Between Horror and Desire

MokuMokuren’s coming-of-age manga The Summer Hikaru Died (TSHD), and its 2025 Netflix adaptation, redefines queer adolescent masculinity in rural Japan within the frame of liminal horror. This article evaluates how the incomprehensibility of Eldritch horror articulates queer repression and desire wi...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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