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Reading hgsn ch 38.1 (manga spoilers)

I wanted to post notes from my reading. Considering how I'd have to gather up the notes into something more coherent if restricted to text, and how I'd have to restrict myself to a limited number of pics whose direct relation to the panels would feel annoying looser... I find it easier to do it like this. Read if it interests you 👍(and you're able to lol)

I additionally have many other thoughts which fits better into an actual text post, cause- OHHH boy.

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I am neck (haha) deep into this manga/anime. Hikaru Ga Shinda Natsu (The Summer Hikaru Died) is such a poignant exploration of what makes humanity lovely and terrible by juxtaposing an actual eldritch horror next to the everyday horrors of human hate.

Please check it out! I haven't loved a story this much in a long time <3

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wait... lmao

I can however not read everything going on in the background

Edit: made this post in drafts before watching the ep and.

bro.

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NO STABBY????? HOLY SHIT

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Relevant again

that one cookie trend 👍

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I spent 15.5 hours on this, I'm happy

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Omg heck yeah! I'd come back from a "break" in my hgsn reading sometime late this spring, so I wasn't aware they'd made a post both confirming and defending its intentionality! 🫶🫶🫶

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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Did you know that you can waste your free time by not knowing which activity to do so you do none of them

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There's quite a number of hgsn posts I'd like to make, bit it's hard getting anything done while away. Been thinking about how I'd like to write down my reaction to the newest chapter, by writing my notes in the margins as I like to do. Had a lot of thoughts

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I honestly just feel very lonely....

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I really need Tuesdays to process these chapters recently

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HGSN 38-1

Chapter (Japanese)

(Please hit the green thumbs up at the end of the Japanese chapter to show support)

Rough translation by me

P1

Yoshiki: Ah!

(sfx: dash)

Yoshiki: Hey!

Yoshiki: Wait up!...

Yoshiki: ...

(sfx: freeze)

P2

P3

(Background repeats "Don't run away")

Yoshiki: (You said you would carry 'Hikaru''s sins)

Yoshiki: (How? You think you even could?)

Yoshiki: (Your ego is just this kind of thing in the end)

Yoshiki: ('Hikaru' already killed Matsuura-san)

Yoshiki: (It's fine if it's an old lady but not if it's a kid?)

Yoshiki: (You don't have any right to talk about the weight of a life)

P4

(sfx: awake)

(sfx: footsteps)

(sfx: machine hum)

P5

(sign: ... Pediatrics This Way→)

(sfx: hum)

Rie: ...Yoshiki-kun, you're awake

P6

Rie: After that, I realized the hole had been closed...and I hurried to find you

--

(sfx: startle)

Rie: It seems like things have settled down for the moment. I'll go take a look

Maki: Huh? Then I'll come too...

Rie: You have a broken arm, it's too dangerous!

P7

Mother: Luna! Please no!

Mother: Hey! Why!?

Mother: What happened? What is this...?!

Mother: Aaa...Luna...!

Mother: Aaaaa!

P8

(Rie: I'm sorry...!)

(Rie: Iori...)

Rie: ...!

--

Rie: ...

Rie: That little girl...

P9

(sfx: jolt)

Yoshiki: Ah...! Uh...uh...

Rie: Until just a little while ago, she was in a bad state, but for some reason, she suddenly stablized

Rie: She's alive

P10

Yoshiki: Thank goo-

Yoshiki: (So what? Just because she's alive doesn't make it okay)

Rie: I've closed the remaining small hole so the hole in Ashidori is gone for good

Rie: If it hadn't been closed...

Rie: there would have been a lot more victims eventually

P11

Rie: You've done a good thing

Rie: Listen, Tsujinaka-kun, you should head home for now

Rie: I've already called your mother. I asked for her contact info when I sent you home last time.

P12

Rie: Just now, I went to look at the sky...

Rie: There's only one ribbon now

Rie: There's probably only two remaining holes: the one in Kibougayama and the big one in Kubitachi

Rie: Although I don't know who closed the one in Udekari...(not that there's time to be concerned about that)

Rie: Tsujinaka-kun...do you remember the story about Darumazuka Tunnel?

Rie: Where a large number of torso bones were discovered... Kibougayama's paranormal hotspot.

P13

Rie: That's almost certainly where Kibougayama's hole is...'Hikaru'-kun and I will go close it.

Rie: So you don't have to keep pushing yourself, Tsujinaka-kun

Yoshiki: ...huh? Huh? ...Ah.

Yoshiki: 'Hikaru'...Where's 'Hikaru'?

Rie: Listen, Tsujinaka-kun

P14

Rie: That boy...

Rie: ...is not Hikaru-kun, no matter how you cut it

Yoshiki: I know that...

Rie: No! He isn't human. If you stay on this path, you won't be human any more...!!

Rie: You don't understand what it means to become "mixed up"...!!

P15

Rie: You have to live a normal life in the human world just like everyone else...!!

Rie: Do you know just how precious "normality" is...!!?

(sfx: comes to senses)

Rie: ...I'm sorry. I'll be on my way now

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Extras: (link)

Rie: Oh me? I'm just a housewife, a normal housewife.

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I realised I can no longer scroll twitter without getting hgsn spoilers for the new chapters and you guys have me nervous.... all I caught was something about rie saying something. Also the panel mokmokuren posted. But guys.... you're scaring me

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yoshikaru qpr

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mixed up

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The last time I seen my brother. The last time I seen the sun. Just for a few hours, we was free.