Young boy! Giant robot! It's a formula perfected in Japan long, long ago and of all the recent efforts to tap into the formula, Eureka 7 is pretty easily the best. Originally a very popular television series, a feature version of Eureka 7 has been in the works for a good while now and the first trailer has just leaked out. Here's how I've described this in the past:

Set against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eureka 7 takes a young boy and throws him into the middle of resistance fighters, the girl he'd be in love with if he knew what that meant at this stage of his life, and a giant robot. A bunch of giant robots, actually. It's equal parts coming of age story and large scale action, as much about Renton figuring out what it means to grow up as it is about his fight for freedom, and in its best moments it plays an awful lot like Neon Genesis Evangelion with the whining and abstract mysticism stripped out.

As seems to be the trend with anime series moving to the big screen recently, the feature version will apparently blend about 40% new material with re-animated sequences culled from the original show to create a sort of old-new fusion designed to satisfy both old and new fans. And I for one am very excited to see it. Check the trailer below the break!