It's a tale as old as time: Boy meets boy. Boy loves boy. Boy dies and gets replaced by a demonic doppelganger. Ok, it's not that old. This story is actually quite unique and pretty special, as anyone who's watched The Summer Hikaru Died can attest to.
Ryohei Takeshita's adaptation of Mokumokuren's manga is a singular vision that melds body horror, folklore terrors and a sweltering summer heat with core tenets of the BL (Boy Love) genre. In doing so, The Summer Hikaru Died expands the scope of queer storytelling to create something unique, monstrous and even beautiful. In short, there's no other anime like it, which makes the wait for (a recently confirmed) season two practically unbearable.
