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My favorite anime this season, really interesting story that pays homage to Shakespeare's Hamlet and The Tempest while integrating its own original storyline and unique characters.

Zetsunen no Tempest, a story of revenge and tragedy. Referencing Shakespeare's Hamlet, the story portrayed can lead to tragic end of revenge where sadness is reflected with more sadness. However, there is also The Tempest, the alternative end to a story of revenge. An ending where all is forgiven and sadness is repaid with forgiveness and happiness.

Story:
Amazing plot, the story of revenge leads the audience to decide whether the ending should be one of tragedy or happy ending. Loved how ... Zetsuen no Tempest tells a story of magic and mythology, at the same time giving the possibility that what seems like magic and gods could merely be science at a level above one's comprehension. The story involves a lot of psychology theme which is a favorite of mine. Questioning just how one should response to loss of loved one, by either responding with desire for revenge or to continue living a normal life. Honestly this story deserves a higher rating than 8, a majority of top animes with high ratings are romance comedy. This story is interesting! It helps question what it means to be human, whether being logical all the time is appropriate or to express those emotions we humans were given to show. Using the words from Hamlet and The Tempest, truly made the story more elegant and beautiful. Showing that humans not only desire a meaningful life, but a meaningful death. Not to mention Zetsuen no Tempest help question whether lifes' coincidences are just coincidences or do they tie to pre destined state of events in life.

Art:
Enjoyed the art definitely, characters were well design. Loved how Aika's death was shown to be mysterious, beautiful and meaningful when given reason for her death but also cold and tragic without understanding what was the point of her death. Mahiro's character art was well drawn as well, his appearance gave off a rebellious leader aura that was recklessly yet rational. Yoshino's character art was also well suited for his character and personality, looking somewhat regular like character but hiding a calculative intelligent persona that at times lack delicacy due to experience.

Sound:
The classical use of music helped produced the atmosphere really well. Music being classical really help Zetsuen no Tempest relate to Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Tempest even most so. Not much to say otherwise.

Characters:
Loved all the characters, especially Aika for being the mastermind behind our 2 protagonists' journey for revenge and truth. Aika (also voiced by my favorite seiyuu) was my favourite, her personality being a little bit of everything. Strong and cold by being able to make the decision of her death all on her own, playing an act in front of Mahiro with Yoshino to keep their relationship a secret. Yet having a soft, warm and playful side to her that is somewhat childish at times. During times with her and just Yoshino or arguing with Mahiro because neither were afraid of her but rather felt the need to protect her frail looking appearance. Yoshino was my favourite character for first half of the story, being able to calmly make decisions and act out of rationality, adapting when necessary. Being perfect yet imperfect was what made him interesting. Since Aika mentioned that Yoshino is able to be calm and act rational at all times is because he goes with the flow adapting when necessary, able to be everything appropriate but unable to be individual. Mahiro wasn't much of a favorite character but likable nevertheless. A typical rebellious cold and cool character, reckless yet has good rational than most rebellious characters would. Hakaze being the opposite half of Aika was good to have. A sheltered princess unknowing to common sense, having an outward tough exterior but is actual frail on the inside being the maiden she is. Complete opposite of Aika who was frail in appearance but strong willed in personality, complementing each other's character.

Enjoyment:
Probably one of my new top favorites indefinitely, since its rare to have good tragedy stories. Not to mention a tragedy story with a good turn around. Plus despite the continuous bombardment of tragic plot events, it had some slight comedic relief time to time to help keep the story from being depressing. One of my favorite reasons that I enjoyed this story was that it was not 2 protagonist with special traits or abilities, but rather 2 ordinary high school students at a unique place at a unique time, making it very adaptive to the idea that no matter how normal the life you live is. You are your own protagonist in your own story. An enjoyable story of what may seem like predetermined act with actors following a script, but it is the actor's will to carry out those lines.

Honestly I never expected summer wars to be as good as I thought after i finished watching it. I expected it to be decent at least but it surpassed my expectations by far.

