Hikaru no Go (TV)

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[ adapted from Hikaru no Go (manga) ]

Related anime:
Hikaru No Go: New Year Special (sequel)

Alternative title:

Hikago

Hikaru's Go

ヒカルの碁 (Japanese)

棋靈王 (Chinese (Taiwan))

고스트 바둑왕 (Korean)

히카루의 바둑 (Korean)

Genres: slice of life, supernatural, tournament

Themes: games, school, sports

Objectionable content: None

Plot Summary: Hikaru Shindo is just a normal 12 year old boy, but 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 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 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.

User Ratings: 1659 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 363 votes (sub:333, dub:23, raw:4, others:3

1 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed

)

Excellent: 450 votes (sub:398, dub:31, raw:5, edit.dub:1, ?:1, others:14

5 Spanish subtitled
4 Russian subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Mandarin dubbed
1 Tagalog dubbed

)

Very good: 417 votes (sub:361, dub:37, raw:3, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:14

4 Russian subtitled
3 Portuguese subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 German subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed

)

Good: 232 votes (sub:184, dub:35, raw:5, ?:2, edit.dub:1, others:5

2 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Indonesian dubbed

)

Decent: 94 votes (sub:72, dub:16, ?:2, raw:1, others:3

1 Russian dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled

)

So-so: 51 votes (sub:42, dub:8, raw:1)

Not really good: 13 votes (sub:12, dub:1)

Weak: 19 votes (sub:11, dub:4, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:2

1 Korean subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed

)

Bad: 8 votes (sub:6, edit.dub:1, dub:1)

Awful: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)

Worst ever: 10 votes (sub:10)

Seen in part or in whole by 3530 users, rank: #226 (of 5563)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.189 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.6685, rank: #326 (of 5554)
Weighted mean: 8.126 (Very good), rank: #308 (of 5554) (seen all: 8.45 / seen some: 7.20 / won't finish: 5.23)
Bayesian estimate: 8.122 (Very good), rank: #200 (of 4225)

Running time: 23 minutes per episode

Number of episodes: 75

Episode titles: We have 75

Vintage:

2001-10-10 to 2003-03-26

2006-05-02 (USA - ImaginAsian TV)

Opening Theme:

#1: "Get Over" by dream (eps 1-30)

#2: "I'll Be the One" by HAL (eps 31-60)

#3: "Fantasy" by Nana Katase (eps 61-75)

Ending Theme:

#1: "Bokura no Bouken" by Kids Alive (eps 1-12)

#2: "Hitomi no Chikara" by Mizuki Arisa (eps 13-30)

#3: "Sincerely ~ever dream~" by dream (eps 31-46)

#4: "Days" by shela (eps 47-63)

#5: "Music is My Thing" by Dream (eps 64-74)

#6: "Get Over ~Special Mix~" by dream (ep 75)

Official website:

Hikaru No Go Homepage (TV Tokyo) (Japanese)

棋靈王HIKARU NO GO (Chinese (Taiwan))

Links: We have 7

Trivia: We have 5

Review:

Hikaru no Go DVD 1 (Dec 16, 2005)

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DVD (Region 1)

Hikaru no Go (DVD 1) 2005-12-27 (from $19.99)

Hikaru no Go (DVD 2) 2006-03-28 (from $19.99)

Hikaru no Go (DVD 3) 2006-06-27 (from $6.84)

Hikaru no Go (DVD 4) 2006-09-26 (from $19.98)

Hikaru no Go - A Rvial in the Shadows (DVD 5) 2006-11-29

Hikaru no Go (DVD 6) 2007-01-30

Hikaru no Go (DVD 7) 2007-03-27 (from $49.49)

Hikaru no Go - The Awful Opponent (DVD 8) 2007-05-29 (from $39.99)

Hikaru no Go (DVD 9) 2007-07-31

Hikaru no Go (DVD 10) 2007-09-25

Hikaru no Go (DVD 11) 2007-11-27

Hikaru no Go (DVD 12) 2008-01-15

Japanese staff

Japanese cast

Series Director: Susumu Nishizawa

Director:
Jun Kamiya (eps 16-58)
Susumu Nishizawa (eps 1-15)
Tetsuya Endo (eps 58-75)

Storyboard:
Akihiro Enomoto (ep 8)
Atsuhiro Tomioka
Hideki Tonokatsu (6 episodes

eps 17, 25, 29, 47, 58, 69

)
Hon Shimazu (eps 4, 10, 15)
Jun Kamiya (4 episodes

eps 16, 19, 28, 61

)
Minoru Ohara (ep 5)
Noriyuki Abe (OP 1)
Setsuo Takase (eps 33, 42)
Shikichi Ohashi
Susumu Nishizawa (6 episodes

eps 1-3, 6, 11, 15

)
Tetsuya Endo (OP 3; 18 episodes

eps 16-24 even, 27, 30, 36, 41, 43, 48-54 even, 60, 66, 74-75

)
Tomokazu Tokoro (eps 9, 13, 21)

