Summer Wars/YMMV

• Award Snub: Or rather, Nomination Snub. After a limited theatrical release, FUNimation attempted to submit Summer Wars for an Academy Award, but, due to the fact that there were less than 16 entries submitted that year, only three nominations were allowed instead of five as the Academy policy dictates, and Summer Wars was not chosen.
• Breakout Character: See Ensemble Darkhorse.
• Crack Pairing: The pairing of Riichi (the uncle in the Self Defense Force) and Wabisuke grew immensely popular on Pixiv and elsewhere despite the fact that the two are never shown directly interacting with each other.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Battle Again, which plays during King Kazma's rematch with Love Machine and during Natsuki's Hanafuda card game with Love Machine.
  • The ending song by Tatsuro Yamashita is touching and happy at the same time
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Kazuma, along with his avatar King Kazma, has quite a lot of fanart.
  • Enough to get a spin off manga apparently.
  • Another example being the series's resident Badass Grandma Sakae, who was so awesome that her eventual death was felt by both the Jinnouchi clan, but also anyone and everyone who watched the film.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The climax of the movie prominently features a Japanese asteroid sample-return probe being hijacked by Love Machine and set on a re-entry profile that will destroy a nuclear power plant. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa mission was a similar asteroid sample return probe which did return to Earth in the summer of 2010, and which did experience failures leading to a barely-controlled crash-landing in Australia.
• Memetic Sex God: Everyone's a gay furry for King Kazuma.
• Moral Event Horizon: Love Machine doesn't seem too evil at first; in fact it's theorized that he only sees what he's doing as a game. Then he tries to drop a satellite on the house purely out of spite.
  • He might have crossed it earlier when he cut the power for Sakae's heart monitor so that no one would hear that she was in danger of dying. An earlier moment where he was shown looking at her phone address indicates that he purposefully did this to get Sakae out of his way.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Kazuma's character design and voice are so feminine that many an audience mistook him for a young girl when he first appeared.
• The Woobie: Natsuki in the second half of the film.