Summer Wars

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Japanese: サマーウォーズ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 13

Status: Finished

Published: Jul 4, 2009 to May 1, 2010

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Theme: Strategy Game

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Ace

Authors: Sugimoto, Iqura (Art), Hosoda, Mamoru (Story)

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Score: 7.64¹ (scored by 3,908 users)

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Ranked: #2150²

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Popularity: #2388

Members: 8,536

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7.64

Ranked #2150Popularity #2388Members 8,536

MangaYoung AceSugimoto, Iqura (Art), Hosoda, Mamoru (Story)

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Volumes: /3

Chapters: /13

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The virtual world of OZ has taken Japan by storm. Constructing an avatar in this real-world simulation grants users access to a wide range of features—from playing games to processing legal documents. Due to its overall convenience, OZ's popularity has skyrocketed since its inception and has been deemed the world's greatest communication tool.

Introverted OZ moderator Kenji Koiso had decided to devote his summer vacation to overseeing the system's maintenance. However, he changes his mind after being invited to accompany fellow student Natsuki Shinohara to her family's residence, where the Jinnouchi clan is gathering for the impending 90th birthday celebration of her great-grandmother.

Upon their arrival, Natsuki introduces Kenji as her fiancé, which comes as a shock to both himself and her great-grandmother. While struggling to keep up with the actions of his crush, he receives an anonymous text. Enticed by the complexity of its encryption, he decodes the message and sends a response—unknowingly bringing about a great catastrophe for OZ that will have dire consequences.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Summer Wars was published in English by Vertical Inc. in 2 volumes from October 22 to December 17, 2013. It was also published in Brazilian Portuguese by Jbc from February 2011 to April 2011. It has been licensed in Polish by Waneko.

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Feb 18, 2016

Jerakor

Recommended

Okay, so the other reviewer has rightly pointed out that the premise of this particular manga is patently absurd. So, if you can't suspend your disbelief long enough to buy that a high school kid can encrypt code with a pencil and paper or that a virtual reality program could blow up the world, then you shouldn't be reading this manga. Please, go read something else.

For those of you who are left, you will find an enjoyable, short story. There is a nice little romance here and an absurd plot about AI. But the core of this manga, the reason to ...

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Jun 3, 2011

DrawnIntoIt88

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (9/13 eps)

This is the first manga that I have felt compelled to write a review of. Some minor spoilers to follow.

First of all, a warning to everyone, the description that MAL provides is very misleading. The so called "parallel dimension" is actually a computer world.

The art is decent, I had no complaints about it, though it wasn't spectacular.

The characters however, really ruined it for me. To be quite frank, they were stupid and unbelievable. There was a lack of communication between all members of Natsuki's family, leading to the collapse of a huge computer server and thus eminent nuclear war, because one family member took ... the ice used to cool the computer server to preserve a corpse. Because no one told him that it could lead to the destruction of the ENTIRE WORLD. And, I'm guessing, nearly did. And another thing that I found completely unbelievable is that, with imminent nuclear destruction and annihilation of the planet, several family members were fussing more over their recently departed matriarchs funeral. Come on people, I don't know anyone who would honestly put more stock in that than the end of the world. Add to this the man who created the villain appears to be suffering from severe narcissistic personality disorder and you have a completely whacked out cast in the worst kind of way. The only ones who didn't annoy me were the main characters, Natsuki and Kenji, and Kenji's school friend Sakuma.

The premise of the story I found really annoying as well. That this computer system, OZ, controls all nuclear warheads in the WORLD, completely connects every country and is used also to control minor things like traffic lights and plumbing systems. However, not only does it control most of the world through user accounts, but it also functions as a GAME SYSTEM for bored people of the world. In addition to its world destroying capabilities if hacked. The fact that this premise is so fantastically stupid greatly annoyed me, however, once I got beyond that, the characters were also extremely annoying. I was willing to overlook one but not the other.

The manga-ka clearly did not research human behavior at all, and seemed to simply have the characters act according to how convenient it was to advance the story. And it seems like they ran out of original ideas for how to destroy the world and decided to use a game computer system that supposedly everyone in the world is on. This lack of originality and annoying premise leads me to pronounce this title a 5, I would NOT recommend it to anyone unless you enjoy reading annoying things, and the only thing that saved the rating was the decent artwork and the two main characters who I did find myself rooting for. In fact, they are the only reason that I am going to finish reading the manga at all. I could care less if OZ destroys the world.

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