Teaser for “Summer Wars” up on Kadokawa’s YouTube Anime Channel

By kevin on April 08, 2009 at 3:20pm EDT

From ANN comes word that Kadokawa has uploaded the teaser trailer for Summer Wars to their YouTube Anime Channel. This is a big deal even for casual anime fans because it’s the followup effort of director Mamoru Hosoda after his surprise 2006 hit “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”. For those who prefer subtitles to dubbed audio tracks, the voice cast features a bunch of popular actors including Nanami Sakuraba, Ryunosuke Kamiki,  Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji, and Riisa Naka (Makoto Konno in The Girl Who Leapt Through Time).

Plot: When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso (Kamiki) is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki (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 allows a malicious artificial intelligence to hack into a worldwide network called “OZ” and it’s up to Kenji and his new fake family to put reality back in order before the AI uses OZ’s many connections to vital real world systems to cause massive damage.

Hosoda and cast:

Teaser