The SUMMER arc dramatized — AIR's thousand-year flashback to feudal Japan, where the winged girl Kanna's tragedy begins the cycle of reincarnation. "Yaobikuni" references the eight-hundred-year nun of Japanese folklore, connecting AIR's immortality themes to real mythology.
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"Rin'ne" (Reincarnation) is the arc's thesis made explicit. Nine tracks with single-word titles that read like poetry fragments: "Yume" (Dream), "Kana" (the character name), "Matsuri" (Festival), "Sorayume" (Sky Dream). "Touhikou" (Escape) captures Kanna's desperate flight.
"Takano" names the samurai whose devotion drives the story. "Yamaji" (Mountain Path) scores the journey through feudal landscape. The SUMMER arc is where AIR transcends visual novel romance into something mythological — a drama CD of this section preserves the epic scope of a curse that echoes across centuries.
Volume 7's placement in the series corresponds to the narrative's chronological deepest point.