Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu / The Summer Hikaru Died is a poignant, deeply sublimated, barely acknowledged (but definitely queer) love story between a boy and… the monster that returned in the bod…
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The Summer Hikaru Died: Where Body Horror and the Uncanny Valley Collide
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Yuna offered to display her body for money and to save Anri her dignity. The pervert wasn't interested. Yuusha ga Shinda! - Episode 3
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Yuusha ga Shinda! - Episode 10 - Ethel Has Soft Spot
Ethel is a rogue and a villain, but she can't refuse her weird sneaky student's request to betray the necromancers. Yuusha ga Shinda! - Episode 10
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Yuna hated how Touka sided with a perverted devil that wanted to see naked girls wearing only stockings. Yuusha ga Shinda! - Episode 2
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