A key visual for The Summer Hikaru Died anime has been released.
Character visuals for main characters Yoshiki Tsujinaka and Hikaru Indou are out as well.
The Summer Hikaru Died is coming to Netflix this year, while its Japanese broadcast has a slightly more concrete window of summer 2025. The anime adapts the KADOKAWA-published manga by Mokumokuren, which Yen Press describes as:
It has Hikaru’s face. It has Hikaru’s voice. It even has Hikaru’s memories. But whatever came down from the mountains six months ago isn’t Yoshiki’s best friend. Whatever it is, it’s dangerous. Carrying on at school and hanging out as if nothing has changed—as if Hikaru isn’t gone—would be crazy…but when it looks so very like Hikaru…and acts so very like Hikaru…
The manga began serialization on the Young Ace Up website in August 2021 and has six tankoubon volumes as of December 2024.
Staff
• Director: Ryohei Takeshita (Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night and Eromanga Sensei)
• Series composer: Ryohei Takeshita
• Character designer and chief animation director: Yuichi Takahashi (Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- and Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain character designer)
• Dorodoro animator: Masanobu Hiraoka (Chainsaw Man Ending 9 storyboard artist, unit director, animator, and editor)
• Animation production: CygamesPictures
Cast
• Chiaki Kobayashi as Yoshiki Tsujinaka
• Shuichiro Umeda as Hikaru Indou
Source: @NetflixAnime
