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The seventh anniversary livestream for Visual Arts/Key‘s Summer Pockets visual novel announced on Saturday that the game’s television anime will have a compilation film that will open throughout Japan on August 15. Netflix will also start streaming the television series on August 8, but the staff did not specify if the streaming would be available outside Japan.
The Summer Pockets anime premiered on Tokyo MX and BS11 on April 7. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan.
The Summer Pockets game originally launched for PC in June 2018 in Japan. Visual Arts/Key and Prototype launched the game’s Nintendo Switch version digitally and physically in Japan in June 2019. Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE, an updated version of the game, launched for PC in Japan in June 2020. The new version has since launched on mobile devices, Switch, and PlayStation 4.
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), 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).
Artist wogura launched a manga adaptation titled Summer Pockets -Natsu no Takaramono- (Summer Pockets -Summer Treasures-) on Shueisha‘s Tonari no Young Jump website on May 30.
A spinoff manga of the Summer Pockets franchise titled Summer Pockets Mugyu Days ~Tsumugi no Shima Sanpo~ (Summer Pockets Mugyu Days ~Tsumugi’s Stroll in the Island~) also launched in Kadokawa‘s Dengeki Moeoh magazine and KadoComi website on February 28. Yūnon Nagayama, one of the game’s original illustrators and character designers, is drawing the spinoff manga. Key is also credited for the original story.
Sources: Summer Pockets‘ anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
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