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Hikaru No Go
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Introduction

Hikaru No Go (ヒカルの碁) is a manga, a Japanese comic, and an anime, a Japanese cartoon about a boy (Hikaru) who discovers the ancient game when he finds an old board in the attic and meets the spirit of a past Go master (Fujiwarano Sai). Thanks to the comic, Go has come into fashion again with the Japanese youth. Published by [ext] Jump, the hilarious storyline is by Hotta Yumi; the gripping art is by Obata Takeshi; and photogenic pro 5 dan Umezawa Yukari gets credited for go technical advice.

WARNING: If you follow this link, you may become another Hikaru No Go Junkie. Use at your own risk.


Where to find it

Manga
Anime
DVD

Discussions

Hikaru No Go - Questions And Answers
Hikaru No Go Discussion
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Hikaru No Go Junkie
Some readers of the comic are in denial about becoming a junkie.

Go Material

Hikaru No Go Problems
Sensei's Library has a separate shelf devoted to the study of the various go problems and interesting game positions that appear in the manga.

-;Hikaru No Go Games: Some (if not all) of the game positions that appear in Hikaru are from real games played by professionals. Can you add to the list of identified?

Background

Hikaru Omake Background
Names In Hikaru No Go

News and Spoilers

Hikaru No Go News and Spoilers
DON'T READ if you are happily progressing through the series and want to maintain the suspense. That page discusses what happens later in the story. (I warned you :-)

June 30th, 2003 -

Viz has now let loose (through the American Go Association's e-newsletter) that they have the rights for both the manga and the anime. There is some information at [ext] Toriyamas World. This means that the last two episodes will probably not be translated until they are released on DVD, which is both a good and a bad thing.

- Jamuraa


17 August 2003:

Viz has announced that Hikaru no Go will be appearing in "Shonen Jump", beginning in January 2004.

From the [ext] announcement:

This series (Hikaru no Go) will be making its debut as a serialization in the January issue of the SHONEN JUMP Magazine, to replace Sand Land that ends in the November issue.

I'm surprised no one has posted this yet!

-- Benjamin Geiger

12 September 2003:

I visited [ext] http://www.planetanime.com and was able to pre-order a copy of the "Hikaru No Go Graphic Novel" for around $6.00 (US). According to the web site, the novel will ship on November 20, 2003. It is being published by Viz and the current ISBN number is ISBN1-59116-222-X. Accoding to someone at Planet Anime, this will be an English translation of the Manga.

-- easco


June 29th, 2003-

If no one has licensed the anime, anyone know what this is?

[ext] http://www.crosstoy.com/dvd-hikaru-no-go.html

This isn't the only site selling these DVDs...

- Ender

StormCrow: Yes, they are bootleg DVDs probably from Taiwan. Almost all region 0 (regionless) DVDs with Chinese and English subtitles are bootlegs.

See [ext] http://www.jazzmess.com/merch/bootlegfaq.html for more information about bootlegs.


June 26th, 2003- - The licensing of the Hikaru no Go manga will not affect the fansubbing of the Hikaru no Go anime as when it comes to licensing, anime and manga licenses are unrelated. That is to say when a company publishes the rights to the manga, they only get the rights to the manga. At current, no-one has licensed the anime.

 - AJR

June 24th, 2003-

Does anyone know how this will affect the fansub of Hikaru no Go anime? Only two episodes remain to be fansubbed. The fansub retains the soundtrack of the original Japanese work and adds English subtitles.

The licensing of Hikaru no Go will bring the scanlation of Hikaru no Go to an end. The scanlation replaces the original Japanese text with English text in the same "text bubbles" typically used in cartoons to indicate dialog. Occasionally, the sound effects are replaced with English. At other times the Japanese katakana is retained.

 - Velobici

Information has come out that Hikaru no Go has been licensed for official publication in English by an established U.S.-based manga company. This is very good news. It won't be too long now before HikaruNoGoJunkies can hold English HikaGo in their hand and read on the Go (lame pun, lame pun).

 - MikeNoGo

I think this is a mixed blessing. Having a comic as well-done, compelling, interesting, and well-translated as HNG has been an incredible community-builder for Go online. A large percentage of new players that I meet these days (including many very enthisastic ones) began because of HNG. I'm quite skeptical that the same kind of enthusiasm will erupt for commercial versions.

I know that this is the way of the world, and that the licensing company will make the manga available to people who aren't getting it now, but we're losing something here. There was an indescribable joy in sharing the latest episode with folks on KGS, of discussing plot points and knowing that everyone else could join in at any time.

I have the same feeling I had at the point when the internet was handed over to the big companies (after being built up by our tax dollars) -- the loss of community for the sake of profit.

 -- Scartol

As of Episode 75 (Anime) and Chapter 189 (Manga), Hikaru No Go has officially ended. The creators are planning one short story addition this summer, the summer of 2003, but that's it.

Can anyone give us any more news about this? Did they give any reasons?


Naustin--I want to read this but don't know how. I have tried all these links etc. The one place I got too was for the anime but it took 5-10 minutes for me to download 1% of the file. I would like to read the manga(?) which I gather is like the comic book version as opposed to the anime (cartoon) version (which came first BTW?) but can't find a way to do that. Is it because of legal stuff or because I'm not good with computers? One site had other stuff but said HNG was IRC only. I didn't really understand that. I thought that stood for Internet Relay Chat. Maybe it's better I don't get hooked but it sounds really cool. Thanks.

GoStone Naustin, get your English subtitled Hikaru manga from [ext] Toriyama's World

Zarlan: GoStone, Toriyama's World has removed the Hikaru no Go downloads because Hikaru no Go has been licensed.

Naustin--Thats what I thought. You can look at the covers but that's it. I guess I just missed the bus on this one.



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