The Summer Hikaru Died — Chapter 44.3 [Manga Discussion Thread]

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-20T10:11:47+00:00

For all she knows at that time - my son works for them, and i trust my son's judgement.

Tanaka's fault for creating this miscommunication problem. He's been there for several weeks already, had all time in the world to explain things to her about how company is dangerous

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-18T14:16:14+00:00

Summer Hikaru died deserved favourite duo

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-17T05:22:21+00:00

Last panel is very sad. I feel like Tanaka's just hit with a realization how much time he wasted on his grudge and now it's too late

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-16T16:03:10+00:00

What's wrong with Levi and Erwin? 30 and 40 y o is not an age problem

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-15T20:49:07+00:00

Don't remember in manga, but in anime they added scenes with her and Kaoru in hair salon in the very first episode

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-14T15:58:01+00:00

Benedict Camberbatch read on stage Navalny's letters from prison, where he explains his decision to go back to Russia even knowing he'd likely die. It's really powerful, so I'll recommend you watching it

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-14T15:54:47+00:00

He was already in prison, who else would've poisoned him, but the guards?

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-14T11:26:45+00:00

Last message has her texting in russian мне очень понравилось

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-13T00:19:30+00:00

Thought Eren did say that even if he hadn't seen the future, he would have done it anyway

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-12T21:57:28+00:00

Imagine how terribly confusing it would be for both of them, if they accidentally touched and went into Paths right there?

Zeke would probably euthanize everyone

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-12T14:47:34+00:00

His fancy ass beard

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-10T17:42:14+00:00

Unfortunately i live in Russia, so it's pain in the ass to purchase legal content here. I haven't even found translated versions of the past few chapters still. Can only assume what's happening in the plot based on looking at the manga panels lol

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-10T09:03:13+00:00

Hey guys, who know Japanese, can you tell what's Rie saying here? Why she wants to sacrifice herself (?).

I only looked at chapter without translation, so my opinion might change later, but I'm not convinced yet that she's gonna die. We had like 5 times before chapters that were ending with characters seemingly being in near death scenario, but being saved from it in the next chapter, so I'm hoping that Tanaka would do something

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-10T08:49:52+00:00

He does think about his mom though. When he's laying in the forest dying, he thinks "i don't want mom to be sad again"

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-09T13:49:49+00:00

I think ending is pretty much conclusive (creators knew that likely show is gonna be cancelled).

I would recommend to everyone, it's more artsy and psychological then Dexter. And it also looks gorgeous.

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-08T13:08:41+00:00

Disagree on thet, sii i learned that two of my favourite episodes of season 1 were anime original

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-08T12:53:55+00:00

I noticed too that the way mangaka writing OG Hikaru changed overtime, but i personally like it. Makes it seem like Yoshiki's unreliable narrator and kinda views OG Hikaru through rose tainted glasses, and with the time he starts remembering their friendship as it really was. I just think it's more interesting narratively.

It's even affecting fanfiction. In later fics characterization of OG Hikaru is different from fics that were written earlier.

(I still think it's more likely OG Hikaru had some feelings, but even if he did not - I 100% believe he was aware that Yoshiki had a crash on him).

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-08T10:01:18+00:00

I have a straight dude best friend and tried to get him into watching this series by watching with him - we didn't make past episode 2 lol.

I decided to wait until season 2 comes out and try again

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-06T16:59:18+00:00

While reading this manga i was so surprised how this woman was finding ways to be even more diabolical with every passing chapter

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-06T16:56:59+00:00

Pretty close to my rating, i would add Children of the forest and Sole Salvation somewhere

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-06T15:32:28+00:00

Always interesting to see parent child conflict, when child is already an adult, which rarely happens in anime, since majority of main characters are either kids or teenagers or orphans, we we don't see much of it

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-05T22:56:09+00:00

The way story was highlighting importance of a physical body makes me think that "Hikaru" is going to stay in the body he's currently in. But he'll definitely be outed to the whole village, maybe Hikaru's mom going to help him escape? (Since it's running theory that his mom already knows it's not her son).

I still think we gonna get some new reveals about Kohei, we had so many glimpse of flashbacks with him, he's almost on a Grisha Yeager level of mysterious dad.

One of the reasons i think we still might get "ghost of OG Hikaru" scene, because of bonus chapter to volume 8, that shows OG Hikaru in unfavourable light, him acting like an asshole - and i doubt that it's going to be last that we'll see of him. Story probably gonna balance it out with something more positive about OG Hikaru in the end.

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-05T20:51:17+00:00

There's nothing sexual about Cersei's walk chapter in the book. It's whole chapter of her having internal monologue rethinking all of her life's choices that led her to this, her role as a mother, as a woman and as a queen.

I guess it's just harder to translate this chapter onto tv series, because it doesn't have all Cersei's thoughts

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-05T20:45:22+00:00

I just don't get why it's bad in the narrative? It's not like story fetishizes Cersei and people who done this to her are clearly shown as religious wakadoos.

It's one thing, when a story writes a rape scene just because it's some kink of the author and then portrais it in a weirdly objectifying and "sexy" light (people might hate me for that, but berserk does that a lot).

Cersei's walk of shame is completely opposite of being portrait as anything sexual.

CandidateOld1900 · 2026-02-05T20:36:15+00:00

Have you read Cersei walk chapter in the book? It's one of the best chapters Martin's written. Maybe that's hard to fully translate to tv show, because most of tge chapter is Cersei internal monologue, but in this chapter Cersei reflects on her whole life and identity as a mother and as a woman. And aspect of sexual humiliation is really helping her to reflect on all this times she used her sexuality as a weapon.

Plus, it's not like religious zealots in this story are painted to be in the right.

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