#I'm reading Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu

[memcou]

i love this manga so much

#omg wow that looks so good #hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #one of my mutuals (?) on here is reading it and i was like and i was right #so ty to that person who may or may not be my mutual for getting me into it #i'm so into this manga that i made yoshiki a playlist 💀

[honorthysalad]

wondering if these numbers refer to either like stages of being mixed-up or maybe weeks? like this is week five of yoshiki being mixed-up and the right is week one before all of this?

#also his eyes are white on the right and shaded on the left #eye thing totally true #if there were stages I'd imagine we'd learn about them from tanaka and his company #like oh yeah you're reading a 5 on the official ghost nastiness-infected scale. woof um... maybe start making amends soon... #hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #hgsn #hgsn spoilers #my hgsn shit #not entirely sure how long the stories been taking place over. not very long I'd assume #but I'm also not trying to count how many times yoshiki has gone to bed #it's been more than five times tho I'm sure of that much. #hgsn eyes

[albino-parakeet]

'Hikaru' in the newest update telling Yoshiki to "Come Here" like that one spirit from the forest path like:

#the summer hikaru died #the summer hikaru died spoilers #hgsn spoilers #hikaru ga shinda natsu spoilers #i'm just rambling #Yoshiki is most likely in actual danger #But something about 'Hikaru' having that little call back to Rei before being all soul devouring in the next pages #Maybe he's just curious about Yoshiki's state? Idk he's a bit unstable rn. And I'm not that good at reading characters lol #What I do know is Yoshiki is not gonna have fun that's for sure

[keikotwins]

Francophone magazine ATOM is going to release in its 27th edition an interview of The Summer Hikaru Died's author Mokumokuren, and I was wondering if there was any interest in a (n amateur) translation (EDIT: that I'd make) or if anyone else was already planning to do it!

I'm super new to the fandom so I don't know if you guys are super active on Twitter or Discord or something. If you have any info about someone already on the project, feel free to share!

In the meantime, enjoy the gorgeous preview visuals:

#the summer hikaru died #hikaru ga shinda natsu #Idk about you but I'm tired about exclusive content only being available in languages I don't read when it comes to manga #So I'm ready to do my part for delicious info

[dilfiesz]

now u're taller than u've ever been, there's a mark on the wall, u see

#i need to keep reading this manga but I'm so lazy #hikaru #hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #hikaru moodboard #hikaru icons #hikaru layouts #hgsn #hikaru hgsn #anime messy layouts #messy layouts #manga messy layouts #messy moodboard #b&w moodboard #black moodboard #white moodboard #yoimita

[epickiya722]

Just like me, for real...

#i too don't look fine when saying I'm fine #sometimes sometimes #just kiya's thoughts #kiya reads #tshd #the summer hikaru died #hikaru ga shinda natsu #hikaru

[chiarrara]

happy to see the hgsn brainrot hitting LOL

it's hitting so hard

#idek if you can call it brainrot when this is just #it feels like reading did when i was a kid #like that feeling i miss so much #helps that my dad bought me the first volume in print #it's so much better in print #the pages are bigger than i expected #hgsn #hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #how do you talk about your favorite book when you were 10 you know? #he got me 1 and 3 #and ordered 2 #i'm thinking about waiting to read on til it gets here #but it's good on a screen too

[kajtielplu]

what should i do at work tomorrow instead of working

#i got rsi from typing too much and they're supposed to give me other things to do but they won't #so i simply will not be typing #i was reading hikaru ga shinda natsu but now i'm up to date on it and there isn't any more to read

[nyx-b-log]

buckle in, it's a long one! on top of finishing what i was reading last week, i also got through a few manga volumes, so there's plenty to talk about!

i'll put it under a cut, but the books discussed are:

all the living and the dead by hayley campbell (finished, favourite)

take it back by kia abdullah (finished)

truth be told by kia abdullah (brief)

hikaru ga shinda natsu vol 2 (finished)

my brother's husband vol 1 (finished, favourite)

i hear the sunspot (started)

mitsuboushi colours (started)

skulduggery pleasant by derek landy (started)

children of time by adrian tchaikovsky (started, brief)

semantic error (manhwa)

i actually finished all the living and the dead on the sunday i posted last week, but it was late so i decided to do the write up this week.

