Serious angsting for Sai. And Hikaru only slightly notices!
Kurata always reminds me of a bufferfish, all filled with hot air. But i guess he serves a purpose in the plot.
Akira seems to playing the same record over and over, and not getting anywhere. I'm starting to think it's bad writing at this point, like Akira's been put on hold until his, hopefully at some point, game with Hikaru.
I agree re: Akira - he seems stuck in a holding pattern. Even if he's been doing his best not to think about it, he must have formed *some* conclusions... but we're not really eeing much of him outside his relationship with Hikaru, maybe he's doing most of his growth in other areas.
Well, no. I meant in his professional career - we hear about him playing games and things, but we don't really get to see it or know what he's thinking. Only time we get to see inside his head is when he's thinking about Hikaru and/or Sai.
Ah yes, he presumably does play other people as well. I would have liked to see him play someone else for a change. Uhm, did we ever see him play someone other than Hikaru & Sai? I mean properly, not in passing.
I'm not sure... I can't remember any in particular, just people mentioning in passing that they've played him (or beat him, in Kurata's case. *That* would have been a game to see).
You know, with the little snippets of the planning meetings for the anime that Obata talks about, discussing the color of various characters' hair and such, you just KNOW they had an entire meeting discussing exactly how to dress Akira. Poor boy...
There is the discussion of the Sai-Meijin game with Sai himself fading into the background which is very sad, even though the game itself enters go history.
As the games are all from real ones it must have been quite something to have one’s game chosen to be a big important one in the series like this. From another point of view I wonder whether living players had the right to refuse their games being used in this way. Cool enough it you get chosen to have your game played by Touya Kouya, but what about if you got Daké (Mitani's Go salon) or Goseki (fake gobans)?
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Kurata always reminds me of a bufferfish, all filled with hot air. But i guess he serves a purpose in the plot.
Akira seems to playing the same record over and over, and not getting anywhere. I'm starting to think it's bad writing at this point, like Akira's been put on hold until his, hopefully at some point, game with Hikaru.
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I would have liked to see him play someone else for a change. Uhm, did we ever see him play someone other than Hikaru & Sai? I mean properly, not in passing.
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Until I saw the anime I was wondering why there was so much fanfic with Akira clothes jokes.
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As the games are all from real ones it must have been quite something to have one’s game chosen to be a big important one in the series like this. From another point of view I wonder whether living players had the right to refuse their games being used in this way. Cool enough it you get chosen to have your game played by Touya Kouya, but what about if you got Daké (Mitani's Go salon) or Goseki (fake gobans)?