{"id":2820,"date":"2024-08-27T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2024-08-18T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T00:42:00","slug":"book-manga-the-summer-hikaru-died-volume-3-by-mokumokuren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/08\/27\/book-manga-the-summer-hikaru-died-volume-3-by-mokumokuren\/","title":{"rendered":"Book (Manga): The Summer Hikaru Died, Volume 3 by Mokumokuren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SummerHikaruDiedv3.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of The Summer Hikaru Died, Volume 3 by Mokumokuren\" class=\"wp-image-2821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SummerHikaruDiedv3.jpeg 408w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SummerHikaruDiedv3-209x300.jpeg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Summer Hikaru Died, Volume 3 <br><\/strong>by Mokumokuren<br><a href=\"https:\/\/yenpress.com\/titles\/9781975392765-the-summer-hikaru-died-vol-3\">published by Yen Press<\/a><br>2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The village where dear friends Yoshiki and Hikaru live has a traditional festival to the god of the mountain.  A mountain where Yoshiki&#8217;s father warned him never to explore.  A mountain where, the boys don&#8217;t realize, Hikaru&#8217;s family used to keep &lt;things> in their rightful places&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are people in the village who can hear &lt;things> from the Other Side.  Others can see &lt;things>.  But engaging with &lt;the things>, talking to them, or in any way acknowledging them can make the people who respond more attractive to the restless spirits, and that is a problem.  A problem Yoshiki&#8217;s closeness with Hikaru, including their physical closeness, may soon reveal.  Not just in the cold, unhealed bruise on Yoshiki&#8217;s arm&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classmate Asako is sensitive to these &lt;things>, and has seen a &lt;thing> save the friend she loves most, so her questions for Hikaru are well-meaning &#8211; alarming, but innocent.  Her innocence doesn&#8217;t mean she is safe, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volume 3 is the smooth continuation of the spooky story of Yoshiki and <em>the being <\/em>occupying his beloved friend Hikaru&#8217;s body.  The tension is superb.  The body horror is impressive.  The traumas are real.  And the ethics and attitudes of &lt;things> are highly uncomfortable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer Hikaru Died, Volume 3 by Mokumokurenpublished by Yen Press2024 The village where dear friends Yoshiki and Hikaru live has a traditional festival to the god of the mountain. A mountain where Yoshiki&#8217;s father warned him never to explore. A mountain where, the boys don&#8217;t realize, Hikaru&#8217;s family used to keep &lt;things> in their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/08\/27\/book-manga-the-summer-hikaru-died-volume-3-by-mokumokuren\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book (Manga): The Summer Hikaru Died, Volume 3 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-2820","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\/2820","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=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}