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Hikaru No Go
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Keywords: Books & Publications
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 (Fujiwara no Sai). Thanks to the comic, Go has come into fashion again with the Japanese youth. Published by WARNING: If you follow this link, you may become another Hikaru No Go Junkie. Use at your own risk. Where to find itDiscussions
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News and Spoilers
Discussion17/05/2004: I'm a bit confused. The three files in the animetorrents.com's specials-file were the 2002 New Year Special from the time the series were still being made. So it can be watched between the 12th and the 13th episode as a reference, although it contains no new material. Then there is the "Special Edition"-file, which is an alternate version of the 64th episode (the rather meaningless side-story that took place in the antiques shop). And then there is about a 30-second Umezawa Yukari Sensei clip. So is the 2004 New Year Special the only real continuator of the series or is there one from 2003 too? ubique? January 22th, 2004:
There is a January 5th, 2003:
The "special new year episode" appears to be available. The ZeroKun: Sorry, but that is a previous new years special. Velobici: The file [AznA] Hikaru no Go - Special Edition is an anime that I have never seen before. Are you sure that this is old material?
matze: Yes this is old but the raw of the new special is now available on December 24th, 2003: Tv Tokyo will broadcast a "special new year episode" on January 3rd, 2004. This episode will be 1h30 (from 10h to 11h30 japan time).
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Trailer (In Real Video format) : According to totalmanga, this will be the anime version of the missing chapters. If this information is correct, this mean there won't be a second season to end the anime like the rumour spread.
Ref : --AGiss 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 - Jamuraa 17 August 2003: Viz has announced that Hikaru no Go will be appearing in "Shonen Jump", beginning in January 2004.
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I'm surprised no one has posted this yet! 12 September 2003:
I visited -- easco June 29th, 2003- If no one has licensed the anime, anyone know what this is?
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 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 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. This is a copy of the living page "Hikaru No Go" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |