Summer Pockets: Season 1 – Cast & Character Guide

This is a show and character reference guide for Crunchyroll’s “Summer Pockets” — featuring detailed character descriptions, major storylines, group affiliations, locations, and more. Whether you’re just starting or revisiting the story, this guide will help you navigate the people, places, and lore that define its world.

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Season 1 Storylines

One of the initial triggers for Takahara coming to Torishirojima Island is his grandmother dying and his aunt, Misaki, needing help to clear out and organize her things.

It isn’t made 100% clear why, but at Takahara’s all-boys school, he was on the swim team, and during a meet, he choked. He ended up dead in the water, and while his team was supporting and didn’t make a big deal of it, Takahara has been hard on himself about it ever since..

The first arc focuses on Kamome Kushima, who hints that she knew Takahara before, and together they explore the island.

In the second arc of the season, which starts episode 7, we meet Tsumigi, who is trying to make the best of the summer as she doesn’t believe she will be coming back after the summer is over.

The third arc of the season, which starts in episode 11, focuses on Ao, who we learn is not only a maiden of the mountain, taking memories to their final resting place, but also looking to save her twin.

The fourth arc, which starts in episode 15, focuses on Shiroha, who has been featured in the majority of arcs as an odd girl Takahara would run across. But, when focused on, we learn the reason she is awkward and often alone is that she, and a notable part of the island, think she is cursed after an incident when she was a child, leading to someone getting hurt.

Noteworthy Information

  • July 25th (1.1): When the show starts
  • August 31st (1.10): When summer ends

  • Torishirojima Island (1.1): Where Summer Pockets takes place.
  • Hydrogladiator II (1.2) Nomura’s custom water gun
  • The Adventures of the Higenekos (1.6): Sagi’s book, which she wrote so her daughter could vicariously have adventures
  • Mayoi Tachibana (1.12): The Sorakado’s family’s sacred tree, where they guide the Schichieichou
  • Twelve Stories of the Divine Mountain (1.12): Grandma Katou’s book which helps explain some of the things dealing with the Schichieichou
  • Marin Diner (1.15): Where the welcome party is held

  • Dosukoi (1.1): Means incessant or annoying
  • Shichieichou (1.11): The proper name of the butterflies that we often see throughout the series of which Ao, Takahara, and Umi, seem able to see them.
    • Touching Them (1.12): While they phase through most, those who can see them can touch them and experience the memories they hold. Experiencing the memories often tires the person who touches them, and the memory can be so intense that it takes over.
  • Natsutori Ritual (1.16): In this ritual, which happens August 21st in Shiroha’s arc, ancestors souls inhabit lanterns which are sent out to sea by a priestess. Shiroha’s grandfather volunteers her to be the priestess.

  • The Three Families aka Three Houses (1.12): Comprised of the Sorakado, which is Ao and Ai’s family; Naruse, which is Shiroha; and a third family not revealed as of episode 12. However, it is noted that the family of the skeis is Sorakado, Naruse is of the sea, and the last family is of the mountain.

Characters (and Cast)

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  • Character Summary: Hairi is a young man who used to be busy all the time, presumably swimming, but something has happened to give him far more time to be with family and even take a vacation.

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  • Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1
  • Trouble Back Home (1.16): While Takahara mentions it throughout the first season, he notes further in episode 16 how there are not only issues at school, mostly internalized, due to him choking during a swim meet, but also issues with his parents, who argue a lot.

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  • Character Summary: Misaki is Hairi’s aunt, who seems to have inherited his grandmother’s home and the work of going through her things and rediscovering who she was outside of their matriarch.

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  • Character Summary: Umi is Hairi’s little cousin who, despite her age, often ventures off on her own and returns for dinner.

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  • Character Summary: Ao is an odd girl who can often be seen with her fox pet when not randomly sleeping somewhere.

Additional Information

  • Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1
  • Nickname (1.11): The Professor, due to her being so knowledgeable
  • Inari (1.1): Inari is Ao’s fox pet who makes the sound “Pon.”

Shiroha when Takahara was arriving - Summer Pockets
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  • Character Summary: Shiroha is a local girl who is trying to learn to swim in the privacy of the night, but Hairi keeps showing up.

Additional Information

  • Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 1
  • Isolation/The Curse (1.15): 4 years ago, a classmate spread a rumor that Shiroha was cursed, and then that classmate fell off a cliff and survived. Because of that, paired with the Naruse family formerly being responsible for the rituals and festivals of the island, it was assumed Shiroha truly was cursed.

Nomura (Saku Ichimiya) - Summer Pockets Season 1 Episode 2 “How to Spend Your Summer Vacation”
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  • Character Summary: Nomura, while being head of the youth welcoming committee, is also a bit of a hard-ass when it comes to rules, especially people not walking around with their shirt off unless at the beach.

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Mitani (Kentarō Kumagai) - Summer Pockets Season 1 Episode 2 “How to Spend Your Summer Vacation”
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  • Character Summary: Mitani is one of Nomura’s closest friends and the person who breaks her rules the most.

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Tenzen (Yōhei Kamada) - Summer Pockets Season 1 Episode 2 “How to Spend Your Summer Vacation”
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  • Character Summary: Tenzen is another kid on the island, who hangs out mainly up in the mountains exercising, unless someone wishes to play ping-pong.

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  • Character Summary: A community grandma, Grandma Kido is a friendly face and a little bit of a gossip. She is also one of the first people, who aren’t family, that Takahara meets as he travels to the island.

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Kishima (Nene Hieda)
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  • Character Summary: Kushima is an odd girl who we meet rolling a giant suitcase she refuses to open, but is open to riding if someone like Takahara pushes her. Like him, she claims not to have been on the island for a long time, but has fond memories of it.

Additional Information

  • Introduced in Season 1/ Episode 3
  • Parents (1.4): Father was a scholar
  • Health (1.5): It’s first hinted that Kamome has notable health issues
  • The Suitcase (1.6): The suitcase that always has is her dad’s, from his travels

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  • Character Summary: Tsumugi can often be found at the island’s lighthouse, either cleaning in or around it, and worrying those like Takahara when they see her high up just relaxing and watching the coastline. She is also known for saying “Mugyu” quite a bit.

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  • Character Summary: Sagi is an author, a widow, and Kamome’s mom, who lives on a private island her family owns, despite her daughter being abroad, potentially in her final years, months, maybe even days.

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Shizuki (Sahomi Koyama) introducing herself - Summer Pockets Season 1 Episode 7 “The Lighthouse, the Song and the Girl”
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  • Character Summary: Shizuki is one of Tsumugi’s best friends, who is notably buxom, and she is well aware of that to the point of sometimes making things awkward.

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Ai grimacing at Takahara - Summer Pockets Season 1 Episode 14
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  • Character Summary: Ai is Ao’s older twin sister, who is currently in a coma, with Ao hoping that, based on a conversation she had with Grandma Katou, Takahara’s grandmother, if she finds Ai’s Shichieichou and brings it to her, she can wake her up.

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Konato (Shiraishi Minoru) looking tired - Summer Pockets Season 1 Episode 16
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  • Character Summary: Konata is Shiroha’s grandfather and guardian who looks notably tough, and can be stern when it comes to Shiroha, but he generally lets her live her life and just asks for her to cook for the household.

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Amari is the founder and head writer of Wherever-I-Look.com and has been writing reviews since 2010, with a focus on dramas and comedies.