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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The trailer for Mamoru Hosoda and Satoko Okudera’s latest anime Summer Wars which has been shown during this years Tokyo Anime Fair is now streaming in HD on the official Kadokawa YouTube Channel. I still don’t have a clue what role all these crazy cyberspace like scenes will play in the final film that will open in Japanese theaters this summer…

[via ANN]

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The first footage of Summer Wars from Mamoru Hosoda and Satoko Okudera, the people behind The Girl Who Leapt Through Time has been captured during the still running TAF2009. Just as expected from a Studio Madhouse production, the whole thing looks very well done and promising even though I can’t get my head around some of the scenes…virtual Happy Tree Friends, wtf?
Let’s hope that the Warner Bros. logo at the beginning hints for an early release in the West.

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