Summer Pockets is officially getting a manga adaptation by wogura, which will be serialized on Shueisha’s Tonari no Young Jump website. The announcement was made during the first day of AnimeJapan 2025, while the manga artist left a comment on their official X shortly afterwards.
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Summer Pockets Anime Details
Studio feel. is animating the anime adaptation, which will run for 2 consecutive cours starting on April 7. The voice cast for the Summer Pockets anime includes:
- 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
Tomoki Kobayashi is directing the anime, while the main anime staff for Summer Pockets includes Keiichiro Ochi on the series composition and Mai Otsuka as the character designer. The music will composed by Donmaru, Jun Maeda, Ryo Mizutsuki, Shuhei Ohashi, Shinji Orito, and Tomohiro Takeshita.
Konomi Suzuki performs both of the theme songs for the anime. The opening song “ALKA TALE” was previously revealed in the opening video, while the ending song “Lasting Moment” by Konomi Suzuki was featured in the latest trailer.
Summer Pockets anime is adapting the visual novel by Key/VISUAL ARTS. It was released in Japan in 2018, while it became available to international audiences on Steam in February 2020. Key/VISUAL ARTS is a studio well-known for its works like Clannad, Air, and Little Busters! The story of Summer Pockets via Steam:
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: Summer Pockets Official Website, wogura Official X, AnimeJapan 2025
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