The Summer Hikaru Died Reveals Trailer Featuring Opening Song by Vaundy
The upcoming anime adaptation of The Summer Hikaru Died revealed a new trailer featuring the opening theme song "Saikai (Reunion)" by Vaundy. The anime premieres on July 5 and will stream on Netflix.
Yoshiki Nakajima and Shion Wakayama are joining the cast as Yuta Maki and Yuki Tadakoro, Hikaru and Yoshiki's classmates.
CygamesPictures is animating the adaptation with Ryohei Takeshita as the director. Takeshita is also doing the series composition. Yuichi Takahashi is the character designer and chief animation director and Masanobu Hiraoka is credited as DORODORO animations. The cast includes:
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Yoshiki Tsujinaka
- Shuichiro Umeda as Hikaru Indo
- Yumiri Hanamori as Asako Yamagishi
The anime will adapt The Summer Hikaru Died (Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu) manga by Mokumokuren, serialized in Kadokawa's Young Ace Up magazine. Yen Press licensed the manga in English.
The story follows Yoshiki and Hikaru, childhood friends. One day, Hikaru disappears on a mountain, but returns a week later. However, the thing that returned is not Yoshiki's friend in spite of having his face, his voice, and his looks. Then, mysterious things start happening in the village, and the natural order of things is disturbed as Yoshiki slowly realizes his friend is not who he seems to be.
Source: Official Website
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