Takahiro Yokokawa

Koichi Uehara, a fourth-grader living in the suburbs of Tokyo, picks up a fossil that looks like a large stone. To his surprise, he has picked up a baby Kappa (a Japanese mythical water creature), who has been asleep underground for the past 300 years.

While posing as his popular classmate's boyfriend, Kenji gets framed for hacking OZ, the virtual reality world that powers daily life. As a rogue A.I. program wreaks havoc on the real world, Kenji must unite his newfound connections to face an impending cyber apocalypse. Bursting with color and imagination, Summer Wars is a timeless epic from Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda (BELLE).