Hikaru no Go (2001)

10/10/2001 (JP) • 23m

Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Overview

Hikaru Shindō is just a normal 12-year-old boy, but one day he's rummaging through his grandfather's things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old go board. A ghostly apparition appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Fujiwara no Sai, a man who was a go instructor to the emperor of Japan a thousand years ago. However, because of the bad sportsmanship of his opponent during a game, Sai was accused of cheating and banished from the city. With no livelihood or any other reason to live, Sai committed suicide by drowning himself. Now, he haunts a go board, and wants to accomplish the perfect go game, called the "Hand of God" which he hopes to do through Hikaru. If Hikaru will be able to do it or not (or even wants to) will have to be seen.

Top Billed Cast

Tomoko Kawakami

Hikaru Shindō

75 Episodes

Susumu Chiba

Fujiwara no Sai

75 Episodes

Sanae Kobayashi

Akira Toya

75 Episodes

Yumi Kakazu

Akari Fujisaki

75 Episodes

Makoto Tsumura

Kimihiro Tsutsui

75 Episodes

Kentaro Ito

Tetsuo Kaga

75 Episodes

Yuu Asakawa

Yuki Mitani

75 Episodes

Mayumi Asano

Okumura

75 Episodes

Takahiro Sakurai

Kaoru Kishimoto

75 Episodes


Last Season

Season 3

2002 | 15 Episodes

Season 3 of Hikaru no Go premiered on December 11, 2002.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

Japanese

Keywords

board game

bromance

based on manga

go

shounen

anime

weiqi

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