A manufacturing method of a negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, comprising the steps of mixing silicon-containing particles and a carbon precursor (c) to obtain precursor-coated silicon-containing particles, subjecting the precursor-coated silicon-containing particles to a heat treatment at a temperature equal to or higher than a softening temperature of the carbon precursor (c), disintegrating the heat-treated precursor-coated silicon-containing particles, complexing the disintegrated precursor-coated silicon-containing particles and carbon nanotubes to obtain a composite material, pulverizing the composite material, mixing the pulverized composite material and a graphitic carbon material to obtain a mixture, and subjecting the mixture to a heat treatment at a temperature equal to or higher than a carbonizing temperature of the carbon precursor (c) to form a carbonaceous carbon material; the negative electrode active material comprising the graphitic carbon material, the composite material, and the carbonaceous carbon material, wherein the graphitic carbon material is formed of scale-like particles, in which a ratio I G /I D (G value) of an area (I G) of a peak in the range of 1580 to 1620 cm -1 to an area (I D) of a peak in the range of 1300 to 1400 cm -1 in a Raman spectroscopic spectrum observed when an edge surface of the particle is measured with a Raman microspectrometer is not less than 5.2 and not more than 100, and an average interplanar spacing (d 002) of a plane of the particle by X-ray diffraction method is not more than 0.337 nm; and relationships of 1.5 ≤ A op ≤ 6 and 0.2 × D 50 ≤ (S op × A op) 1/2 < 2 × D 50 are satisfied, in which, by observing optical structures in a rectangular visual field of 480 μm × 540 μm of a cross-section of a formed body composed of the graphitic carbon material by a polarizing microscope, S op [μm 2] is an area of an optical structure when an area cumulated from a smaller area side in an area frequency distribution of the optical structure is 60 % of a total area of the optical structure; A op is an aspect ratio of the optical structure when a frequency cumulated from a smaller aspect ratio side in an aspect ratio frequency distribution of the optical structure is 60% of a total frequency of the aspect ratio; and D 50 [μm] is a 50% diameter in a cumulative particle size distribution on the volume basis of the graphitic carbon material measured by a laser diffraction method, and the optical structure of the carbon material is almost in a belt shape; the composite material comprises the carbon nanotubes and the silicon-containing particles, the silicon-containing particles being dispersedly disposed in the inside of a floc of the carbon nanotubes, the carbon nanotubes having an aspect ratio of 100 to 1000, the silicon-containing particles comprising a surface layer composed of SiO x (0 < x < 2), and the silicon-containing particles having an oxygen content of not less than 1 % by mass and not more than 18 % by mass and being not less than 90% by number in a proportion of the silicon-containing particles having a primary particle size of not more than 200 nm relative to the total number of the silicon-containing particles, and the carbonaceous carbon material covers at least a part of a surface of the silicon-containing particles.