The Totally Epic HikaGo Reread - Vol. 5

[effex]

~Volume 5 of Hikaru no Go~

Chapters 35 - 43

I am ~officially~ moving Epic Post time to 3pm (US Central) because, honestly. At noon I am either thinking about lunch, going to get lunch, or eating lunch and there is not a lot of time for HikaGo amongst all that lunchiness.

Comments

[effex]

Volume 5 already!

I am intensely amused that Akira played, what, one game? Against Hikaru/Sai and could still identify his go when played over the internet. Granted, Sai has a bunch of old-school habits, but still.

What was your favorite part of the volume?

[onkoona]

I liked it when Hikaru started to get serious about Go.
This is the thrue begin on Hikaru's career in Go.

[lacygrey]

Favorite part:
Most definitely the scene outside the cybercafé. The detail in the expressions in the manga say so much without need for dialog and the colors in the same scene in the anime are beautiful. I find an immense poignancy here as its a situation with no simple solution. When I first read the manga, it was the way that the end of this scene is drawn out that made me start to think that there was more to the Hikaru-Akira relationship that just Go (I hadn't discovered slash fanfic yet!). They look at one another as though they matter to one another.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/hikaru_no_go/v05/c000/47.html
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/hikaru_no_go/v05/c000/48.html

Funniest moments:
The return of Kaga
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/hikaru_no_go/v05/c000/135.html
Hikaru imagining that insei are all clones of Kishimoto playing with super-serious expressions.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/hikaru_no_go/v05/c000/114.html

Saddest part:
Sai acknowleding Mitani's loss when Hikaru leaves the go club.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/hikaru_no_go/v05/c000/147.html

There are also one or two great clothes moments!
http://www.onemanga.com/Hikaru_no_Go/39/10/

grabs

[onkoona]

Well, I guess I'm fist again!

Here're the grabs:

Volume 5

18-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/13109.html

18-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/13461.html

19-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/13621.html

19-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/14062.html

19-3
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/14092.html

20-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/14377.html

20-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/14703.html

21-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/14905.html

21-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/15290.html

Re: grabs

[onkoona]

or second I guesss....

Re: grabs

[effex]

[grins] I remembered to comment this time!

There's something interesting about that last screencap, the overhead shot of the go boards. Do you mind if I use some of these for icons?

Re: grabs

[onkoona]

no prob, go fot it, that's what I made them for

How do you like my new avatar?
It's from a later ep, but I really liked Sai in the snow, so I couldn't resist uploading it now|!

Re: grabs

[lacygrey]

Its really cool.
I don't know how to make moving icons and guess it isn't easy.

BTW are you screencapping from DVDs or streaming?

Re: grabs

[onkoona]

Neither, it from the fansubbed version. I try to cap every word and action so you can "read" the story in the pictures

Re: grabs

[lacygrey]

Please tell me how you manage to quote the pictures in comments like this. Whats the tag to use?

Re: grabs

[onkoona]

actualy if you click on any of the grabs i uploaded, and go to the actual picture it has a "get link code for this image", go there and use the " Hotlink a clickable thumbnail on any Website or Auction! " for this DW blogs. Should work on any blog.

Re: grabs

[lacygrey]

Thanks, I almost had it, I just kept sticking the URL instead of the pic. Lets see how this works:



There are quite a few background shots in these intense colors - might make neat wallpaper.

Re: grabs

[onkoona]

Hmm, yes...
Bit small maybe.
Need to fiddle in photoshop with it...

I'll see what I can do
Bit bizzy right now...

Re: grabs

[lacygrey]

That's okay. They seem to work fine if downloaded from the imagevenue site and provided that your screen isn't too large.

Re: grabs

[onkoona]

They are great for avatars

Re: grabs

[onkoona]

yeah, the overhead shots were interesting. I wasn't quite sure if I should use it as an index pic for the screenshots, as it's at a quite odd angle, and I deleberately chose ultra clear pictues of each of the other post. However it did show the content of that part of the episide so acurately, I really couldn't not put it up!

Re: grabs

[lacygrey]

I like the angle on Hikaru's hair. In fact they're each unmistakable because of their hair

Re: grabs

[onkoona]

I think quite a lot of thought has gone into designing each character; they all have very clear acoutraments that even with the lack of colour in the manga you can tell them appart vet easily.
I strongly suspect that that is where Akira goet his hair cut from. The poor dear....

Re: grabs

[lacygrey]

I agree that these characters are very distinctive in the manga. I got pretty lost in Ranma 1/2 because I muddled people up.

For the Hikago anime, I read that they'd chosen a color for each character and decided that the eyebrows would always be visible through the hair (unlike in the manga). It took me a while to get used to Akira having green hair - cracked me up the first time I saw episode 1. As for his haircut, it looks like one that a parent could do themselves, provided they could cut straight and the child held still...

Re: grabs

[onkoona]

Hum, I used to have that homemade haircut....

Re: grabs

[lacygrey]

LOL! It works better on some than others. My mum tried it on me but my hair doesn't grow straight so it was rather a disaster.

I do actually think the style suits Akira and with it cut like that he can swish it around dramatically!