Back in May 2024, we learned there would be a The Summer Hikaru Died anime adaptation, and now there’s a teaser trailer for the Netflix show. However, while that and the key art are available, there’s still no release window for it yet. The announcement only said it is “coming soon” in Summer 2025. It comes after the release of the fifth volume of the manga and the novelization.
Here’s the first teaser trailer for The Summer Hikaru Died anime adaptation. We get to hear Chiaki Kobayashi as Yoshiki Tsujinaka and Shuichiro Umeda as “Hikaru” for the first time in it. It starts just as the manga does, with Yoshiki and Hikaru outside a store talking about the future. It’s then that Yoshiki brings up the fact that the “Hikaru” next to him isn’t really the Hikaru he knew.
As for the latest piece of key art, it features “Hikaru” and hints at the character’s nature:
The last volume of the manga to appear is the fourth, and that showed up in August 2024. The series is still running in Japan. The fifth installment will launch in English on March 25, 2025. It follows what happens when a young man named Hikaru is replaced with an entity that isn’t him, and the ensuing relationship between “Hikaru” and Yoshiki. However, the town around them is affected by the fact that a being that isn’t human is suddenly living among them.
The Summer Hikaru Died manga is running in Japan, with Yen Press handling the English release, and the anime will air on Netflix in Summer 2025.
Published: Nov 27, 2024 10:30 am