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Hikaru No Go Junkie
Keywords: Culture & History
You, yes you ! You know what I'm talking about. And if you don't, avoid Hikaru No Go now while you still can!!
Ok Junkies, time to pay the piper... Jan: There go my Thursday nights... :-) Maybe we could do a petition for an extra playing time more friendly to us Europeans? Ai! Yes you got me.... BTW, I don't suppose anyone has a copy of the anime on tape, maybe even fan-subbed? --BlueWyvern HolIgor: You can download Episode 1 from Dual Translations (120 MB). I had to update my computer quite a bit: DivX, DirectX 8, winrar and stuff and half a day downloading. Work finally. It is not as good as the manga. Much is omitted, humor is gone. But you can listen to voices, which is interesting. The anime is subtitled but you can hear how they pronounce the terms and names komok - komoku Honinbo Sushak - Honinbo Shusaku Sindo Shikaru - Shindo Hikaru (unkx80: The download is no longer available from Dual Translations.) (Referring to HolIgor's comments above) That's what I thought initially after watching the 1st episode. But the 2nd episode filled in the gaps very well (e.g. Hikaru's signing up for the Go classes). I've finished 4 episodes and there're very little major omissions as far as I can tell. But I do agree a lot of the humour is gone. I believe Touya's match was moved to episode 1 to ensure that the pilot episode has something exciting to look at. It wouldn't do to just feature the psuedo-match against Grandpa. :P Try channels #soldats or #elite-fansubs on irc.enterthegame.com to get fansubbed episodes 1-28 so far. You might need much patience, but at least they are available.
You need to download --JanDeWit: Well maybe it is because I am pre WWW introduction, but I never got this whole IRC thing. So, please, a play by play intro? I've downloaded mIRC but what do I do next? I want to make an approach move to the channels mentioned above but somehow all my approaches fail :-() I now know what people on rec.arts.sf.composition talk about when they say they don't know how to use Google...
--whip: I found the Hikaru No Go is the only comic which I buy and enjoy. I have the Singapore Chinese edition, 16 books so far. :-) --unkx80
One of the English related fan site is The GO Institute (Singaporean site) Hikaru no go junkie? No idea what it is. But if Toriyama doesn't post another episode today, I'm just going to burst into flames! You bastards! After all his talk about HikaruNoGo I thought I have a look. I got lost in reading and now it's 2:30am and I have to get up in 4 hours and a busy day in front of me. I hereby forbid any posting related to HikaruNoGo from now on!! --Arno Would you believe how ungrateful some guys are??? Here we are going out of our way to warn people not to read Hikaru. Totally against our advice this bloke seems to have done it anyway. And then it's our fault??? Sigh! Some people... No, really!!!! :-) --Stefan Looks like what I need to do is to bold the very first statement of this page... --unkx80 By all means, don't! I tremendously enjoyed what I've read so far! I'm glad I got cable last week ;-) I want more, more, more and I want it now ! More chapters, another episode, a shop selling the untranslated manga. Fortunately, I know someone who is Tokyo at the moment; maybe he can bring back some new material... (But exactly how would I instruct him to get the right comic, any ideas on this one? Maybe just describing 'a boy with his hair painted blond in front holding a Go stone' would work :-) Question to unkx80, where do you get your Hikaru fix? Since you're talking about chapters well over one hundred there must be some way to get to Hikaru stuff we lousy Europeans can't access or can't understand. I don't care if it takes learning Hiragana - I'll do anything!! I'll buy you a scanner if you can get ahead of the 'toriyama' site! -- Jan De Wit suffering from extreme HikaruDeprivationSymptoms HolIgor: I guess I know what to do to calm you down. You need a spoiler. I've got 14 volumes in Japanese. Bought them from Kinokuniya, but here in SIngapore, where unkx80 resides as well, you may buy Chinese translation as well (it does not help much ot me, though). There should be a Kinikuniya bookstore in the land of tulips. Look there. It is not difficult to find Hikaru no Go manga among other books. Indeed you have to look for a boy holding a go stone. There is a kanji for Go on the cover. I can recognize that. Holigor's spoiler moved to Hikaru No Go News And Spoilers
