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Summer Pockets (2025)
476
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Summer Pockets is set on an isolated, rural, and peaceful island on the Seto Inland Sea called Torishirojima, which has a population of about 2,000 people. The protagonist, Hairi Takahara, grew up in an urban setting, but after an unpleasant incident, he uses the recent death of his grandmother as an excuse to come to the island to take care of her estate sale. Once there, he gets to know four girls, who are the focus of the story: Shiroha Naruse, who forgot her summer vacation; Ao Sorakado, who is pursuing the legends of the island; Kamome Kushima, a high-class girl looking for a pirate ship; and Tsumugi Wenders, a younger girl trying to find herself.
Style:
anime, emotional, melancholic, romantic drama, psychological, ecchi, tsundere, urban fantasy
Plot:
summer, slice of life, supernatural, island, coming of age, memory, nostalgia, seaside, youth, memory loss, beach, self discovery, small town, bittersweet, friendship, grief, intimate, harem, haunting, tragedy, fishing, swimming, table tennis, supernatural power, male protagonist ...
Place:
fictional island
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, emotional, melancholic and captivating films and TV series with plots about coming of age, slice of life, friendship, supernatural, bittersweet, high school life and small town mostly in Animation, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Summer Pockets: Kanon (2002), Da Capo (2003), Gift: Eternal Rainbow (2006), Glasslip (2014), Absolute Boy (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Audience:
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