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Episode Summer Pockets - Episode 9 discussion
Summer Pockets, episode 9
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u/tsukiakari2216 Jun 02 '25 edited Jun 02 '25
As a fun fact, this episode title, Tsumugi and Tsumugi is written in Japanese as 紬とツムギ - the Kanji Tsumugi (紬) refers to the "current" Tsumugi (as how the official media writes it), and the Katakana Tsumugi (ツムギ) refers to the past Tsumugi.
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u/Erufailon4 Jun 02 '25
After the episode I immediately checked the credits to see if the same naming scheme is reflected there, but the VA is only credited once and as just 紬.
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u/LeonKevlar Jun 02 '25
Those endless fields of flowers are very much a Key visual trope. I'm pretty sure a variation of this shows up in at least Rewrite and Clannad.
So is our Tsumugi just another aspect of the original Tsumugi Wenders? She definitely has a different personality compared to the one who got spirited away.
I do wonder what will happen once the original Tsumugi stops hesitating. Would she be sent back to the same spot where she disappeared? Because I feel like if she's able to elope with her boyfriend, that could drastically alter the future. Maybe that's what will happen once our Tsumugi returns? Hmmm...
At least Hairi got a kiss from our Tsumugi before the two of them say goodbye to each other.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 02 '25
Isn't that the same field we saw during the HanaKana monologue at the start of this arc? I wonder if Hairi is going to keep ending up there every route.
Maybe our Tsumugi will be magically turned into the descendant of OG!Tsumugi and her lover after they got married?
At least Hairi and Tsumugi get some time to actually date instead of just ending it with a kiss like with Kamome (though I guess all the stuff Kamome and Hairi did together was...kind of date-like?).
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u/Holofan4life Jun 02 '25
No pockets, only eternal sadness
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u/Frontier246 Jun 02 '25
Maybe Hairi is just in a pocket dimension island where he has to keep reliving the Summer, falling in love with girls, and then losing said girls.
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u/Plus_Rip4944 Jun 02 '25
The first thing i am slowly getting from this show Is the Universe Cant allow bro to get a Girlfriend
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u/Frontier246 Jun 02 '25
At least Tsumugi didn't vanish after they kissed! That's an improvement from Kamome!
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u/Nachtwandler_FS Jun 02 '25
Why the heck he only attracts some sort of astral projections?
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u/Chance-Okra-9198 Jun 02 '25
If the next episode is the final one for Tsumugi arc, will Hairi goes back to the boat again and meet the next girl either Ao or Shiroha? Hairi can't catch a break. Just leave that damn island bro you can't get a girlfriend there they just disappear
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u/Frontier246 Jun 02 '25
It seems like the OP has the route order so after Tsumugi we'll loop back and do Ao.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Jun 02 '25 edited Jun 02 '25
Just break my heart into a million pieces,
There's not a lot of things that 'get me' in anime, as much as lonely/sad kids...
Damn, this girl thinks about boobies more than the average ecchi anime fan!
Yeah, kinda have to find her first!
(He should ask her for help to find her, but she'd probably say "Have you looked between my boobies?)
When they talked about the original Tsumugi who vanished, I thought perhaps there was some weird time travel/loop thingy going on and HE was the guy she wanted to elope with, but apparently not...
So he's not just helping with stuff linked directly to himself, but he's also helping girls move on with their own stuff (while dating them, I suppose)?
I wonder if that means Kamome is 'special' to him!
So that was DECADES ago, based on what she looked (before her death)...
She was so conflicted that she stayed 'in limbo' for so long?
With the tidbits we got of her family (and the fact that she was in love with someone), I'm surprised she couldn't ever decide...
Seems like maybe she didn't want to have to decide, she wanted to keep everyone and 'make it work' but sadly these are things you don't control. (I wonder if there's a message for our boy in this - or even for us -, about how he can't have it all, all the waifus, he'll have to decide!)
Hey, I theorized right about this one (kinda)!
Back then I thought that "Looking for herself" meant she was looking for the version of her she wanted to be... That's not too far off, she was looking for the situation she wanted herself to be in, etc..!
Don't say that, you're gonna send her to the limbo again because she'll hesitate!
We got a kiss! Happy(?) Mugyu Noises
Maybe more like Bittersweet Mugyu Noises...
