The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Summer Pockets, a Japanese visual novel developed by Key (Kanon, Angel Beats), announced today on June 29 that the anime is set to premiere in 2025. Crunchyroll News reported the anime adaptation project back in December 2021.The has also released a teaser trailer and visual. Both depict the back of one of the main characters, Shiroha Naruse, standing on a sunny beach.
Tomoki Kobayashi (Remake Our Life!) serves as director of the TV anime, alongside series composition writer Keiichiro Ochi (The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio) and character designer Mai Otsuka (How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom) . And feel.(ISLAND) works on anime production.
With the exception of Tomomi Mineuchi, who retired in 2022, all of the main voice cast from the visual novel will reprise their roles in the anime as well. In place of Mineuchi, Nene Hieda is newly cast as the role of Kamome Kushima.The anime’s main voice cast members include:
Hairi Takahara voiced by Shoya Chiba
Shiroha Naruse voiced by Konomi Kohara
Ao Sorakado voiced by Natsumi Takamori
Kamome Kushima voiced by Nene Hieda
Tsumugi Wenders voiced by Emiri Iwai
The visual novel was first released in June 2018 on PC in Japan and was released in an English version on Steam in February 2020. The visual novel is described by Key below:
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: TV anime “Summer Pockets” official website / X (formerly Twitter)©VISUAL ARTS/Key/Torishirojima Tourist Association
