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Hikaru No Go Junkie
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Hahaha,I just read this manga at toriyama at it compelled me to have a look at this 'go' thing. I search it on the net and even download a few go program and play on yahoo too. Here in Malaysia, the go scene is not very big cause they aren't any ad or things like anime or movie. Even when I told my friends they didn't know what this go is. Yet after they read the manga, they ask me to teach them and challenged me to a game on the net.Though I beat them. Heh. Thanks to Hikaru No Go I get hooked up with this bunch of my friend. Yeah, for Malaysian Go player, join GO scene at www.communityzero.com/mygo


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...
[ext] http://www.toriyamaworld.com/hikago/
Let's get out there and teach some new players. --TakeNGive

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: Episode 1 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
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

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) [ext] http://www.geocities.com/thegoinstitute/ The official manga site is [ext] http://jump.shueisha.co.jp/hikaru/index.html The official anime site is [ext] http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/hikaru/index.html ---Tsunami


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


Volume 15 was published December 23rd in Japan (yesterday - I bought mine today :-). --DaveSigaty


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 :-)

-- JanneJalkanen


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 :)


^grin^ This may sound silly, but I'm so excited! Excited to know that there are so many Hikaru No Go fans around here... Some of them fellow Singaporeans too! I'm playing in my school's go club (we call it weiqi) and started by borrowing the chinese manga from my junior.
And now I'm totally addicted... I can't pass a comics shop without going in and drooling over the Hikaru No Go mangas... I'm waiting for my junior to lend me books 11-14... I'm too poor to buy my own books =|
By the way, does anyone know where to get the anime (preferably with subtitles... English ones...)? The queues in #elite-fansubs are too long for my taste... I'll be really grateful if anyone could just DCC-send me the first episode... Or post it up somewhere... Please?
Unfortunately, my go skills are rather poor and I always lose at competitions... :S But Hikaru No Go always makes me want to go play weiqi (i meant go) online...
Anyway, I just want to say... Hikaru No Go rules! Hehe... -siaNatiC?-


What is your Favourite Character In Hikaru No Go?

Does anyone know if there is a regular book (english language novel) where Go is the central theme. - steve

MattNoonan: Both First Kyu and The Master of Go? are good English (translated) novels, each with a very different flavor. I've heard Go is a big part of Shibumi, but I've never read that book.

I heard about the game of Go by reading Shibumi! And um, its really really good. Better than some other of Trevanian's books that I have read such as The Eiger Sanction and The Loo Sanction. --doulos



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