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Official art of Yoshiki's new haircut by Mokumokuren

Don't touch me, I'm so emotional🥹❤️🤧

Yoshiki's long bangs have been a recurring theme since the beginning of the story, it was a way to be both rebellious to the status quo where everyone always told him to just cut it, and a way to hide himself.

Now the extra chapter from volume 1 is more relevant than ever (let's not focus on "Hikaru'"'s hand-on-Yoshiki's-leg for a second and let's focus on the dialogue)

But it was true it was getting difficult for him to see (deep down he was happy when "Hikaru" gave him the cat hairclip, "Hikaru" is just so cute and thoughful. I want to see "Hikaru"'s reaction to Yoshiki's new hairstyle🥹)

So now Yoshiki deciding too cut his hair is huge, it means he's not afraid to face the world, he is what he is and it's okay , he has nothing to hide!

I know that the Important Haircut is a trope as old as times, cutting hair many times symbolizes exactly what we see, growth, change, nothing new here, but I love to see Yoshiki getting so much more confident in himself.

I loved his cute emo-coded bangs, ngl, he was so cute🥹 but I appreciate what this means for him and his development. And the fact it was Satoko, his mom, cutting his hair, is like a reconciliation between the 2 of them,considering that until a few chapters ago, it was almost like Yoshiki refused to see his mom and the narrative shoowed it...never showing her face. Satoko has always been supportive of her children and even if she is an hairstylist, never forced Yoshiki to cut his hair when he decided he wanted it longer, so she making sure he was really ok with that.

Again, cutting hair to symbolize growth is nothing new in media literature, but nevertheless, I loved this moment.

I'm so proud of my sweet boy Yoshiki 🥹

Farewell Yoshiki's bangs, you will be missed, but it was for the plot and the character development!

Bonus bc the Tsujinaka siblings are precious

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The official HikaNatsu account revealed the store-exclusive original bonus illustrations that will be released with Blu-ray & DVD Volume 1.

Blu-ray & DVD Volume 1 will be released on November 26 in Japan!

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I love how good everyone look in the Zozotown collab, especially Yoshiki. His outfit reminds me of this other official art, it's probably the key chain (I have no idea where this art comes from, but I love his outfit).

I feel once he'll be finally able to move in Tokyo he'll be more into fashion, I mean...

...my boy cannot be really that indifferent to fashion if he wants to look all nice to see "Hikaru" again and he thinks, with a bit of resignation, that his best outfit is his school uniform, on which he had 0 agency on, since it's literally a standard for every student.

From a volume 2 extra, it seems to me that he's kind of sad/resigned that he can't really wear nothing nice since it's useless being stylish in the middle of the nowhere in the countryside (and I can't blame him, especially when in the village everyone is quick to criticize everyone for everything and we know Yoshiki suffers from that)

My boy Yoshiki will be so happy to experiment with fashion when he'll be in Tokyo and "Hikaru" will be so supportive. Viceversa is also valid, "Hikaru" imho will have to unlearn to hate himself (he's really in a bad place rn, physically and psychologically) and he will find his own self, like he is already realizing (the beach scenes, when for the first time it's not Yoshiki telling him how different he his from Hikaru, but it's "Hikaru" himself pointing out their differences)

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Posted by Mokumokuren on BlueSky on October 29, 2025

From automatic translation:

I'm happy that people liked Hikaru when he was alive, but since there is almost no description of him, it's a bit complicated that the image of him as an "ideal, perfect being" has taken on a life of its own. I feel this a little bit when I check the scripts for various media mixes. But it's interesting because this is something that often happens to people who have passed away in real life. No matter how terrible a person's qualities were, once they've passed away, you want to think of them as a "good person." Or maybe there's just no need to look for their flaws when you realize, "I'll never have any further contact with this person in my life." For example, from the very first episode, Hikaru (when he was alive) is portrayed as a character who commits far more microaggressions than Hikaru (the monster).

EDIT with the whole thread

By the way, in the original illustrations for volume 8, I tried to delve deeper into these aspects, so I hope you will look forward to volume 8 as well!

So it means that in the extra/omake of volume 8, these will be the topics? Curious to see it

"Like a manga protagonist" is because while the protagonists in shonen manga are attractive, there are hardly any queer characters.

The same can be said a little about Kurebayashi. The situation doesn't completely apply, but I portrayed "discriminating" and "being a good and respectable person" as two different things. I think it's something that anyone would do if they didn't know what they were doing.

And later, on November 1, 2025, there is this other post

(always translated in automatic, take everything with a grin of salt)

Many of the readers of this work are LGBTQ+A people, so I think the depiction of microaggressions will be very difficult to bear. Although this content will now leave my hands and spread, I would be very happy if it could inspire many people to learn something new.

Food for thoughts, I guess.

I wonder if Mokumokuren, with microaggressions, means something like that?

(which, imho, was Hikaru being closeted himself, trying to play it "cool", like every random cis-straight dude, knowing very well what would happen in their bigoted, homophobic little village if someone dares to be different, see Yosuke. Nevertheless Yoshiki had all the rights to be hurt by this episode, but I don't think Hikaru did it with malice). But that's just my opinion, let's see if this will be relevant in the next chapters.

Anyway, I love that Mokumokuren knows perfectly who their target audience is (LGBTQIA people). It may be bc Mokumokuren is very young (they started the story during the pandemic when they were in uni, so IG they are a Gen Z) but it's refreshing for me to see that after years and years in both western and JPN/easters fandom that the creator acknowledges their main target audience

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The cover of the September 2025 issue of “PASH!”, which will be released on August 7, features “The Summer Hikaru Died.”

The sample is a bonus if you purchase it from Animate

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I like that Mokumokuren reposted their backstory about Toshinori and Satoko.

I know it's old news, Idk if it was explained in the novel or if it was just this comic, but it's nice that it is explained again that Toshinori wanted to be a novelist, (this explains why he has so many books in his studio/his room? i wonder if he and satoko just stay in separate rooms at this point) but he couldn't due to the family business, was sent to Tokyo to study at uni, he met Satoko that already worked as a hairdresser, he got lost all the time and she was worried for him (also, she was - and still is a baddie, she was so cool!)

I believe that Toshinori is closeted af and was/is in love with Kohei and it was unrequited, (sorry I like Kohei but he doesn't give me queer vibes - but i still enjoy the ship sometimes lol), but I also think that at first he tried to make things work, confirmed also by Mokumokuren's tweet so it's sweet that in the manga Satoko adds this line about Toshi's favourite dish

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Some photos from The Summer Hikaru Died Exhibition In Ikebukuro from Friday, November 14, 2025 to Sunday, December 7, 2025

I love they really added everything, it looks awesome! They invited of course the voice actors, here there are Kowaka Wakana (Kurebayashi Rie's voice actor) and Masatomo Nakazawa (Indou Kouhei's voice actor) at the exhibition and of course, Kobayashi Chiaki (Yoshiki's seiyuu) but that deserves a separate post 😏

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Things I didn't know I needed: Mokmokuren drawing Kouhei and "Hikaru"... boy, if that ain't weird lol