Hikaru no Go, Vol. 23: Endgame by Yumi Hotta My rating: 1 of 5 starsRead on September 25, 2014 Frustrating and Unsatisfying manga. I've been DUPED.I have never before felt so UNSATISFIED with a manga that I have been fairly enjoying. This manga managed to capture my attention eventhough I have zero...
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...
I'm not going to do a full review of this series, mostly because I'm going to be borrowing these books piecemeal and therefore they won't be very consistent. I was first introduced to this series in college when I took a short term (through the month of January) class on Go. The professor was not on...
The End. So, this is partly a rating for the last volume in the series, Volume 23, "Endgame," and partly a rating for the entire series, and overall, I give it a 3.5. There were some really inspiring moments and some games I really enjoyed, and on average it was, while not brilliant, enjoyable as he...
This penultimate volume finally heats the suspense up again. Hikaru, Akira, and Kiyoharu are representing Japan in the Japan-China-Korea Young Lions tournament, with Kurabata Sensei as Japanese team leader. After Korean player Ko Yong Ha supposedly insulted Sai's former student, Hon'inbo Shusaku, Hi...
Meh, pretty much a "filler" volume as the players gear up for the Japan-Korea-China Junior Tournament. The only go game of note was Ochi hoisting himself on his own petard to prove himself, thus making the Japanese team Akira Toya, Hikaru Shindo, and Kiyoharu Yashiro.A bit of tension is rather artif...
So we're now in the final arc of the series, which much like the earlier multi-volume pro-test arc, is the series of qualifiers leading up to the Japan-Korea-China Junior Tournament. Although I'll be amazed if Akira and Hikaru aren't both members of the Japan team, this volume does manage to make ea...
Although this was really only an average installment, I'm being generous and giving volume 19 four stars because it's nice to see the story move forward again.So apparently Hotta has decided to set up a big international tournament as the storyline that will occupy the rest of the series. Namely, th...
Volume 17 ended with what should have been the series finale, so it seems obvious that volume 18, which is a collection of six "side stories" about secondary characters, is what Yumi Hotta came up with to fill the gap while trying to decide what to do next.None of these stories are bad, and it's alw...
The only really important thing that happens in this volume is.. Hikaru finally plays Akira, in a professional match. It's their first real game since they first became obsessed with one another, their first game since Hikaru truly set out on the path of go, and their first real game ever, really, s...
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