If Life Were Like Hikaru No Go
Hey, everybody! This page is for the discussion of what life would be like if Hikaru No Go was real! I've started a list, feel free to add to it! -IronChefSakai
Sorted by votes ('+'): democratic favorite first.
- Somehow watching Shusaku's games would take you from a beginner to an insei. +++
- Any setback would only strengthen your indomitable resolve to improve. +
- Everyone would grab their pant legs and make a guttural noise before resigning.++
- The ghost of Shusaku would be lurking in a goban just waiting to make you the most badassed go player EVER +
- You would bump into professional go players on the street
- For some reason, everywhere you go, someone would be trying to swindle someone else out of something, and you'd save them by playing Go
- The board would light up in a little circle whenever you placed a stone (assuming you're the Meijin)
- You'd find pros, insei, and Shusaku himself playing regularly on the Internet[1]
- If you were really good, people would scheme up cheap ways to beat you and then they'd tell all their friends they beat you in an even game
- After a game, you could scoop up all of the stones at once and they'd magically sort themselves into the proper bowls.
- Games played by middle school kids would strangely resemble pro games played years earlier.
- No kids would scream and yell and accuse their opponents of cheating if they lost.
- Sweatdrop on your face? You lose.
- Deciding never to play Go again would make you violently ill.
- School bully would make you play blind Go.
- Not having angsty internal monologues while playing would mean you're just an extra.
- A child could simply announce to his mother one day that he has decided to go to the insei school to become a professional Go player, and this would get little resistance.
- A quick look at one kifu and you will know the type of game that your adversary played and how much he has improved since the last time you played.
- A powerful headwind would blow against you each time you place a stone in a tense game
pwaldron: The comment about rapidly cleaning up the board after a game is interesting. I recently watched a pro putting the stones away after a teaching game and he was substantially faster than the amateur, but didn't seem to be rushing to get away. His method was to sweep stones of the same colour together into piles on the board, and then rapidly scoop them up with both hands into the bowls. From a certain angle, the motions really did look like it did on Hikaru.
[1]: This isn't actually far off; you just have to know where to look :) Guaranteed that at any given moment, there are at least 10 pros playing Go online.
Authors: IronChefSakai, BenjaminGeiger, Jared