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[otomokatsuhiro]

SUMMER WARS サマーウォーズ (2009) dir Mamoru Hosoda

#summer wars #hosoda mamoru #2000s #gif #films #*ramsay #animangahive #fyanimegifs #usersenka #usermoh #userroh #kanamesengoku #userkyaa

[pururin]

#gif #summer wars

[squirrelstothenuts]

#summer wars #my gifs

[alpaca-clouds]

BELLE and the fantasy of a non-corporate internet

Just a little thing I kinda want to end out this week speaking about democratized media on. Because there is this little thing in Mamoru Hosoda's newest movie BELLE... I am honest: I am not entirely sure whether it is something Hosoda and his team thought about when making this movie. But... this movie has this wonderful little anarchist moment.

BELLE is all in all not really an anarchist movie. Nor is it Solarpunk. But it picks up this theme, that goes through several movies Hosoda has done. His "internet triology" how I like to call it:

Digimon Adventure: Bokura no Wargame

Summer Wars

BELLE

Three movies that are not only connected in aethetic, but also in theme. All three of them having a plot that takes place online for good chunks.

And that theme is of the internet connecting people all around the world. Of allowing people all around the world to connect.

The Digimon Adventure movie focuses on the idea of the young millennials in that movie having access and understanding of this new virtual world, that the older generation lacks. In the Japanese version of the movie there is a prolonged gag sequence of Yamato and Takeru trying to get access to the internet with a lot of confused adults thinking about whether or not they have this access.

This shifts in Summer Wars, where the internet suddenly is a place that everyone uses over a lot of different access points. In the finale we see people use the internet via phones, laptops, high end computers and video game consoles. Though it also gives a warning of us not relying on it too much.

And then we have BELLE, which focuses on the internet as a place where people can truly be themselves and connecting with each other, while being unable to connect in the real world (partly because of distance), as well as the internet of a place to rediscover yourself and as a medium to help each other.

But all three movies kinda have one scene in common. There is a scene towards the finale where all seems lost and the character outmatched by the antagonist. (I am gonna say something about the antagonists in a moment.) And then... everyone gets together. And by everyone I mean everyone. In Bokura no Wargame it is the emails of encouragement and the spirits of all those kids and teens watching the battle that allow War Greymon and Metal Garurumon to fuse into Omegamon. In Summer Wars it is the fact that everyone risks their accounts by handing them over to Natsuki that allows them to beat the AI in hanafuda. And in the finale of BELLE it is everyone banding together to sing and no longer supporting the self-appointed moderators that allows Suzu to make Kei hear her voice. It is the connection of people via the internet that allows people to succeed in these movies.

But there is one thing in which BELLE differs from the other two movies - or rather all three movies differ from each other.

Bokura no Wargame still very much is set in Web 1.0, before social media and the bottlenecking of the internet. Again, the movie makes this big thing out of the internet being a thing for the youth.

Meanwhile Summer Wars is set within a very corporate "everything platform". And while this movie does have some message about "yeah, maybe having all that data within one system is a bad thing, actually", there is not really a comment about the company running OZ and whether maybe one company should not own the one platform that in this world basically IS THE INTERNET.

BELLE is different in that regard. Because BELLE makes a point out of the fact that U is an open source platform that was created to... basically run anarchical. There was not supposed to be an central control. That the users were supposed to have control over their experience on the platform. But because the creators also did not want to have "control" over it, big companies just took over and devided U up between themselves, creating that moderation team that is seen as the antagonists within the movie. And here is the thing: That big scene of everyone coming together and singing? Yeah, that is the scene in which the users take the control over the platform back from the companies. And since U is basically the the internet in this world... Part of the finale is basically the users taking back their control over the internet.

And... I don't know. I have not seen people talk about this so far. But to me it is the nice and utopic part in this movie.

The internet is such a great thing to connect people. And that is something that Mamoru Hosoda has definitely understood better than many other film makers. And we just... should not let big coorporations take this from us.

#web 1.0 #web 2.0 #democracy #anarchy #belle #belle movie #mamoru hosoda #digimon adventure #digimon #summer wars #take back the internet

[makethiscanon]

Call me weird, but I find something so comforting in typical mundane romance animes as an ace person.

Like, they portray hand holding as such a big deal. Sometimes it takes episodes to build up the courage. And walking beside each other is seen as a big step, or accidentally touching. A peck of a kiss is the pinnacle of affection. It's stuff people don't think twice about in reality.

I just love it; the different ways of showing two people in love without all the overt physical affection.

Bless you, shojo anime. Got me here feeling all accepted.

