FUNimation posted the dubbed theatrical trailer for Mamoru Hosoda und Satoko Okudera’s Summer Wars on their YouTube channel. The film will get a limited theatrical release in December and will also be available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in Spring 2011.

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While most of us will have to wait some time until we’ll get to see an understandable release of Summer Wars (since the Japanese DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases in March won’t have English subtitles), our lucky friends in Berlin will soon have the chance to see the film on the big screen. During the 60th Berlinale (February 11 to 21), Mamoru Hosoda und Satoko Okudera’s anime adventure will be screened as part of the Generation 14plus program.
Welcome to the Space Show (Uchū Show e Yōkoso, 宇宙ショーへようこそ) from director Koji Masunari (Read or Die, Kamichu!) will also be screened during the festival. Judging from to the synopsis at ANN and the few artworks from the Japanese website it could be the younger theatrical brother of Summer Wars…

[via ANN - Thanks to @kaiotroop]

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Great, just great. AV Watch reports that VAP will release Mamoru Hosoda und Satoko Okudera’s award-winning and highly awaited anime Summer Wars on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in Japan on March 3, 2010. Just as expected, the article does not mention English subtitles for these releases and judging from VAP’s Blu-ray Disc release history so far I don’t think they will suddenly be added after all
But since the Warner Bros. logo appeared in most of the trailers released for the film so far, I still hope that the brothers will do their best to bring the film to the West with understandable subtitles soon enough…

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After the first five minutes of Mamoru Hosoda and Satoko Okudera’s Summer Wars have already been posted back in July, four more minutes have appeared online and show us some more beside the visitor’s tour to the virtual world of OZ.
Sadly no English subtitles are available…

Read on for the promised music video…

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Still feeling lost in the virtual world of OZ in Mamoru Hosoda and Satoko Okudera’s Summer Wars?
Fear not, as the Japanese marketing machine has brought us an almost five minutes long tour or rather tutorial just a few days before the theatrical opening on August 1st. If you listen closely, you can even hear the original English (I guess OZ is pretty international) narrator over the Japanese voice over. The clip also shows a few new scenes from the “real” world, but nothing too spectacular.

[via Manganimation]
Update: According to ANN, the video above shows the first five minutes of the film!

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The Japanese retail chain Tsutaya has been giving out promotion DVDs to their customers that contain the first nine minutes from Mamoru Hosoda and Satoko Okudera’s upcoming anime Summer Wars.
While this video sadly hasn’t found it’s way online yet, this two minute clip or rather music video has and it shows use some more footage of the strange virtual world OZ.

[via Manganimation]

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Kadokawa has uploaded two new TV spots for Mamoru Hosoda and Satoko Okudera’s upcoming Summer Wars anime to their official YouTube channel.
TV Spot #2

Click for spot #3…

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Once again the good folks from Manganimation have found new goodies for Mamoru Hosoda und Satoko Okudera’s upcoming anime Summer Wars from the depths of the net (2chan to be precise).
This time it’s a slightly modified version of the film’s second trailer that shows some new scenes from that still unexplained cyber world, and a nice new poster artwork (clicky left) without the perfect family idyll of the first motive…who parked his Humvee on my lawn?!

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After you guys heartlessly ignored the TV spot for the upcoming anime Summer Wars I posted the day before yesterday, maybe you’re interested in this second, almost two minutes long trailer. I don’t have a friggin’ clue what’s happening after that strange meteor hits the countryside (does anybody here speak Japanese?), but I expected nothing but great things from Mamoru Hosoda and Satoko Okudera and pray for an early domestic release.

[via Manganimation]
Update: Kevin has found/translated a synopsis that kinda explains what happens in the trailer:

When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki (Nanami Sakuraba) 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 a bizarre parallel world to collide with Earth, and it’s up to Kenji and his new fake family to put reality back in order.

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Here’s a short TV spot for Summer Wars, the latest feature-lenght anime from the creators of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Mamoru Hosoda and Satoko Okudera. Unlike the recently released trailer, this one doesn’t have any strange cyberspace scene but shows us a few milliseconds of new scenes.

Summer Wars will open across Japanese theaters on August 1st. The trailer shows the Warner Bros. logo in the beginning, so I hope the film will get an international release shortly.
[via Manganimation]

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