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The Summer Hikaru Died gets first trailer
The Summer Hikaru Died gets first trailer

The Summer Hikaru Died gets first trailer

Written by Ross Locksley on 22 Mar 2025



Netflix have dropped another trailer (it's the busy season!) for their horror thriller The Summer Hikaru Died. Based on the manga by Mokumokuren and directed by Ryôhei Takeshita (Jujutsu Kaisen, Flip Flappers) the series finds Yoshiki's friend Hikaru replaced by something... other. Looks nice and creepy!

Trailer:

Synopsis:

Yoshiki and Hikaru live in a rural village and have been close friends since they were young.

The blazing sun...
The constant buzzing of cicadas...
Ice cream on the way home...

On a perfectly ordinary summer day, as they laugh over trivial things, 
Yoshiki turns to Hikaru and says:
"…You’re not Hikaru, are you?"

Six months earlier, Hikaru went missing in the mountains and returned unexpectedly a week later.

The new Hikaru looks and sounds just like the original, but something else is stirring within him.

"Hikaru is gone... If that’s the case, then..."

Yoshiki continues spending his days with the "something” imitating Hikaru, while pretending as if nothing has changed. 

Meanwhile, strange incidents begin to plague the village.

Falling into the unknown "something" —

The curtain soon rises on this coming-of-age horror story.


Ross Locksley
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Ross founded the UK Anime Network waaay back in 1995 and works in and around the anime world in his spare time. You can read his more personal articles on UKA's sister site, The Anime Independent.


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