Hikaru Indo and Yoshiki Tsujinaka from The Summer Hikaru Died won the 2025 Best Ship or Couple award in the yearly ranking. With votes from over 25,000 people, they took 10.57%. Behind them were Maomao and Jinshi from The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 and Kaoruko Waguri and Rintaro Tsumugi from The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity.
You can check the full ranking, while the top 10 are below.
In the main AOTY ranking, The Summer Hikaru Died ranked 2nd overall, only being 0.09% behind the winning Takopi’s Original Sin. It also won the Mystery or Suspense of the Year award.
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Following its debut on July 5, 2025 the anime adaptation of The Summer Hikaru Died reached the top spot (#1) on both Netflix Japan daily rankings and ABEMA’s anime ranking. The series was co-produced by CyberAgent and KADOKAWA, with CygamesPictures in charge of the animation. Netflix is streaming it worldwide. Season 2 was announced immediately after the first season’s finale.
The Summer Hikaru Died (Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mokumokuren. It began serialization on Kadokawa Shoten’s Young Ace Up website in August 2021 and has been compiled into 8 volumes as of December 2025.
The manga topped the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha’s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga for male readers, and it was also nominated for the 16th Manga Taisho. Yen Press licensed the manga in English.
Source: Anime Corner Ranking
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