Mokumokuren’s Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu (The Summer Hikaru Died) manga will be adapted into an anime. Mokumokuren announced the news this week on the author’s official Twitter account and drew an illustration to celebrate the news.
[https://x.com/mokmok_len/status/1793839482103542113]
The horror manga was launched by Mokumokuren on Kadokawa’s Young Ace Up website in August 2021. Kadokawa released the manga’s first tankoubon volume in March 2022 and the most recent volume, number four, in December 2023. The manga is also published by Yen Press in English, and the third volume was released in April 2024.
Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu has been nominated for several awards, such as the 16th Manga Taisho Award, and it has been listed in several prominent book lists, such as the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) 2024 list of Great Graphic Novels for Teens. The manga and its author were also nominated for the 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards; the manga was nominated for the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia category, while Mokumokuren was nominated for the Best Writer/Artist category.
Two boys lived in a village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. The two did everything together…until the day Hikaru was encompassed by a mysterious light. That was when everything changed—Hikaru most of all. Yoshiki still wishes from the bottom of his heart to always stay by his side…but is there even a Hikaru left to be with?
