diff --git a/tweed5/serde-hjson/src/main/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/data/hjson/HjsonLexer.java b/tweed5/serde-hjson/src/main/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/data/hjson/HjsonLexer.java
index 128b047..3476ecc 100644
--- a/tweed5/serde-hjson/src/main/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/data/hjson/HjsonLexer.java
+++ b/tweed5/serde-hjson/src/main/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/data/hjson/HjsonLexer.java
@@ -423,6 +423,8 @@ public class HjsonLexer implements AutoCloseable {
 				lastWasAsterisk = true;
 			} else if (lastWasAsterisk && codePoint == '/') {
 				break;
+			} else {
+				lastWasAsterisk = false;
 			}
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/tweed5/serde-hjson/src/test/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/data/hjson/HjsonLexerTest.java b/tweed5/serde-hjson/src/test/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/data/hjson/HjsonLexerTest.java
index e876498..70586a3 100644
--- a/tweed5/serde-hjson/src/test/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/data/hjson/HjsonLexerTest.java
+++ b/tweed5/serde-hjson/src/test/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/data/hjson/HjsonLexerTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package de.siphalor.tweed5.data.hjson;
 
+import lombok.SneakyThrows;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Timeout;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
@@ -128,6 +129,28 @@ class HjsonLexerTest {
 		assertGeneralEof(lexer, new HjsonReadPosition(1, input.length() + 1));
 	}
 
+	@ParameterizedTest
+	@CsvSource(textBlock = """
+		'// 123
+		true', TRUE
+		'# hash comments are cool
+		false', FALSE
+		'/*
+		multiline
+		comment
+		*/456', NUMBER
+		'/* multiline comment
+		  * with/slashes
+		  */456', NUMBER
+		""")
+	@SneakyThrows
+	void chompComment(String input, HjsonLexerToken.Type tokenType) {
+		HjsonLexer lexer = createLexer(input);
+
+		HjsonLexerToken token = lexer.nextGeneralToken();
+		assertEquals(tokenType, token.type());
+	}
+
 	private HjsonLexer createLexer(String input) {
 		return new HjsonLexer(new StringReader(input));
 	}
@@ -138,4 +161,4 @@ class HjsonLexerTest {
 				assertDoesNotThrow(lexer::nextGeneralToken)
 		);
 	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}