Really loved the movie, it was interesting and well thought out.

The story really does show how great it is to have strong ties to your family, how each and every individual is special and no one can take another's place. The idea of the OZ system was really interesting as well, having a virtual counterpart of every aspect of the real world. Even goes to show you no system is perfect, whether ... its social system or computer program. Not to mention, the story showed that no matter how uncertain one is with themselves, someone is needed somewhere. That everyone has a place that can call home, or a place where someone needs them.

One of the favorite aspect of Summer Wars for me was the characters, every member of Natsuki's family was unique and was able to contribute to solving the problem with Oz and protecting their family and others. Natsuki's grandma was amazing, its rare for a maternal side to be the head of the family in asian families. Not to mention she showed that its important to stay close to your family and friends no matter how long your last conversation was or how far you are, encouraging them that each individual makes a difference in the world. Kenji was another favorite character. He was able to show that being talented in just one area of life can be amazing in its own sense, not to mention he lack of confidence is something that everyone has a little inside them time to time. Since not everyone can feel like a hero in their own story, we're only human after all. We're good at only what we know and try to be good at. Last top favorite character was Kazuma. Kazuma's character was interesting because he showed he overcame bullying by learning shaolin. Not to mention his avatar portrayed his ideal self, allowing him to become closer step by step to his ideal self. A person who can protect his mother, little sister and himself.

Indeed the overall enjoyment was high, making the technological problem within Oz like a virtual game made it visually more enjoyable to watch. The story was able to play out as a serious situation, yet enjoyable for viewers of young age and those not knowledgeable about technology or IT.

Not much of a review writer, second review done in fact. Hope it helps!

Robotic;Notes the 3rd visual novel made by 5pb collaborated with Nitroplus as most people mention. Overall the anime was pretty good giving consideration to the number of episode length and amount of story line needed to be incorperated.

Sci-fi genre stories are almost always interesting with having a grandiose scale conflict that is built up or connected to smaller events that occur among the characters. Didn't like how each individual character conflict was so simply considered resolved especially with Subaru, practically no resolution for him. Deux ex machina was used a bit too extensively for the story, most likely due to cutting out parts of the ... visual novel storyline (like in the opening you see them having fireworks at the bench but there wasn't any episode). Also the story skipped quite often from one point in the story to the next with connection to each episode, as well as some plot holes made from them. However the story was overall good, it was unique and represented 5pb & Nitroplus' theme of 1% fantasy 99% science story style.

Art was decent, expressions, reactions etc were well made most of the time. The design of the robots were realistic in terms of the amateur physic knowledge needed to see if such robots could be made. Gunvarrel is pretty awesome looking in my opinion, its nice to have a robotic represent a hero of justice for those childhood dreams.

Sound was decent, the background music was suitable though could have been better. The opening song first and second were enjoyable, especially first one in my opinion.

Characters were nicely made, each personality was unique in some sense. Though, character development could have been done further (if more episodes were given), especially for Subaru and Daitoku. Since it feels as though you only know their problems and how they are typically, no sense of how they wanna purse the future and grow as an individual character. Furugori was well done, background story and character develop was well shown and portrayed. Akiho and Kaito were decently done, not too well done but decently enough I got no complaints except on how Kaito about Airi. Antagonists could have been better, Kou's character was little iffy because of what Airi said yet the flashback scene didn't show it well enough.

Enjoyed the story a lot though, Furugori was interesting. The game within the story was interesting wish app store had something like that. Sci-fi was great with those phone droids the character had, concept of elephant-mouse syndrome. Though that syndrome could have been incorporated into the story better. Akiho's version only seemed problematic, Kaito's version was like a special move.

Overall enjoyable to watch! Though the story didn't end in the way I hoped. Wish the story had a better twist, almost thought (spoiler here) that when Misaki got out of the black/purple Sumeragi or the images people saw of the city destroyed through their phone screen that it was an alterate world, or the world acted like a mirror having 2 different possible perspective depending on which side of the world you were in? Anyway, give it a try, its worth watching!