Anime and Graphic Arts

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Here are listed some Anime (Japanese animation), graphic fiction (comics, comix, manga, and graphic novels), paintings, drawings, and other artwork that make references to Go.

  • 1998: Hikaru no Go, anime and manga created by Yumi Hotta & Takeshi Obata and supervised by Umezawa Yukari.
  • Heads I Win, Tails You Lose by Sam Glanzman (comic book story).
  • Glimpse of a go board in one episode of Pokémon (Pocket Monsters).
  • Two people are playing go in the Samurai X (Rurouni Kenshin) OAV when someone busts in to inform them that the Shinsengumi are on a tear.
  • Go comic strips
  • There are also several 18th and 19th century UkiyoE prints that refer to Go.
  • A goban appears in the corner of a Harold Hedd panel.
  • Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai: Demon Mask features a story with Go as a fairly central theme. The whole series offers and interesting and alternative view of medieval Japan.
  • Go was seen twice in Peace Maker Kurogane episode 4. Once with Kondou Isamu and Yoshida Toshimaru, then again later in the episode with two unknown characters.
  • Cyborg 009 by Shotaro Ishinomori (石ノ森章太郎 Ishinomori Shōtarō).
  • Inuyasha by Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子 Takahashi Rumiko) episode 152
  • Ranma 1/2 manga by Rumiko Takahashi: Ranma Saotome (早乙女 乱馬 Saotome Ranma) had to battle the twins with a huge go board. Was this in the manga or the movie or both?
  • GaoGaiGar? Final: Several scenes with a goban and some playing.
  • Otogizōshi: A scene where Hikaru is flipping the channel due to static and one channel shows some stones and a board.
  • Kibi Daijin nittō emaki
  • The Twelve Kingdoms (Jūni Kokki): In episode 20 Sugimoto talks to Taiki in the library, and the flash up a guy reading a book with a go board on the cover (similar to the elementry series).
  • Tenjho Tenge by Oh! great: Ultimate Fight OVA 2,
  • In the Sci-fi anime Planetes, two astronauts are playing go using handheld gaming devices (like two connected gameboys)

Japanese scroll painting about a Japanese minister travelling to China about 770. The scroll paintings are not as old, maybe Heian time.

  • There is also an emaki (scroll painting) of GenjiMonogatari containing go scenes
  • Detective Conan A goban acts as a key-factor to the solution in a mysterious murder-case.

mb: Which episode ?

Pics: [ext] http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2888/1905/1600/Conan3.0.jpg [ext] http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2888/1905/1600/Conan5.0.jpg
--axd: hmm... players don't seem to know the rules very well...
--VV: Actually, the pattern with the caught stones that are still on the board played an important role in solving the case. Afaik the murdered person left a message in braille on the Goban :)


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