When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family's Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation.
Natsuki's family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era (1336 to 1573), and they've all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his "summer job" is to pretend to be Natsuki's fiance and dance with her at the birthday celebration.
As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki's act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can't resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes Oz, the program that controls nearly every aspect of life to be hacked into, it's up to Kenji and his new "family" to stop the hacker before it's too late.
For those looking for a romance, you will be disappointed. At first you may be forgiven for thinking it to be a romantic comedy since i was laughing my head of thinking this would be about him pretending to be her BF and them forming a relationship during this. The anime is really about Family, coming together and accepting lost loved ones which i can most certainly relate to, in that sense it was most certainly entertaining and backed up by surprisingly impressive fight scenes in this fake OZ world. Yet still i wish it focused more on the 2 protagonists friendship, after all it being the reason for why he was there in the first place. Not sure if ill watch this again but it's certainly worth the watch regardless, it is surprisingly smart and entertaining just go in with an open mind. I haven't seem a family bonding like this since Makoto Shinkai's short.
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