Summer Wars
| Anime movie | |
|---|---|
| title | Summer Wars |
| Original title | サ マ ー ウ ォ ー ズ |
| transcription | Samā Wōzu |
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| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| length | 114 minutes |
| genre | Science fiction |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mamoru Hosoda |
| script | Satoko Okudera |
| production | Masao Maruyama |
| music | Akihiko Matsumoto |
Summer Wars ( Japanese サ マ ー ウ ォ ー ズ , Samā Wōzu , dt. "Summer Wars") is an anime - science fiction film from 2009. The film was directed by Mamoru Hosoda in the Japanese animation studio Madhouse . The focus of the plot is the reserved eleventh grader Kenji Koiso, who allegedly accidentally enabled a hack of the virtual world OZ and, together with the extremely large family of his school friend Natsuki Shinohara, is preparing to prevent the collapse of the virtual world as well as the real world that has become dependent on it .
In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on February 16, 2010 at the Berlinale . The German theatrical release was August 12, 2010.
action
At the beginning, the viewer is introduced to the virtual world OZ , in which millions of people can communicate with one another worldwide in a fictional future that is not far away. In this world, which depicts people as avatars , almost all events converge with those in the real world and are almost inextricably linked. The protagonist Kenji Koiso, a child prodigy in mathematics, is also out and about as an avatar with his friends within this world.
In real life, Kenji was invited by school friend Natsuki Shinohara for the birthday of her ninety-year-old grandmother Sakae Jinnouchi shortly after the holidays. She had promised her grandmother that she would find a worthy partner. However, Kenji knows nothing of this plan, who is finally confronted in the family's big house - located in Ueda , Nagano prefecture - with having to pretend to be her fiancé. He tries to play this role as much as his reserved nature allows and gets to know the dozen members of her family. In the evening the computer expert Wabisuke Jinnouchi appears, who is not welcome in the family, despite belonging to the family. At the same time he is also Natsuki's uncle and “first love”. Not knowing how to deal with Wabisuke's appearance, Kenji has a hard time falling asleep. Surprisingly, he receives an email that contains a mathematical code. Inspired by this, he tries to decipher it and is successful after a long night. When he sends back the result, which he thinks is the solution to a riddle, he has no idea that he has cracked the access code to OZ .
The next morning he is shocked to find that his account has been cracked and large parts of OZ have been messed up on his behalf . Soon after he is wanted by both the family and the police and in the meantime he meets Kazuma Ikezawa, whose avatar is a notorious fighter. Together they meet the hacker in the virtual world, who turns out to be Artificial Intelligence (AI) called the "Love Machine". At the first argument, however, Kazuma is hopelessly inferior to her and the chaos spreads. In the meantime, the real world has also been affected, whose traffic control systems, emergency calls, etc. are going crazy because the accounts of the responsible people have also been compromised. So it is not possible for the policeman who arrested Kenji in the family house to lead him away and the invited guests of the party also have problems reaching the birthday party on time. In this way, the family gradually becomes aware of the consequences of the incident. Ultimately, the ninety-year-old grandmother, who previously tried really hard to keep things orderly, is also targeted by the AI, which deactivates its warning system for medical emergencies.
The next day, the family was horrified to discover the grandmother's death and fell into a state of sadness and anger. In particular, the male part of the family is preparing to destroy the AI. In addition, the members of the family, who hold various high positions, procure all imaginable equipment to be able to face the being in the virtual world. The plan ultimately fails due to the overheating of the main computer, the cooling of which was stolen by a family member to cool the deceased instead.