i honestly got a lot out of it, i think it's a very valuable book to read if you're even remotely concerned about or interested in death, even if parts of it are emotionally difficult to read. what starts off as a more journalistic 'here's these people and here's what they do' kind of book takes something of a turn about halfway through after one of the things the author experiences sticks with her more than she expected, so there's that to be aware of. i liked it, though, and it made it easier to read in longer chunks after that.

well-written, well-researched, and features a lengthy index and 'further reading' section divided into topics so you can explore whatever you're interested in in more detail. very much recommend.

it took me a few more days to finish take it back, but i did it! well within deadline too. have very, very mixed feelings on the ending; it felt like the author just added some extra twists in purely as gotcha moments without really considering whether they made sense or the wider ramifications, which is odd for a book which is normally pays more attention to that kind of thing. but, everything up to that was tense and enjoyable in all the ways a legal thriller should be. the discussions of class and race were also appreciated.

after that i actually started book two in that series, truth be told, but my next audiobook loan came in so i've shelved it for now. i got about an hour in and found it less immediately gripping but i am looking forward to going back to it. that audiobook also only has one performer, rather than three.

cos i've had two of the later books in the series sat on my tbr pile for about 4 years now (maybe longer), i thought i'd do a reread of the skulduggery pleasant series via audiobook this time. rupert degas, the guy reading them, is really good, and i'm having a fun time with them. good cleanser after take it back. really wish the music that plays in between each chapter wasn't so long though, even if it's pleasantly jazzy.

i also started children of time tho admittedly i only got about 50 pages in and haven't picked it up since, but i liked those 50 pages! it's long, tho, this'll take a while to get through.

i would have read more of it but i got a bit distracted by the semantic error manhwa? was feeling a bit miserable and devoured the drama (which was great) in like two days to make myself feel better, and then immediately went to read the manhwa. everyone is noticeably more of a dick (and more horny) but i don't mind. very sad yu-na isn't in it as much tho, she was probably my favourite character in the drama.

right, manga!

finished vol 2 of hikaru ga shinda natsu which i think i enjoyed less than the first one, but was still very good. had some better individual moments plus some big reveals!! makes me want to reread it and pull out what i missed. vol 3 came out this week too!! but i don't have it yet :( i'm looking to collect the series in physical, so it might be a few months yet before i keep going. a bit more of the vol 1 voice comic was also released in tandem with vol 3, so i watched that too (it seems to have a slightly bigger budget? good for them).

after that i read vol 1 of otouto no otto (aka my brother's husband) which was excellent, i really really liked it. it's follows yaichi as he gets a sudden visit from his (dead) younger brother's canadian husband, and how the two of them interact. worth noting that yaichi is homophobic (even if he doesn't realise) so there's some slurs used, but the story itself challenges that homophobia. there's also some queer history lessons in between some of the chapters; in this volume it was on the legality of same-sex marriage (as of april 2015) and the history of the pink triangle.

the art is fantastic, and i'm really looking forward to reading more and following how yaichi comes to understand where and he and his brother went wrong, and how he grows as a person. also kana!! is the sweetest thing!! read it for her, honestly.

more briefly, i've started both mitsuboushi colours and hidamari ga kikoeru (aka i hear the sunspot), but am not even halfway through either.

mitusboushi colours is a sort of palette cleanser for me? cute girls doing cute things kind of manga, very simple. i'm dipping into it when i feel like it.

hidamari ga kikoeru is a BL manga set at a university about a loudmouth in need of a job becoming the notetaker for a boy in his class with hearing difficulties. enjoying it so far, taichi has great energy.

oh god is that everything? i think so. anyway congrats for reading this far, i'll update again next week! (hopefully with less 😭)

#bookblr #books #reading #manga #all the living and the dead #take it back #hikaru ga shinda natsu #otouto no otto #truth be told #children of time #skulduggery pleasant #mitsuboushi colours #hidamari ga kikoeru #semantic error #sorry for how long this is but there was a lot to say! #i'm also technically reading ouran high school host club but that doesn't really count #anyway #see you next week #kana best girl #scheduled

[fugitoidkry]

23 Books in 2023

thanks fr the tag @bloody-wonder 💞

also sorry because i'm always doing this things super late 'cause every time i think about all the books i read, i'm like ??? how many did i fr???

anyway, no particular order (i'm also adding here mangas, because i read quite a few this year):

loved it/ was disappointed by it/ conflicted feelings

Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto (ongoing)

Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotaouge  

Gachiakuta by Kei Urana (ongoing)

Hikaru Ga Shinda Natsu by Mokumokuren (ongoing)

