The TV anime adaptation of Key‘s Summer Pockets visual novel is slated to premiere in 2025. Its staff and cast, as well as a teaser visual and trailer, have also been revealed.
Tomoki Kobayashi (Remake Our Life!, Seiren) is directing the production at Feel with the studio’s president Makoto Takigasaki (The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting) as animation producer. Mai Otsuka (The Demon Girl Next Door) is handling the character designs while Keiichiro Ochi (Go, Go, Loser Ranger!, The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio) is the series composer.
The returning cast from the game includes:
• Shoya Chiba as Hairi Takahara
• Konomi Kohara as Shiroha Naruse
• Natsumi Takamori as Ao Sorakado
• Emiri Iwai as Wenders Tsumugi
Nene Hieda is voicing Kamome Kushima for the anime, as the original voice actor Tomomi Mineuchi retired in 2022.
Summer Pockets is a 2018 visual novel that was originally released on PC, iOS, and Android, with a Switch and Steam release following in 2019 and 2020, respectively. It later received an upgraded version titled Summer Pockets Reflection Blue, which has new heroines and routes. Reflection Blue was released in 2020 for PC and Android and in 2021 for iOS and Switch. Its Steam release is tentatively set for 2024.
Playasia describes Summer Pockets as:
Summer Pockets is set on an isolated, rural, and peaceful island on the Seto Inland Sea called Torishirojima, which has a population of about 2,000 people. The protagonist is Hairi Takahara, a young man not native to the island. Hairi grew up in an urban setting, but after an unpleasant incident, he uses the recent death of his grandmother as an excuse to come to the island to take care of her estate sale. Once there, he gets to know four girls who are the focus of the story. They include Shiroha Naruse, who forgot her summer vacation; Ao Sorakado, who is pursuing the legends of the island; Kamome Kushima, a high-class girl looking for a pirate ship; and Tsumugi Wenders, a younger girl trying to find herself.
The visual novel has character designs from Na-Ga, Tsubasu Izumi, Yunon Nagayama, and Fumuyun.
The announcement of a Summer Pockets anime being in the works was made in 2021. Previous Key visual novels that have received anime adaptations include Clannad, Air, Kanon, Little Busters!, Rewrite, planetarian, and Kud Wafter. There is also the crossover anime Kaginado.
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Source: @key_official
