{"id":2933052,"date":"2025-09-20T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/2933052\/celebrity\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:25:00","slug":"the-summer-hikaru-died-shadow-of-our-days-hikaru-yoshiki-ver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/2933052\/celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer Hikaru Died: Shadow of Our Days (Hikaru &#038; Yoshiki ver.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wSEzXCGMMRc?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo celebrate the final episode airing next week, we&#8217;ve prepared 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.<br \/>\nThe video also includes English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>\u25e4About \u201cThe Summer Hikaru Died\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Summer Hikaru Died\u201d is a hit horror manga series about an ordinary high school boy, Yoshiki, who experiences various mysterious incidents in his daily life with Hikaru, or rather, a mysterious entity who is imitating his best friend Hikaru. The story of that &#8220;something&#8221; and Yoshiki\u2019s mentality has garnered significant attention, making it one of this year\u2019s must-see anime series.<\/p>\n<p>\u25e4Streaming Information<br \/>\nAvailable on Netflix worldwide from July 5th, 2025<br \/>\nNetflix (Worldwide): <\/p>\n<p>\u25e4Cast<br \/>\nYoshiki Tsujinaka: Chiaki Kobayashi<br \/>\nHikaru: Shuichiro Umeda<br \/>\nTanaka: Chikahiro Kobayashi<br \/>\nRie Kurebayashi: Wakana Kowaka<br \/>\nAsako Yamagishi: Yumiri Hanamori<br \/>\nYuta Maki: Yoshiki Nakajima<br \/>\nYuki Tadokoro: Shion Wakayama<\/p>\n<p>\u25e4Staff<br \/>\nOriginal Story: Based on the manga \u201cThe Summer Hikaru Died\u201d by Mokumokuren; originally serialized in YOUNG ACE UP, published by KADOKAWA<br \/>\nDirector\/Series Composition: Ryohei Takeshita<br \/>\nCharacter Design\/Chief Animation Director: Yuichi Takahashi<br \/>\nDORODORO Animator: Masanobu Hiraoka<br \/>\nProp Design: Ryunosuke Ouchi<br \/>\nSub Character Design: Mai Watanabe, Hiroko Saigan, Shoko Nagasawa<br \/>\nArt Setting: Shuhei Tada, Takeyuki Takahashi, Yoshihiro Sono<br \/>\nArt Director: Kohei Honda<br \/>\nColor Design: Naomi Nakano\uff08stella\uff09<br \/>\nAssistant Color Design: Yuko Koshida<br \/>\n3D Supervisor: Yoshinori Nakano<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Tomohiro Maeda<br \/>\n2D Design: Yusuke Nagara, Yuri Tsue<br \/>\nEditing: Kashiko Kimura<br \/>\nSound Director: Koji Kasamatsu<br \/>\nSound Production: dugout<br \/>\nMusic: Taro Umebayashi<br \/>\nOpening Theme Song: &#8220;saikai&#8221; by Vaundy<br \/>\nNow Streaming<br \/>\nStreaming Link:<br \/>\nNon-Credit Opening Animation of \u201cThe Summer Hikaru Died,\u201d Featuring the Opening Theme Song \u201csaikai\u201d by Vaundy:    \u2022 \u300c\u5149\u304c\u6b7b\u3093\u3060\u590f\u300d\u30ce\u30f3\u30af\u30ec\u30b8\u30c3\u30c8\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u300c\u518d\u4f1a\u300dVaundy\uff1aThe Summer&#8230;<br \/>\nEnding Theme Song: &#8220;Anata wa Kaibutsu (you are my monster)&#8221; by TOOBOE<br \/>\nNow Available as an Advance Digital Release<br \/>\nStreaming Link:<br \/>\nNon-Credit Ending Animation of \u201cThe Summer Hikaru Died,\u201d Featuring the Song &#8220;Anata wa Kaibutsu (you are my monster)&#8221; by TOOBOE:    \u2022 \u300c\u5149\u304c\u6b7b\u3093\u3060\u590f\u300d\u30ce\u30f3\u30af\u30ec\u30b8\u30c3\u30c8\u30a8\u30f3\u30c7\u30a3\u30f3\u30b0\u300c\u3042\u306a\u305f\u306f\u304b\u3044\u3076\u3064\u300dTOOBOE\uff1aThe &#8230;<br \/>\nAnimation Production: CygamesPictures<\/p>\n<p>\u25e4Introduction<br \/>\nIn a certain village<br \/>\nSince their childhood, they have grown up together.<br \/>\nYoshiki and Hikaru, childhood friends.<br \/>\nthe sun shining down on them<br \/>\nthe chirping sound of a crypto tympana facialis<br \/>\nIce cream on the way home<br \/>\nLaughing over trivial things<br \/>\nOne day in summer, no different from any other day<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230; You&#8217;re not Hikaru after all, are you?<br \/>\nHalf a year ago, Hikaru went missing in the mountains.<br \/>\nA week later, he came back on a whim.<br \/>\nThe voice, the figure, the thing that looked like Hikaru<br \/>\nWhat was stirring inside&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cHikaru is no longer with us. &#8230;&#8230; if that&#8217;s the case.\u201d<br \/>\nStarting the days with \u201csomething\u201d in the form of a friend,<br \/>\nThe \u201csame as usual\u201d everyday life.<br \/>\nBut at the same time&#8230;<br \/>\nStrange incidents begin to plague the village.<br \/>\nFalling into the unknown \u201csomething\u201d<br \/>\nThe curtain rises on a coming-of-age horror story.<\/p>\n<p>\u25e4Follow \u201cThe Summer Hikaru Died\u201d on Social Media:<br \/>\nOfficial Website:<br \/>\nOfficial X:<br \/>\nOfficial YouTube:    \/ @hikaru_anime_en<br \/>\nOfficial TikTok:   \/ hikaru_anime_en  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Mokumokuren\/KADOKAWA\/The Summer Hikaru Died Partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the final episode airing next week, we&#8217;ve prepared a special look-back video of the first 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2933053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21045],"tags":[21047,21046,15916,828768,23477,188200,5596,1839771,13754,22,19440],"class_list":{"0":"post-2933052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-days","11":"tag-died","12":"tag-hikaru","13":"tag-shadow","14":"tag-summer","15":"tag-the-summer-hikaru-died","16":"tag-ver","17":"tag-vlog","18":"tag-yoshiki"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2933053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}