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/