Timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by his secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family's Nagano home for a summer job. Turns out Kenji discovers his "summer job" is to pretend to be Natsuki's fiance, for the celebration of Natsuki's spunky grandmother's 90th birthday. There, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can't resist solving it. As it turns out, his solution creates chaos within the virtual world of OZ, translating into anarchy in real-life.
Actually, the story is a little far-fetched.
The virtual world in the story - OZ connects almost everything.
Even civic and military functions are on OZ and you can hack it with a single 2048-bit encrypted password? BUT because this is anime, anything is possible and i'm totally biased again. Haha!
The most important element in this anime is - family ties, which is hardly seen in those anime movies that i've seen so far and it was nicely brought out in the movie.
And there seems to be lots of product placement in the movie.
Dell, iPhone, Nintendo - i wonder if they are being paid for it or not.
This is one good and enjoyable anime movie to watch :)
Director Mamoru Hosoda is good!
And now, i need to catch The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Keke..