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  27               <h3 class="datestamp">07/08/2025</h3>
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  31                 <p>
  32                   This is the second in a series of posts about Mamoru Hosoda's
  33                   films. The previous entry can be found
  34                   <a href="thegirlwholeaptthroughtime.html">here.</a> The next
  35                   one will be available in a few weeks.
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  38                   It's 2009. The iPhone is brand new. The Wii and the DS are
  39                   juggernauts, sitting in nearly every home in Japan. The
  40                   internet is no longer the reserve of weird nerds and
  41                   teenagers: it has well and truly <b>arrived.</b> Your boss
  42                   posts on facebook. Brands have signed up to twitter.
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  45                   But even as the world becomes ever more digital, the world
  46                   keeps turning, and summer arrives just as it always has.
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  49                   The Girl Who Leapt Through Time may have leant on nostalgia,
  50                   but it was also a remarkably forward thinking film. It asks
  51                   the viewer to savour the time they're given, to look to the
  52                   future with bright eyes. Summer Wars, meanwhile, is a
  53                   remarkably futurist film, imaging a world where everything,
  54                   from train timetables to microwaves to provincial government,
  55                   is controlled through one central, worldwide application. And
  56                   yet, despite all that Summer Wars is a film about history.
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  59                   I'm being a little bit facetious here - the A-plot in Summer
  60                   Wars is undeniably a sci-fi bananza, but it is also a straight
  61                   remake of Hosoda's earlier work on Digimon: Our War Game. You
  62                   may know it as the middle third of Digimon: The Movie.
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  65                   And look, fair cop to Hosoda - he fuckin' nailed it with that
  66                   short. It survived basically uncut into the movie (which
  67                   cannot be said of the other two shorts that make it up) and
  68                   then gets remade with the serial numbers filed off in Summer
  69                   Wars, and it <i>still absolutely rips.</i>
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  72                   But the magic of Summer Wars is how it weaves the story of the
  73                   Jinnouchi clan through each beat of the a-plot. Wabisuke and
  74                   Sakae are the most important members to the plot, being the
  75                   creator of Love Machine and the matriarch of the family,
  76                   respectively, but each member has a chance to shine in their
  77                   own way.
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