>76268
From what I gathered, it was only supposed to be an intelligence gathering device that went mad because you know, AI it was Diaboromon.

I thought it was a decent movie, I still like Children's War Game better

>>76268
>Am I the only one who thought this film had an unnaturally stupid portrayal of the American Government? Like, even more so than we'd see in our own fucking movies?

Nah. In Japanese fiction, criticism of the US military doesn't really count as criticism of the government as a whole. Basically, there's a wide consensus that the Pentagon is a zoo full of horrible wild animals that periodically escape overseas and kill millions of unsuspecting civilians. You see the same treatment in Evangelion, for example. It's par for the course in anime.

If you wanna see some truly ludicrous horseshit, track down the movie Spriggan.

love it, just the romance feel out of place. romance for sake of having romance

>>76290
What did grandma say earlier in the film?