Another great production from Madhouse, Summer Wars is an animated sci-fi film that features a hearty serving of comedy, heart-rending drama, heart-stopping action and heart-warming family values that would really keep you glued on your seat watching.

The story is about a meek but gifted eleventh-grader math genius, Kenji Koiso who has been invited unexpectedly by one of the popular girls in his school, Natsuki to do a part-time job for her. Already having a part-time job at OZ, a super advanced online virtual reality world network, he was very unsure but later convinced by Natsuki's amorous advances. He went with Natsuki to their ancestral house in Ueda, Nagano Prefecture believing he'd only be helping preparations for the celebration of her great grandmother's 90th birthday. Little did he know and much to his surprise, his job was to act as Natsuki's fiancè. Before Kenji found out what he'd be doing, he has already been introduced to the whole Shinohara clan and the head of the clan, Natsuki's great grandmother, Sakae.


One night, he received a mysterious text message with an extremely challenging mathematical problem. Having the pride of a math genius, he managed to solve the problem overnight. Much to his amazement, the following day, he found himself on TV announced as a terrorist who toyed with the virtual network of OZ plunging the real world which is connected to its network into chaos. Turns out the math challenge was to crack the code to OZ's systems and he sent the code to the wrong hands. They later found out the culprit was an advanced AI, Love Machine which is now wreaking havoc in OZ and Love Machine was created by the family's black sheep, Wabisuke, Grandma Sakae's adopted son, also Natsuki's uncle. It is now up to Kenji, Kazuma (Natsuki's cousin who happens to be the legendary fighter in OZ, King Kazma), Natsuki and the whole Shinohara clan to "fix the problem created by one of them" (Wabisuke) and save the world from total destruction.

**SPOILER ALERT!**
I don't want to spoil this movie in particular because I think it is really worth the suspense watching. Some of these screenies might just spoil the fun though so proceed with caution.