Ultimately, the family is increasingly becoming the focus of the AI, which in the meantime has turned out to be a development of Wabisuke. She only became aware of the fatal consequences after her grandmother's death. The AI threatens to use a Japanese satellite to hit the world's nuclear power plants. However, since everything seems to be just one game for them, Kenji has the idea to challenge them to the Hanafuda game Koi-Koi against the Jinnouchis with their accounts as a bet. Natsuki wins initially, but then her luck turns. After all, she gets the support of the worldwide OZ users, bets their 150 million accounts and wins Love Machine only control over two of them. Still, Love Machine doesn’t give in and is now targeting the family home. The only line of defense is to crack the satellite's GPS system. But Kenji only has ten nerve-wracking minutes left. After Kazuma and his avatar were able to turn off the AI, Kenji succeeds in changing the satellite's crash location. Throughout the story and its incidents, Kenji and Natsuki have grown closer and are almost forced by the family to become a couple.
main characters
- Kenji Koiso ( 小 磯 健 二 , Koiso Kenji )
- Kenji is the seventeen-year-old protagonist in the film. Initially just a reserved boy with great mathematical talent and a strong interest in the interactive world, he developed into a man under the given circumstances. At first he has serious problems getting in contact with other people, and the relationship with his secret love Natsuki turns out to be complicated. Even if he can't really shed his shyness to confess his love to her until the end.
- Natsuki Shinohara ( 篠 原 夏希 , Shinohara Natsuki )
- Natsuki is an extremely popular eighteen year old girl who is said to be the most beautiful in her school. However, she also has a keen interest in OZ and is slowly falling in love with Kenji, although at first it seems like she is still very attached to her first love, Wabisuke Jinnouchi, as she is obviously the only one in the family who has him may suffer.
- Sakae Jinnouchi ( 陣 内 栄 , Jinnouchi Sakae )
- Sakae is the almost ninety-year-old grandmother of Natsuki and as head of the family keeps the family together. She also has numerous relationships with many influential people in politics and finance.
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Kenji Koiso | Ryūnosuke Kamiki | Tobias Diakow |
| Natsuki Shinohara | Nanami Sakuraba | Katrin Hess |
| Takashi Sakuma | Takahiro Yokokawa | Dennis Saemann |
| Kazuma Ikezawa | Mitsuki Tanimura | Milena Karas |
| Wabisuke Jinnouchi | Ayumu Saitō | Andreas Meese |
| Sakae Jinnouchi | Sumiko Fuji | Michaela Klarwein |
| Yuhei Jinnouchi | Rikito Ōta | Rieke Werner |
Emergence
According to Hosoda, the main idea behind the film was a simple family working together to save the world. As a result, the film should be aimed at the broadest possible audience and fit the summery atmosphere to which it was shown in cinemas.
During an interview in Singapore, Mamoru Hosoda reported on things that inspired him to consider the OZ and family environment as a topic. He noted that there were similarities between OZ and Second Life , but that he had thought of the largest social network in Japan, Mixi . Regarding the appearance of the world of OZ , he said he admired the work of Takashi Murakami , whose aesthetic has previously been compared by critics to Summer Wars. Nevertheless, the scenes are not designed according to his model, although both works have the same clean and tidy design that appeals to him very much. Hosoda had already worked in 2003 as director of the short film Superflat Monogram designed by Takashi Murakami .
In another interview with Anime News Network , he explained how his view of family changed after the completion of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and his own wedding. In Summer Wars, for example, he deliberately introduced characters who are not so compatible and who have to get along with within a family. This had a particular effect on the production time, which totaled three years. Masao Maruyama , the managing director of Madhouse, explained at Otakon 2009 that this unusually long production time was due to Hosoda's insistence on a large number of characters within Natsuki's family. After that, Hosoda had to promise him to use only two main characters in his next production and to limit the production time to two years. From this it became clear once again that Summer Wars is a work from a series of Madhouse films, in which a new title is to appear every quarter. The following anime films are The Girl with the Magic Hair , Yona Yona Penguin and Redline , but they also came out in 2009. He also used the short film Digimon Adventure: Bokura no War Game! , in which a group of children dive into the Internet to prevent a virus from detonating a nuclear missile, from the year 2000, which he also directed.
In addition to Hosoda as director, Satoko Okudera worked on the script and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto on the character design. Hiroyuki Aoyama and Tatsuzo Nishida were in charge of the animation , with Nishida in charge of the action scenes. All five had previously worked on the 2006 film The Girl Who Jumped Through Time , which was also animated by Madhouse.
