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Effex ([personal profile] effex) wrote2010-07-14 02:53 pm

The Totally Epic HikaGo Reread - Vol. 10



~Volume 10 of Hikaru no Go~

Chapters 79 - 87
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[personal profile] onkoona 2010-07-14 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
All his time.
He is a Japanese boy. They sleep, go to school & after school classes and they study, nothing else.
It really suchs to be a Japanese kid.

Manga & anime make kids's lives look fun; they're not.

So he has a fridge in his bedroom, 'cause material things are easy enough to get (if your dad's a 'saleryman').
Time you don't have, because if you don't do well in school, you won't get into a good collage, and if you don't get into a good collage you won't get a decent job. And then we're will you be?

One of the reason that some of the 'outsiders' want to be pro players is job security.
If you're a pro you can teach and the Go institute will get you customers. You are payed to play.
Even if you never win a title or even ever rise a Dan-level; you have job security.