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sai in the ghost on the net arc

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The urge to make a Sai amigurumi is strong but his clothes have so many layers that the result would probably look pretty chunky and barely movable, why must crocheted fabric be so thick 😭

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go on.... take him.....

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Had a Moment last night and made a glitter gif of my special guy

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I watched the anime and read the manga a few weeks ago, and now I'm watching the live action adaptation! I'm 6 episodes in and I AGREE everything on it has been awesome!! Usually I'm picky about story details being changed, but this show makes those changes work a lot better, it adds even more depth to the characters and foreshadowing for future events :0 I'm enjoying it a lot!

(also tumblr glitched a bit when trying to comment on the post and seems it deleted my comments, sorry if the notifications got strange)

Dear Followers,

This is a PSA. Hikaru no Go (2020) is now available to stream on Prime Video. You should watch it.

But Caity, you may ask. Why should I watch this Chinese live action drama based on the popular turn-of-the-millenium Japanese manga and anime of the same name? The answer, my friends, is because it is fucking phenomenal.

Hikaru no Go is my favorite sports anime. It was one of the first manga I ever read. When I own a home someday and have bookshelves, it is one of the only manga series I wish to own in its entirety in print. The story is deeply compelling, moving, funny, relatable. It truly has something I haven't found in another animanga in twenty years.

And the Chinese live action adaptation takes that perfect, beautiful source material and creates something equally perfect and beautiful (if not more so? feels blasphemous to say, but boy howdy I'm not NOT saying it).

The way in which the original Japanese story—the characters, the culture, the game of go—is translated into Chinese is really masterfully executed. The story is incredibly faithful to the original, and when it does differ, it does so in really creative, thoughtful ways that really work.

The actors fucking nail it. Honestly all of them, but I'm looking at the kids in the first two episodes in particular. Blown away by the performances of a couple of ten-year-olds. Kids have a bright future ahead of them, damn.

This show has the budget. If y'all know me at all, you know I'll enjoy a low-budget wuxia flick because it's a good time, but damn, if I had standards, they would be met and exceeded by this show. The hair, the makeup, the costumes, the effects (there is an effect every time the "ghost" is on screen where he is partially translucent. It is perfectly executed and incredibly impressive, at least to my layman eyes). The very first opening credits scene is super beautiful, the end credits are beautiful, it's all just so pretty and polished and feels good on my eye holes.

Honestly, I cannot gush enough about this show. It ranks up with Nirvana in Fire in my heart (which I do not say lightly, considering I went through my entire list and lowered the ratings I'd given each show accordingly after I first watched nif so that the 10 weighed more heavily).

tl;dr: If you liked the hikago animanga, you should watch this show. If you never read/watched hikago, you should watch this show. If you did not like hikago, you should watch this show. Please watch this show, I am begging you.

Sincerely, A Rabid Hikago Fangirl

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If I were an animator I would also create this kind of misleading art 20 years after the anime ended just for funsies

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I saw the cutest couple on the bus the other day and so AkiHika happened.

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Was thinking the other day that the Hikaru no Go story from Akira’s POV would still be called Hikaru no Go, except instead of a coming-of-age story it’s a detective story.

Experience the mind-boggling, infuriating, perplexing fuckery that is the Shindou-sai enigma from Akira’s POV in the form of a visual novel. You have 3 in-game years to not figure out what the fuck is going on.

(backgrounds from the anime and HnG games)

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I wanna convince my friends to watch Hikaru no Go but I find it kinda hard because of the length + it being about a board game so now I'm just like PLEASE GIVE IT A CHANCE the character development is amazing and there's so much depth given to the bonds that develop between the characters through their Go matches, the dynamic in the main rivalry is very unique and THERE'S A COOL EPIC GHOST 😭

so now I'm slowly injecting my brainrot into their heads by sending a lot of silly Sai pictures

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Touya Akira (son of Meijin) after losing to a boy with a bleached-bangs and schizophrenia.

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Found an old audio (from @hikago blog) of the VAs being silly in-character so I had to do this... sad, one of them is dead now...

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I can't believe he chose the violent boy over the sweet girl! T^T

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im on episode 9 of hikaru no go

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That one scene where Hikaru’s trying to find another club member and Sai just straight up suggests Touya Mejin. yeah.  (He’s doing this to support his son in his newfound rivalry.)

In case u can’t read my handwriting:  Akiko: Time for school, Akira-san :) Akira: ok :) Akira: I’m off :) Akiko: Have a nice day! :) Akiko: Your father joined your soulmate rival’s go club :) Akira (Definitely late for school that day): He WHAT.

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Some of the drawings from Yumi Hotta that show up at the beginning of the manga volumes

And this one from Takeshi Obata!