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Netflix and Cygames shared a new trailer for The Summer Hikaru Died anime adaptation, and we can now see Yoshiki and Hikaru’s early reveal in Japanese with English subtitles. The show is set to debut on the service in 2025, following the manga and light novel’s debut.

The story in The Summer Hikaru Died follows two young high school students living in a rural town. However, Yoshiki realized that the “Hikaru” that came back after his friend went into the woods on a task for his family isn’t the Hikaru he knew and loved. It’s something/someone else. These series begins as he confronts this entity about their identity, and we see that moment captured in this new trailer for the show. What follows is an exploration into the relationship between Yoshiki and “Hikaru,” which includes insights into his past with Hikaru. The trailer hints at some of this by showing ing characters and flashes of some notable situations.

Here’s the new The Summer Hikaru Died anime trailer:

We will need to wait to see the anime adaptation of the series. However, new physical releases are on the way. The first volume of the light novel take on the series launches on April 15, 2025. Before that, we’ll see the fifth volume of the manga. That debuts on March 25, 2025.

The Summer Hikaru Died anime is in development ahead of a 2025 streaming debut on Netflix. Yen Press handles both the manga and light novel releases outside Japan.

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CyberAgent ed a new key visual for the anime adaptation of The Summer Hikaru Died, as well as visuals and descriptions of the two main characters. The show will start airing in Summer 2025. [Thanks, PR Times!]

The key visual for the anime depicts Yoshiki and Hikaru standing in a field together. Hikaru is smiling at Yoshiki, who has the image of a red-eyed Hikaru whose face is half-covered in something bizarrely inhuman on his back. As for the character visuals, Yoshiki looks kind of sad while Hikaru is striking a cheery pose.

The cast for The Summer Hikaru Died so far consists of:

• Hikaru: Shuichiro Umeda (Akira in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Kazuhiko in Too Many Losing Heroines!)
• Yoshiki: Chiaki Kobayashi (Mash in Mashle, Gabimaru in Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku)

The Summer Hikaru Died is a BL horror and slice-of-life series that focuses on two teenagers in rural Japan. Yoshiki discovers that an eldritch being had consumed and taken over the body of his best friend Hikaru after Hikaru’s death. Though this version of Hikaru has the same personalities and memory as the original, he’s a completely different creature. Yoshiki opts to stay with this Hikaru nonetheless, despite other eldritch beings and hunters make it difficult.

The anime adaptation of The Summer Hikaru Died will start airing in Summer 2025 on Netflix.

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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.

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