Hikaru No Go News and Spoilers
Latest News (Spoilers Ahead)
January 14, 2007-
There isn't another special planned at all. See Codexus's comment below.
-- AvaJarvis?
Codexus I can't believe you've managed to start a rumor with this. I've already seen this "news" in a blog. The picture is a part of the Hikaru No Go Gorgeous Characters Guide and as it's written on the right side, it's a parody of Go Weekly... I don't understand everything but they say that Go is becoming an olympic sport too, that doesn't mean it's true. Nothing to see here...
AvaJarvis? I did not mean to spread a false rumor. I have deleted the so-called news. It was just weird to see the kanji for movie and a year attached to it, but what you say is the most logical and as I can't read the Japanese to prove anything otherwise, you are probably right. I'm very, very sorry and will not trouble you all ever again. Please don't think of me as malicious, as stupid is more truthful.
January 02, 2005-
I think there should be another one because of the Hokuto Cup competition. It makes sense since it would be consistent with the manga. (Kishimoto.BlackCoffee?)
December 27, 2004-
ChrisBall: Does anyone know whether there'll be a new HnG special this New Year?
New Anime in 2004!
Just found out through another board I found looking for HnGo in a search engine, on January 3, 2004 TV Tokyo will air a new episode of Hikaru no Go. The setting is the Hokoto Cup -TimBrent
Just found the December 8th TV Tokyo press release (in Japanese,translated thru Babelfish). It states the anime will run from 10:00-11:30 that morning. -TimBrent
July, 2003-
malweth: Hikaru No Go manga has been licensed by Viz and will be appearing in North American Jump magazines starting in January. http://www.viz.com/news/newsroom/2003/07_newsjtitles.php for info.
July 13th 2003-
exswoo :There is a 2 part 53 page special of HnG in the recent volume of Jump. While they're both side stories, they do fill in some of the events that happened after the official series ended (the 2 part special takes place about a week after the series ended). These two stories will be included in the las volume of HnG, set to be released on Sept. 4
April 25th 2003-
Hikaru no Go chapter #189 published in Jump #22-23 2003 which was released today in some parts of the world (official Japanese release date isn't for a little longer, though that doesn't mean many don't already have it) is the final chapter. This isn't a saga end/break like last year. This is it. There is talk of a one-shot (short, one chapter) manga this summer, but the content is so far unknown. The last volume will probably be #23, likely to be released in August 2003. I would like to thank the authors for all their hard work, for producing a wonderful series, and for introducing Go to me and many others - MikeNoGo
23 October 2002
Hi, it's me again. As an experiment, I translated parts of chapter 147 and most of 148 of acwind's scans into English. Wow, so hard, especially with my slow computer. Anyways, if anyone is interested in knowing what transpired between Hikaru and Akira when they finally played each other and what happened in Hikaru's dream of Sai, check it out at: http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/diane0/hikaru.html
The website isn't enrolled anywhere so please don't think that I am using this page to advertise my own webpage. I did it purely to share with fans of HKG.
(1/12/03)As of this date, I've translated chp.147,148,165-167,172-175 and I'm gonna keep on going. ^_^ Hopefully.
Thanks.
Diane
Diane, thank you for your effort. Yet, there are two things that are worth mentioning. First of all, the guys and girls at toriyamaworld enjoy coming through the story together discussing every new chapter. And then, a double translation loses a lot. The first one is slightly off and the second is yet further away. For example, Shindo evidently wants to say that the go he plays is his and his only, there is no Sai in it anymore. In your version it sounds like "It is everything I am".
Then there is an imprint of translator's personality too. The talk between Hikaru and Akira is a hot exchange between boys and rivals while in your version they sound more tender and nice like... girls.
So, I think that you should not be doing this. You waste your time while the "official" translation will appear in a month or so.
HolIgor
MikeNoGo: I find it humorous that our translation is considered "official," but AK really gets a kick out of it, I think. Yes, stroke his ego more, why don'tcha! Anyways, for anyone who owns later Japanese volumes, through MangaZero? (technically by e-mailing AKofTroy?@aol.com) you can obtain text translations for later stuff AK has done before they get edited and put up on TW. I'm pretty sure he has through volume 17 done already and may have some of 18 done too. In other words, the "official" (lol) translations for these chaps are available.
inserted here by MikeNoGo 10pm GMT 10-15-02
Harpreet: Disagree. I find the above pretty rude, actually. Please continue. Right now your site has been swamped so you know there is an interest. If someone doesn't want to read I don't see how they might accidentally read it. There is no "official" translation. Just a preference. Toriyama doesn't do a perfect job, either. I don't see how anyone could. A different version is welcome. Besides if you enjoy it you should continue anyway, I'm sure it's an exercise for you at least. I look forward to being able to get through to your site at some point.
Kersi: I agree with Harpreet. You don't know when the "toriyama's" translation will appear. And since that are chapters 147 and 148 you don't know for sure if they appear. Shonen Jump will be printed in USA and there probobably will be also Hikaru no Go, not only Naruto. As you should know Toriyama's stop translate manga which is printed in USA. And besides if you don't like it,nobody forces you do read it. Personally I think that Diane did a very good work.
Nilsson: I'm not advocating that the information shouldn't be in senseis. The problem is that "Spoilers" doesn't describe for who it is a spoiler. Making one page for every manga episode (like Hikaru no Go Episode 1? etc) with a short description of the storyline and a discussion of go-related information and problems shown in that episode would be a good addition to senseis. Hikaru no Go Episode Guide? could contain the mapping between the episodes of the animated series and the manga.
11 October 2002
Sorry I caused such a ruckus with my major spoilers. I'd be happy to limit spoilers to an Episode Guide as Nilsson pointed out but the link does not work. If anyone wants me to STOP writing spoilers to this page, please email me at leung_diane@hotmail.com. I never intended to cause problems or be discourteous to the users of this site.
Anyways, a little to add to Traveller's tidbits up to Ch. 167. The name of the guy who lost to Shindo is Kiyoharu. And the under 18 tournament is called the Hokuto Cup. Mangozero.com occasionally summarizes Jump content in English but does not do scans. They are good if you want to learn the Japanese names of people and events. They are also a little behind acwind.com. Sometimes acwind.com is inaccessible but I think that means they are updating their page because the day before chp. 166 and 167 went up, their page was down. So, if the site's down be patient.
Thanks.
Diane Leung
10 October 2002
What happened to Diane Leung's description of what happens in chapter 165?
I was going to add how much I appreciated the Chinese versions which are now up to 167. It was frustrating having to wait to find out who Japan's representatives in the Japan, Korea, China youth tournament were going to be.
Stefan: Somebody at IP adress 12.146.20.1 found it necessary to remove it on October 7. Here it is again.
Nilsson: Perhaps it is a good idea to move out the explicit storyline spoilers into a Hikaru no Go Episode Guide? and keep this page for news which might include spoilers?
Mega Spoilers Here (up to Chapter 167)
The Hikaru No Go scanlation page at www.acwind.com is great. It has the most up to date site on the Net. The site has up to episode 165 but unfortunately, is all in Chinese -- simplified characters at that -- but no matter, it is very interesting how the story develops without Sai as a main character. (Read v.1- 15 in English at www.toriyamaworld.com) I thought the story would be somewhat lacking without him but it has a flavor that's all it's own now.
After Sai disappears, Hikaru gives up Go. He refuses to go to any of his scheduled games during the summer and decides to return to school to pursue a normal life. Isumi, meanwhile, returns from studying in China and hears of Hikuru's situation and requests one last game with him to finish the game they didn't complete during the Pro exams. While playing Isumi, Hikaru realizes that Sai exists in his games. He can be close to Sai when playing Go. He starts to cry and renews his pursuit of Go but because he had not played during the summer, his ranking is still that of a First Dan. Oh yeah, Isumi finally passes the Pro Exams.
After a time, Hikaru finally gets to play Akira and Akira somehow realized that within Hikaru is another player and that is Sai. Hikaru teased Akira with the phrase, "Maybe someday I'll tell you the whole story" which prompted Akira to chase after Hikura demanding the story now. It's quite cute at how they become friends. They recognize each other as rivals and always argue about Go. They meet each week at the Go salon where they first met to discuss Go. Because Hikaru is still only a First Dan, he does not get the respect that Akira does. His opponents underestimate him and the patrons of the Go salon wonder why Akira is bothering to play with a First Dan. Finally Hikaru gets fed up and announces that he will beat Akira in a official match soon. "The gap that exists between me and Akira is of ranking, not of strength. I will achieve the Hand of God," Hikaru announces.
Hikaru sets his sights on an upcoming international tournament for Go pros below the age of 18, which implies a rematch soon between Hikaru and Suyon. If, of course, Hikaru secures a spot among the players representing Japan. Only three players will go. Akira does not have to battle for a spot--something about him being the highest ranking young pro-- but Hikaru does. Episode 165 details a battle between Hikaru and a young player from the Western Go Institute for a spot on the team.Like Hikaru, the other guy uses daring and unorthodox Go moves. Waya and Ochi are playing each other for a spot on the team as well. Isumi is ineligible as he is over 18. I can't wait for the next installment.
[ Update by Traveller to Chap 167: The games end with Shindo winning against the guy from Western Go Institute, and Ochi winning against Waya. But Shindo's game attracted all the attention and it was clear the game was of a much higher level than that between Waya and Ochi. In a surprising move, Ochi pleaded for an extra match - against the guy who lost to Shindo, for he wanted to settle once and for all who's stronger. He lost the second game. ]
If anyone is interested in short summaries of what happens afterwards, email me at leung_diane@hotmail.com with the topic "Hikaru No go" and I'll try best to use my poor translation skills to help make sense out of all of it. (I get a lot of junk mail, so if it has no title and is not from anyone I know, I will delete without opening the mail.)
