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The Summer Hikaru Died
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Chiaki Kobayashi
Yoshiki Tsujinaka (voice)
12 eps
Shuichiro Umeda
Hikaru Indo (voice)
12 eps
Chikahiro Kobayashi
Tanaka (voice)
12 eps
Wakana Kowaka
Rie Kurebayashi (voice)
12 eps
Yumiri Hanamori
Asako Yamagishi (voice)
12 eps
Yoshiki Nakajima
Yuta Maki (voice)
12 eps
Shion Wakayama
Yuki Tadokoro (voice)
12 eps
Ryoko Shiraishi
Satoko Tsujinaka (voice)
7 eps
Fuminori Komatsu
Toshinori Tsujinaka (voice)
6 eps
Seika Hirose
Kaoru Tsujinaka (voice)
7 eps
Setsuji Sato
Harasen (voice)
7 eps
Koji Ishii
Hajime Takeda (voice)
7 eps
Bin Shimada
Tetsu Mikasa (voice)
4 eps
Lynn
Satou (voice)
2 eps
Takayuki Sugo
Old Man Takeda (voice)
3 eps
Kazuko Sugiyama
Ms. Matsuura (voice)
1 eps
Kousuke Goto
Matsushima (voice)
2 eps
Masatomo Nakazawa
Kohei Indo (voice)
5 eps
Yuuki Urushiyama
Hikaru Indo (Childhood) (voice)
7 eps
Mika Kanda
Music Teacher (voice)
1 eps
Natsumi Kawaida
Yoshiki Tsujinaka (Childhood) (voice)
5 eps
Akihiko Toba
Father (voice)
3 eps
Chie Nakamura
Yuki Indo (voice)
3 eps
Saori Higashi
Cashier Lady at Nishidaya (voice)
2 eps
Sayuri Sadaoka
Middle-aged Woman (voice)
1 eps
Ikuji Nose
Villager (voice)
1 eps
Kouichi Souma
Mr. Kameyama (voice)
2 eps
Natsu Yorita
Female Student (voice)
5 eps
Yukiko Mannaka
Brains (voice)
3 eps
Yu Miyazaki
Soccer Club Senior (voice)
1 eps
Chiaki Kikuta
Soccer Club Member (voice)
1 eps
Takahiro Sumi
Leading Actor (voice)
3 eps
Mami Horikoshi
Grandma (voice)
1 eps
Yui Tsukada
Ron (voice)
1 eps
Takehisa Hirose
Male Student (voice)
1 eps
Taihi Kimura
Male Student (voice)
1 eps
Youhei Hamada
Male Student (voice)
2 eps
Rika Abe
Announcer (voice)
6 eps
Yousuke Omomo
Male Student (voice)
2 eps
Yudai Mino
Trainee (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Summer Hikaru Died actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Summer Hikaru Died reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and World Building.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Six months ago, Hikaru vanished for a week. Now, as his best friend Yoshiki senses something amiss and confronts him, the harrowing truth emerges.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 12 episodes.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Replacement
Yoshiki confronts Hikaru about his suspicions and discovers the terrifying truth. Even though they try to live normally, eerie incidents begin to occur.
- Directed by Ryohei Takeshita
- Written by Ryohei Takeshita
S01E04
Summer Festival
As Yoshiki attends the summer festival with Hikaru, the village elders fret over the recent death and Tanaka ends up with more questions than answers.
- Directed by Yoshiyuki Shirahata
- Written by Oki Murayama
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E12
Its Place
- Directed by Ryohei Takeshita
- Written by Ryohei Takeshita
S01E10
Truth
- Directed by Wang Chihsia, Kohei Kido
- Written by Oki Murayama
S01E09
Old Man Takeda
- Directed by Ayumu Uwano, Mitsuhiro Osako
- Written by Oki Murayama
S01E07
Determination
- Directed by Yuka Hashimoto
- Written by Ryohei Takeshita
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Hiroko OsawaExecutive Producer
- Manami KabashimaProducer
- Chiaki KurakaneProducer
- Toshinori FujiwaraProducer
- Shuzo KasaharaExecutive Producer
- Yosuke AomuraExecutive Producer
Writing
- Ryohei TakeshitaWriter
- Oki MurayamaWriter
Direction
- Ayumu UwanoDirector
- Ryohei TakeshitaDirector
- Ryuta KawaharaDirector
- Asaka YokoyamaDirector
- Aimi YamauchiDirector
- Fumiaki KataokaDirector
Cinematography
- Tomohiro MaedaDirector of Photography
Music
- Taro UmebayashiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- NetflixStreaming
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