Summer Pockets Episode 24 Discussion

So, fun summers somehow harden you against the dangers of the 'power'. No idea how that works.

@LordCrueltyV It's more of "Don't fixated in the past" kind of word, young Shiroha can't move on about her parents yet and that's would lead to the awaken of her mental time loop power.

Wait is Kanome not real?

took a break from this anime and now im all lost again,

so is this island like on some kind of time loop or something? is shiroha's mom and dad really her future self and husband? if so how did umi get thrown into the timeline? if umi was supposedly shiroha;s and mc's "future" kid why is she not taking the place of "daughter" of shiroha? and if shiroha and mc is playing the role of own parents in this timeline then who was the original mother and father that got replaced?

@chenfeng

They are just their own person no replacing stuffs.

Naruse's power = Mental Time Travel. The user can sent their soul into their past self but can't remember stuff most of the time (You won't win lottery). Shiroha's power is considered to be weak.
Umi's power = Stronger power level of Naruse power. She can remember stuff when doing so (She can win the lottery), It's get even more power-up after her near death experience in that she can now manifest a body into the further past that she doesn't even exist yet.

The easiest explanation that you actually follow Umi's story but for the majority of the show you see it from Hairi's pov. When Umi's move from loop A to loop B, so did you. Your pov move from A!Hairi to B!Hairi.

@Marioak_z man this is pretty confusing when they didn't label and itemize each specific timeline especially if they're not a linear timeline in the standard order. but thanks yeah after i completed the final episode near the end with shiroha's memory timeline merge to confront older umi i felt like the story suddenly "went back on track" and basically everything prior to that was a bit inconsequential and pointless filler to move the plot along to reach that "official" reunion. is it kinda weak writing? maybe, idk but im just glad the story got to where we needed it to be to have some feels.

"im aware of the "pictures of her "real parents" shown thought the final episodes of shiroha's childhood, but they weren't included into the plot line and so the main reason why i got confused for a second was because in the previous or current episode umi mentioned that she "recognized that fried rice" from the time teenage shiroha and hairi together cooked for her as kid uzumi, a "previous" timeline for her from an episode earlier in the season. the same fried rice recipe that now kid shiroha claimed that was a one of a kind special recipe that her "father(hairi who learned it from shiroha in the final episde?)" cooked. this made me think the recipe itself is stuck in a perpetual time loop with no real origin and therefore everyone else is in too. maybe its the subtitles or translations but the script really seemed to present that way.

@chenfeng I wouldn't say it's filler but depend on how you see it, Summer Pockets is play on it's medium, You buy a bishoujo game, you expect a love story and you get it but on the New Game+ you start to notice something different the more you do NG+, and turn out it's actually the loop story of Umi wanting to hang out with her mum (While you go wooing the other girls in your NG+).

All the previous arc are their own story but da magical stuffs do share in one way or the other. Basically in the grand setting, the previous arc are lore building (Without having to do massive lore dump in the finale) for Um's arc.

The closing thing you can compare to are Higurashi series which pretty much run on the same format in term of presentation

It's actually much less of confusing if you at the different angle.
Like the fried rice. Shiroha's learn from her dad's recipe > Hairi learned from Shiroha > Umi learned from Adult!Hairi > Umi learned from Shiroha herself in one of the loop (Before her regression). So Nanami (Umi)'s fried rice would taste similiar to Shiroha's dad one since it's basically the same recipe.