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Hikaru no Go was adapted into an anime television series by Studio Pierrot.It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 10, 2001, to March 26, 2003, for 75 episodes. A New Year's Special titled Hikaru no Go: Journey to the North Star Cup (ヒカルの碁 スペシャル 北斗杯への道, Hikaru no Go Hokuto-hai e no Michi) aired on January 3, 2004.
We saw this play out quite a bit as Hikaru's peers around him changed, but the ending gave me the impression that Hikaru would be forever stuck at the "pro but not world class contender" level. Think a 2400 elo chess player who has the international master title and is better than >99% of players out there, but will never beat a 2800 elo chess player.
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(ヒカルの碁, lit. Hikaru's Go) is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa (5-dan). The manga is largely responsible for popularizing Go amongst the youth of Japan since its debut, and in other areas such as China, South Korea, and Taiwan. More recently it has gained much popularity in the United States. The title is sometimes abbreviated as "HnG".
First released in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1998, Hikaru no Go achieved tremendous success, spawning a popular Go fad of almost unprecedented proportions; it received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000 and its creators received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003 for the series. Twenty-three volumes of manga were published in Japan, comprising 189 chapters plus 11 extra chapters. The anime series, which was created by Studio Pierrot, ran for 75 half hour episodes from 2001 to 2003 on TV Tokyo, along with the 77-minute extra New Year's Special that aired in January 2004.
Effect on the popularity of Go
dramatically increased the popularity of Go in Japan and elsewhere, particularly among young children. Go professional Yukari Umezawa served as the technical advisor for the anime and promoted the game on behalf of the Japan Go Association. She had a short one-minute special at the end of every episode instructing kids how to play Go. One of the reasons she helped increase Go's popularity was from being called the "best looking Go professional". Hikaru no Go also caused an increase in popularity, and awareness of, Go throughout all other countries where it was read or seen. As a result, many Go clubs were started by people influenced by the manga.
Hikaru has his first match in the professional series, easily defeating his opponent. After learning that Heihachi's shed had been raided, Sai tells Hikaru to find the Go board. Hikaru is surprised to see that Sai's bloodstains on the Go board are starting to disappear. Game based on: Wu Songsheng vs. Yu Ch'ang-hyeok (1993) [2]
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Hikaru no Go: With Tomoko Kawakami, Susumu Chiba, Sanae Kobayashi, Yumi Kakazu. A sixth-grader Hikaru Shindo accidentally awakens the spirit of a deceased Go prodigy Fujiwara no Sai who then accompanies Hikaru and helps him develop his Go skills.
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This is the Anime page for Hikaru no Go. Here are the list of episodes for the Anime series: There are 75 episodes in the Hiraku no Go Anime. There is a special OVA/Movie which came out in the New Years in 2004 known as The Road To The Hokuto Cup.
