* I spent a lot of time laughing at Ogata this volume - his Go is the most fun line, his middle-age-crisis car (to be fair, it's a sweet car), his dramatic taking off of glasses while watching net Go, his running down of Hikaru in the hospital... the man looks cool on the outside, but he's an obsessed go nerd just like the rest of them [pats him fondly]
* Poor Akira - he can't stop thinking about Hikaru (and Sai) no matter how hard he tries.
* The more I think about it the more I realize what a mindtrip the Hikaru+Sai thing must be, especially for Akira and his dad. Akira's poor confused face right after Ogata tells him about Hikaru in his dad's room...
* Oh, Sai.
* Oh, Kurata. Everyone enjoys messing with Hikaru's head.
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)?
To me, Kurata is like Ogata's opposite. Physically, its clear but they are also opposites in attitude. Kurata lacks a single grain of sophistication, or aspiration to it, but instead appears incredibly straightforward. What appears initially as arrogance later reveals itself to be a kind of child-like blind faith in his own abilities, which, accurate or not, carries him along.
Here, he also provides insight on Touya Kouyo’s change in playing style and is the latest character to find himself in the role of 'gobetween' between Shindou and Touya.
Ogata says his line I remember the best. Its something like ‘Nothing is more fun than go’. I think Sai would agree.
Also here, why is it, with the same scene and characters in virtually the same images, the manga made me think that this lady was a casual girlfriend, while the same scene in the anime made me feel sure that money had changed hands?!
It is funny, but uhm, get real! Ogata is making a very good living as a pro player. He doesn't even pay any attention to the fact that winning the Juudan would give him a great big bag of money, as does winning any title. He simply doesn't care.
Anyway, I wouldn't hire him as an anything if he said such things to me. Nice ass or not.
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Date: 2010-08-11 08:04 pm (UTC)* Poor Akira - he can't stop thinking about Hikaru (and Sai) no matter how hard he tries.
* The more I think about it the more I realize what a mindtrip the Hikaru+Sai thing must be, especially for Akira and his dad. Akira's poor confused face right after Ogata tells him about Hikaru in his dad's room...
* Oh, Sai.
* Oh, Kurata. Everyone enjoys messing with Hikaru's head.
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Date: 2010-08-11 08:13 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2010-08-11 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-08-11 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 08:56 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2010-08-11 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 08:54 pm (UTC)Until I saw the anime I was wondering why there was so much fanfic with Akira clothes jokes.
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Date: 2010-08-14 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-11 09:35 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2010-08-11 09:13 pm (UTC)To me, Kurata is like Ogata's opposite. Physically, its clear but they are also opposites in attitude. Kurata lacks a single grain of sophistication, or aspiration to it, but instead appears incredibly straightforward. What appears initially as arrogance later reveals itself to be a kind of child-like blind faith in his own abilities, which, accurate or not, carries him along.
Here, he also provides insight on Touya Kouyo’s change in playing style and is the latest character to find himself in the role of 'gobetween' between Shindou and Touya.
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Date: 2010-08-11 09:26 pm (UTC)Also here, why is it, with the same scene and characters in virtually the same images, the manga made me think that this lady was a casual girlfriend, while the same scene in the anime made me feel sure that money had changed hands?!
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Date: 2010-08-11 09:30 pm (UTC)Ogata's gotta pay for the toys/suits/nose job/nice apartment *somehow*Lighting?
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Date: 2010-08-11 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-14 01:49 am (UTC)Re: Kids sure do grow up quick
Date: 2010-08-14 08:54 am (UTC)Ogata is making a very good living as a pro player.
He doesn't even pay any attention to the fact that winning the Juudan would give him a great big bag of money, as does winning any title.
He simply doesn't care.
Anyway, I wouldn't hire him as an anything if he said such things to me. Nice ass or not.
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Date: 2010-08-14 08:55 am (UTC)Re: Kids sure do grow up quick
Date: 2010-08-14 06:05 pm (UTC)