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Effex ([personal profile] effex) wrote2010-09-29 02:53 pm

The Totally Epic HikaGo Reread - Vol. 21



~Volume 21 of Hikaru no Go~

Chapters 166-174
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[personal profile] lacygrey 2010-09-29 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Here's where the manga finally leaves the anime behind.

I tried watching the 'special' in one go, as though it were a movie, but I prefer shorter episodes - it suits the story better. If the 'special' is framed by something I suppose its the falling out (I won't play you again for 4 months etc) and reconcilliation of Hikaru and Akira over the Hokuto cup selection. In the anime we are left with a scene where they are getting along peaceably - those who read he manga know that their bickering continues to be as legendary as thier Go ^_^

The art is by this point IMHO, far nicer in the manga than the anime. The manga scans though, by this point, are pretty rough; some at 'the spectrum' seem to have their order scrambled; and I read a comment by one of the translators of it somewhere, saying they were improvising based on the pictures alone for certain scenes.

And so we finally meet Yeongha Ko!
(with canon improvising translator)
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[personal profile] lacygrey 2010-09-29 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Ive only read the first 2 volumes of Deathnote, but I kept half 'recognising' characters in it from HnG
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[personal profile] onkoona 2010-09-29 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I did the whole Deathnote anime. And yes, it's very much the dark version of this story. Quite annoyingly so.