CyberAgent has introduced the arrival of The Summer Hikaru Died TV anime to Chinese language platform Bilibili. It start streaming on July 29.

The press launch didn’t specify what number of areas the present will likely be accessible in (Bilibili can be accessible in various Southeast Asian international locations), however the outcomes from the Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian variations of Bilibili recommend that it might probably solely be considered within the Larger China Area. 

The Summer Hikaru Died started its Japanese broadcast on July 6 JST and might be considered abroad on Netflix. The anime is predicated 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 recollections. However no matter got here down from the mountains six months in the past isn’t Yoshiki’s greatest buddy. No matter it’s, it’s harmful. Carrying on at college and hanging out as if nothing has modified—as if Hikaru isn’t gone—could be loopy…however when it seems so very like Hikaru…and acts so very like Hikaru…

The manga started serialization on the Younger Ace Up web site in August 2021 and has seven volumes as of July 2025.

In the event you’re nonetheless debating in order for you to watch the present, right here’s our evaluate of its first episode.

Workers

• Director: Ryohei Takeshita (Jellyfish Can’t Swim within the Night time and Eromanga Sensei) 
• Sequence composer: Ryohei Takeshita
• Character designer and chief animation director: Yuichi Takahashi (Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Track- and Mononoke The Film: The Phantom within the Rain character designer)
• Dorodoro animator: Masanobu Hiraoka (Chainsaw Man Ending 9 storyboard artist, unit director, animator, and editor) 
• Background artwork director: Kohei Honda (Akiba Maid Warfare)
• Shade designer: Naomi Nakano (Solo Leveling)
• Compositing director: Tomohiro Maeda (Granblue Fantasy tenth anniversary film) 
• Animation manufacturing: CygamesPictures

Solid

• Chiaki Kobayashi as Yoshiki Tsujinaka
• Shuichiro Umeda as Hikaru Indo
• Yumiri Hanamori as Asako Yamagishi
• Wakana Kowaka as Rie Kurebayashi
• Chikahiro Kobayashi as Tanaka

Supply: Press launch