Hikaru no Go, Vol. 15
by:
Takeshi Obata (author)
Yumi Hotta (author)
R to L (Japanese Style)After stumbling across a haunted Go board, irresponsible Hikaru Shindo discovers that the spirit of a master player has taken up residence in his consciousness. In his pursuit of the "Divine Move," Fujiwara-no-Sai awakens in Hikaru an untapped genius for the game, and soon...
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R to L (Japanese Style)After stumbling across a haunted Go board, irresponsible Hikaru Shindo discovers that the spirit of a master player has taken up residence in his consciousness. In his pursuit of the "Divine Move," Fujiwara-no-Sai awakens in Hikaru an untapped genius for the game, and soon the schoolboy is chasing his own dream--defeating the famed Go prodigy Akira Toya!SayonaraHikaru ignores Sai's pleas to let him play go, and then one day Sai vanishes! Is he mad at Hikaru? Where has he gone? Will he ever come back? And will Hikaru be able to play without Sai's coaching...?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781421521923 (142152192X)
Publish date: May 5th 2009
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
Games,
Asian Literature,
Japan,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Manga,
Shonen,
Japanese Literature,
Comics Manga,
Go
Series: Hikaru no Go (#15)
Sai desperately wants to play a game against Hikaru, but Hikaru figures they can play anytime. He does let Sai play against a drunken Ogata (figuring Ogata would be too drunk to notice Hikaru playing like Sai), but then [spoiler] he's too tired to play what turns out to be Sai's last game against hi...
2 Stars because I felt sad for Sai. What happened in book 15 is very unfair to him. It was like he is just a tool, a stepping stone to be discarded when no longer needed. Where is the reward? After waiting for a millennia and this is the answer? I am glad Hikaru is in a slump now. He should be, as i...
So, there was one thing I liked in this otherwise kind of flat volume, which is that the author is doing "something" with Fujiwara no Sai, and it promises to lead to some character development for Hikaru.The thing is, Hikaru no Go is basically a cross between a bildungsroman and a typical adolescent...
6 years ago
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