Hikaru no Go, Japanese anime tv series 2001

Hikaru no Go, a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go, written by Yumi Hotta, illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The series published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from January 1999 to July 2003 (23 volumes).

Hikaru no Go, Japanese anime tv series 2001

An anime tv series adaptation by Studio Pierrot, ran from 2001 to 2003 on TV Tokyo (75 depisodes).

A new year special aired in January 3, 2004.

Story:

Hikaru Shindo is just a normal 12 year old boy, but one day he’s rumaging through his Grandfather’s things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old Go board.

A ghostly apparation appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Sai Fujiwara, a man who was a Go instructor to the emperor of Japan a thousand years ago.

However, because of bad sportsmanship of his opponent during a game, Sai was accused of cheating and banished from the city. With no livelihood or any other reason to live, Sai commited suicide by drowning himself.

Now, he haunts a Go board, and wants to accomplish the perfect Go game, called the “Hand of God” which he hopes to do through Hikaru. If Hikaru will be able to do it or not (or even wants to) will have to be seen.

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Hikaru no Go: New Year Special

This special anime broadcasted on January 3, 2004.

Story:

Hikaru is given a phone call asking him to appear in the Japan/China/Korea Junior’s Tournament but he finds out he will have to take part in a preliminary tournament to choose Japan’s three contestants.

Upon discussing this with Akira, he discovers that Akira has already been chosen for the tournament and will not be taking place in the preliminaries.

Hikaru then decides not to visit Akira’s Go Salon until he takes his place on the team with Akira. That may be tougher than originally planned, as not only does Hikaru have to battle with old friends for one of two coveted spots, but he may have a new challenger, in a promising player from the Kansai Go Institute.

Hikaru no Go: trailers

Hikaru no Go: gallery

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Hikaru no Go, Japanese anime tv series 2001

Hikaru no Go, a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go, written by Yumi Hotta, illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The series published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from January 1999 to July 2003 (23 volumes).

Hikaru no Go, Japanese anime tv series 2001

An anime tv series adaptation by Studio Pierrot, ran from 2001 to 2003 on TV Tokyo (75 depisodes).

A new year special aired in January 3, 2004.

Story:

Hikaru Shindo is just a normal 12 year old boy, but one day he’s rumaging through his Grandfather’s things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old Go board.

A ghostly apparation appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Sai Fujiwara, a man who was a Go instructor to the emperor of Japan a thousand years ago.

However, because of bad sportsmanship of his opponent during a game, Sai was accused of cheating and banished from the city. With no livelihood or any other reason to live, Sai commited suicide by drowning himself.

Now, he haunts a Go board, and wants to accomplish the perfect Go game, called the “Hand of God” which he hopes to do through Hikaru. If Hikaru will be able to do it or not (or even wants to) will have to be seen.

Hikaru no Go: New Year Special

This special anime broadcasted on January 3, 2004.

Story:

Hikaru is given a phone call asking him to appear in the Japan/China/Korea Junior’s Tournament but he finds out he will have to take part in a preliminary tournament to choose Japan’s three contestants.

Upon discussing this with Akira, he discovers that Akira has already been chosen for the tournament and will not be taking place in the preliminaries.

Hikaru no Go: trailers

Hikaru no Go: gallery

Hikaru no Go: gallery

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