Hell followed with us by Andrew Joseph White

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (only books 1 and 2)

The lost heir by Holly Black

Greywaren (The Dreamer Trilogy) by Maggie Stiefvater

The house in the cerulean sea by TJ Klune

The golden enclaves by Naomi Novik (didn't quite like the first book and i've my issues with the second)

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (reread for the magazine)

Every heart a doorway by Seanan McGuire

Feed them silence by Lee Mandelo

My best friend's exorcism by Grady Hendrix

Tell me i'm worthless by Alison Rumfitt

¡Larga vida al trash! El cine de John Waters como nunca te lo habían contado by Valeria Vegas

La mala costumbre by Alana Portero (now is also in french, this book is one of the best i've read so far this year!!)

¿Y qué hacemos con los violadores? Perspectiva anarquista sobre cómo afrontar la violenca sexual y otras agresiones machistas by different authors (still reading)

The thief by Megan Whalen Turner

The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

The priory of the orange tree by Samathan Shannon (still reading)

Nothing by Janne Teller

#probably forgot something? but i think this is all i've so far read this year or still reading #yes yes i haven't yet read the third one of Megan do not kill me i got distracted

[honorthysalad]

Yoshiki on his way to apologize to 'Hikaru' from the light novel

#idk been like... 3 weeks since the ln came out? think I'll bite the bullet and post some of the stuff from it #the summer hikaru died #hikaru ga shinda natsu #hgsn #my hgsn shit #I didn't want to be the first to post these but I'm realizing that the amount of people who bought the ln and are on Tumblr #is probably a pretty low amount #since it's not translated #I can't give too much info on the ln because well.. I can't speak Japanese and read it through google translate #so don't ask for specifics but I do have a general understanding of the contents #assisted by the fact that the contents are just the manga #so yeah... if you've read the manga you've read the ln #so word of warning ig: #I would not recommend putting all 200 pages into google translate by screenshotting them one by one #wait for it to be translated.

[robotlesbianjavert]

do you have any horror manga recommendations? I've been reading them a lot lately

ooh that is a very very good question!! and honestly if you've been following me for a while you've probably seen my catalogue of horror manga lmao. as much as manga is my preferred medium compared to anime and ykno i have a casual fondness for horror, it actually takes me a while to work through new manga DX DX i do have a couple of stuff i can probably suggest, though.

(since you're actively seeking horror, i'm gonna take a guess and assume you're not really in need of any major trigger warnings, since a lot of these recs include gore/violence/sexuality/abuse/general skeeziness, or at least can anticipate that you're gonna run into unsavory stuff, but you can follow up and let me know if there is actually something i should take note of.)

One thing I find with horror manga (and horror in general, but manga especially) is a common big genre drift with things action or comedy or adventure or something. A lot of the well-known names on rec lists have horror elements rather than being primarily horror, or the horror influence ends up downplayed as the story goes on. but still excellent. If I have recs in the realm of "horror-lite/influenced", I'd say:

Kemono Jihen by Sho Aimoto, kid joins a detective agency in Tokyo meant to resolve supernatural incidents between "kemono" and humans.

Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu, a girl who believes in spirits & ghosts and a boy who believes in aliens become friends! And a lot of things happen because the creator assisted for Fujimoto of Chainsaw Man fame, so it has a lot of the same off-the-wall, irreverent humour. While it's not as tight or classy as CSM, it's still a fuckin fun romp with nice horror moments.

Both of those I actually need to catch up with, haha. I'll actually recommend Can You Just Die, My Darling? as well, although I'm not sure if you're the anon who recced it to me first. Much stronger on the horror & violence elements, but it's another one I still have to catch up on.

I'm trying to avoid the obvious recommendations that you can get off any list, like Junji Ito or idk. Tokyo Ghoul, Dorohedoro or something like that. But special shout out to Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. I'm most familiar with the 2006/07 anime series rather than the games (besides a couple of let's plays) and the manga, but I watched it with my sisters when I was young, LONG before I considered myself a horror fan, and I still consider those question arcs to have some of the best horror sequences ever experienced blind. Hugely influential.

In a similar vein to trying to avoid obvious recs, I know that Shuzo Oshime has gotten more popular as of late, but I've been working through Blood on the Tracks, which is about really insane mommy issues, so if you're cool with that!! You can also check out his other works that I haven't gotten to, but yeah I think he's

For probably my biggest recommendations though - the first one is a short-ish read, I think it was only one volume? The other two were excellent recommendations from my friends!

