The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1 by Mokumokuren

4.29 AVERAGE

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isak_icarus's review

4.5
dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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libellumartinae's review against another edition

4.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

busystressedbutbookblessed's review

4.25
dark sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

wodahs's review against another edition

4.5
dark mysterious
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kyrahdanger13's review against another edition

4.0
dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
I was actually waiting for the anime to drop to finally read this and…here we are. I can say that the anime did a really good job with sticking to the story and portraying the weird  and creepy vibes from the manga, so I’d say it’s a win for me. The drawings are so detailed that it pushes the reader to see beyond the text. Seriously, do look at the background stuff, it’s pretty cool. I’m not sure, but I think the translation was trying to imitate what a countryside accent from Japan would sound like in english, and it was pretty weird at first, but it’s easy to get used to. Anyway, very excited to read more later, after the anime adaptation.

P.s. I’ve seen that some people were surprised at how gay the adaptation is and…broski wtf did u expect… 

Toodles 🖖🏾

futuristiskt's review

4.0
dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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cryclops's review against another edition

4.0
dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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kentucky_kfc's review against another edition

4.5
dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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markwillnevercry's review

3.5
dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
I am having a lot of complicated emotions about this, but let's begin with something bad, which is the structure of this volume in particular. The whole vibe is rather dark and complicated, but then at the very end we get a little happy and cute bonus chapter, which I enjoyed, but it felt like too much of an up after all of the down of the volume. That is literally the only thing that I have an issue with.
Everything else is pretty okay, this would have been a 4 if not for the bonus chapter in the end and what it did to the overall mood. The relationship between Hikaru and Yoshiki is pretty confusing due to how I do not feel like we really get explained what Yoshiki felt before the whole situation happened. 
I feel complicated, but this was fun and I will be continuing with the series. 
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chiara_calime's review against another edition

3.5
dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes