Hikaru no Go

Synopsis

Hikaru Shindō is just a normal 12-year-old boy, but one day he's rummaging through his grandfather's things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old go board. A ghostly apparition appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Fujiwara no Sai, a man who was a go instructor to the emperor of Japan a thousand years ago. However, because of the bad sportsmanship of his opponent during a game, Sai was accused of cheating and banished from the city. With no livelihood or any other reason to live, Sai committed suicide by drowning himself. Now, he haunts a go board, and wants to accomplish the perfect go game, called the "Hand of God" which he hopes to do through Hikaru. If Hikaru will be able to do it or not (or even wants to) will have to be seen.

First Air Date: 2001-10-10

Last Air Date: 2003-03-26

Number of Seasons: 3

Number of Episodes: 75

Networks: TV Tokyo

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Top Cast

Tomoko Kawakami as Hikaru Shindō (voice)
Susumu Chiba as Fujiwara no Sai (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi as Akira Toya (voice)
Yumi Kakazu as Akari Fujisaki (voice)
Makoto Tsumura as Kimihiro Tsutsui (voice)
Kentaro Ito as Tetsuo Kaga (voice)
Yuu Asakawa as Yuki Mitani (voice)
Mayumi Asano as Okumura (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai as Kaoru Kishimoto (voice)
Reiko Takagi as Yoshitaka Waya (voice)

Seasons

Specials (2004) - (6 Episodes)

Season 1 (2001) - (30 Episodes)

Season 2 (2002) - (30 Episodes)

Season 3 (2002) - (15 Episodes)

Specials (2004)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: 2002 New Year Special (2004-01-03)

This special is a recap of everything that has happened up to episode 12 of the first season.
Ep. 2: Special Edition (2003-08-08)

This is a variant of episode 64 (season 3 episode 4).
Ep. 3: Journey to the North Star Cup (2004-01-03)

Hikaru gets a phone call asking him to enter the preliminaries to try to earn one of the three seats for Japan in the Japan, China, and Korea Junior Tournament. While discussing this with Akira, he finds out that Akira has already been chosen for the tournament and will not be taking place in the preliminaries. Now Hikaru must compete for one of the two remaining seats. Hikaru decides not to visit Akira's Go Salon until he takes his place on the team with Akira. But can Hikaru overcome his friends and new challengers including a strong player from the Kansai Go Institute. Two seats remain, and only two players in Japan will join Akira...
Ep. 4: DVD Special 1

RECAP up to Episode 24
Ep. 5: DVD Special 2

RECAP up to end of second season.
Ep. 6: Memories (2004-06-30)

No overview for this episode.