The Summer season Hikaru Died Manga Exceeds 3 Million Copies, Assortment Deliberate for 10 Volumes

Mokumokuren printed on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday that The Summer season Hikaru Died manga will exceed 3 million copies in circulation with the liberate of the sixth compiled e book quantity on December 4. The author also launched that the series is on the 2nd deliberate for 10 volumes in total.

Yen Press licensed the manga for English publication, and describes the manga:

Two boys lived in a village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. The 2 did all the pieces collectively…till the day Hikaru became encompassed by a mysterious mild. That became when all the pieces modified—Hikaru most of all. Yoshiki aloof desires from the bottom of his heart to continuously discontinuance by his side…but is there even a Hikaru left to be with?

Mokumokuren launched the manga on Kadokawa‘s Younger Ace Up web situation in August 2021. Kadokawa printed the manga’s fifth compiled e book quantity on June 4. Yen Press printed the fourth quantity on August 20. The manga inspired a lightweight new adaptation by Mio Nukaga in December 2023.

The manga is receiving an anime adaptation.

The manga became nominated for the 16th Manga Taisho Awards. (The official English name of the awards is the “Cartoon Grand Prize.”) The Modern York Public Library listed the manga as segment of its Most productive Books list for teenagers in 2023. The manga also made The American Library Association’s (ALA’s) Younger Adult Library Companies and products Association (YALSA) 2024 list of Big Graphic Novels for Teens.

Every the manga and its author Mokumokuren are nominated for this Three hundred and sixty five days’s Will Eisner Silly Industry Awards. The manga is nominated for the Most productive U.S. Edition of World Area cloth—Asia category, whereas Mokumokuren is nominated for the Most productive Creator/Artist category.

Source: Mokumokuren‘s X/Twitter fable (link 2)

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