#159 – Summer Wars (Soma Wozu)

For this week's Around the World, we talked about Momoru Hosoda's
2009 animated film, Summer Wars (Soma Wozu). David brought it to
the panel -- what's so special about it...and familiar? Is it
possible for a director to plagiarize his own work? Is it
possible for a massively popular novel and very expensive movie
version to also rip off that same work? Did Brett and Nicole like
it anyway? We discuss our real opinions of this virtual world on
this episode.


The side-by-side comparison of Summer Wars and the Second Digimon
Movie: Bokura no War Game (2000) can be found at Actar's Otaku
Life, The Plagiarism of Summer Wars? You can read more about
eWorld at Remembering eWorld, Apple's forgotten online service.


Next episode's You Did This to Us will be 1982's The Beastmaster.


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