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sriyasbooks 's review for:
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
by Mokumokuren
The anime is such a faithful, loving adaptation except in certain, FRUSTRATING ways. I wish they didn’t purposely mistranslate just how open “Hikaru” is about how he feels about Yoshiki now. I just think it’s such an important distinction from all the things they left unsaid from before. And I will say that the little asides and doodles really added to my experience of the manga. It makes it more heartbreaking to see these snippets of Yoshiki. My heart broke for them with the bonus scene of the hairclips. Anyway, there’s so few stories I’ve seen published that capture this exact feeling. Small town queer yearning, and that specific mixture of guilt and excitement and yearning and anticipation and fear and so much want. Oh, Yoshiki. I think his inner monologue also helps a lot in terms of making Yoshiki’s stress more realized.