Otaku Review

On their official YouTube channel, Kadokawa have uploaded a sixty second trailer for the upcoming summer release, ‘Summer Wars’. The film opens this summer and follows a family who go about a series of fantastical adventures while on a summer vacation. The animation is produced by Madhouse and has the same writer and character designer as ‘The Girl Who Leapt Through Time’ which has to mean something. It’s hard to imagine it taking a long time before we hear about a US release date which makes it something to look forward to seeing. Maybe we’ll get really lucky and get to have a theatrical screening! By the way, best part of that screener? The big booming English ‘Summer Days’ at the end, completely unnecessary yet makes me laugh (for probably lots of the wrong reasons).

Over in the, ‘this is kind of cute and entertaining’ department we have a brand new preview of the upcoming Yoko music video. The official website for the upcoming Gurren Lagann ‘Kirameki Yoko Box ~ Pieces of sweet stars~ CD’ has posted a 30 second trailer of the music video for the single off the album. The song is sung by Marina Inoue as Yoko and the music video is entirely new animation.  Warning, the clips from the music video mostly struck me as cheesy but that’s just me and I don’t have rabid Yoko love.