History VisualNovel / SummerPockets

* CessationOfExistence: [[spoiler:Umi preventing Shiroha from gaining her powers also stops Shiroha from meeting Hairi at the pool, erasing Umi from existence. Hairi's brief vision of her in the shed suggests she isn't completely gone, but it's not clear if she'll ever come back.]]

** [[spoiler: Reflection Blue gives one to Umi who is able to return back to normal reality thanks to presumably by Hitomi to be reunited with Shiroha and Hairi so they can be a family once more.]]

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->''I'll never forget these dazzling days.''

* TheUnreveal: Despite a few set-ups, Hairi's alternate ending to the butterfly fairy-tale is never read aloud.

** Hairi somehow gets Shiroha confused with Umi while waiting for her to get out of the bathhouse even though he can't why he'd compare the two. [[spoiler:Umi is Shiroha's KidFromTheFuture]].

* WomanInWhite: Shiroha, who has white hair, and wears both a white school uniform and white casual clothes. It's in her name, too.

** Hairi and Umi quickly fall into a brother/sister relationship, though it turns into more of a [[ParentalSubstitute father/daughter relationship on the Alka route]]. [[spoiler:Their good report is because they [[KidFromTheFuture actually are father and daughter]]]].
** [[ChildhoodFriends Ryouichi, Tenzen, Ao, and Nomiki]] all see each other as basically siblings and find the idea of dating each other really weird.

* CherryBlossoms: Little to be found, considering that ''Summer Pockets'' is Key's second "summer" work after ''AIR''. However, the Tachibana of the Lost on the mountain doesn't shed it's petals until the end of summer, as it is [[spoiler: a tree that is removed from the normal flow of time.]]

** Ditto for Shiroha, who grows more social and friendly playing Umi's mother. [[spoiler:When Umi's fading away Shiroha talks about how much being a mother changed her.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The final timeline has Shiorha not gaining the Naruse power, allowing her to be free from its burden and the other heroines and Hairi have their trauma's resolved or never occurred thanks to Umi's actions. Sadly Umi has ceased to exist by saving Shiroha and while a scene at the shed implies that she might not be totally gone it is still ambiguous. The ending also gives Hairi a chance to start a relationship though that is also left to interpretation if they will fall in again or they will just end up as close friends.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The final timeline has Shiorha not gaining the Naruse power, allowing her to be free from its burden and the heroine's and Hairi having their trauma's solved or never occurred thanks to Umi's actions. Sadly Umi has ceased to exist by saving Shiroha and while a scene at the shed implies that she might not be totally gone it is still ambiguous.]]

** While Hairi's waiting for Umi to come out of the bathhouse he somehow gets Shiroha confused for Umi. [[spoiler:Umi is Shiroha's KidFromTheFuture]].

** Deliberately invoked in ''Pockets'', where [[spoiler: an amnesiac time-travelling Umi is renamed "Nanami", for one that has travelled across the seas of time.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Hairi and Shiroha to Umi in the Alka route. [[spoiler:A rare case of the actual parents serving as subsitutes to themselves.]]

* DreamSequence

* DecoyProtagonist: Our main point-of-view character is Hairi, but once the main routes are cleared, greater importance is given to [[spoiler: Umi, such that Hairi himself doesn't even appear for half of the final route, ''Pockets''.]]

* IndirectKiss

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: It's not confirmed as to if Hairi and Shiroha will get together after the events of the final route.]]

* [[spoiler: KidFromTheFuture]]: [[spoiler: Umi returns to see Hairi and Shiroha.]]

* WordSaladTitle
* YouCantFightFate

* CerebusRetcon: Comes with the [[Creator/KeyVisualArts territory]]. A notable example is [[spoiler: Umi's speech]], which changes as more routes are completed.

* {{Miko}}: Rather unsually, there are ''two'' of them who fit the role in the main cast: Shiroha and Ao.

* ProphecyFallacy: As Hairi learns, pain comes in many forms. [[spoiler: Such as a bad stomachache, which thankfully had no lasting consequences.]]

* IHaveThisFriend: Ryouichi uses this when he speaks about [[spoilers: his past with Shiroha and how he was the child who nearly died due to Shiroha's precognitive visions.]]

* InformedObscenity: Apparently, [[spoiler: ''"dosukoi"'']] is a word to not be used lightly in the island's culture. Doubles over somewhat with InnocentSwearing when Hairi uses it on Ryouichi without knowing exactly ''how'' strong it was.

* AccidentalPevert: Hairi walks in on Ao changing in the back of the sweets store. It almost becomes a RunningGag.

** The opening sequence shows things like [[spoilers: Ao standing in the forest with a lantern and Tsumugi's reflection having different clothes.]]
** The first time one plays the game, the [[spoilers: "Start" button on the title screen changes to "Restart" after two heroine routes have been cleared.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Ao and her sister.

* BigSleep: [[spoiler: Ao]] succumbs to this at the end of her route, due to [[spoiler: brain overload from absorbing too many ''Shichcheriou'']]. [[spoiler: Thankfully, she gets better thanks to Hairi's and Inari's efforts.]]

* MrFanservice: Ryouichi, who constantly goes around shirtless. To some extent, Tenzen too.
* MultipleEndings: As is expected for a visual novel, except that [[spoiler: all routes are canon as different iterations of the timeline.]]

* Otaku: Shiroha, of all people, though she only expresses it when she thinks she's alone.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: If a romance is based of shared trauma, don't expect it to occur if that trauma has been somehow healed...]]

* BigSleep: [[spoiler: Ao]] succumbs to this at the end of her route, due to [[spoiler: brain overload from absorbing too many Shichcheriou Butterflies]]. Thankfully, she gets better thanks to Hairi's [[spoiler: and Inari's]] efforts.

** [[spoiler: Ao's route, in which, after Ao goes into a coma, Hairi tirelessly returns to the island year after year until he finally finds Ao's memory butterfly.]]
** [[spoiler: Kamome's route, in which Hairi fulfills Kamome's wishes to build the pirate ship, after which he and Kamome are reunited.]]
** [[spoiler: Tsumugi's route, in which she is allowed to go back to the real world and become a person outside of the original Tsumugi's shadow and reunite with Hairi.]]
** [[spoiler: Pocket's route, everyone has their trauma resolved or had never occurred thanks to Umi's actions in the past and Hairi and Shiroha are reunited again, hinting that they might end up together in the new timeline.]]

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: In your first playthrough of the game, after two heroine's routes are cleared, the "Start" button changes to "ReStart". [[spoiler: This is because time is being looped, though not by the protagonist this time...]]

* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: Hairi and Shiroha, at least temporarily in the Alka route before Umi is born.]]

* SeriousBusiness: You have to use a wok to make fried rice if you don't have one than nobody would teach you how to make fried rice as it treated as somewhat sacrilegious if you don't use one on the island which Hairi learns after trying to make fried rice for Umi on the Alka Route.

** From Shiroha's perspective, during [[spoiler: the Alka route.]]

* WistfulAmnesia: Shiroha and Hairi during [[spoiler: the Alka route, as Umi is progressively erased from the timeline.]]