AOTY! The Summer Hikaru Died Episode 12 Reaction

Oh, he’s finally seeing this is what Yoshiki didn’t get to experience. [Music] Today we are checking out the season finale for the summer Hikar died. If you enjoyed the video, click the like button, subscribe to the channel, and you can find even more over on Patreon. Kind of sad to see season 1 ending already, man. I need more. Dude, I’ve absolutely loved this season. Ron, this little guy. Is that what you call this? No. Hikaru is trying to go back to the mountain. A, he’s having the conversation. You know, he’s sad. He know he doesn’t want to go back. Yo, season two when? Are we going to get a say a second season? Have they confirmed it at all? Somebody let me know down in the comments. Dang, dude. I guess you rich enough to get additional pool rings. Yeah, dude. I I really wonder what the con was Yoshi’s father just friends with Hikaru’s father. Who knows? What is this? Oh, and she witnessed the [ __ ] Oh, true, true, true. Kind of. That was a lazy good morning. But also, it’s the morning. I don’t expect, listen, I don’t ever expect like a good morning from anyone. All right? Did this the morning? I expect a good morning. Like that’s what I expect from everyone. Why is she trying to get herself excused from this? What is going on with her? Bro, I’m so intrigued. She’s trying to run into Hikaru and see what’s going on here. Please don’t tell me she about to please don’t ple please do not confront him. Oh my god. Girl, if you know any Can I just be honest with you, bro? If I see somebody do some demon [ __ ] I will never confront them. I’m good. I will act like I saw nothing. I will just avoid them for sure, but I would certainly not confront them. They did some demon [ __ ] bro. He could do the demon [ __ ] to you. They won’t get mad. I’ll say I was pooping. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute. What you mean? Wait. What? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What? So, he’s not nonuki then? I don’t see here’s the problem. Anime I always am a little skeptical whenever anime does this, right? He just said it’s not a thing. That [ __ ] does not exist. So, there’s a part of me that watches this and goes, “He’s lying. He, you know, this is being done to throw us off the trail of something that’s actually happening. There is a nonuki and and it is Hikaru and D.” So, there’s a part of me that thinks that. Then there’s another part of me that thinks, “No, he’s telling the truth.” And actually, it’s something new. There’s something else that we don’t know. So, we thought that we were on the on the right track with something. We were wrong and now it’s a [ __ ] mystery again. When are you going to do it? How is he going to respond to this? Oh. Oh. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, no. Didn’t we establish that there is like a little something of Hikadu in there somewhere? Or maybe I’m thinking of something else. Cuz she had a crush on him, right? Maybe. Whoa. Wait a minute. I think she had a crush on him. Or maybe it’s just a friend. Just losing a friend. Oh, that might just be all it is. She just lo She’s just learning that she lost a friend. Oh, [Music] he’s finally seeing this is what Yoshiki didn’t get to experience. He never got the opportunity to grieve. A Damn, bro. He feels like a little bit of remorse for taking over Hikaru. I feel like he is slowly becoming a little more human or at least maybe not becoming human but he’s at least starting to understand people more. I don’t have a girlfriend, but I got a man. No, I’m just kidding. The hell is this actual footage? What the hell? Oh, this is Oh, this is the editing theme stuff. Okay, little weird. Real quick, if you’re enjoying this reaction, consider subscribing to the channel because only about 35% of the people watching my reactions to the summer Hikaru died are actually subscribed. That means 65% of you are not subscribed to the channel and a lot of you have been sticking around for the reactions, at least to this series. You might find that you like some reactions to some other series. Now, I don’t react to a ton of BL, but I do react to a bunch of different series that you might be interested in. search for a series that you like on the channel and you might find something. If you’re looking for BL, I did react to Sasa Mia. That’s the only BL that I’ve seen outside of I mean, if we’re calling Summer Hikaru Died BL, then that’s the only one outside of this series. But maybe there’s some romance or I don’t know, some other shows that you might be interested on the channel. Go check those out. And let’s get back to the reaction. The cutest one. Okay, that’s pretty adorable. A So, he’s getting her this thing. A A yeah, I agree. Cuz she’s been staying home, right? So that’s that’s a nice thing. That’s because there never was a nonuki, right? But what does that mean? They’ve been coming back lately little by little. Especially the part about granting requests. So there was no new key then. Talking big bro. You can grant any wish. Uh oh. I don’t like that. But why you got this cat walking by with his balls out and [ __ ] bro? What the [ __ ] What the [ __ ] Oh. Oh, okay. Well, never mind. How did he manage to capture the cat to do this? He’s like, “You motherfucker.” Hey, he should be he should count himself lucky he didn’t get scratched. Is that the meme? That’s the YouTube shorts dance. The little cat dance thing. Damn. We going to go all the way to the damn Oh [ __ ] He’s on the train, too. Oh no. [Music] A a Wait, what happened to the salamander, bro? Oh, what’s going on? Uh-uh. Sadness is coming. The [ __ ] was that? A a bro. [Music] Yo, it’s crazy. only. It’s very rare that you get a show like this that can make you like feel bad for like this cursed demon god thing, you know what I mean? It’s like a [ __ ] murderer, but also he’s kind of just doesn’t understand [ __ ] And I just I feel like this like impending I don’t know about Doom, but this something’s on something’s coming. And I think it’s him leaving to go back to the mountain. He’s just a little guy. Well, I mean I don’t know. it just it just makes you really connect to them. So it I think it it takes a it takes a good anime or it takes a good story, good writing to make you feel that way. And so shout out to this show for like making me feel that way, you know? It just it’s just a compliment to the writing. [Music] Hey, one more interruption. If you enjoy the video, again, just subscribe. You might even see my videos popping up in your feed and you think you’re subscribed. Double check to make sure you are if you like the reactions. Don’t forget to leave a comment. Also, click the like button. It helps so much with the algorithm pushing this video to hopefully more people. So, hopefully more people are seeing and also enjoying the content and then subscribing and then, you know, maybe we could hit like some goals and subscribers and all that stuff. Anyways, whatever. Let’s get that out the way. Let’s get back to the reaction. He really wanted to participate in that. I think. Oh. Oh. Oh. So, he’s kind of trying to send himself back so that way he doesn’t so that way he doesn’t slip up. Oh, but he would miss you. Your pants are the ones that are really wet now. Oh, damn. Yoshki. Okay, chill, brother. He just doesn’t want to lose his friend straight up. He just doesn’t want to lose his friend. [Music] A damn, bro. Because you love him. Because you love Hikaru. Oh [ __ ] he is losing it. Oh, snap back to reality. Damn. Now they fighting. Damn. Nah. [Music] Oh, wait. Is he going to be crying? Ain’t no way. A He ain’t leaving. All I need is you. Is that it? That’s the season. Oh my god. Just before [ __ ] gets crazy. Just before just before he actually like confronts them there. So So he says that there is no nonuki. And just before he confronts them, the season ends. [ __ ] me, dude. [Music] All right, let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about the episode. Listen, I feel like there’s some stuff there’s some nuance that I’m not like picking up on here in this thing. We see definitely like there’s like a major attachment that Yoshiki has to not just Hikadu, but also this Hikaru, you know what I mean? The nonuki Hikaru. He has an attachment to this person. And maybe it is it just stems from his attachment to Hikaru, right? He talks about how he’s he hides who he is. He’s always lying about who he is. I maybe that’s him referring to being gay or maybe it’s a reference to something else. I don’t know. Yeah, Hikaru like basically says he’s going to go back but I don’t know. In the end like he’s kind of like crying too. There’s some emotion there. He is in the end he is also emotional. He I don’t think he wants to leave obviously but yeah I don’t know man. What am I missing miss what am I not picking up on here? What is the what is the what are the details that I’m not picking up on here? Yoshi relating to Hiadu on a queer level as not having a place to belong and wanting to save Hikadu because it means he can save himself. I think wanting to save Hikadu because it means he can save himself. H Okay. Okay. Interesting. Probably because they have to provide some catharsis at the end of a season. What this like interaction between them? Yeah, it’s referring to him being gay because it showed that one scene of him pretending to be straight. Uh when he said that in the manga, the scene of him pretending to be straight. What does that even mean? If there’s no hope for him, then what hope is there for me? So, you think that that’s kind of where it’s going with that? The scene of the relatives asking about a girlfriend. Oh. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. That’s him pretending to be straight. I mean, I don’t know. He didn’t really even pretend to be straight. I mean, I think he just like didn’t out himself. I don’t think that’s necessarily pretending to be straight. Pretending to be straight would be if he was like, “Bro, I got hella [ __ ] bro. Hey man, you should have seen my last girl and she was fine as [ __ ] bro.” Now, that would be pretending to be straight. You know what I mean? all he just kind of like laughed it off and he or he said like no or something like that. I don’t I don’t I don’t even know if he really responded to that. You know what I mean? On the other side, Hikatu wants Yoshiki to be happy. He thought him letting Yoshiki grieve would be the answer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s a big part. One huge thing that I loved in this episode, maybe my favorite part of the whole episode is him realizing that like him finally seeing that he did not let Yoshki grieve. him finally seeing the seeing somebody else seeing Oaco grieve helped him to realize, oh, so this is the thing that I didn’t let Yoshiki have. This is the thing that everyone missed out on. Being able to grieve for the loss and then move on. And this is what this is what um Yoshiki doesn’t get. And so Yoshi doesn’t get this closure. He doesn’t get to move on. That was like maybe my favorite part of the whole episode. I loved that. It’s more him being closeted than him pretending to be straight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like this episode, I don’t know, this episode was very much a a how do I want to describe it? It was like a this episode was a again the first part, you know, his interactions, Hikadu’s inter interactions with uh Aiko, I loved that. That was awesome. That whole part, that whole first part before like the um the little eyecatcher was great. Um then after that, it’s him hanging out with Hikadu and like I guess this whole like realization