Written by Ross Locksley on 27 Nov 2024
Netflix will be streaming The Summer Hikaru Died. Touted as "coming soon", the TV anime is based on the manga by award-winning author Mokumokuren and adapted by CygamesPictures (Uma Musume, Manaria Friends, IdolM@ster) with Ryohei Takeshita (Jellyfish can't swim in the Night) directing.
The Summer Hikaru Died” is a hit horror manga series about an ordinary high school boy, Yoshiki, who experiences various mysterious incidents in his life with Hikaru, a mysterious being who imitates his best friend Hikaru Indou.
Trailer:
From the Press Release:
■Introduction
In a certain village
Since their childhood, they have grown up together.
Yoshiki and Hikaru, childhood friends.
the sun shining down on them
the chirping sound of a crypto tympana facialis
Ice cream on the way home
Laughing over trivial things
One day in summer, no different from any other day
...... You're not Hikaru after all, are you?
Half a year ago, Hikaru went missing in the mountains.
A week later, he came back on a whim.
The voice, the figure, the thing that looked like Hikaru
What was stirring inside...
“Hikaru is no longer with us. ...... if that's the case.”
Starting the days with “something” in the form of a friend,
The “same as usual” everyday life.
But at the same time...
Strange incidents begin to plague the village.
Falling into the unknown “something”
The curtain rises on a coming-of-age horror story.
Ross founded the UK Anime Network waaay back in 1995 and works in and around the anime world in his spare time. You can read his more personal articles on UKA's sister site, The Anime Independent.
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