unkx80: To Jan De Wit: HolIgor has answered your question in its entirety... Well, the comic books are published at a frequency of around two months, so I expect to get my next book in Jan 2002. :-)
TimBrent: Jan De Wit,the magazine is Weekly Shonen Jump
Chapter 51 and "omake" out now! --Arno (I'm not a Junkie, I can stop anytime I want to) p.s. to Jan: there's a link from toriymaworld to Pointless fact: HikaruNoGo is now one of the top 10 MostPopular pages on SL. Volume 15 was published December 23rd in Japan (yesterday - I bought mine today :-). --DaveSigaty
Also for those who are into Napster-type file sharing,at least 14 videos are on WinMx? at various times. Be warned,they are about 175 MB apiece,though due to disc considerations I have yet to. To get WinMx?, download at Yeah, WinMX worked like a charm for me. I got Episodes 1 to 14, one or two at a time (due to hard disk space), burned them on CD, and watched them on my housemate's computer - who is also turning into a Hikaru no Go Junkie and a Go player as well :-). I even downloaded the untranslated episode number 15, but I haven't watched it yet... --Jan GoranSiska I have dubbed episodes 1-15 and am on the lookout for more - bearshare, winmx, edonkey, irc,... the works (Though I'm not a HNGJ!!!). Is it possible/legal/prudent to upload the files here to sensei? Any other ideas? Matt Noonan: Is it possible to burn them on to a few CDs and mail them out? I've got a CD burner here so I could help make more, but I've only got episode 1..
SupremeOverlord If you're wondering when new subtitled versions of the HnG anime are released into the wild and hit the filesharing networks, visit Yue: If you're very hard up, I can send you the Elite-Fansubs' subbed episodes, up to whatever their current episodes are, I tend to get them a few hours after they are released. Beware though, I have a rather slow upload, about 15kb/s. But hopefully people will stick around and share, if I share. Of course, this means i'll have to put 1-21 back on my HD, I burned them all on CD. ^_^; I'll just stick around in #hikarunogo on irc.enterthegame.com (So you can hang around and try to get episodes in #elite-fansubs as well ^_^) Everyone who wants eps: I've got all of them up to 24 (current at time of this writing) some from Soldats and some from Elite-Fansubs - I'm willing to serve them via http to people one at a time so as to not arouse wrath of the network gods here. email me at jamuraa@base0.net -- Jamuraa Elite-Fansubs is releasing the Hikaru No Go anime at such a fast pace... I think even too fast for the fserves themselves to handle properly. --unkx80 Not really... They didn't release anything for 3 or 4 weeks, said they just didn't have the time, and suddenly 4 episodes come out in 2 days. All a publicity stunt IMHO. They're a good group, but stuff like that just doesn't make sense to me... Of course, they _are_ fast compared to other groups. --splice? A fun thing happened the other day: I was demonstrating a game called Go (you may have heard of it) in a "Japanese Culture day" -happening here in Helsinki?. We had plenty of visitors, and a surprising amount of people who wanted to learn the rules and just play. Now, I showed the rules to a couple of guys, and left them to their own devices for a while. I come back 10 minutes later, and what do I see? This is their FIRST time they ever play the game - yet they know how to hold the stones properly (though awkwardly), and I hear the other guy muttering: "There were like, 3, responses to that corner move - this was the aggressive one, I think?" On a 9x9 board. Their first game. So I ask: "So, you guys watch HikaruNoGo?" And they respond: "Yeah, how did you guess?" It turns out that they were from the local Manga&Anime -club. I guess UmezawaYukari's GoGoIgo? is quite useful after all :-) An interesting moment in the episode 27 of the anime. Have you noticed? At some moment a following message appears at the top of the screen: Mwahahahaha! You are trapped! 25 episodes more and you'll have the same problems. You'll be playing in the tournament too. I'm just passing by but I couldn't resist contributing to this page. I started playing go only thanks to this manga. That was more than 2 years ago. At the time only the first two volumes of the manga had been published (no anime yet) and when I tried to find some more info on the series on the newsgroups no one knew was the hell I was talking about. And for the record, when I went to my local go club for the first time, I was quite proud that I knew how to hold the stones when I had never touched one before :) This is a copy of the living page "Hikaru No Go Junkie" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |