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This follow-up to Someday's Dreamers basically follows the same premise as its 2003 predecessor: teenage girl from the countryside with magical abilities travels to Tokyo under an internship to be certified as an official mage where she uses her magic to perform favors for various clients and make new friends. This series mostly serves as a slice-of-life title delving into the everyday developments faced by Sora and her classmates as they study up and improve their magic to earn their mage's licenses. The series features a likeable cast of characters with differing issues concerning their abilities as potential mages and personalities that the show usually takes time to explore. Like the previous series, the show also goes into depth exploring the personal matters of whomever Sora and other mages help out with their magic which consist of anything from unlocking a vault containing a family heirloom to trying to get dolphins washed up upon shore back into the ocean. The major rough spot for the show comes in the final episodes when something terminal effects one of the characters which felt more like a cheap excuse to toss in drama due to the lack of foreshadowing and genuine suffering seen of said mentioned character throughout the series as the series was otherwise mostly relaxed and mellow in its mood before said events occur.
On the visual end, Someday's Dreamers: Summer Dreams is a bit of a mixed bag. The settings are impressive sporting photorealistic detail and beautiful on the eyes, though these shots are mostly used as background stills when characters are moving through in a scene and scenery shots that do feature camera movement are mostly hand drawn in similar quality as the plain looking designs used for the characters. Animation quality is also hit-or-miss as well. While character movements and moments of magic being used are reasonably fluid, the series occasionally gets choppy in properly conveying details for character designs and scenery during ranged camera shots. The show's soundtrack mostly consists of mellow and low-key indie music that fit in perfectly with the mundane developments faced by the show's characters and are great to listen to.
Overall, Someday's Dreamers: Summer Dreams is not too different from its predecessor from five years earlier featuring the aspiring efforts of a teen from the countryside to bring happiness to others while trying to be licensed as a mage. Despite its shoddy developments for its final episodes and a mixed bag of a visual presentation, the series still makes for a solid slice-of-life title to look into exploring the unique developments of Sora and her classmates as aspiring mages.
