Summer Pockets TV Anime to Get Manga Adaptation
Summer Pockets revealed that a manga adaptation of the TV anime will begin in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump. Author is yet to be announced, but a new visual featuring Naruse has been revealed:
The information was announced during today's AnimeJapan 2025 stage. Studio feel. is animating the adaptation of the visual novel by Key, slated to premiere on April 7. Earlier this week, a new trailer and visual were released. The staff for Summer Pockets anime includes:
- Director: Tomoki Kobayashi
- Series Composition: Keiichiro Ochi
- Character Designer: Mai Otsuka
- Art Director: Shunichiro Yoshihara
- Color Design: Sari Tagawa
- Sound Director: Ryosuke Naya
- Photography Director: Fumi Nanba
- Opening Theme Song: "Alka Tale" by Konomi Suzuki
The main cast members from the visual novel are reprising their roles with the exception of Tomomi Mineuchi who retired in 2022. Mineuchi voiced Kamome Kushima and has since been replaced by Nene Hieda. The main cast inlcudes:
- Shoya Chiba as Hairi Takahara
- Konomi Kohara as Shiroha Naruse
- Natsumi Takamori as Ao Sorakado
- Nene Hieda as Kamome Kushima
- Emiri Iwai as Tsumugi Wenders
The visual novel was released in June 2018 in Japan and was followed by an English release in February 2020. Key describes the plot as:
To help manage his recently deceased grandmother’s effects, the protagonist Takahara Hairi travels to Torishirojima during his summer vacation.
As he gets off the ferry boat, he spots a lone girl standing on the pier.
A girl who simply gazes into the distance as her long hair flutters in the wind.
He looks at the girl in utter bewilderment, but before he realizes it, she can no longer be found anywhere.
Hairi finds himself starting to adjust to life on this island, surrounded by nature far lusher than anything he has ever come across back in the city.
Time seems to flow by casually on this island, and as it does, memories of something nostalgic keep coming back to him…
Memories of something he had long forgotten.
Source: Official Website
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