The poster for Summer Wars had the tagline "connection itself is our weapon." This sentiment is not exactly hard to come by. It could be the tagline for Yu-Gi-Oh! , Pokémon , One Piece , Shaman King , Mob Psycho 100 , Dandadan , Gachiakuta , and of course Digimon . Summer Wars has more in common with these than Our War Game and Belle , the two films that are supposed to be the same as Summer Wars . The more emotional scenes in all those series are similar to those in Summer Wars : dramatic, spectacular, maybe a little sappy. The editing becomes snappy as Sakae calls everyone in town and encourages them to help mitigate the crisis. In voiceover, she explains the joy she felt at her first meeting with Wabisuke, offering him the home he never had. The music swells as Natsuki defeats the hostile AI, powered by messages from people asking her to "save our preciou...
"We are in the world, not against it." - Ursula K. Le Guin