Summer Wars/YMMV


 * Award Snub: Or rather, Nomination Snub. After a limited theatrical release, FU Nimation 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.
 * Complete Monster: Love Machine doesn't seem like this 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.
 * 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
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The climax of the movie prominently features . 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.
 * Tear Jerker:
 * . Also,


 * The manga adaptation makes worse when  Cue Kenji jerking awake only to realize something's wrong.
 * Seeing the sardonic and to this point quite unlikeable Wabisuke have a BSOD once . After rushing back to the house (and by the look of the car, going through anything in his path), he
 * In a similar vein, seeing reclusive and sharp-tongued Kazuma break down completely after
 * This Troper, oddly, tears up during the Casino scene, where
 * 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.