Helter Skelter by Kyoko Okazaki is about how fucked up the modelling & beauty industry is. There's also a movie adaptation that I haven't watched it.

Hikaru Ga Shinda Natsu (The Summer Hikaru Died) by Mokumokuren, a relatively new BL ongoing series about two friends who live in a rural village - except one of the friends had disappeared months ago in the mountains.

And my actual personal favourite recommendation, Kurosagi: Corpse Delivery Service. It's about a team of students at a Buddhist college who start a company to deliver corpses. They also solve murders along the way! This is a really great series and pretty easy to get into, I think - there's some ongoing plot, but a lot of the arcs are more episodic in nature. A lot of fun discussion on Japanese culture and views on death, it's funny, the gore and horror art are just great, it's just a cool unique series. The only thing is that while I believe it's completed, it's not fully translated in English - I think translations only go up to chapter ~89? So while there's story threads that are unanswered, the translations don't end on a cliffhanger at least.

I do have a "To Read" list compiled after going through some other rec lists / Youtube videos about horror manga. I can't speak to the quality of these yet, but they must have been intriguing enough for me to write them down. Here's a selection of them, not including general creators I wanted to check out:

Dai Dark by Q Hayashida of Dorohedoro fame

Doubt, Judge, and Secret by the guy who did the Higurashi manga.

Another

The Serial Killer is Laughing in the Rain

As the Gods Will

Jagaaan

The Horror Mansion

Fear Infection

Mushihime

Homunculus

Ichi the Killer

Mister Arashi's Amazing Freakshow

PTSD Radio

Dementia 21

Dark Hideout

Halloween Desetsu

The Quiz

Mantis Woman

Presents

If you've read any of those, or get to them before I do, or read any of the prior recs let me know your thoughts!! Always down to chat horror.

Aside from that. Well Digimon: Ghost Game was pretty fun when I was watching it. Had some spooky ooky moments. If you like Digimon o:

actually i'm going to use this opportunity to again reiterate how validated i was when horikoshi had that comment about how he'd like to try doing horror when one of my prominent thoughts when the MVA arc was running was how much potential the guy had as a horror artist and how it could really free him. my goddamn vision.

#thank you anon <3 <3 <3

[houkagokappa]

9 people you want to know better

Thanks for tagging me, @mobloomspell!

last song I listened to: Speed Drive from Barbie

currently watching: I'm not watching anything right now, unless you count the anime I haven't finished from last season (Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers and Tokyo Mew Mew New 2nd season) that I still plan on finishing, but haven't touched in weeks/months. I spent almost all summer away from home doing fieldwork and watching tv didn't fit in with that. I came home yesterday, but I'm still pretty busy, so I don't know when I'll have the chance to catch up with anything new.

currently reading: Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu got a new chapter this morning and it's what keeps me going week to week. I love it so much, it's my favourite ongoing series and one of the best manga I've ever read. I'm also keeping up with The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, although I might put it on hold since I hate how short the chapters are (the reading experience gets too choppy), Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to, which has had some very interesting developments in the latest chapters, Daddy's Sexy Dolls, which you'll know about if you read my yuri post, Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku, which is insanely good and has had some exciting developments as well - we're moving full speed towards yuri with that one, and My Girlfriend's Not Here Today, also from my yuri post/adventures. For older works I'm halfway through Nijigahara Holograph. I don't like it that much, Asano Inio has never done anything for me, and then I'm reading Pink by Okazaki Kyoko, which I adore, although I've only read a few chapters so far (I had to put it on hold since I couldn't find all of them earlier in the summer, but now I got them and I'm excited to continue!!!).

current obsession: That new Hunter x Hunter promotional video brought back all my Hunter x Hunter feels... It's horrible... It's one of those series I have to keep some distance to, because if I don't I literally cannot function, I spend all day thinking and crying over it. It's the same with NO.6 (which also made a return to my life in the form of Nendoroids) and Kaze to Ki no Uta. Besides that, I've been getting into and reading a whole lot of josei manga, which has been a lot of fun! Okazaki Kyoko (mentioned above) has become a new favourite author of mine, her stories are very raw and real. Moyoco Anno has a similar style, and I'm interested in checking out more works from Yamashita Tomoko. There's also Okazaki Mari, who I've heard and seen good things from! I've spent almost all summer reading, whenever I wasn't working or being social, and I'd love to continue, there's so much I want to get into!!

