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my thoughts about this is that Yoshiki doesn't meet gender expectations and sticks out like a sore thumb about it.

i feel like all he sees about masculinity around him is his unhappy absent dad who's in a lavander marriage, the old conservative men around town, his most probably annoying classmates and of course Hikaru, who was amazing at pretending and talked about when he Yoshiki had a girlfriend, when talking about girls is like a foreign language to him.

i feel like he doesn't care about being different but the village people ways make him wanna dissappear lol. and i just know Yoshiki wouldn't be dressing the way he does if he didn't live in small town hell, he's probably has pinterest board and a perfectly curated style in his head idkk.

#i think he might be non binary honestly #the way he relates to non-humanness......#it got a little kick #anime #manga #the summer hikaru died #yoshiki tsujinaka #*og posts #symposium

If you could give advice to teenagers who may have feelings similar to Yoshiki, what would you like to share?

MOKUMOKUREN: Yoshiki grew up in a secluded rural town and has many difficulties in life. His mother's an outsider, his sister doesn't go to school, his parents fight, and the way people around him look at him. He's also concerned about his gender. He's by no means a particularly unfortunate character but a protagonist with problems that can be found anywhere. And when Yoshiki faces the monster called "Hikaru," he must also face himself.

There comes a time when almost every teenager, no matter where they live, must face themselves. They need to confront the parts they don't want to acknowledge and the contradictions within themselves. I'm sure that's the same for adults as well. I don't want Yoshiki to be an ideal hero, but a protagonist who is close to those kinds of realistic concerns.

Excerpt about Yoshiki from Small-town Horror: Interview with The Summer Hikaru Died Creator Mokumokuren by Lynzee Loveridge

#this is so interesting #the little bit about him being concerned about his gender!!#he sees his father and wants to die i know it #anime #manga #hikaru ga shinda natsu #hgsn #the summer hikaru died #tshd #yoshiki tsujinaka #*og posts #*archiving

coming out !!

#kinda giving coming out of my cage and i've been doing just fine #anime #manga #hikaru ga shinda natsu #hgsn #the summer hikaru died #tshd #mokumokuren #yoshiki tsujinaka #*og posts #*archiving

yoshiki issues with sexuality and identity all go back to him being stuck in human preconceptions

i think he knows that being "different" isn't wrong, he is kinda okay with being different, like okay enough to the point he even despises the expectations that come with being human

despite that, he still tries to perform "normality" under the need of fitting in better and therefore making everything hurt a little less. he doesn't wanna be alone nor scare people away because he feels isolated enough already as he is, so he kinda is like let me have this one pls

all this game of hiding turns into something like a chronic ache inside of him, of course. but with "hikaru" "normal" doesn't matter

#i wanted to attach some panels but i can't find them lol but it was like a flashback of og hikaru asking yoshiki why likes animals so much #and yoshiki replies with something like “they have their own rules and don't adhere to human norms”#anyway that's why og hikaru isn't coming backk #yoshiki loved him #but he wasn't what he needed to break the cycle #this has layers it's not about not being human but to strip away everything you don't need #i feel like i'm being really vague but you get it right #right??#anime #manga #the summer hikaru died #tshd #hikaru ga shinda natsu #hgsn #yoshiki tsujinaka #hikaru #*og posts #symposium

real hikaru was always in love with yoshiki but never had the courage to even realize because he was too far in the depths of internalized homophobia.

yoshiki also has a lot of internalized homophobia but not in the same way, his is more like: i know i'm gay but i won't tell anyone about it because i don't wanna be ostracised, more excluded than he already is. not necessarily by those who he loves but by anyone – he already feels strange, off putting and fucking gross. being gay just makes the equation more complex. "if i already don't fit in this will make it worse than it already is".

he knows and it's fucking painful, but he just won't say anything about it because it's safer to keep quiet.