Honda? We got an extra scene about him earlier in the anime too: crying outside the institute after his elimination from the previous exam. Then a bus draws up and the driver tells him he still has next year.
As for Nase I think she's someone everyone wants to see pass. We had a bit of a discussion about her on the female characters thread, but I get this impression mostly because much fanfic depicts her as strong or already a pro. So, for a while I felt a bit guilty for writing one where she'd failed and left the Go world, not because I thought I'd misunderstood the characterisation (I can justify where I was coming from) but because this isn't what people want to read...I must just be a terrible angstmonger at heart
Nase: she (and Fuku too) pretty much won only half her games last year. Even if she got better this year, she's got the likes of Isumi, Honda and Kadowaki to contend with. She needs to hope for a lean year, then she may be in with a chance....
Btw, I find it unlikely that Kadowaki lost from Isumi. (Of cause the last game hadn't been played yet and that could have been Isumi vs Kadowaki) Kadowaki is really very strong, I think he could have beaten Hikaru if he had taken part in the pro-exam last year.
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Re: The End
Date: 2010-09-01 10:21 pm (UTC)We got an extra scene about him earlier in the anime too: crying outside the institute after his elimination from the previous exam. Then a bus draws up and the driver tells him he still has next year.
As for Nase I think she's someone everyone wants to see pass. We had a bit of a discussion about her on the female characters thread, but I get this impression mostly because much fanfic depicts her as strong or already a pro. So, for a while I felt a bit guilty for writing one where she'd failed and left the Go world, not because I thought I'd misunderstood the characterisation (I can justify where I was coming from) but because this isn't what people want to read...I must just be a terrible angstmonger at heart
Re: The End
Date: 2010-09-01 10:47 pm (UTC)Nase: she (and Fuku too) pretty much won only half her games last year. Even if she got better this year, she's got the likes of Isumi, Honda and Kadowaki to contend with. She needs to hope for a lean year, then she may be in with a chance....
Btw, I find it unlikely that Kadowaki lost from Isumi. (Of cause the last game hadn't been played yet and that could have been Isumi vs Kadowaki)
Kadowaki is really very strong, I think he could have beaten Hikaru if he had taken part in the pro-exam last year.