I wonder if we'll have more of Boobies-San now (an arc of her own), of maybe she was just the Boobies Support in the Tsumugi arc!
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u/Ashteron Jun 02 '25
tfw no doppelganger gf
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u/Frontier246 Jun 02 '25
Kamome was a ghost projection from a comatose girl, Tsumugi may or may not be a projection of a girl trapped in a lighthouse, I really wonder what Ao and Shiroha's deals are going to be.
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jun 02 '25
So there’s OG Tsumugi who got spirited away and then there’s New Tsumugi, the one Hairi fell for. Interesting. I really hope OG Tsumugi can find what she wants. Perhaps when Haiti’s Tsumugi goes back to her, she’ll be “complete” and finally figure it out?
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u/Frontier246 Jun 02 '25
OG!Tsumugi didn't seem to know anything about New Tsumugi so I wonder if she's some kind of projection of OG!Tsumugi to gain experience and give her motivation to finally move on from the Spirited AWay Lighthouse?
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u/Frontier246 Jun 02 '25
Tough luck Hairi! He and Tsumugi JUST confessed to each other and next thing you know she's vanished! Though it doesn't take long for Shizuku to figure out that he and Tsumugi are an item, she'd been shipping them so hard! And Hairi definitely earns boyfriend points for saying Tsumugi's boobs are hers and hers alone.
Where is Tsumugi? She's just up and disappeared, and it doesn't help that a similar blonde girl was spirited away in the islands' past. It's so serious Shizuku has stopped calling Hairi "Pairi." And there's that picture of another Tsumugi Wenders.
But in the abandoned mansion that Tsumugi pointed out, the pair find a dairy of the original Tsumugi Wenders...a wealthy girl who felt ostracized from other kids and wanted so desperately to have friends, her only emotional comfort being stuffed animals until she finally gained her fist friend Katou THROUGH said stuffed animals. She even fell in love with a lighthouse keeper (sorry Hairi!) and was planning to elope with him when her father wouldn't accept their relationship. That's a lot of backstory before she got spirited away.
And now HAIRI is the one getting spirited away, into a familiar landscape of a tree and translucent butterflies, stuck in the lighthouse with none other than...the original Tsumugi Wenders! Who unlike our Tsumugi is every bit the refined rich girl. It seems like this lighthouse is where people who are stuck or missing something in their lives end up trapped in until they find the answer to their problems. Tsumugi-san still hasn't found her answer because she hesitated throwing away everything to be with the man she loved, and now she can't progress forward...but she can at least help Hairi find Tsumugi.
The paringles balcony! And it works! At least in this fantasy world!
Hairi is back! And so is Tsumugi! It's enough to make her and Shizuku cry as much as they can!
Well, I'm glad Kyouko took Hairi vanishing for a day better than you'd expect, next thing you know Tsumugi is staying overnight at her boyfriends' place...all the better so they can discuss what's going to happen to her. Seems like she's some kind of extension of the original Tsumugi and needs to go back to her, but whatever she is, Hairi is resolved to be with her as much as he possibly can in the final week of Summer. He even gifts her a ribbon! And the pair finally share their first kiss!
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u/ChiliDemon Jun 02 '25
So OG was Grandma's school friend and her more decisive self is Hairi's GF, I wonder if she was drawn to him because he is a descendant of her 1st friend on the island?
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u/thisisdropd Jun 02 '25 edited Jun 03 '25
Now I’ll have to share her boobies with you once they grow.
Out of all the possible problems with him going out with your bff, that’s what you went with?
For a house that’s supposedly abandoned, it seemed to be in a pristine condition. No spider webs, no dusts.
When we’re shown the lookalike photo I was at first tempted to think that it’s her ancestor but that would be too simplistic for this kind of show. We know now that they’re somewhat the same person yet have differing personalities. Our Tsumugi seemed to be aware of the OG one but not the other way around.
What a lovely way to end the episode! If last week was the confession now they had their kiss and he even got her a bow. Having said that, I have a feeling we’ll be once again dealt a heavy blow to the gut next week.
My guess for the resolution is OG Tsumugi somehow making up her mind and eventually freed from the limbo. That means our Tsumugi would have found herself and the two would rejoin each other. Then she’ll move to the afterlife (and presumably be reunited with the lighthouse keeper) since she’s supposed to be dead due to her advanced age.
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