The artistic direction took over Yōji Takeshige . He chose the Japanese city of Ueda as the model for the setting in which the film is set, as it is in an area originally inhabited by the well-known Sanada clan, on which the family is based. Takeshige, who had previously worked for Studio Ghibli , also brought older-looking Japanese house designs into the scenes. The film also showed the Japanese Hayabusa space probe , whose control center is located in the nearby city of Saku . Hosoda took up this idea to support the development of space travel.
Announcements and publications
The production of the film by Studio Madhouse at the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair 2008 was announced for the first time, with the announcement that director Mamoru Hosoda would be working on a new film. The title of the film ( Summer Wars ) was first mentioned in Newtype magazine in December 2008 .
After the German premiere at the Berlinale 2010, the film was released in German cinemas on August 12, 2010. Kazé Germany released the film on November 26, 2010 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in German. The German premiere took place on May 2, 2012 on 3sat .
Manga
Even before its release, the expectations of Summer Wars were high due to the great success and positive reviews of The Girl Who Leaped Through Time . In order to increase the popularity even before the release, the production partner Kadokawa Shoten had announced the film several times in advance and published two adaptations as manga . An adaptation drawn by Igura Sugimoto began publication in July 2009 within Young Ace magazine . A first summary of the individual chapters was published on August 10th as Tankōbon and reached 23rd place in the charts drawn up by Oricon for comics with 51,645 copies sold.
- Vol. 1: ISBN 978-4-04-715296-0 , August 10, 2009
- Vol. 2: ISBN 978-4-04-715377-6 , February 4, 2010
- Vol. 3: ISBN 978-3-551-76298-6
Carlsen Comics has been publishing the manga in German since November 2011, three volumes have appeared so far.
Another side story derived from the plot, Summer Wars Gaiden , also appeared in Comp Ace magazine in July 2009 .
reception
Summer Wars was the first anime ever to be screened at the Locarno International Film Festival . There he was nominated for the Golden Leopard , where he lost to She, a Chinese , but was popular with the public and the press. The Tribune de Genève called it “by far the best film at this festival”.
The film took part in the 2009 Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya in the Oficial Fantàstic Panorama section and received the Premio Gertie for the festival's best animated film, such as Hosada's The Girl Who Leaped Through Time in 2006.
At the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair 2010, Summer Wars received the award for best animation and best film. Mamoru Hosoda received the award for best director and best storyline, Satoko Okudera for best screenplay, Yōji Takeshige for best artistic direction and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto for best character design. So Summer Wars won in 7 of the 12 categories.
On February 2, 2010, Summer Wars received the Grand Prix in the animation category at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival .
On March 5, 2010, he received the Japanese Academy Award for the best animated film of the year.
In addition, Summer Wars was shown at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2009, the Leeds International Film Festival 2009 and the Berlinale 2010 in the Generation 14plus section .
The film grossed 1.65 billion yen (€ 16 million) through September 2012.
Reviews
“Imaginative animated film that confidently alternates between social drama, thriller and apocalyptic drama and impresses with characters that are as bizarre as they are believable. The relationship between the digital future and cultural roots and traditions is used as a plea for a return to proven values. "
“With his idiosyncratic mixture of classic family drama and hypermodern Web 2.0 adventure, the director proves himself to be a visionary anime writer who one would even trust, in the long run with the genre grandmasters Mamoru Oshii ( Ghost In The Shell ) and Hayao Miyazaki ( Princess Mononoke ) playing in a league. […] Summer Wars is an epoch-making, extremely amiable and immensely exciting screen adventure that congenially combines the past and the future of anime cinema. "
“ Summer Wars draws its greatest attraction from the aesthetic design, which despite its visual impact does not remain an end in itself. Hosoda succeeds in combining the two parallel worlds and the different aspects of the story into a coherent whole. So Summer Wars appears as a modern, absolutely contemporary fairy tale that never loses its connection to reality - although it is constantly exaggerated in the manner of Japanese cartoons. "
“The plot of this anime sounds absurd, incoherent and unfamiliar. It is therefore all the more remarkable how it goes without saying that Summer Wars combines modern, sometimes futuristic technology and old traditions. Director Mamoru Hosoda [...] does justice to both levels of action: the cyber world, which looks like an advanced version of social networks with virtual identities in the style of online role-playing games and suddenly doesn't seem so strange at all, and the family history in an idyllic house in the country, with all their fixed rules and old disputes. The cartoon also tells of the clash of two ways of life and emphasizes the importance of family cohesion, but is never anti-technology or moralizing. As in many animes, fear of technology and enthusiasm for technology go hand in hand. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ SUMMER WARS. In: Berlinale.de. Retrieved February 18, 2010 .
