CyberAgent has announced the arrival of The Summer Hikaru Died TV anime to Chinese platform Bilibili. It begin streaming on July 29.
The press release did not specify how many regions the show will be available in (Bilibili is also available in a number of Southeast Asian countries), but the results from the Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian versions of Bilibili suggest that it can only be viewed in the Greater China Region.
The Summer Hikaru Died began its Japanese broadcast on July 6 JST and can be viewed overseas on Netflix. The anime is based on the KADOKAWA-published manga by Mokumokuren, which Yen Press describes as:
It has Hikaru’s face. It has Hikaru’s voice. It even has Hikaru’s memories. But whatever came down from the mountains six months ago isn’t Yoshiki’s best friend. Whatever it is, it’s dangerous. Carrying on at school and hanging out as if nothing has changed—as if Hikaru isn’t gone—would be crazy…but when it looks so very like Hikaru…and acts so very like Hikaru…
The manga began serialization on the Young Ace Up website in August 2021 and has seven volumes as of July 2025.
If you’re still debating if you want to watch the show, here’s our review of its first episode.
Staff
• Director: Ryohei Takeshita (Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night and Eromanga Sensei)
• Series composer: Ryohei Takeshita
• Character designer and chief animation director: Yuichi Takahashi (Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song- and Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain character designer)
• Dorodoro animator: Masanobu Hiraoka (Chainsaw Man Ending 9 storyboard artist, unit director, animator, and editor)
• Background art director: Kohei Honda (Akiba Maid War)
• Color designer: Naomi Nakano (Solo Leveling)
• Compositing director: Tomohiro Maeda (Granblue Fantasy 10th anniversary movie)
• Animation production: CygamesPictures
Cast
• Chiaki Kobayashi as Yoshiki Tsujinaka
• Shuichiro Umeda as Hikaru Indo
• Yumiri Hanamori as Asako Yamagishi
• Wakana Kowaka as Rie Kurebayashi
• Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tanaka
Source: Press release
