Chatty AF 234: The Summer Hikaru Died Retrospective

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Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast

Anime Feminist

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Alex, Vrai, and Toni go elbow deep exploring the queer themes and rural horror of The Summer Hikaru Died. 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:01 Summary 0:02:29 Personal experiences 0:08:11 Making anime scary 0:11:27 The Netflix of it all 0:15:35 BL as a genre piece 0:20:20 The gay ‘90s 0:24:03 A horror genre piece 0:27:40 Showing vs telling queer rep 0:34:06 Cronenberg 0:42:53 “Supporting” cast 0:44:58 Penguindrum and Venom 0:51:27 Asako 0:55:29 Rie and queer acceptance 1:05:42 Hikaru’s entity 1:10:57 Final thoughts 1:13:47 Outro Alex: https://bsky.app/profile/arhenderson.bsky.social Vrai: https://bsky.app/profile/witervrai.bsky.social Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/kuu-hime.bsky.social AniFem Linktree: https://linktr.ee/animefeminist AniFem Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/animefeminist Recorded Tuesday 21st October 2025 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Alex, Vrai, and Toni go elbow deep exploring the queer themes and rural horror of The Summer Hikaru Died. 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:01 Summary 0:02:29 Personal experiences 0:08:11 Making anime scary 0:11:27 The Netflix of it all 0:15:35 BL as a genre piece 0:20:20 The gay ‘90s 0:24:03 A horror genre piece 0:27:40 Showing vs telling queer rep 0:34:06 Cronenberg 0:42:53 “Supporting” cast 0:44:58 Penguindrum and Venom 0:51:27 Asako 0:55:29 Rie and queer acceptance 1:05:42 Hikaru’s entity 1:10:57 Final thoughts 1:13:47 Outro Alex: https://bsky.app/profile/arhenderson.bsky.social Vrai: https://bsky.app/profile/witervrai.bsky.social Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/kuu-hime.bsky.social AniFem Linktree: https://linktr.ee/animefeminist AniFem Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/animefeminist Recorded Tuesday 21st October 2025 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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