Release Date: 12/24/2025
Catalog Number: KAXA-9092

※Pre-orders close: 11/06/2025
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※(Blu-ray or DVD) The Summer Hikaru Died TV Series Vol. 1–Vol. 3: Purchase all copies in the same order to be eligible.
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◆Exclusive Anime Cover Art
◆Deluxe Booklet
Content: Cast Interview, Staff Interview, Concept Material, and more
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◆Making-of
◆CM Collection
◆Trailer Clip

His best friend returned... but he came back wrong. With over 3 million copies in circulation, the viral hit manga by genius creator Mokumokuren is finally getting an anime adaptation!

Yoshiki and Hikaru, two boys the same age, had grown up together in a certain village since childhood.

The blazing sun. The shrill cry of cicadas. Ice cream in hand on the walk home. It's a summer day like any other, and they're laughing about nothing in particular.

"...You're not Hikaru, are you?"

Six months ago, Hikaru vanished into the mountains for a week. Whatever returned had his voice and face, but something unnatural was writhing inside...

"Hikaru's gone, huh... which means..."

He walks day after day beside something wearing his best friend's face, as if nothing has changed. But soon, unsettling events begin to stir in the village. He begins to fall into this unknown "something." The curtain rises on this coming-of-age horror story...

≪Content≫
Ep. 5–Ep. 8

≪Cast≫
Yoshiki Tsujinaka: Chiaki Kobayashi
Hikaru: Shuichiro Umeda
Tanaka: Chikahiro Kobayashi
Rie Kurebayashi: Wakana Kowaka
Asako Yamagishi: Yumiri Hanamori
Yuta Maki: Yoshiki Nakajima
Yuki Tadokoro: Shion Wakayama

(C)モクモクれん/KADOKAWA・「光が死んだ夏 製作委員会