The Summer Hikaru Died

After all 12 episodes, a maintained manga guide suggests Volume 6, Chapter 27. The anime trims a small part at the end of Chapter 26, so check those last pages in Volume 5 first if you want the missed detail. This is a low-confidence guide recommendation; the exact handoff has not been confirmed by the publisher.

Season 2 has only been announced. It has no confirmed anime endpoint yet.

The reading route shown here follows The Summer Hikaru Died (manga). Use the recommendations for this work; volume numbers from another adaptation are not interchangeable.

In a certain village Yoshiki and Hikaru, who had grown up together since childhood, were the same age. The blazing sun The rasping voice of the kuma cicadas Ice cream eaten on the way home Laughing together over trivial things On one ordinary summer day, just like any other "...You really aren't Hikaru, are you?" Six months ago, Hikaru went missing in the mountains, but a week later, he casually returned. Something that looked and sounded like Hikaru. What was writhing inside it was—— "Hikaru is already gone... If that's the case..." A "Something" wearing his friend's form, and the "everyday" life Yoshiki begins walking through with it. But at the same time, strange incidents begin to assail the village. The curtain now rises on a coming-of-age horror story that descends into an unknown "Something"——

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