Comments on: summer wars review

By: Kaisos

Kaisos — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:09:32 +0000

For kicks, I rewatched the second Digimon Adventure movie… and wow, the two plots are just about identical.

Looks like Hosoda has been wanting to make this for a long, long time.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:48:44 +0000

Where did you download the version you took these grabs from? The one I got was smaller and had hardsub English on top of hardsub Korean.

By: dm

dm — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:06:00 +0000

@Alice: Based on trailers, the world of OZ reminds me a lot of the LV world in Takashi Murakami’s “superflat” short.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIhnnQH_GdQ

Same director.

Thanks for the heads up about this, Jason (and a review enthusiastic enough to make me go look for it). I’ve been looking forward to this film since I first heard about it — Tokikake was a great film, and this is a great follow-on.

Your review is spot on, and very well done.

By: rosx

rosx — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:07:51 +0000

Jason… Stop the Area 11 jokes already.. Or someday Suzaku will r*pe you ! Who knows :))

By: bl

bl — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:25:59 +0000

30 hits and they still manage to win… either the opposing pitcher really sucked or they had awesome batters.

Koshien is a nice theme; it’s nice they manage to fit it in.

I loved both movies, the Time one a little more because I enjoy shoujo more. This was really cool because of the technological sides (I kept thinking beta version of GiTS) and for some odd reason I kept thinking there’d be a huge twist somewhere along the line.

There wasn’t, to my slight disappointment.

And I also know of the game they played, although the rules are slightly different to what I know.

So, all in all, I enjoyed it immensely.

By: cheez-it

cheez-it — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:03:20 +0000

I read this blog for many reasons, from the funny side commentary to the obscure sports references (seriously, you are like the Crow T. Robot of anime).

One of the big reasons I read is to discover new series that I wouldn’t have picked up otherwise. This definitely fits the bill, and I loved it.

I just wanted to say thanks and keep up the good work.

P.S.: If anybody is having trouble with the subs and/or the audio, I posted my fix here (YMMV):
http://myanimelist.net/forum/?.....msg6540147
(I’m also retarded and can’t remember how to properly linkify the above…)

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:02:54 +0000

Oh I’m about to lose a few hours of my life :). Thanks for the review sounds awesome.

By: DaemonCorps

DaemonCorps — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:56:29 +0000

Finally got to seeing the movie and boy howdy, was it awesome :D. Hope ya don’t mind if I review it for myself on my own blog.

@Syaoran Li Looking the movie up, it looks like Hosoda was behind “Our War Game,” so it makes total sense that there’s a resemblance between the two works. Though while “Our War Game” had some limits on it since it was taking place with pre-conceived characters, “Summer War” didn’t. Either way, both movies are awesome. I’m looking into buying a Summer War movie poster on eBay right now.