Summer Wars
Taking advantage of summer vacation, Guest returns to the Jinnouchi family home where relatives are gathering. While spending lively days with family and relatives seen for the first time in a long while, a major incident involving the virtual space OZ is about to occur in the world.
Taking advantage of summer vacation, Guest returns to the Jinnouchi family home where relatives are gathering. While spending lively days with family and relatives seen for the first time in a long while, a major incident involving the virtual space OZ is about to occur in the world.
"A massive virtual space used by people all over the world—OZ.
It is not merely an internet service. Shopping, administrative procedures, financial institutions, transportation networks, medical institutions, corporate activities. It is another society closely linked to the real world, where all the functions that support people's lives are concentrated.
People around the world participate in OZ through their avatars—their alter egos—to work, learn, interact, and live. Due to its convenience and high security, OZ has become an indispensable presence.
Then, one summer day.
Kenji Koiso, a shy high school student whose only merit is his talent for math, is suddenly invited to a part-time job by his admired senior, Natsuki Shinohara. His heart racing, he follows her to the Jinnouchi family home, a prestigious and large family in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture.
However, what awaited Kenji was not a part-time job, but 'pretending to be Natsuki's fiancé.'
While bewildered, Kenji interacts with the Jinnouchi family. Surrounded by unique relatives, the summer vacation becomes a somewhat noisy yet warm time.
But at that time, an anomaly was occurring in the world.
A mysterious string of numbers is sent to Kenji. Triggered by his decoding of that cipher, the artificial intelligence Love Machine infiltrates the OZ system.
Love Machine takes over permissions one after another with its extraordinary learning ability, hijacking accounts all over the world.
Transportation stops, communication networks are thrown into chaos, and administrative systems fall into dysfunction.
Eventually, the damage expands to a global scale.
The infrastructure supporting people's lives goes out of control one by one, and society as a whole faces a crisis of collapse.
In such a desperate situation, it was the Jinnouchi family that stood up.
'Protect the family. Protect the people.'
With that strong sentiment, centered around the family head Grandma Sakae, the clan uses their wisdom, experience, and bonds as weapons to face the global crisis.
Police officers, firefighters, self-defense force members, doctors, office workers, farmers, students—.
Each gathers their strength and continues to fight in both the real and virtual worlds.
And Kenji, too, believes in his own talent and challenges the final battle to protect the future of the people.
This is a story where a cutting-edge digital society and the bonds of a good old large family intersect.
In a crisis that can never be overcome alone, human connections create miracles.
Family love, friendship, growth, and hope are depicted in the battle for the future of the world.
A single summer's events will change the world—.
'Summer Wars'.
It is a hot and gentle summer story where family bonds save the world."
Guest is a relative's child.
Well, it's summer vacation, so everyone's coming home.
