{"id":589232,"date":"2026-07-16T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/589232\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:58:14","slug":"the-first-trailer-for-cocoon-one-summer-of-girlhood-is-ready-to-make-you-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/589232\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Trailer For ‘Cocoon\u2014One Summer of Girlhood’ is Ready to Make You Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"

GKIDS finally gave us a look at studio SASAYURI<\/a>\u2018s upcoming anime film adaptation of Machiko Kyo\u2019s wartime josei manga<\/a>, Cocoon\u2014One Summer of Girlhood<\/a>, and boy howdy does it look like it\u2019s going to put audiences through the wringer when it hits theaters this September.<\/p>\n

Based on the true story of the Himeyuri students<\/a> in Okinawa,\u00a0Cocoon\u2014One Summer of Girlhood tells the story of a group of young girls serving as medics during World War II.\u00a0Directed by Yukimitsu Ina<\/a> (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!<\/a>,\u00a0Star Wars: Visions \u2013 Tatooine Rhapsody<\/a>), the film\u2019s trailer teases a cinematic experience that\u2019ll pull none of its punches as things get disastrously bad for the bright-eyed schoolgirls as they hold on to their sanity in the hopes of one day seeing a brighter tomorrow together.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the film\u2019s official plot synopsis:<\/p>\n

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San and Mayu attend an all-girls school on a warm and tranquil island. When war reaches their shores, they are ordered to help nurse the wounded in a military hospital hidden away in a cave. Amidst escalating death and brutality, the friends struggle to find solace in their fragile lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you scratched your head and thought aloud, \u201cMan, this anime movie sure looks like a Studio Ghibli joint,\u201d you\u2019re not far off. The film, which\u2019ll serve as Ina and SASAYURI\u2019s debut feature, was founded by former Ghibli animator Hitomi Tateno<\/a>, who serves as Cocoon\u2018s producer. Likewise, the film sees Princess Mononoke<\/a> and The Boy and the Heron<\/a> animators Akihiko Yamashita<\/a> and Shinji Otsuka<\/a> work together with a new generation of key animators. And, to sweeten the creative pot even further, Cocoon will be scored by none other than Kensuke Ushio<\/a> of Chainsaw Man \u2013 The Movie: Reze Arc<\/a>, A Silent Voice<\/a>, Devilman Crybaby<\/a>, and Dan Da Dan<\/a> fame. To say the film has an all-star roster behind the scenes would be an understatement.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t wait until September to see what lies ahead in Cocoon\u2018s story, Viz Media<\/a> recently localized the manga in English<\/a>. In my review of the manga over at Aftermath, I described the story as a cute girls doing M*A*S*H* things manga until it isn\u2019t, writing, \u201cWhile all of the pressure points of Cocoon are time-stamped in WWII, Kyo\u2019s modern-girl wartime manga is unsettlingly timeless. What Cocoon has to say about what it would be like to live through the experience of war on the front lines at such a tender age is liable to ruin you, as it did me with each page turn. It\u2019s a capital-B bummer of a read. But nestled in the misery of Mayu and San fighting for tomorrow is a bittersweet sentiment about trying again despite it all that\u2019ll linger with me forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, I look forward to SASAYURI\u2019s anime film making me cry with lines in motion just as much as Kyo\u2019s manga did.<\/p>\n

Cocoon\u2014One Summer of Girlhood hits theaters in English and Japanese on September 4.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GKIDS finally gave us a look at studio SASAYURI\u2018s upcoming anime film adaptation of Machiko Kyo\u2019s wartime josei…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[15465,249830,18,117,23888,19,17,327,249831],"class_list":["post-589232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anime","tag-cocoon-one-summer-of-girlhood","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-gkids","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-sasayuri"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116931428769191253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}