The Totally Epic HikaGo Reread - Vol. 15

[effex]

~Volume 15 of Hikaru no Go~

Chapters 122 - 130

Comments

[effex]

Oh man, Sai. Hikaru. Sai. My poor, poor boys.

So yeah, that was volume 15.

[effex]

Re: volume 18 - I'm fine combining it with 17 or 19 or giving it its own week, whatever works best for everyone else. Thoughts?

Grabs!

[onkoona]

Volume 15
59-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/39959.html

60-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/40266.html

60-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/40568.html

60-3
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/40737.html

Opening S3
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/41143.html

61-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/41410.html

61-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/41608.html

62-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/41786.html

62-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/42006.html

63-1
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/42371.html

63-2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/42544.html

[lacygrey]

This part is why Ive heard so many people describe the series as heartbreaking.

It has a lot more impact in the anime. For one you can't control the rate its coming at you. There is much more pathos too, the music etc.

I tend to think that the disapearance of Sai and how fans react to this has generated more fanfiction than any other idea. People interpret it in different ways. I also find it pretty religiously ambiguous, which is probably wholly deliberate.

[lacygrey]

Reappearance of the phantom soccer ball, strangely absent in the anime where Hikaru's room is a tad tidier.

There may be too many soccer AUs but I don't think its totally irrelevant: In 2002 the FIFA soccer world cup was co-hosted by Japan and S. Korea. It had to have been an exciting time.

Hikaru's Dad is back too, or at least half a foot and a bit of pyjama (bottom left)

[lacygrey]

In Innoshima we hear about Shusaku playing Go in a temple



I think that there is a lot I don't know about how Go is seen in Japan. Playing a game in a sacred place is kind of surprising for me. Does anyone know whether this is a Buddhist temple?