#sarah rambles #asexual #shojo #anime #manga #romance #kimi no todoke #from me to you #summer wars #beyond boundary #your lie in april #komi can't communicate #hotarubi no mori e

[roof-bot227]

Rabbits on my mind

#cartoon #art #splatoon #splatoon rabbit #bloody bunny #hoppy hopscotch #poppy playtime #summer wars #king kazma

[collector-noceda-clawthorne]

#the girl who leapt through time #summer wars #wolf children #the boy and the beast #mamoru hosoda #studio chizu #fan art #not my art

[lumochiart]

tag game: 3 books, 3 movies, and 3 songs

that changed your life or you just love.

as always, tagged by @cupofjoel ✨ (thanks for always including me in these fun games!)

can you tell i absolutely love R.F. Kuang's books? still need to read yellowface but i know i will adore it as much as her other works.

everything on here had some sort of chokehold on me at some part in my lifetime (some still do). highly recommend all of these if you haven't dived into some!

tagging: @joy-girl, @karinzany @reijuu @xuskii @theartofcinema @soleilnomoon and anyone else who wants to join in!

#tag game #the poppy war #babel #the young elites #booklr #marie lu #rf kuang #summer wars #titanic #one piece #one piece strong world #trading yesterday #twice #hiroyuki sawano #guilty crown

[figurecollection]

#summer wars #king kazma #love machine #2010 #figma #banner #banners #good smile company #old web #00's #ads #anime figure #anime figures #anime #figure #figures #figurine #figurines

[baybmetal]

Summer Wars // サマーウォーズ - dir. Mamoru Hosoda

#summer wars #these took forever i tried to get them as smooth as possible #also i had no idea ehat scenes to gif so I'll probably do more bc i love this movie 🫶🏾 #my gifs

[knuxtiger4]

2014 -> 2016 -> 2024

Updated my home screen for my phone! :D

#knux's art #furry #furry art #fursona #OC: Karma #art #doodle #artists on tumblr #Karma #monster #demon #phone screen #summer wars

[cartoonfan21]

Studio Chizu, Movies

All directed by Mamoru Hosoda

#the girl who leapt through time #Summer wars #wolf children #The Boy and the Beast #mirai #belle #studio chizu #mamoru hosoda #anime films #anime gifs

[squirrelstothenuts]

#summer wars #my gifs

[alpaca-clouds]

Simping for Mamoru Hosoda

You know what? Keeping it up with the Saturday and anime movie thing, I have going, let me just talk about my favorite anime director. Mamoru Hosoda. (No, I do not care that much about Makoto Shinkai. But that is another story.)

Look, I was kinda pre-disposed to loving this man's movies, given that my first fandom hyperfixation was Digimon and he did not only the first two movies, but also an episode from that show. So obviosuly I was kinda going to love his stuff and look out for it, when he started to get active outside of the fandom.

But darn, his movies are just so fucking awesome. And most of them make me cry.

Let me get a bit personal here. I come from a broken home. I had a single mother and that single mother was abusive af. I was homeless, when I was 18. Those parts of the family still alive to this day do not accept me as a guy, because they do not get the entire trans stuff.

But... Maybe it is because of this, that the Hosoda movies always speak to me.

Because the Mamoru Hosoda movies always deal centrally with the topic of family.

In Summer Wars this is very much clear text. It is about this big family clan and about the dynamics of the family. Both in the good and the bad. It also is surprisingly a lot about mutual aid and doing what you can.

Then we have Wolf Children, another movie that focuses on family. In this case of the family of the mother and her two children and about the two children as siblings.

The Boy and the Beast might be even more interesting, because this is very much a found family movie. After all our protagonist ends gets adopted in this monster family of sorts. And it is very much about the father-son relationship between him and his father figure. And about how adopted families can be as valid as blood families.

Mirai no Mirai does not even tackle that big of a topic with it. It is just about siblings and about outcomes and about, well, the future and what it might hold. I even managed this movie without crying!

And then we have Belle, a movie that actually shows us dysfunctional families. Both in the case of our protagonist, who just struggles to adjust after the death of her mother, but also more noticable with the parental abuse that the two brothers live through.

It really is a theme that basically shows up in all of Hosoda's original movies. And I love them for it.

Especially I do love, though, that there is some nuance in this. And that despite everything... We have a choice in this.

#anime #anime movie #mamoru hosoda #wolf children #summer wars #mirai no mirai #belle #the boy and the beast #anime recommendation

[jumpdriveproject]

#summer wars

[akasanata]

Best animated movie!

Classification round

#Wolf Children #Summer Wars #Tokyo Godfathers #The Tale of the Princess Kaguya #Porco Rosso #Paprika #Perfect Blue #My Neighbor Totoro #Howl's Moving Castle #Spirited Away #polls #my polls #best animated movie #animation #animated movies #y