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“Family at funeral sees grandmother's corpse reanimate, then awakens trapped in a surreal two-sun world.”
Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni
蛍火の灯る頃に
6.51
17,841 rank · 2,713 readers · 16 favorites
Horror
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Synopsis
Family at funeral sees grandmother's corpse reanimate, then awakens trapped in a surreal two-sun world.
It's July 2016, and the Tadamura family gathers in the Hirasaka village for the funeral of the grandmother and head of the family: the young man Yukito, his step-sister Yue, his father Masashi, his uncles Nobuteru and Tsunemasa, and his cousins Terumi and Teruya, all come to pay their last respects. But on that evening, Yue witnesses an incomprehensible scene: the grandmother's dead body starts to move and disappears into the night! The morning after, the family wakes up in a strange world, seemingly cut off from reality, where two suns shine... (Source: MU)
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
6.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 4
σ 2.50
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.50 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.0 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 2.50
Running avg · May 2018 → Aug 2021
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “I'm quite surprised that with the popularity of the When They Cry franchise that Hotarubi has been quite overlooked to the level of it not even being reviewed on this site at all. As of the...”
- 4 “Well, they can’t all be winners. I’m a fan of Ryuukishi07 and his work, I’m not a diehard fan or a rabid defender, in fact I only got into his works last year when I read Umineko no Naku Koro Ni,...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 22 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 56m approx
- Published Dec 2015 – Feb 2018
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M37362 catalog