Mamoru Hosoda

I came to this book with the knowledge of having already watched the movie and knowing how the story was gonna end.
Despite all of that, I still cried when I got to the last page.
A short and bittersweet tale of life, highly raccomended

It has been awhile since we've been out to the movies. This is an anime movie that my daughter owns. She loves it and talked me into watching it with her last night.The story of this 2009 release concerns a Japanese high school math whiz and all-round nerd who is asked by a girl in his class to accompany her to her family ancestral home in the countryside. She pitches it as a summer job. He reluctantly goes and finds that a huge family celebration is just beginning for the girl's 90-year-old show more grandmother. To fulfill a promise the girl made to her grandmother (that the next time she visits she would bring her boyfriend) she introduces him to the family as her boyfriend. Much cute awkwardness ensues.

In the background of the story we are made aware of a world-wide computer network called Oz. Oz seems to have started as a Facebook type of application but has morphed into the prominent way that people and business interact with the Internet and each other. A malevolent Artificial Intelligence has been let lose in Oz causing widespread trouble. It is up to the math kid, his pretend girlfriend and her family (an old well-respected Japanese family with many connections) to safe the day. Why is it up to them? Well, you're just going to have to watch the movie.

It's a nice blend of cyberspace dueling (the poster shows all the character's Oz avatars) and Japanese family life. If you can imagine such a thing. If you've got kids into anime I'd recommend it. show less

Such a powerful story. We are looking to show this movie at my library and my boss wanted to make sure that it would be good. So, I got the book for her to read and had to read it myself. I love the movie and it is so touching!

Cuando era poco más que una adolescente, Hana se enamoró de un Hombre Lobo. Puede parecer extraño, pero durante años fueron inmensamente felices, y tuvieron dos hijos: Yuki y Ame, que nacieron también con la capacidad de convertirse en lobos. Tras la repentina muerte de su compañero, Hana decide mudarse al campo para así criar a sus hijos en un entorno tranquilo, donde sus extraordinarias facultades no sean descubiertas. Sin embargo, al crecer, Yuki y Ame deberán decidir si quieren show more vivir como humanos o como lobos. (FILMAFFINITY) show less