The previously announced Summer Pockets anime revealed a trailer, visuals, cast and crew, and a 2025 release date. Studio Sensation. is working on an animation adaptation of Key's visual novel with Tomoki Kobayashi as director. The staff also includes:
Series creator: Keiichiro OchiCharacter design: Mai OtsukaArt director: Shunichiro YoshiharaColor designer: Sari TagawaSound director: Ryosuke NayaPhoto director: Fumi NanbaSummer Pockets Anime – Teaser Trailer
The Summer Pockets anime adaptation was announced in December 2021. The main cast will reprise their roles except for Tomomi Mineuchi, who retired in 2022 and voices Kamome Kushima:
Shoya Chiba as Hairi TakaharaKonomi Kohara as Hiroha NaruseNatsumi Takamori as Ao SorakadoNene Hieda as Kamome KushimaEmiri Iwai as Tsumugi WendersSummer Pockets Anime – Introduction Image
The visual novel was released in June 2018 in Japan. The English version debuted less than two years later in February 2020. Key describes the plot as follows:
To help manage the influence of her recently deceased grandmother, protagonist Takahara Hairi goes to Torishirojima during her summer vacation.
As he got off the ferry, he saw a lone girl standing on the pier.
A girl just looked into the distance while her long hair blew in the wind.
He looked at the girl in complete confusion, but before he knew it, she was nowhere to be found.
Hairi finds himself beginning to adjust to life on this island, surrounded by nature greener than anything he has ever encountered in the city.
Time seemed to pass by randomly on this island, and just like that, memories of something nostalgic kept flooding back to him…
A memory of something he had long forgotten.
Source: Official website
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