Hikaru No Go - Archive
Technical problems with specific episodes moved to HikaruNoGoArchiveProblems.
References to download sites which seem to work no longer can be found at HikaruNoGoDefunctArchive.
The anime has been licenced in France
Declic Image has licenced the anime in France.
You can find some infos in french
here.
Disclaimer
By accessing the sites below, you might be breaching copyright, an offence which under different jurisdictions carries different penalties, a fact which you should be aware of. The issue of copyright on the Internet is a complex one. Please remember that SL depends on goodwill from all other contributors in the Go world, irrespective of the actual legality involved (see SLCopyright). Depending on circumstances (with our host) we may have to remove this page.
--Arno, --Morten
Note: As far as fansubbing goes, I am not sure if it is legally copyright infringement or not, but if it is, while no company holds a licence for an English translation, people will look the other way. Fansubbers are really good about ceasing to distribute after someone licences an English translation. Because anime is a fairly niche market, these fansubtitled releases help distibution companies get a good feel as to which series would sell were they to buy the rights to an English translation, and it helps the companies who sell the rights because it encourages companies to buy the license. If Hikaru No Go becomes licenced, this page should be taken down. -- BlueWyvern
Just to let everyone know, the Hikaru no Go series has been officially licenced by Viz. Both the anime and the manga. The anime series has ended (episode 74/75, the last two episodes are already out from real-fansubs.) The manga picks up at issue 149 in volume 19 where the anime series left off. Anyways, since it has been licenced, BY ACCESSING THE SITES BELOW YOU ARE VIOLATING COPYRIGHT, no questions asked (at least in the United States). Everyone that downloaded the fansubs, please follow the spirit of fansubs and buy the DVDs as soon as they are available in your own country. --weev
Edit by Erik: Actually, Viz has only licensed the manga, which is being distributed through ShonenJump! magazine. There is currently no license in the U.S. on Hikaru no Go anime.
This is current as of: 2005-01-05 20:18 (timezone missing ;-) ) Edit by Galvin: In the july issue of "Shonenjump" there is a two page color artical about the Hikaru no Go anime coming to North America. This is current as of 2005-6-7.
Andrew Tei, an AnimeOnDVD reporter, claims he spoke to Toshifumi Yoshida, producer for Viz, directly, who denied holding the license for the anime. It seems they only have the rights for the manga. Here is a link:
http://forums.animeondvd.com/showthreaded.php?...
The confusion may have arose because the American Go Association stated that the anime was licensed, but if Viz's official word is to be trusted, then it seems the AGA is mistaken. Here is a link to the AGA's release about the matter:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=3835
--anonymous
As of 2003-05-23, the following episodes are available:
Language Subbers Episodes English E-F 1-12 English E-F New Year Special English E-F 13-39 English R-F 40-75 German GFTP 1-16 German ABU 17-50 German GFTP 47-75 French FSA 1-34 Spanish GF 1 Italian HnG-ITP 1-4
E-F is Elite-Fansubs, R-F is Real-Fansubbers (they parted from E-F). GFTP is a german group which worked together with R-F. ABU is Abunai-Funsubs.
HnG-ITP is Hikaru no Go - Italian Translation Project
New Year Special is a clip show, to recap the entire first half-season for those who entered late. This is fairly common practice in anime. (restating lavalyn).
kaiou "azna" subbed one of the special episodes, the match against the frog-face man, from the 6th part of Volume 18. I download it from IRC.
http://www.envirosphere.com/ lists the English episodes and seems to be up-to-date.
http://www.animenfo.com/ lists English and other language episodes and is up-to-date, too.
Starting with episode #66, R-F has started using the Xvid codec.
HNG anime can be accessed by the following methods. It is not possible to offer it directly from SL.
HTTP
http://mikespace.no-ip.org every Hikaru no Go Episode and Special
FTP
All episodes in different languages can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.hikago.flirble.org and
ftp://hikago.easynet.de.
guest I got into the ftp once and downloaded one of the files in about an hour. now it's taken to hours and I still can't get into the site, and the file dissapeared. Could someone tell me why this happened? BitTorrent
You can use BitTorrent to download latest HikaruNoGo episodes. BitTorrent is a peer2peer system that is only up for one file. You have to install a program that is like a p2p application but for only a couple of files, and then click on the link. Everyone downloading is also sharing so you can get the file quickly.
More info about BitTorrent and HikaruNoGo download at
http://a.scarywater.net/hng/.
IRC
You can find all of the Hikaru No Go anime using IRC, server irc.enterthegame.com, channel #elite-fansubs or
#soldats or #R-F (Real-Fansubbers -
they parted from elite-fansubs). You might have to be patient to download those episodes.
Other channels where you can still find manga and anime after #R-F closed down: #mangareaders and #dream-anime on server irc.mircx.com.
A popular IRC client for Windows is mIRC.
--whip: I found the http://www.newircusers.com/ site to
be quite helpful when I was getting started with IRC. It has detailed instructions for setting up mIRC as well.
News
You can find them also on alt.binaries.anime or alt.binaries.multimedia.anime and alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.repost on usenet (newsgroups) if you have acces to alt.binaries.* on your news server (new released episodes are posted there, and sometimes some reposts of old released ones)
WinMx
Tim Brent: 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 download them. To get WinMx, download at http://www.winmx.com/.
Jan: 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...
Kazaa
It is also possible to use kazaalite http://www.kazaalite.tk to get the videos. It is the same as kazaa but without all the ads and crap.
anon: I was able to get episodes 1 - 40 (except for 8 and 15) in less than a week. (at the time up to 42 had been subbed). A good thing about it is every video you get you are now sharing, making it easier for everyone else to get videos. Also new to kazaa(lite) 2.0 you now have a participation level which affects your queue so only people who share and upload to others will be able to get files. Since I have upgraded I have checked numerous times and everyone uploading from me was sharing over 100 files. Before it seemed that about 80% of uploaders were not sharing anything. I am currently sharing 1 - 48 and have kazaalite open most of the time.
iopq: I don't recommend this. Kazaa doesn't hash the entire file and some corruption is bound to occur. Then you will distribute the corrupted version to someone else, and now other P2P networks might have corrupted versions of the file.
CD and DVD
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..
Flowers of Disgust: Dude, Matt, yo. How can we help with this project?
halfling: Of course, everybody could also buy the dvd... It's at http://www.discountanimedvd.com/.
StormCrow: Of course then you'd be buying a bootleg DVD as well (a hint, region 0 DVDs with english and chinese subtitles are almost always bootlegs). (in fact, discountanimedvd seems to be selling nothing but bootleg imports)
Hyppy: I would be thrilled to help with this. I would rather have a small compensation, for the shipping and CD costs, but nothing above that. This would be a great project! Contact me if you would like assistance. I already have 1-62 on disk right now.
kds? I have purchased many DVDs from discountanimedvd.com and have been overall pleased with the quality of their products. I personally don't mind buying a bootleg DVD at all, and if that is the only way I might be able to obtain a series, than you bet I'll buy it.
Zarlan: Never ever 'buy' a bootleg. If you want to obtain the series illegaly, then download it from the internet! Actualy buying a bootleg is ...well, stupid. And why should some lousy botleggers get money for it anyway?
Nikolas73? Can someone tell me more about the anime coming to america?
Phelan:Read HikaruNoGoDVD
This page was wikimasteredited by Joseba on 2003-02-06.