The Summer Hikaru Died: How One Japanese Manga Became the World’s Shared Nightmare About Friendship, Capitalism, and Creepy Clones
THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED: A GLOBAL POST-MORTEM ON A VERY LOCAL GHOST By Our Correspondent Who Has Definitely Read the Manga, Thank You Tokyo, 2024 – Somewhere between the Olympic hangover and the next Godzilla reboot, Japan quietly buried a 17-year-old boy named Hikaru, and the rest of the planet barely blinked. Which is ironic,…