that he doesn’t want him to go away, finding out that like Kik was about to sacrifice himself and like I don’t know how to feel about that one. That was like kind of like eh I didn’t like I wasn’t as emotionally attached in that moment to it. I guess it does make me wonder like what’s to come, you know? It feels incomplete, right? Yeah, that’s why that’s how I feel like it I I don’t know, man. Just this this end part just feels like lacking to me. I don’t know. I’m still going to give the show a 10. I absolutely loved it. I This show is phenomenal all the way through. Even if like this last part here is like kind of like eh to me, I still thought it was absolutely great. Absolutely great. The entire show all the way through. Every single week it was like probably the show that I was looking forward to more than anything else. I think in in reality it’s probably like a solid nine, but I’m going to give it a 10 anyways because people are probably going to give it ones just because gay. So, might as well give it a 10 to offset some of the the hate. But in reality, I’d say it’s probably like more like a nine. It had moments throughout this season that were like insane. Insane. There’s so much [ __ ] here that is actually insane in the show. I absolutely love the show. Um maybe a 95. If they had.5s, you know what I mean? If they had like.5s, I’d probably give it like a 9.5. I don’t know if I’d give it like a full-on 10. But it is one it is it’s still my top in my top three for this anime season. I absolutely loved it. Looked forward to it every single week. And I’m just so I’m so mad that we don’t have more right now. I want more right now. I want to keep on watching. That’s what I want. Not going to lie, I would have preferred if they ended it on ep the end of volume five cliffhanger. They were just missing a page. Oh, so there’s like a big moment that was supposed to happen after this. Yeah. I feel like they could have cut back on like some of this like traveling to the ocean and stuff. They could have cut back on this a little bit to give us like that last page. Whatever it was, was it like a big moment? [ __ ] I really want to know what it is, but I’m not going to I don’t want to know. But I I want to know, but I don’t want you guys to tell me. Does that make sense? Anyways, man, I’m excited. Hopeo hopefully we get a season 2 2027 maybe. Be nice. Maybe even 2026. That’d be cool. Season 2 episode 1 is going to be huge for that. I’m excited. That’ll be awesome. The end of a volume, you know that the ends of volumes be hitting too. That’ll be sick. I can’t wait for it. Yeah. So, I’m going to I’m going to give it a 10 here on my anime list. In reality, I would give it like a 9.5, but yeah, it was top three for the anime season. Absolutely loved it. Phenomenal show. What do you guys think? Let me know down in the comments. So, in the manga, they don’t actually end the argument themselves. The glasses guy interrupts and drops a revelation on them. Oh my god, how sick would that be? Oh my god, that would have been great. All the stuff about Yoshiki’s inner monologue is anime original. Oh, so Yoshiki doesn’t typ tend to have this inner monologue. That’s all anime original. Interesting. Or are you saying just right now like in this last episode? I don’t think there’s enough content right now for another season. Ah, [ __ ] True, true. Damn, that sucks. Side games main team is working on this one, so expect good production as usual. Yeah, we’ll see whenever it comes. Manga’s probably going to end by the end of 2026 and then maybe summer season again for season 2. Could be. Could be. That would be sick. I would absolutely love it if we just finish it off next year. That’d be awesome. Thanks for watching this series. Going to live rent free in my head for a while. Yeah, I’ve I’ve absolutely loved the show. This show is so great. He had to enter monologue. Wait, he had the inner monologue in the beginning. Volume six, though. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. Monologue pace. Anyways, man, it was good, man. What did you guys think? Yeah, I loved it. With that said, don’t forget to also click the like button. Don’t just leave your comment letting me know there there there’s a second season coming. Don’t leave a comment. Don’t just You could leave multiple comments if you want, you know. Make sure that you let me know in the comments about how there is a a second season and it’s already in production and stuff and I was just baiting you guys to leave that comment. Hopefully you did. Or the comment about, “Wow, where’d your hair go? 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15 Comments

  1. bro, even tho you not really into BL, im not too, but you should really watch banana fish ITS SUCH A GOOD SERIES, its like hikaru, in the sense thattho its BL its like not the focus of it, its quite good, fr

  2. Correct, Nokuki doesn't actually exist and unfortunately the scene that explains all that comes right after where the anime ends so you'll just have to wait for season 2

    edit: Yoshiki thinks himself a monster because he's gay and he's hiding it because he feels disgusting about it. All his life the village people and relatives were pushing him to get a girl but that's how smaller towns are, calling homosexuality a sickness and all that so it's how he grew up. Yoshiki saying he wants to save Hikaru because it'll save himself, feeling that if he does something good then he's a good person, that's he's not a monster, etc. It sucks and I feel bad for him

  3. The author of the manga, Mokumokuren, gave an interview recently where they talked at length about always sympathizing with the monsters/ghosts/demons in stories and how much effort went into making "Hikaru" likeable to overcome the natural tendency of readers to distrust monsters in fiction