Thanks
Diane
August 15th, 2002
Volume 18 was published in Japan August 7th. It contains the six individual stories published between the first and second series. DaveSigaty
August 10th
Hikaru No Go volumes 111 etc feature a game between Sai and Touya Kouyou Meijin. By the mid point of volume 112, ten moves have been played. A search for the resulting position on Jan van der Steen's Gobase reveals only three games with that position. Fortunately, both White and Black share in the wins. I dont think, I will continue the search based upon the pattern at the end of chapter 112....it might reveal the result!
Stefan: In that case, don't peek at HikaruNoGoGames, which identifies the game... :-)
Have a look at
http://www.acwind.com/main/download/books/qh.htm
you get the chinese version of the Manga pretty fast after a new volume comes out. They are currently at chapter 176. Btw.: the chinese writing for the manga is: 棋魂
July 16th,
Well, the page I posted below is now deffunct, though maybe it will come back, so I guess i'll leave it there. I have found translations for the weekly Shounen Jump Hikaru no Go at:
http://www.geocities.com/poipoi_chan
And after searching around a lot I managed to find scans (though not the best) of chapter 150-156, if anyone who can't afford to buy Weekly Shounen Jump (i.e: living outside Japan, or has no local store that sells it ^_^) wants them feel free to e-mail me at info@manga.kaijuu.net
yue
June 27th 2002
Here's a site that has scans for the weekly releases of Hikaru no Go, though the quality is poor, and the updates come out 3-7 days after the release of that week's issue of Jump. It has some of the side stories, and chapters 149-153 so far/
yue
May 27 2002
The new series started today in Japan! Chapter 149 was published in Weekly Jump. DaveSigaty
April 2002
As reported in the new characters guide, volume 17 of the manga will be published June 4th. Still no news on when the new series will begin. DaveSigaty
January 28, 2002
The part I of the series (the 'Sai' segment) has just ended at 148 chapters, after the match between Akira & Hikaru. I don't know what the author has in store for part II. Very likely a young Korean pro, who was earlier beaten by Hikaru while both were insei, will reappear.
Feel free to update any news.
- DaveSigaty: The first series indeed ends with chapter 148 published today in the weekly comic. According to the information at the end, from February 19th there will be a number of individual short pieces on popular characters in the series. The first will be about Akira before he meets Hikaru and the second about Kaga. Others to be covered will be Mitani, Nase, and Sai among others. Sometime in the spring of 2002 a new series/story will start with chapter 149.
Mike_no_Go- The story from 149 on will likely involve a event Amano-san and others were discussing while the Hikaru-Akira match was going on. The event will be a Japan-China-Korea Jr. Tournament for Pros 18-and-under. It's unclear how many will participate from each country, but it's likely Akira, Hikaru, and Ochi will represent Japan...Hon Suyon will be part of the Korean team...and (wild guess) Rei Pin (Waya-look-alike) will be part of the Chinese team.
Holigor's spoiler (and discussion) from Junkie:
So, a Spoiler. There will be no serious go games in volume 6 anymore. Hikaru will play Akari though giving her 25 stone handicap. That's insolent, if you ask me. There will be a triple ko position in another game, but that's rather funny than seriouss. In volumes 7-11 Hikaru will play a lot of go. Too much I think. Just imagine that a "puro shiken" game is played with 3 hours to each of the players + byoyomi. This makes 7 hours per game and there will be 27 of those! Even playing each day this will take almost a month. Of course, Hikaru will not go to school during this month. (DaveSigaty: Actually they only play 3 days a week: Sunday, Tuesday, and Saturday. The whole thing takes more than 2 months as a result. Hikaru has to go to school on his days off.) From what I can understand, Hikaru will cheat in a game against Waya-kun. He will ask Sai to help him. It is that Cho Chikun's game. (Dave: He doesn't cheat, it is something quite different :-)
Guess, who's gonna initiate Hiraku in the pro world? Books 12-14 will tell about adventures of a young pro. From what I understand Toya meijin will hint Hikaru that he would like to play against Sai. So they will play. Well, that's pretty much what's gonna happen. Oh, yes. That volleyball girl in the Haze school is gonna kick Mitani's ass, as far as I can guess.
With regard to the Cho Chikun's game, I can confirm that Hikaru indeed came up with the move by himself. But Sai helped in a certain way. Also, It wasn't Meijin who hinted to Hikaru that he would like to play Sai - it was Hikaru who tried to get a game between them when he found that the Meijin had started playing Internet Go.
HolIgor: On April 28, 2003, Japanese team defeated Korea 4:1 in the Asian cup match. Korea was represented by the very best: Yi Ch'ang-ho, Cho Hun-hyeon, Yi Se-tol, Yu Ch'ang-hyeok, Song T'ae-kon. Japanese team was relatively young: Kato Masao (Honinbo), Yamashita Keigo (Kisei), Yoda Norimoto (Meijin), Hane Naoki (Tengen), Yuki Satoshi (Kakusei). Too late. Had this win come a little bit faster, Hota-sensei would not consider unrealistic a Japanese win in the Hokuto cup. Hikaru could have beaten Yong-ha.