Studio Feel

@NotPeashyBee

I feel like in terms of Visuals, Studio Feel is an alright studio, not great, but definitely not bad either. However I do think there's a good chance they will fumble the execution of the story itself. They animated Island, another highly rated Visual Novel, and supposedly it was done horribly.

Summer Pockets Reflection Blue is my third favorite visual novel of all time, so I want to have high expectations for the show. The Novel made me ugly cry numerous times, honestly the most I've ever cried aside from watching the Kanon 2006 anime. Key just has a way of writing stellar characters and character interactions that feel genuine and real. Summer Pockets Reflection Blue in particular has the feeling of a tight knit family feel to it, where even though the relationships may only be as long as a summers worth, they feel like they'd been together since forever. I'd say as of now there's a 50% chance it's a fumble, and if they announce that it's not going to be 21-26 episodes long, then it's going to be a 90% flop. Well one thing they CAN'T mess up with is the music. I constantly listen to the soundtrack as it helps me relax and even has me fantasize being on a small island just making merry with others.

It is too long a VN.
I won't say anything about Island because the failures, although they mark you for life, do so in two ways, so that they remind you, and so that you remember it yourself so as not to repeat it later.
I will not lose faith because of a past mistake and rather will have faith that it is better than his former works.

But SamaPoke is very long, obviously reducing the material, and there is the question of the temporal restart, each of the Summer Pockets routes occurs in a single summer in different timelines, if they made an adaptation to include material from all the routes it would look strange, And how would you take the true routes? Those are a yes or yes to adapt and must be done from the beginning of Hairi's arrival

@ZoeEbe Eh? Summer Pockets is 40 hours long, which isn't really that long for a VN and certainly not for a Key VN. 2-cours will be perfectly fine for a VN of that length.

For comparison, VNDB says Clannad is around 80 hours long and that got 4-cours and felt perfectly paced. Little Busters is around the same length and worked perfectly at 3-cours long. It's an inevitability and, arguably, necessity of adapting a VN to anime that some material will be cut, but it can still be made to work.

It will be interesting to see how the timeloop structure is handled though, as a lot of VN adaptations tend to put all the routes in a singular timeline but just remove the romance elements to focus on the true route at the end of it all (that's what Clannad does, for example, hence the existence of the Tomoyo and Kyou OVAs that adapt the romantic elements of their routes). But you can't really do that in this case as the timeframe for the events of each loop is relatively small and the events of them are all explicitly tied to the progression of summer and to certain dates within (particularly Ao's route, as I recall).

That is my only concern with this adaptation, that they'll somehow mess that up. But even if they do, the VN will always be there to enjoy still and a bad adaptation could never take away from that.

I thought it would be Biburry because they did the OP scenes. Really glad it's feel. They've done some of my favorite anime.

I am curious if this will be an adaption of the regular game or Reflection Blue. I am hoping it's the regular game, as I haven't played Reflection Blue yet.

@Phoenix_Trite the thing is that the original version has an open ending, while Reflection Blue adds a post-credit scene in which a character who does not know who she is ("not known who she is" = it is known that she is Shiki) and helps a certain character return to the world showing confirmation that the story had a happy ending.
If they adapt the original version it wouldn't be so bad, but they should leave the ending open, because the ending needs Shiki, who is an exclusive character from Reflection Blue.
It would be good but open, while in Reflection Blue it would be longer, but its ending is conformed to being a good ending after a time jump

@ZoeEbe Then I have to assume it will be an add on like Ex+ is for Little Busters anime.

That also feels like spoiler territory for those that have played the original but not Reflection Blue.