 If you liked
Air
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 ...then you might like
Summer Pockets
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It's unlikely that anyone familiar with Key and who has watched both anime will miss the similarities between the two.
Both originated as visual novels, and their stories take place during summer on a sparsely populated island. Both main characters have complex relationships with their mothers, and both main characters die.
Neither has the happiest ending in the world, but Air is more tragic and shorter, while Summer Pockets is a bit gentler but longer, with more well-developed and captivating secondary heroines compared to Air.
Based on key visual novels, summer setting, Kai wrote true end for SP (and some routes) and wrote Tohno's second half in AIR. A few scenes that parallel each other. Summer Pockets later also has a Misuzu and Haruka dynamic with [characters who I will not spoil]
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