A review by evgeniya
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 2 by Mokumokuren

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

how am i supposed to write a review now after that ending? as if i don't want to start the next chapter right away, so i could know what the hell happened there? okay, calm down, me. here goes. this volume chapters felt a little more chills and less emotional than the previous ones, but the tense atmosphere was still there, so i enjoyed reading it quiet a bit. there were some confusing moments, but i'm sure it'll all get cleared up when we get to it. one thing remained the same though, and it's my need to love and protect 'hikaru' at all cost. i don't know how i would feel about the real hikaru, but this one is my child. and speaking of the real hikaru, we finally got to see what the hell happened to him. and that was so unexpected, i literally burst out laughing, i'm so sorry. like, what do you mean he got distracted by a curvy tree and fell down the mountain? but to fair, that tree he saw was mad curvy, so i can't even blame him. literally got pushed down by the heterosexuality. i'm just joking here by the way, because his last thoughts were literally of yoshiki and how much he didn't want to leave him alone, he literally offered his body to the lord brainsnatcher just so yoshiki would still have him by his side. crazy. i wonder if hikaru even knew what it meant to go up that mountain, what was the ritual exactly? i'm so unclear and curious about that and how his family is involved, because his father also died there. i'm sure we'll get into it in the next volume, because they started to set it up a bit more in this one, and it looked like they asked someone outside of town for help. some expert, i guess? i don't like it already, they better leave 'hikaru' alone, he literally just wants to be human and be by yoshiki's side. and just like yoshiki said, "deep inside, i know that [this is bad]. but is danger all there is to him? it could be that 'hikaru' doesn't know anything... if... that's how it is... i'll just have to teach him." and he has been more patient with him now, i think. he's not battling himself as much anymore. though they had some pretty crazy encounters, like the very beginning of the volume, where 'hikaru' almost swallowed him whole, but they got over that pretty quickly. they just needed to talk about boundaries a bit more, what's the right thing to say and do and what's not, considering that this 'hikaru' has the same memories as his late best friend, but is not exactly him even though he keeps bringing up those memories that aren't supposed to be his. i understand how frustrating it must've been for yoshiki, so no wonder he snapped at some point. but he did apologize, and they did talk about it a little more, so that was great. i think the biggest moment of acceptance was the one when yoshiki was talking about how he found hikaru's body and never told anyone about it, because the time he got better from his sickness, 'hikaru' was back, and then him crying because he misses his best friend, and when 'hikaru' was getting up to leave and give him some space, yoshiki pulled him back down to sit next to him. that was just beautiful. (oh, and hikaru actually died in the winter, and not in the summer, so that's interesting.) and then that fucking ending. the freaking hair spirit (gross, btw) better stop messing with yoshiki's head, because that was actually shocking for me to see the flashback of hikaru and yoshiki fighting to then yoshiki trying to drown 'hikaru' in his bathtub right when i turned the page. that reminded me of chainsaw man in the most traumatic way possible. if you know, you know.

and, um. so. what if we made fried chicken in class and the raw chicken reminded me of the time i touched your insides, so we make plans after school for me to put my whole arm inside of your chest again? sounds good?
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