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Reveals New Teaser Visual, Trailer, Cast & Staff

TOKYO, Nov. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberAgent, Inc. (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; President: Susumu Fujita; TSE: 4751) today announced the television anime of up-and-coming award winning author Mokumokuren's "The Summer Hikaru Died" (published by KADOKAWA) will be produced by CygamesPictures and will be coming soon to Netflix globally.

"The Summer Hikaru Died" is a hit horror manga series about an ordinary high school boy, Yoshiki, who experiences various mysterious incidents in his life with Hikaru, a mysterious being who imitates his best friend Hikaru Indou. The story of "whatever it is" and the boy's madness is a must-see anime film.

The animation will be directed by Ryohei Takeshita known as the director of "Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night" and CygamesPictures will be handling the animation production for the series.

In addition to the new teaser visual and trailer featuring the first footage of the anime, we will also reveal cast comments by Chiaki Kobayashi as Yoshiki Tsujinaka, and Shuichiro Umeda as Hikaru Indou.

• Follow "The Summer Hikaru Died" for the latest news and announcements：

Official website: https://hikanatsu-anime.com/
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• Introduction

In a certain village
Since their childhood, they have grown up together.
Yoshiki and Hikaru, childhood friends.
the sun shining down on them
the chirping sound of a crypto tympana facialis
Ice cream on the way home

Laughing over trivial things
One day in summer, no different from any other day

...... You're not Hikaru after all, are you?

Half a year ago, Hikaru went missing in the mountains.
A week later, he came back on a whim.
The voice, the figure, the thing that looked like Hikaru
What was stirring inside...

"Hikaru is no longer with us. ...... if that's the case."

Starting the days with "something" in the form of a friend,
The "same as usual" everyday life.
But at the same time...
Strange incidents begin to plague the village.

Falling into the unknown "something"
The curtain rises on a coming-of-age horror story.

• Teaser trailer 

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAfcm5Cydvs

 

 

 

• Comments from the cast and staff

▼Yoshiki Tsujinaka CV: Chiaki Kobayashi

I am pleased to take on the role of Yoshiki. My name is Chiaki Kobayashi.

From the time of the audition, I was swept up in a jumble of emotions: I shouldn't be with him, but I want him to be with me; I'm scared, but comfortable with him; and I'm not sure what to do.