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The thing that is not Hikaru from The Summer Hikaru Died is the best aroace representation I've ever seen genuinely. Everyone's experiences are unique but he really captures how it felt to grow up as aroace and the experience of not-quite-romantic-but-not-quite-platonic relationships with the people you love. I genuinely love him so much HES JUST LIKE ME FR!!!!

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An analysis on Hikaru’s view of love

I feel like this is one of the most complicated things to talk about when it comes to this manga. There are several views regarding this and I truly believe that it all comes down to perspective and I don’t believe in any kind of way that my view is or should be the universal one. I just wanted to make this for fun

When it comes to “Hikaru” and his view of love I’ve saw some people interpret it as asexuality and aromanticism but I personally see it differently.

It’s not that “Hikaru” can’t love , he’s just unable to understand the kind of love human feel for each other since , fundamentally speaking , he’s not human at all.

And this is not something that only comes down to love , but also to family and friends.

He seems to lack the empathy that characterizes humanity. He doesn’t understand the concept of life since he never had it , and still to this day he doesn’t really feel bad for almost killing asako because he doesn’t understand the value life has for humans. Because it’s an otherworldly concept to him , you don’t really die , your soul just changes shapes. That’s all it is to him. And the same goes for love , the way he views this feeling will always be warped by his own nature as a monster/god.

Especially in the first chapters you can see how “Hikaru” doesn’t even view Yoshiki as his own person , but rather as something he possessed and that he had ownership over. He considered Yoshiki rightfully his since he took over the real Hikaru , thus making him also expect to fill the same role the real Hikaru had in his life.

You can see that also in chapter 3 , when he tells Yoshiki that he’s the only one that should be sticking to him , that he shouldn’t look at anything else apart from him.

Also in one of the few special chapters , where a girl ends up confessing to “Hikaru” , Yoshiki ends up feeling extremely hurt over one of his comments because it only keeps showing his lack of empathy and understanding when it comes down to human relationships. “Hikaru” wonders if that girl confessing to him was almost like the bird in the video they ended up watching and Yoshiki then tells him off , wondering if then “Hikaru” also saw him as some kind of pet he just had around for fun.

But even tho “Hikaru” can’t understand love the same way humans do , he still craves for it desperately. Much like Yoshiki’s dad tells us that when you’re lonely and hungry for love you end up craving it even more , that’s what “Hikaru” has been doing all this time. And even tho I truly believe that he’s trying to change , and that he really does care for Yoshiki and his well-being , he’s like a starving animal. Because his monstrosity will always come first compared to his pseudo humanity. He’s like a starving dog. When you tell a dog to not eat after putting a piece of meat close to him , he’ll be able to resist for at least a week until his hunger will take over.

The same can be said for “Hikaru” , who’s instincts to take and consume always take over when he’s close to Yoshiki. He has been able to hold them back all this time because he felt like he had something much more important , aka Yoshiki himself , but he can’t keep resisting for much longer and he knows this.

Because at the end of the day that’s the only way “Hikaru” knows how to love

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From Mokumokuren’s official Bsky account

The AROACE element in the manga is intentional!

EDIT (June 6, 2025):

PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE TAGS OR REPLIES ABOUT THE POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS OF HIKARU BEING AROACE AS AN INHUMAN CHARACTER ON MY POST. I AM AN ASEXUAL WHO READS A LOT OF MANGA, INCLUDING TITLES WITH ACE REPRESENTATION. THIS POST IS TO CELEBRATE THE AROACE REP IN HIKARU DIES BECAUSE I LOVE HORROR.

And honestly? I feel doing so is quite insensitive given the context that Mokumokuren was venting in their now deleted posts about people ignoring the aroace elements in favor of just the gay elements when Gayness and Asexuality are BOTH IMPORTANT to this manga. Never forget that!!

Now, take these manga recommendations of titles with Ace representation involving normal humans:

Shimanami Tasogare by Yuhki Kamatani

I Want to Be a Wall by Shirono Honami

She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki

Catch These Hands! by Murata

Mine-kun is Asexual by Isaki Uta.

All of these manga are available to read and buy officially in English btw.

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"we need more aroace/queerplatonic representation!" y'all couldn't handle "Hikaru Indou"

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Allos-cubed are like "Aroaces can still date and have sex!" as an excuse to erase the identity of aroace characters who explicitly do not want to do those things, but then the second an aroace or character *does* do those things, the allos-cubed insist it proves they cannot possibly be aroace.

And then meanwhile Not Hikaru hasn't even done any of those things but the allos-cubed are *still* insisting that their headcanons "prove" that Not Hikaru can't possibly be aroace.

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Sharing is caring 🍫🥛

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Darkmilk world domination✍️✍️🐒

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maybe I should sit down to write that mystic flour centric analysis but tbh over the past year I’ve been thinking about it and if I wrote it now it would probably just turn into an analysis about what Beast Yeast Realm of Apathy adds to Dark Cacao’s character arc and how Mystic Flour with her set of beliefs is the written to challenge his resolution.

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Shout out to aroallo transfems btw. I never see anyone talk about y'all and how the usual hatred towards aroallos is multiplied by a million for you.

To all aroallo transfems:

You are not dangerous or perverted for desiring sex without romance.

You are not a bad person for desiring sex without romance.

You are allowed to want sex without romance.

There is nothing "wrong" with you.

You are not "broken" or "dirty" for your romantic and sexual identities.

I care about you and I want you here. I want you in my community. I want to make this place comfortable for you. I want you to be happy. I will do everything I can to make sure the spaces I share with you are welcoming.

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beach day with hinamiki! ☀️🏖️

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I wish I had the actual game and a switch to play it on

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“pure vanilla lives rent free in shadow milk’s head is funny only when you fuck up shadow milk’s cake order but when pure vanilla had a room to live rent free in his heart suddenly no one cares about the complex relationship-“ this is a bakery. here is your “toxic yaoi” cake and go home.

actually I’m going to stop hiding my opinions I hate shadowvanilla lol and every time someone complains about their pairing getting hated it makes me hate them more 👍

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actually I’m going to stop hiding my opinions I hate shadowvanilla lol and every time someone complains about their pairing getting hated it makes me hate them more 👍

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More darkmilk yuri wooo

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Don’t you see what’s in front of you?!

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