- ^ An ordinary family who saves the world. Locarno International Film Festival , accessed on February 18, 2010 .
- ↑ Patrick W. Galbraith: Otaku2 Summer Wars Review. (No longer available online.) August 14, 2009, archived from the original on August 19, 2009 ; accessed on February 18, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Justin Sevakis: Interview: Mamoru Hosoda. Anime News Network , December 22, 2009, accessed February 18, 2010 .
- ^ Evan Miller: Otakon 2009 - Madhouse. Anime News Network , July 17, 2009, accessed February 18, 2010 .
- ↑ Mamoru Hosoda Exclusive Interview. In: Otaku USA Magazine. May 21, 2013, accessed May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Leapt Through Time's Hosoda to Direct Summer Wars Film. Anime News Network , December 6, 2008, accessed February 18, 2010 .
- ↑ Summer Wars. (PDF; 995 kB) Locarno International Film Festival , accessed on February 18, 2010 (English).
- ↑ TokiKake's Hosoda, xxxHOLiC's Mizushima Plan Films. Anime News Network , March 28, 2008, accessed February 18, 2010 .
- ^ Page on 3sat, accessed on April 28, 2012
- ^ Otakon 2009 - Madhouse. Anime News Network , July 17, 2009, accessed February 22, 2010 .
- ↑ Kadokawa to Launch Young Ace Magazine with Eva in July (Update 2). Anime News Network , March 21, 2009, accessed February 22, 2010 .
- ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, August 10-16. Anime News Network , August 19, 2009, accessed February 22, 2010 .
- ↑ New Strike Witches, Canaan, Koihime Musō Manga to Launch. Anime News Network , March 25, 2009, accessed February 22, 2010 .
- ^ Didier Péron: Mondes en alerte à Locarno. In: Liberation.fr. August 14, 2009, accessed February 20, 2010 (French).
- ^ Carole Wälti: Locarno: le Léopard d'or va à l'Asie rugissante. In: swissinfo.ch. August 16, 2009, accessed February 20, 2010 (French).
- ^ Pascal Gavillet: Le jury du 62e Festival de Locarno frôle l'académisme. In: Tribune de Genève. August 17, 2009, retrieved on February 20, 2010 (French, D'autant plus qu'il s'agit là - et de loin - du meilleur film qu'on a pu découvrir durant cette édition.).
- ^ Moon, mejor película de Sitges 09th Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya , October 11, 2009, accessed on March 24, 2010 (Spanish).
- ↑ 2009 (13th) Japan Media Arts Festival. List of Award-winning Works. Japan Media Arts Plaza, archived from the original on April 12, 2012 ; accessed on March 24, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Summer Wars Wins Japan Academy's Animation of the Year. Anime News Network , March 5, 2010, accessed March 24, 2010 .
- ↑ Wolf Children Earns 4 Billion Yen, Licensed in 43 Territories. In: Anime News Network . September 18, 2012, accessed September 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Summer Wars. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/105232-Summer-Wars/kritik.html In: filmstarts .de , accessed on April 21, 2013.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Fluter .de, accessed on July 14, 2013.
- ↑ SUMMER WARS . Top video news. Publisher: Children's and Youth Film Center on behalf of the BMFSFJ .
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Official website (German)
- Summer Wars in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anime News Network about the anime (English)