The Totally Epic HikaGo Reread - Vol. 7

[effex]

~Volume 7 of Hikaru no Go~

Chapters 52 - 60

[winces] Have I really not posted anything else in the week since the last one? I suppose moving is an okay excuse but. Still.

Anyway, on to the discussion!

Comments

Screengrabs!!

[onkoona]

Volume 7
25-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/17193.html

25-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/17636.html

25-3
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/17775.html

26-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/17970.html

26-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/18362.html

26-3
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/18481.html

27-1 (note: this is from chapter 51)
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/18874.html

27-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/19165.html

28-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/19225.html

28-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/19527.html

28-3
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/19819.html

29-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/20109.html

29-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/20291.html

Re: Screengrabs!!

[onkoona]

Yes, I have no life.

Re: Screengrabs!!

[effex]

XD XD

I wasn't going to say anything! And it's nice having screencaps to look forward to.

Re: Screengrabs!!

[onkoona]

Hihi!

Glad you like the sceencaps!

[onkoona]

I was so sad for Sai when he tried to invite Ogata to a game of Go.

[effex]

Yeah, I really feel for Sai through all of this - he's sticking around because he can't give up playing go... but he can't play go as a ghost.

[onkoona]

I think he's starting to realise he's not going to able to play anymore (other then Hikaru)...

[effex]

[nods] It was different with... his previous protege, who's name I suddenly can't remember - he let Sai play through him. Hikaru's not willing to give up his own go like that (can't really blame him, either).

[onkoona]

Torajiro, aka Shuusaku.
Yes, he let Sai play all the games and never played himself.
But Hikaru is right, if Hikaru wants to play he must play all the games, altenating between Sai and himself really would be cheating.
I think that is why Shuusaku let Sai play all the games; there is just no halfway, is there...

[lacygrey]

Hi there,

Sai forgets he's dead and asks Ogata for a game


At times I find this poignant; at times grotesque (because he killed himself). But if he forgets (and it has been a thousand years) I suppose it means that he's totally invested in his present 'existence'.

Its laid on very thick in the anime.

[effex]

He was, what, in his early 20's when he killed himself? He's been a ghost way, way longer then he was a living man.

Which is a little creepy (how would that affect your world view?) and a lot sad.

[lacygrey]

I wonder if he was watching all the games played on the goban/s he haunted.

This scene is at the heart of the Ogata/Sai ship manifesto too of course!

[onkoona]

The story says people didn't like playing on Sai's Goban, because it was haunted.
Talk about being hoisted with your own petard...

[onkoona]

The fact that Sai killed himself is something that keeos bothering me. To our modern western sensibilities, killing your self because you were banished from court for being a cheater and now you can't play anymore Go, seems, well stupid is not the right word.
But in a world where life expectancy and individuality is not so high, it might make more sense...
Still dead is dead, and you can't play Go when you're dead. Even Sai needs help playing Go this way...

Fangirl action

[onkoona]

Made my doll into Sai:



more on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46749764@N03/sets/72157623590097963/

Re: Fangirl action

[effex]

mmmmpretty doll - he makes an excellent Sai, what model is he?

Re: Fangirl action

[onkoona]

Thanks!
He's a 72cm tall Dream Realm body wearing a Luts event head.
I did the make-up and the clothes.

Re: Fangirl action

[effex]

Nice - I thought he looked like one of the bigger boys. Fantastic job on the clothes and faceup!

Re: Fangirl action

[onkoona]

Thanks thanks!
Yes he's a tally!

Re: Fangirl action

[lacygrey]

Amazing! The doll looks like it was made to play this role!

There's a doll at the Touya residence in the manga that looks a little like him, have you seen it?

Re: Fangirl action

[onkoona]

No.
Where?

Re: Fangirl action

[lacygrey]

I'll find it... sooner or later

Re: Fangirl action

[lacygrey]

Got it: Volume 6 chap 46
Bottom of the page behind Touya Kouyo

Looks like Sai to me anyway.

I wonder if there are any more hidden details like this in the manga.

Re: Fangirl action

[onkoona]

My Hikaru:

[lacygrey]

The return of Kaneko



And how her fighting spirit motives Mitani (despite the others' fears).

Kaneko got voted favorite female character on the hikarunogo community last month.

[onkoona]

Yeah, I liked how she butted heads with Mitani. Just what he needed.

[lacygrey]

There are people who look worse in lavendar than Touya does!


I notice that Waya actually punches Mashiba in the Anime whereas he only lifts him by the lapels and pushes him in the manga. Animes are great for action !

[onkoona]

And he doesn't get scolded for it either! In the anime.

However I do feel Mashiba deserved it, the bloated patz!

[lacygrey]

And Isumi remains totally impassive.

I wonder what Mashiba was like as an insei.

[onkoona]

Nasty lot that.
So glad we missed him as an insei.

[lacygrey]

I'm just trying to picture his interaction with Kishimoto and wondering who came out of it the worse.

[lacygrey]

Waya is amazingly astute at getting as close as 'You're Sai's student and were standing right behind him'.

The 'is Shindou Sai?' issue puts Waya off balance for the game right before this conversation and then Hikaru's next opponent gets worried about his victory over Waya. In fact theres a lot overall about psychological advange of one sort or another in this volume.

[onkoona]

Seeing Hikaru play fast ans loose with truth is fassinating to watch, if a bit harrowing...

Waya is the one person who can figure it out if Hikaru slips up somewhere. Akira is by now sure Hikaru is not Sai. Odd yes, but Sai? No.
Akira has moved onto obsessing about Hikaru for Hikaru. I think...