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Hikaru no Go

Name: Hikaru no Go
Abbreviation(s): HnG, Hikago
Creator: Yumi Hotta, Takeshi Obata
Date(s): manga: 1998 - September 2003 anime: 10 October 2001 - 26 March 2003
Medium: manga, anime
Country of Origin: Japan
External Links: Shueisha's Hikaru no Go homepage, TVTokyo's Hikaru no Go homepage, Wikipedia
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Canon Overview

The main character of Hikaru no Go is an elementary school student named Hikaru Shindo. When he discovers a haunted Go board, he meets the ghost of Fujiwara-no-Sai, a fictional Go player from the Heian era of Japan. With Sai telling Hikaru what moves to make, Hikaru beats a local Go champ by the name of Akira Toya. Akira becomes obsessed with finding the secret of Hikaru's Go skills.

Fandom

Hikaru no Go has a reasonably active fandom, especially on Livejournal, with new fans continuing to discover the manga and join the fandom all the time. In Japan, both the anime and manga came to a conclusion in 2003, meaning that unlike many anime/manga series, Hikaru no Go is a closed canon. The official English translation of the manga is only up to volume 13 as of November 2008, but English scanlations of the entire manga are available for English-speaking fans.

In Hikaru no Go fandom, fic writing is the main activity, with occasional fanart, doujinshi and meta thrown into the mix. The fandom is very slash-friendly, perhaps because there are relatively few canonical female characters. Akira/Hikaru is by far the most popular ship. Popular ships also include Waya/Isumi, Kaga/Tsutsui, Ogata/Ashiwara and Ashiwara/Saeki, though there are even more pairings that are regularly written.

LJ Communities

Off-LJ Communities

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