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“ Whatever you are, havin' ya by my side is way better than not havin' you at all... ”

—Chapter 1

Tsujinaka Yoshiki (辻 (つじ) 中 (なか) 佳 (よし) 紀 (き) , Tsujinaka Yoshiki?) is one of the Characters in The Summer Hikaru Died, written and illustrated by Mokumokuren.

Overview[]

A high school student in a rural village. Hikaru is his childhood friend. He is disturbed by the fact that Hikaru has been replaced by "Something".

Appearance[]

Yoshiki is 175 centimeters tall[3] (5'9") and his shoe size is 27.5 cm.[6] He has short, straight black hair with long bangs that easily cover his eyes. After having his hair cut, his bangs fall above his eyebrows.[7] He has three moles on his face: one underneath his right eye, one on his left cheek, and one underneath the left corner of his lip.

He is often depicted wearing his school uniform, which consists of black slacks and a white button down shirt, with dark gray-blue sneakers. Otherwise, he typically wears casual short sleeve shirts and shorts.

Personality[]

Yoshiki is a quiet and reserved boy, though he becomes more talkative when discussing things he has a strong dislike for.[8] His good friends describe him as secretive and having a tendency to hold back his thoughts even if they show plainly on his face.[9] He isn't good at talking about himself.[10] According to the adults around him, his appearance and way he presents himself "makes the town a little darker".[11] Although Yoshiki has friends he spends time with regularly,[5] he feels disconnected from and suffocated by the people in his village[12] to the point that he wants to leave[13] or hide himself to avoid others prying into his life.[11]

Yoshiki has great difficulty moving on from his best friend's death. This is primarily demonstrated by his decision to accept the creature that body-snatched Hikaru if it meant getting to resume his normal life with his friend.[14] In addition to this, he often mournfully reflects on his memories with Hikaru[12] and dreams about him.[15][12] Finding Hikaru's body in the mountain has caused him to lose sleep.[12] Because of his inability to let go, Yoshiki continues to choose to stay with "Hikaru" even when made aware of the danger it would pose to himself[16] and the harm that "Hikaru" has done to other people.[17][18] Yoshiki overall has a tendency to think negatively and become depressed,[19][9] but because of his choice to stay with "Hikaru" this quality of his is compounded.

Despite his dislike for the village as a whole, Yoshiki still feels affection for some of the people in it– mainly, his family and Hikaru– and has a desire to keep the villagers safe.[20] He has a sense of responsibility for "Hikaru"'s actions, which often translates into guilt and self-blame as he believes his choice to stay with "Hikaru" to be completely self-serving and a way to lessen his grief, rather than to help anyone else.[21]

Abilities[]

Seeing and Hearing[]

Yoshiki is able to see and hear impurities. However, his innate spiritual sensitivity and insight is not very strong. Had he not discovered Hikaru's body in the mountains,[12] he would not have realized that he'd been replaced by "Hikaru". He would've just attributed any differences between Hikaru and "Hikaru" to the head injury from his fall in the mountains.[22]

Etymology[]

  • The kanji of his surname, Tsujinaka, are "crossroad" (辻 tsuji) and "middle of; inside" (中 naka).
  • The kanji of his given name, Yoshiki, are "excellent, beautiful" (佳 yoshi) and "chronicle, narrative" (紀 ki).

Trivia[]

  • Yoshiki likes umeboshi,[23] soda, and ice pops, but he generally doesn't really like sweets. He dislikes fresh cream and chocolate.[24]
  • No matter how depressed Yoshiki gets, he still has an appetite.[25][19]
  • Yoshiki has an interest in insects and arachnids, so he's good at identifying them.[15][26]
  • He often watches videos about ants.[27]
  • Yoshiki has 11 copies of the first volume of Master x Master.[15]
  • Yoshiki thinks that "Hikaru"'s insides feel like raw chicken covered in marinade.[28]
  • He resembles his mother slightly more than his father.[29]
  • He doesn't like the color orange, because Hikaru was wearing an orange jacket when Yoshiki found him in the mountains.[30]
  • Yoshiki has worn a cat-shaped hair clip gifted to him by "Hikaru".[11]
  • All of the patterns of towels and blankets in the Tsujinaka home are chosen by Kaoru and Satoko, which is why Yoshiki has a cutely-patterned blanket in Episode 1.[31]
  • As a child, Yoshiki was influenced by something he saw online and started responding twice in conversation- for example, saying "I see, I see," which got him the nickname Emil (a character from Herman Hesse's Das Nachtpfauenauge who shares the same verbal quirk).[32]

References

  1. ↑ Volume 2, page 104
  2. ↑ Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len (April 20, 2023). 本日4/20はよしきの誕生日です. Retrieved on September 23, 2024.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Volume 1, page 79
  4. ↑ Episode 3 (Season 1): Denial
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 14 (Vol. 3)
  6. ↑ Volume 3 (Q&A by Mokumokuren)
  7. ↑ Chapter 41 (Vol. 8)
  8. ↑ Chapter 26.5 (Vol. 5)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len (April 1, 2024). 今週も更新はありませんので絵を描きました。来週は更新ありますので、よろしくお願いします！ Retrieved on July 18, 2024.
  10. ↑ Volume 6, undefined page number
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Chapter 6.5 (Vol. 1)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Chapter 9 (Vol. 2)
  13. ↑ Chapter 12 (Vol. 3)
  14. ↑ Chapter 1 (Vol. 1)
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Chapter 2 (Vol. 1)
  16. ↑ Chapter 6 (Vol. 1)
  17. ↑ Chapter 15 (Vol. 3)
  18. ↑ Chapter 18 (Vol. 4)
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len (January 30, 2023). 「光が死んだ夏」第１５話-２. Retrieved on December 2, 2023.
  20. ↑ Chapter 27 (Vol. 6)
  21. ↑ Chapter 28 (Vol. 6)
  22. ↑ Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len (June 16, 2025). 今週は更新がないのでおまけの絵を描きました。 Retrieved on June 19, 2025.
  23. ↑ Chapter 1 (Vol. 1)
  24. ↑ Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len (July 8, 2024). 「光が死んだ夏」第２８話-３. Retrieved on March 28, 2025.
  25. ↑ Volume 3, page 156
  26. ↑ Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len (September 23, 2025). 今日は更新がないのでおまけの絵です。 Retrieved on July 30, 2025.
  27. ↑ Volume 1, page 132
  28. ↑ Chapter 10 (Vol. 2)
  29. ↑ Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len (March 4, 2024). 「光が死んだ夏」第２５話-１. Retrieved on March 23, 2024.
  30. ↑ Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len. (February 23, 2024). Retrieved on December 15, 2024.
  31. ↑ Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len (Julu 11, 2025). １話のよしきのタオルケットがかわいい柄なのは、家中の布やタオルがよしきの母と妹の趣味で揃えられているからです。 Retrieved on July 28, 2025.
  32. ↑ Mokumokuren, Twitter @mokmok_len (September 13, 2021). 「光が死んだ夏」第２話-２. Retrieved on November 10, 2025.

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