History Fridge / SummerWars

** The growing corporate popularity of the "Metaverse" concept only makes a future like this progressively more likely. Add in all the astonishingly advanced AI of the early 2020's...

** The growing corporate popularity of the {{Metaverse}} only makes a future like this progressively more likely. Add in all the astonishingly advanced AI of the early 2020's...

* Real World: Think about how much stuff is going online every day...and now how websites like Google are encouraging you to link your other web accounts through them....what's to stop something like the Oz crash if developers aren't careful?

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** While it's not an absolute proof that ''nobody'' died, nothing in the movie hints that anyone outside the family knows that Love Machine was reponsible of Sakae's death.

* At first, it seems to be a remarkable coincidence that [[spoiler: the rogue AI that steals Kenji's avatar in its initial attack on Oz was written by the black sheep of the family he's staying with]]. Of course, since Kenji became involved in the entire mess by responding to an e-mail via cell-phone, [[spoiler: Love Machine almost certainly knew Kenji's physical location, was likely able to correlate it with the location of Wabisuke's home, and probably picked that particular avatar just to screw with its creator.]] Another reason Kenji was chosen in particular is that [[spoiler:he would have been the fastest person to have solved Love Machine's first encryption, even having mistyped the last letter, and so Love Machine logically chose him to be the scapegoat. Even if it would ultimately have been demonstrable that there was no way Kenji could have wrecked and hijacked Oz, he "won" by being the most efficient and therefore (to Love Machine) most plausible person to frame.]]
* At first, it might seem like just something pretty when [[spoiler: Natsuki gets the blessing from the guardian whales]] and it's completely pointless. But then you think a little more and realize that [[spoiler: she didn't lose after getting the new clothes.]] What do fancy new clothes typically do in [=MMORPGs=]? They increase stats, such as luck. The movie wasn't being metaphorical when she got clothes "for luck".

* "Keep the lines of communication open". Sakae says this during her MissionControl scene and it explains away two events that otherwise look like {{Idiot Ball}}s. When the two little kids interrupt Kazuma's first battle with Love Machine, they think it is a harmless game instead of detaining a dangerous hacker. Later, when Shota removes the ice from the super computer to keep Sakae cool [[spoiler: and from decomposing]], he doesn't realize the damage he did because no one told him. It's only after a strategy session over a meal that involves the entire family, do they stop sabotaging each other and pool their resources.

* As the US Ministry of Defense undeniably conducted a secret experiment that led to worldwide disaster, no country will ever trust the US as an ally anymore. The international order as we know it is pretty much destroyed.

* At first, it might seem like just something pretty when [[spoiler: Natsuki gets the blessing from the guardian whales]] and it's completely pointless. But then you think a little more and realize that [[spoiler: she didn't lose after getting the new clothes.]] What do fancy new clothes typically do in [=MMORPGs=]? They increase stats, such as luck.

* More of a Meta Example, but if you were to listen closely, Sakae was born on August 1st, 1920, while this movie is set in 2010. If you think about it, the movie was released on August 1st 2009, which was the exact same date as the ''DigimonAdventure'' anniversary date, the Odaiba Memorial Day. Coincidence? Hosoda worked on the ''Digimon Adventure'' Pilot Movie and ''Our War Game'', he must have planned before that time.

* More of a Meta Example, but if you were to listen closely, Sakae was born on August 1st, 1920, while this movie is set in 2010. If you think about it, the movie was released on August 1st 2009, which was the exact same date as the ''DigimonAdventure'' anniversary date, the Odaiba Memorial Day. Coincidence? Well, Hosoda did work on the ''Digimon Adventure'' Pilot Movie and ''Our War Game'', he must have planned before that time.