Episode Director:
Fushio Takase (5 episodes

eps 5, 9, 13, 33, 42

)

Hideki Tonokatsu (5 episodes

eps 17, 25, 47, 58, 69

)
Hiroshi Kuruo (ep 38)
Jun Kamiya (ep 61)
Junya Koshiba (eps 2, 6)
Katsuyoshi Yatabe (6 episodes

eps 21, 29, 37, 53, 63, 73

)
Kunitoshi Okajima (eps 31, 46, 56)
Masakatsu Iijima (ep 11)
Saeko Aoki (ep 8)
Setsuo Takase (5 episodes

eps 5, 9, 13, 33, 42

)
Shin'ichi Masaki (6 episodes

eps 35, 40, 45, 49, 55, 62

)
Takaharu Okuma (ep 67)
Takuya Nonaka (ep 44)
Tetsuya Endo (22 episodes

eps 16-24 even, 27-28, 30-36 even, 39, 41, 43, 48-54 even, 60, 66, 74-75

)
Toshiya Niidome (eps 59, 71)
Yuichiro Miyake (eps 65, 72)
Yuji Sekimoto (ep 10)
Yuki Hayashi (4 episodes

eps 3, 7, 12, 15

)

Unit Director:
Noriyuki Abe (OP 1)
Tetsuya Endo (OP 3)

Music: Kei Wakakusa

Original Manga:
Takeshi Obata
Yumi Hotta

Character Design: Hideyuki Motohashi

Art Director: Sawako Takagi

Art:
Akihiro Enomoto (ep 8)

Fushio Takase (ep 33)

Hideki Tonokatsu (eps 17, 29, 58)

Hiroshi Kuruo (eps 46, 56)
Ichimatsu Kikuchi (ep 31)
Itsuro Kawasaki (ep 40)
Jun Kamiya (eps 16, 19, 28)

Katsuyoshi Yatabe (ep 73)
Sawako Kouboku (30 episodes

eps 1, 9, 12-13, 16, 19, 23-24, 26-27, 30-31, 34-35, 38-39, 42, 44, 47-48, 50, 53-54, 57-58, 60, 63-64, 67-68

)
Shigenori Takada
Shin'ichi Masaki (4 episodes

eps 45, 49, 55, 62

)
Susumu Nishizawa (eps 2, 6, 11)

Takuya Nonaka (ep 44)
Tetsuya Endo (5 episodes

eps 18-24 even, 30

)

Tomokazu Tokoro (eps 9, 13, 21)

Toshiya Niidome (eps 39, 59, 71)
Yuji Sekimoto (ep 34)
Yuki Hayashi (eps 7, 12)

Animation Director:
Hideyuki Motohashi (5 episodes

eps 1, 3, 7, 12, 15

)
Kanami Sekiguchi (OP 2)
Minako Shiba (OP 3; 5 episodes

eps 20, 24, 31, 39, 52

)
Naoyuki Onda (ep 74)
Shinichi Miyamae (ep 5)
Takako Onishi (ep 4)
Yoshinori Tokiya (eps 2, 4)

Animation Character Design:
Kanami Sekiguchi
Miyuki Ueda

Sound Director: Hideo Takahashi

Director of Photography: Masahide Okino

Consultant: Yukari Umezawa

In-Between Animation:
Hideto Tanaka (Pierrot Animation Room)
Retsu Ohkawara (Pierrot Animation Room)
Rinako Nishihara (Pierrot Animation Room)
Shigeki Kawai (Pierrot Animation Room)

In-Between Check: Kayano Tomizawa

Key Animation:
Katsunobu Ito (ep 65)
Naoyuki Onda (eps 59, 71)
Nozomu Abe
Satoshi Tasaki (OP 3)
Yuu Yamashita

Music producer: Takayuki Nagasawa

Planning:
Keisuke Iwata
Takashi Harada
Yuji Nunokawa
Yuuji Fugawa

Program Manager: Tetsuya Watanabe

Program PR: Akako Kobayashi (TV Tokyo)

Sound Effects: Mutsuhiro Nishimura

Supervision: Jun Kamiya (eps 59-75)

Theme Song Arrangement: H∧L (OP2/ED3)

Theme Song Composition: BOUNCEBACK (OP1, ED6)