The creative team behind the supernatural anime series The Summer Hikaru Died are celebrating fans this week, launching a giveaway campaign on X that will reward five lucky winners with message boards autographed by key creative team members. Signatures include:
- Ryohei Takeshita, director & series composition writer
- Chiaki Kobayashi, the voice of Yoshiki Tsujinaka
- Shuichiro Umeda, the voice of Hikaru
Fans can participate in the contest by following the show’s official global English-language X account: @hikaru_anime_en. Then, simply re-post the contest post between September 21 and 26 to enter.
In the lead-up to the series finale streaming on September 27, The Summer Hikaru Died has also released a special look-back video of the first 11 episodes, set to the insert song “Shadow of Our Days” as sung by Hikaru and Yoshiki. (Note, the video is copyright restricted in some territories.) Watch it here!
The Summer Hikaru Died is now streaming exclusively worldwide on Netflix.
Based on the original manga by Mokumokuren, serializedin Kadokawa’s Young Ace Up, the anime series is produced by CyberAgent’s animation studio CygamesPictures.
The Summer Hikaru Died is a coming-of-age horror story about a teenage boy named Yoshiki whose childhood best friend Hikaru goes missing in the mountains. One week later, something else returns … the being looks like Hikaru, and sounds like Hikaru, but Yoshiki knows it is not truly his lost friend. Although he tries to return to their usual, everyday routine with this not-Hikaru, strange happenings begin plaguing their quiet village.
