{"id":2778,"date":"2024-08-13T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2024-08-12T19:53:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T02:53:59","slug":"book-manga-the-summer-hikaru-died-by-mokumokuren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/08\/13\/book-manga-the-summer-hikaru-died-by-mokumokuren\/","title":{"rendered":"Book (Manga): The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/thesummerhikarudied-709x1024.png\" alt=\"English language cover of The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren\" class=\"wp-image-2779\" style=\"width:465px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/thesummerhikarudied-709x1024.png 709w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/thesummerhikarudied-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/thesummerhikarudied-768x1109.png 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/thesummerhikarudied.png 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Summer Hikaru Died volume 1<br><\/strong>by Mokumokuren<br><a href=\"https:\/\/yenpress.com\/titles\/9781975360542-the-summer-hikaru-died-vol-1\">published in English by Yen Press<\/a><br>2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hikaru went missing in the mountains.  And then&#8230;  Hikaru came back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Hikaru that came back is not the same lifelong friend that Yoshiki has always had at his side.  This Hikaru admits that he is&#8230; something else, something that has never been human before.  It has Hikaru&#8217;s memories, but is feeling everything in Hikaru&#8217;s body for the first time.  And in a moment of stress, he\/it loses some of Hikaru&#8217;s form, and Yoshiki can see things he should not be able to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Yoshiki has missed his dear friend so badly, that maybe this other Hikaru is enough.  Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cicadas chirps fill the air, the summer heat makes the boys sweat on their walks to school, and Yoshiki gets warnings that something dark is taking over the town, from others who have seen the forms the darkness can take&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is broad-daylight-spooky.  I can&#8217;t wait to read the next two volumes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer Hikaru Died volume 1by Mokumokurenpublished in English by Yen Press2023 Hikaru went missing in the mountains. And then&#8230; Hikaru came back. But the Hikaru that came back is not the same lifelong friend that Yoshiki has always had at his side. This Hikaru admits that he is&#8230; something else, something that has never &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/08\/13\/book-manga-the-summer-hikaru-died-by-mokumokuren\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book (Manga): The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[266,175,128],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-graphical-fiction","tag-horror","tag-manga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}