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.
CygamesPictures will be handling the production for the series. The animation project will be directed by Ryohei Takeshita known as the director of Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, with Chiaki Kobayashi as Yoshiki Tsujinaka, and Shuichiro Umeda as Hikaru Indou.
Takeshita said:
When I first read the original work, I remember reading the pages with excitement, wondering what kind of expression I should use to express the frames of the original story in the animation. The entire staff has been working earnestly on the original work in order to skillfully animate not only the delicate emotions of Yoshiki and Hikaru, two young boys struggling to understand each other, but also the beautiful and innovative manga structure, so please look forward to the release.
The new teaser visual and trailer featuring the first footage of the anime has been released.
