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Summer Pockets Anime Reveals April 2025 TV Premiere, Clean Title Sequence
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The official website for the television anime of Visual Arts/Key's Summer Pockets visual novel revealed on Friday that the anime will premiere on television in April 2025. The site also unveiled the anime's clean opening title sequence, featuring the opening theme song "ALKA TALE" by Konomi Suzuki.
The site also announced that the franchise will have a manga spinoff that will serialize in Kadokawa's Dengeki Moeoh magazine and KadoComi website. More details about the serialization will appear in the February 2025 issue of Dengeki Moeoh on December 27.
- Shōya Chiba as Hairi Takahara
- Konomi Kohara as Shiroha Naruse
- Natsumi Takamori as Ao Sorakado
- Nene Hieda as Kamome Kushima (voiced by Tomomi Mineuchi in the game, Mineuchi quit voice acting in December 2022.)
- Emiri Iwai as Tsumugi Wenders
- Saku Ichimiya as Miki Nomura
- Sahomi Koyama as Shizuku Mizuori
- Aimi Tanaka as Umi Katō
- Megumi Takamoto as Kyoko Misaki
- Minoru Shiraishi as Kobato Naruse
- Konomi Suzuki as Inari
- Kentarō Kumagai as Ryoichi Mitani
- Yōhei Hamada as Tenzen Kanō
Tomoki Kobayashi (Akame ga KILL!, sola, Takunomi.) is directing the anime at studio feel. Keiichirō Ōchi (Adachi and Shimamura, Hinamatsuri, Go, Go, Loser Ranger!) is overseeing the series scripts and Mai Otsuka (Tearmoon Empire, Non Non Biyori) is designing the characters. Composers include Shinji Orito, Jun Maeda, Donmaru, Tomohiro Takeshita, Ryō Mizutsuki, and Shūhei Ōhashi
Additional staff includes:
- Art: Bihou, Inc.
- Art Director: Shunichiro Yoshihara
- Art Setting: Kaoru Aoki
- Special Animation Director: Teruaki Tokumaru
- Color Design: Sari Tagawa
- Director of Photography: Fumi Nanba
- 3DCG Director: Kōhei Ogawa
- Editing: Rumi Maruyama
- Sound Director: Ryōsuke Naya
Konomi Suzuki, who performed the game's theme songs, is performing the ending theme song "Lasting Moment."
The game's English version launched for PC via Steam in February 2020.
The game takes place in a rural district of a certain isolated island. The story focuses on "one nostalgic summer."
Jun Maeda (Kanon, AIR, Clannad, Angel Beats!) is credited with the original concept. Na-Ga (Angel Beats!, Little Busters!, Charlotte), Tsubasu Izumi (Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka, Mashiroiro Symphony - The color of lovers), Yūnon Nagayama (Angel Beats!), and Fumuyun are credited with providing the original illustrations and character designs.
Yū Niijima (Koi x Shin Ai Kanojo, Majo Koi Nikki), Kai (Clannad, Rewrite, Harmonia), and Hasama (Tokyo Babel, Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi.) wrote the scenario. Maeda composed the music with Shinji Orito (Angel Beats! Harmonia), Donmaru (planetarian, Little Busters!, Giniro, Haruka), and Tomohiro Takeshita (planetarian, Angel Beats!, Harmonia).
Sources: Summer Pockets anime's website, Comic Natalie
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