Hikaru no Go
Hikaru no Go (Japaneseヒカルの碁) is a completed manga series by Yumi Hotta the author and illustrator Takeshi Obata. The plant is about 4000 years old Chinese (and later also represented in Japan) game of Go and young Go players.
Action
The 12 -year-old Hikaru Shindo brings bad grades home and gets pocket money deleted. Therefore, he is looking in the attic of his grandfather after carding, he can make money. He finds an old Go- table. In this go- table dwells a spirit, Fujiwara no Sai, who seizes the opportunity and takes root in Hikaru's consciousness in order to come closer to the "Hand of God ", a perfect in all aspects Go game. Hikaru is it not at all excited because Go is considered as a game for old men. But Sai sake he goes look in a Go club, where it meets the 12 -year-old Akira Tohya, the son of three- times at the time honoree Kohyo Tohya. Akira is a natural talent and could actually long to be a professional player, but he is not against Sais game. Driven by the idea of being as good as Akira himself, growing interest in Hikaru's Go, so he plunges deeper and deeper into the ancient Asian board game.
Figures
Publication
The manga was created under the advice from the Go- player Yukari Umezawa. Hikaru no Go was released in Japan from 1998 to 2003 as a single chapter in the manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump Shueisha of -Verlag. These individual chapters were combined in 23 anthologies.
In German a part of the manga series appeared from November 2003 to December 2005 at Carlsen Comics in the now-defunct magazine BANZAI! . The publisher released the series also in so far 23 anthologies. In addition, among other things, an English version was published in Viz Media, an Italian at Planet Manga and French by Editions Tonkam.
Adaptations
Anime
Based on the manga series, an anime television series with 75 episodes at Studio Pierrot emerged. It was directed by Susumu Nishizawa, Hideyuki Motohashi designed the character design and artistic director was Sawako Takagi. The series was broadcast on 10 October 2001 to 26 March 2003, the Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo. After each episode of Go takes a few minutes Course Go Go Igo followed! with the professional player Yukari Umezawa and two students who get to know closer together with the audience the game of Go. Later a repeat followed by Kids Station.
Since the anime series has an open circuit, an additional 77 -minute New Year Special Hikaru no Go was named in January 2004: Hokuto hai e no Michi (ヒカルの碁 北斗 杯 へ の 道) showed that even though the anime not clearly concludes.
The series has been translated including English, French and Tagalog.
Synchronization
Music
The music of the series was composed by Kei Wakakusa. The biasing titles are
- Get Over by dream
- I'll Be the One by HAL
- Fantasy by Nana Katase
Was used for the following Broadcast songs
- Bokura no Bouken by Kids Alive
- Hitomi no Chikara by Mizuki Arisa
- Sincerely ~ ever dream ~ by dream
- Days of shela
- Music is My Thing by Dream
- Get Over ~ Special Mix ~ by dream
Video Games
Hikaru no Go also several video games for different consoles were produced.
Awards
Hikaru no Go won the 45th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2000. In 2003, the seventh manga Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize - winner in the category Newcomer Award, after being nominated last year already for the price.
Reception
According to Irene Salzmann Splash Comics Manga offers despite low expectations for a work on Go players an exciting, realistic plot and likeable characters. There would also the beautiful drawings by Takeshi Obata and tailored to beginners introduction to the game of Go. Hikaru no Go is an often underestimated work that is directed primarily at boys aged ten years.