The Totally Epic HikaGo Reread - Vol. 6

[effex]

~Volume 6 of Hikaru no Go~

Chapters 44 - 51 + Bonus Chapter

Happy Wednesday, folks! It's time for more Hikaru no Go, hurray!

Comments

[onkoona]

Not yet 30, and probably closer to 25.
I've been researching the Heian period and life expactancy was 20-30 years, so he could even be younger. But I would find it unlikely he's under 20; he wouldn't have had enough time to become one of the two best at court, I would think...

[effex]

That seems really low... [googles] Wow, okay. I guess ~1000AD sucked no matter where you lived.

[onkoona]

Hum, yes, Heian period really sucked. I was going to do some more serious research for my story but I got fed-up with the apathy of the period.
Also what they showed in HnG canon of Sai's time there does not jive with the fundamental rules of Heian nobility and court life.
I now feel exempt from having to bore myself and my readers with an accurate discription of the period.

And the filth of it.
Yuk.

[lacygrey]

life expactancy was 20-30 years
And they were the fortunate cosseted upper classes...

The emperor (what we see of him) also looks young, Sugawara (the cheater) somewhat older.


I think its fitting that Sai looks timeless throughout.

[onkoona]

Actualy I would not be suprised to learn that being a person in Heian country life would not give you a better life expectancy than court life.
Apathy kills, it really does.

[effex]

[nods] That's what I was thinking - people outside the court, especially out by the ocean, would at least have better access to fresh food and might bathe more often. Still be subject to a lot of the same diseases, though.

[onkoona]

Yeah, but they'd still have better health and maybe not such an easy victims for disease.
But you know, my father said it best: History? I wouldn't want to live there!