The Totally Epic HikaGo Reread - Vol. 13

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~Volume 13 of Hikaru no Go~

Chapters 105 - 113

Anyone else get caught flatfooted by OneManga's takedown? I knew it was coming, just... forgot the day. If folks need it, I'll poke around online and upload future volumes here.

Also, wow, 13 volumes. We're past the halfway mark!

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Vol 13 - the content

[onkoona]

(Sorry, I really wasn't feeling like talking last night.)

* Hikaru in a suit & tie. With loafers. Arg.

*That Akira keeps publicly ignoring Hikaru like that again and again, must be a Japanese thing or something. It strikes me a super rude, but Akira is always polite, so I just don't get it...

*I dig why the plot cancels the game between Akira & Hikaru. Had they played now Hikaru could only have lost. He just isn't strong enough yet. And also when they play the tension between them that has been set up since vol 1 will be resolved, thus ending an very significant story line.
So not Akira vs Hikaru, just yet.

*The hospital scene
Okay that was a really well thought out but of plot keniving. I wish I could dream up plots this good.
Of course this is where the entire Manga has been working towards; this game between the Master and the Ghost. And what else comes from it (see next vol, 2nd chapter).

*I do think it was a mistake to spread the game itstelf out over two volumes; it reads better in one go. (no pun intended).
Getting glimpses of other folks, else where, is a good tension buildup device, but not so much if you then go to a cliffhanger and not the climax. IMHO anyway....

*Again bemoaning the fact that I don't know enough Go to follow the game. I'm sure there is enough there to follow it, if you have some Go experience, but helas I don't.