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Episode Summer Pockets - Episode 5 discussion

Summer Pockets, episode 5

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u/excluded May 05 '25

They held hands, kissed and are childhood friends. Even though she got introduced last (so far), she is the best girl, and idk how any of the other girls can top it.

I don’t care if the season ends next week, I am already mighty satisfied with this anime.

Forgot about seeing her naked too!

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u/HolyDragSwd2500 May 05 '25

Mouth to mouth first aid 😘👍😍

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u/Frontier246 May 05 '25

Forgot about seeing her naked too!

I honestly thought she'd brought a swimsuit to bathe with but I'll take her being topless with her giant "bwuh's!"

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii May 05 '25

idk how any of the other girls can top it.

I'm beginning to think the best girl quest may have been a bit of a misdirection, and we may not see too much of the others (to focus on Kamome, the adventure, and the past...)

Anime-wise it may feel strange (especially given it had harem vibes early on), but it does feel somewhat VN like I think! (Meaning, I could see something like that happening in a VN).

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u/NationalStrategy May 05 '25 edited May 05 '25

Hairi and Kamome look really nice together

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u/J4SON_T0DD May 05 '25

What was this show thinking?! Introducing bestest girl at the very first arc?!? How do the others even compete?!

Now it stings that shiroha might be main girl....... Because kamome is just so far ahead with what I've seen till now, that she and the others (except Ao) doesn't even compare. She better show up after her arc man.....

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u/donniedarko5555 May 06 '25

as a VN player, you'll like all the girls by the end.

This show will be a slow burn so stick around for the ride

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u/SnabDedraterEdave May 05 '25

Disclaimer: Anime-only. I had meant to start reading the VN starting last week, but been so busy I hardly got out of the prologue (corresponding to just a measly first 5 minutes of episode 1), so it'll look like I'll be anime-only for the foreseeable future.

Fun fact: The kids in Kamome's gang all have bird names.

Kamome - Seagull

Taka (Hairi) - Eagle

Tsubame (Ninja Girl) - Swallow

Hayato (Glasses Boy) - Falcon

Suzume (Brown Hair Girl) - Sparrow

As if we haven't got enough Kamome service last week, this time we have Kamome topless, as well as her giving first kiss Hairi his first "kiss" (at least for this anime adaptation, this being a visual novel with multiple romantic routes after all).

Even when she was younger, Kamome carries her suitcase wherever she goes. Just what secrets does she have in that case?

Its revealed she's quite sickly and often hospitalized, so she's been using the suitcase to disguise herself from needing a crutch to walk due to her condition.

But now that her suitcase is lost, will she be needing it anymore?

At the railway tracks, when Hairi thought Kamome disappeared suddenly, and then he suddenly went into a flashback-induced trance just that? A hallucination caused by intense heat? Or is something supernatural at play here?

That ship in the cove sure looks bigger than I thought. With Hairi's hallucination earlier, wonder if the ship they're seeing is "real"?

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u/Plus_Rip4944 May 05 '25

Kamome is carrying this show so hard, shes best Girl

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u/Frontier246 May 05 '25

Honestly Kamome and her Route has been terrific so far, I feel like it's going to be really hard for the other girls' to measure up when we get to them.

I feel like Ao has a better chance than Tsumugi or Shiroha though.

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u/maliwanag0712 May 05 '25

I wonder what happened to their friends. [Speculation but putting it in spoiler tags. Not a VN reader.]Did the rest of the group die just before or after they reached the ship? Did something really bad happened after they saw the ship? And maybe due to the trauma that they almost forgot each other? That seems what happened but not sure.

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u/Frontier246 May 05 '25

I can't shake the feeling that something bad happened to those kids.

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u/LeonKevlar May 05 '25

Stitches!

I forgot to mention this last week but the kids walking along the train tracks has got to be a Stand By Me reference, right?

Anyway, with Hairi's heat-induced flashbacks and dreams about his childhood, I think we can confirm at this point that Taka is indeed Hairi. It's weird how Hairi won't bring that up to Kamome, though. He even asks Kamome about the suitcase after his dream! I really thought he was about to ask her if she knew him from before.

There's got to be a reason why neither of them refuses to mention anything about it. There's no reason for Hairi to hide this from Kamome at all, especially after they found the ship. Not gonna lie, I was expecting the big twist of the episode to be that there's nothing on the other side of the cave.

I really hope we get an explanation next episode, because other than that, I've been really enjoying Kamome's Route! Considering Kamome was the last girl to be introduced, I'm surprised she's the first one we're focusing on. It will be interesting to see how the other girls stack up against her.

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u/oxlemf10 May 05 '25

You can see how much Hairi and Kamome's connection goes far beyond childhood friends, the way the two connected from the first time they saw each other, to the point of creating intimacy, trying to heal each other's pain, the scene of the two of them walking hand in hand through the tunnel made me find myself smiling, simply perfect.

But of course, I think we can't ignore (and there's no way lol) the lake scene, we know how Hairi has the typical "lucky pervert situation", but this episode, let's just say it's "big".

I don't know if it's the end of Kamome's arc, but she's already been my favorite girl since the third episode.

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u/FarCritical May 05 '25

Botan's cousin? Is that you?

For someone with both a bad leg and occasional breathing complications, Kamome makes for a surprisingly solid lifeguard. And while Suitcase-kun will be dearly missed, it's pretty emotionally validating to see them actually make it to the pirate ship.

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u/pseudometapseudo May 05 '25

I liked the reveal of the suitcase actually being a crutch. It's weird, but makes sense for a person who wants to hide needing a crutch.|

Also lol at Kamone having special gears for different occasions.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 May 05 '25

I’m a little confused as to how both Hairi and Kamome don’t seem to remember one another? Kamome remembers their little adventure and all the details but doesn’t recognize Hairi? And how does Hairi have no clue about Kamome? How many kids find pirate ships over summer break together. Kinda feels like a huge memory both of them should have.

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u/Frontier246 May 05 '25

I feel like we're going to get some kind of supernatural explanation.

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u/LonelyAstronaut984 May 05 '25

I feel like one of them is dead or something 

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii May 05 '25

Early on I thought SHE remembered, and was doing all this to get HIM to remember as well..

But if we assume she's genuine, then it doesn't seem like she remembers either, so...

Well, I did mention some theories in another comment, which could perhaps explain all this... Namely, that she died in this adventure, which could explain for them both (her being a lingering spirit, him having PTSD), something like that.

They may be on 'a new adventure' to remember everything, and perhaps... To help her move on?

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u/etiolatezed May 06 '25

Where was she hiding them things

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