I'm tagging @theurbanfuturesoftherecentpast, @ihearasound, @itskyatto, @celia-the-pikachu, @nezoomi, @cookiecthulhu, @akroglam, @natsunes and @kuragawa-rumiko

#tagged #thanks for the tag i always love answering stuff like this! #if anyone sees this and would've liked to be tagged pls pretend that i tagged you to play along

[jigo-ku]

Thanks for the tag @rorrronoa <3 (I'm waiting for the shops to open so I have some free time, let's do this. And thanks again you saved me from boredom)

•LastSong: (this song says "I'm a tumbler", yes ofc I'm a tumblr)

• Song stuck in head: Nilufer Yanya - Rid of me (PJ Harvey cover)

• Favorite color(s): olive green, yellow, black and dark red. (these are changing pretty often, so i'm putting the ones i like at the moment)

• Currently watching: Fruit Basket, jjk, Pluto

• Currently reading: still trying to finish Berserk, Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu and Uruwashi no yoi no tsuki(it's on hiatus atm :( )

• Currently craving: I'm always craving pasta with my homemade tomato sauce and cheesecakeee<3

• Last movie: Talk to me(2022)

• Sweet, spicy or savory: spicy

• Relationship status: taken ^_^

• Current obsession: Collecting clothes and mugs as always.

• Three favorite foods: Stuffed tomatoes and peppers, chicken with spinach, cherry tomatoes, pesto and heavy cream with rice on side, potatoes with mushrooms red peppers in the oven <3

• Last thing googled: zelda live action movie 0.0

• Dream trip: I was in Iceland for like 3 months so one of my dream trips is complete. Next is New Zealand, Latin America and Japan ofc.

• Anything you want right now: I want to be done with all the printing and stickers so I can enjoy speaking with strangers about art tomorrow at the bazaar<333

tagging: @vangohk-00 @jiajima (i don't know who else to tag :[)

#tag game #thank you rorrronoa #<3 #Spotify

[yanderemeganekko]

Tag game thing because why not

Oh man, I think this is like, my whopping third or fourth original post made this year. I sometimes forget my presence here is noted by anyone because of how little I post haha- so thanks for @houkagokappa for tagging me :)

Tag 9 an amount of people you'd like to get to know better

3 ships: Gosh, the only thing I've properly shipped in the last good while has been OCs I've been making in a friend group with my boyfriend, so I have to dig pretty hard for this one. The latest one that pops to mind would probably be KazuScara. Maybe also Neuvillette/Wriothesley? I don't even know their ship names yet but it's been growing on me. And for good measure I gotta throw in KilluGon as a good oldie, that one is always gonna own my heart.

First ship ever: Sora/Riku, no joke. If I had any ships from before then I have no idea, since KH was one of the first things I got into when I got online as a wee 9(?)-year-old... would you believe me if I told you I never finished the game LOL (I promise I will someday).

Last song: Animal by Deco*27. I was working on a project earlier and wanted something lighthearted to listen to.

Last movie: I'm so terrible about watching movies, this one might actually be the first Spiderverse movie from last year. I meant to go watch a bunch of movies this summer, but then life happened, so...

Currently reading: Manga-wise, Hikaru ga shinda natsu, which I've been enjoying a ton. I've also tried to get into reading books again (with pretty middling results), so I got myself a collection of Holmes stories, and a Lovecraft collection, both which I've started.

Currently watching: Finally watching Ancient Magus Bride with some friends! I just haven't felt an itch for seasonal anime, or anime in general lately, although we did recently finish Psycho Pass with my boyfriend (I've already seen it, I just needed to show him because I knew he would enjoy it).

Currently consuming: Media, or food? If it's food, currently nothing, although I did make a (pretty wet) blueberry pie and gingerbread cookies for independence day.

Currently craving: Time with family, and a home-cooked meal made by someone else. Due to some pretty grim circumstance I'm not spending today with my family, and it's unlikely that will be the case for end-of-the-year holidays either. I've been really jealous of seeing everyone my age and even older get to be with their parents, especially since mine are all I have, family-wise... but I can't blame my misfortune on others, so I just try to make do and enjoy my time with friends.

I can't think of terribly many mutuals of mine (sorry if I forgot about you, I promise it's not you it's me) but off the top of my head, I'll just tag @spoofenshmirtz, @komaeeda and @lonery-w.

#about me