English releases on file: May 31, 2004 – Jan 29, 2013.
Hikaru no Go
Hikaru Shindo is just a normal 12 year old Japanese boy. One day, he's rumaging through his Grandfather's things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old Go board. A ghostly apparation appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Sai Fujiwara, a man who was a Go instructor to the emperor of Japan a thousand years ago. However, because of bad sportsmanship during a game, Sai was accused of cheating and banashied from the city. With no livelihood or any other reason to live, Sai commited 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.
- Volumes
- 23 in the canonical sequence
- English packaging
- 23 books, 46 releases
- Publishers
- VIZ Media
- Also known as
- Hikaru kỳ thủ cờ vây (Việt Nam), ヒカルの碁
Reading path
VIZ Media · 23 books in reading order
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