This boxset comes with four Hosoda Mamoru movies ( The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children & The Boy & the Beast) on Blu-ray, three Mirai of the Future postcards & a leaflet.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Bumbling high school student Konno Makoto rides her bike recklessly, is often late to school, & does poorly on her exams. On top of that, lately shes been having odd visions & hearing strange voices. One day on her way home from school, she is again riding her bike too fast
- too fast to stop herself from hitting an oncoming train. In a flash, Makoto is mysteriously transported back in time just enough to avoid the accident. After discovering her "e;time leaping"e; abilities, Makoto uses it liberally to make life more pleasant
- no more tardiness, no more blown exams, no more little sister eating her pudding. When relationship issues begin to arise between Makoto & her friends Chiaki & Kousuke, she again falls back on time leaping to avoid awkward situations, only to get herself into further messes. Makoto learns the hard way that playing with time has consequences...
Summer Wars (2009)
Summer Wars welcomes the digital age with the vision of an everyday Japan thats connected to a virtual reality world called OZ. People & institutions all have avatar counterparts in OZ, creating a sprawling online community that supports real interactions & transactions. So when something goes wrong in OZ, the real world goes down with it! Teen prodigy Kenji (voiced by Kamiki Ryunosuke) unwittingly throws humanity into peril when he cracks a math code from a mysterious sender. Next thing he knows, some hacker using his avatar is wreaking great havoc in the virtual & the real worlds. With the help of his crush Nanami (voiced by Shinohara Natsuki) & her large wacky family, Kenji embarks on a digital war to save the world!
Wolf Children (2012)
Hana (voiced by Miyazaki Aoi) is an ordinary university student. One day, she experiences love at first sight with a young man (voiced by Osawa Takao) who periodically sneaks into her class. The two soon fall in love, & Hana discovers that he is actually a wolfman. However, Hana accepts the wolfman for who he is, & the two eventually have two children: Yuki & Ame. Due to their wolf-like qualities, Hana decides to keep her children at home to avoid attention from others. When the wolfman suddenly passes away, Hana is forced to care for the children on her own. Realizing the difficulties of raising two half-wolf children in the city, Hana moves to the countryside & discovers the peaceful haven her family desperately needs.
The Boy & the Beast (2015)
His mother dead & his father long gone, nine-year-old Ren runs away from home to forage a meager existence on the streets of Tokyo. But the angry young Ren is taken in by Kumatetsu, a bear-like man-beast w