

Hikaru no Go
Hikaru Shindo is like any sixth-grader in Japan: a pretty normal kid with a two-tone head of hair and a penchant for antics. His life completely changes when he finds an old bloodstained go board in his grandfather's attic. The ghost of an ancient go master named Fujiwara-no-Sai was trapped in the board and soon becomes a part of Hikaru's consciousness. Together Hikaru and Sai make an unstoppable go-playing team!
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1.Eternal Rival
10.010-10-200124mSixth grader Hikaru Shindo stumbles upon a mysterious Go board with a blood stain on it. Before he knows it he's hearing voices, one voice to be exact. The voice of an ancient Go i...

2.Discovered Weakness!!
17-10-200124mWith the recent defeat of the Meijin's son, Hikaru goes about his day normally. However, Akira is obsessing over the game he lost. He won't do anything but stare at the Go board an...

3.Akira Bears His Fangs
24-10-200124mAfter confronting Hikaru, Akira challenges him to a rematch. As they sit down to play, Sai notices Akira's fangs bearing down on him. Will Sai go easy on Akira, or will he crush hi...

4.Kaga in Shogi Club
31-10-200124mAkari invites Hikaru to the Haze Junior High festival. Hikaru reluctantly goes, but cannot find Akari anywhere. So, while walking around he stumbles upon a group of kids around a G...

5.Prediction of an Awakening
07-11-200124mAfter loosing the game to Kaga, Hikaru is forced into joining a Jr. high school Go Club Tournament. He is to join Tsutsui and Kaga as the third member for the Haze Jr. High Go Club...

6.The Beautiful Match
14-11-200124mThe finals of the Third Annual Junior High Go Tournament - Kaiou Junior High V. Haze Junior High. With a score of 1-1 it is up to Hikaru to win it for Haze. Can he do it? And what...

7.I Won't Play Against You
21-11-200124mHikaru is now in Haze Middle School and joins the Go club. Akira Toya is now in Kaio. He pays a visit to Haze and challenges Hikaru to a match. Will Hikaru accept to play him?

8.The Scheme in the Rain
28-11-200124mAkira is too good against everyone at Kaio's Go club. The members don't take this sitting down, as three of them plan to take him down.

9.An Irritating Presence
05-12-200124mAkira is still loathed in the Go club, but he doesn't care. Even the club's sensei has bad feelings about him being there. How long will Akira stay in the club?

10.The Third Member
12-12-200124mA boy named Yuki Mitani solves a challenging problem on the Haze Go club's posters. Hikaru knows they need a third member really badly, and tries to convince Yuki to join. However,...

11.The Most Inconsiderate Act
19-12-200124mThe Go Sallon Yuki goes to doesn't mind giving him money for winning games, but they are tired of him cheating to get it. They hire a skilled player who pretends not to know anythi...

12.You Are The Third Board
26-12-200124mAfter Hikaru gets back Yuki's money, Yuki decides to join the club, but refuses to play in the tournament. Tsutsui explains how strong Kaio is and Yuki changes his mind. But will h...

13.Each of Their Decision
09-01-200224mHikaru, Tsutsui, and Yuki all manage to defeat their first round opponents. But, the next next round won't be so easy as they face of against Kaio. Hikaru is excited about facing A...

14.The Third Match
19-01-200224mAkira is quite tense at the fact that he is finally facing Hikaru, or rather Sai. All is going well, until Hikaru notices a point that he thinks should be played and Sai doesn't pl...

15.The Player On The Net
26-01-200224mHikaru let's Sai play Go online, that way nobody will think Hikaru is really good when in reality he's not.

16.Who Is Sai?
30-01-200224mEveryone is anxious to find out just who this mysterious user named "Sai" is. How long can Hikaru keep playing before he gets caught?

17.The Match of Revelation
06-02-200224mPlayers who have been following Sai's net matches attended the 20th International Amateur Go Tournament in Japan. A commotion occurs at the mention of Sai's name as everyone is try...

18.Akira vs. Sai
13-02-200224mAkira skipped his first match of the Pro exams in order to play the match against Sai on the net. Akira is perplexed over the identify of Sai which he thinks might be Hikaru while...

19.Hikaru's Strength
20-02-200224mHikaru is slowly, but surely, getting better as evidenced when he beats Mitani in a game though with a handicap as well as Tsutsui. To play go with Sai, now that they decided not t...

20.The Road to Becoming a Pro
27-02-200224mKishimoto (Kaio's first board) played a match with Hikaru to find out his real strength and expressed his puzzlement as to why Akira sees Hikaru as a opponent when he's not as stro...

21.The Haze Jr. High Go Club
06-03-200224mHikaru is torn by the decision he has to make. An unlikely saviour came in the form of Kaga who proposed that Shindou quit the club after showing them how strong he is - by playing...

22.The Insei Examination
13-03-200224mHikaru is losing the game in his anxiousness to win it. He freaks out when he realised that he didn't necessarily have win the game to pass as the purpose is for the examiner to ga...

23.The Room of Yuugen
20-03-200224mHikaru aims to progress to the first class of the Insei program where Waya and Isumi take the top spots. Both of them wanted to pass the Pro exams quickly this year, due to various...

24.Ouza vs. Akira
27-03-200224mAlthough Ouza initally contemplated letting Akira win the match as a form of encouragement, he is angered by Akira's nonchalent attitude and decided to crush him completely. Akira...

25.Sai's Sword Unsheathed (1)
10-04-200224mHIkaru can't seem to get any better at Go, despite the fact that he plays with Sai every day. If he wants any chance to get into a tournament and face Akira, he needs to get strong...

26.The Greatest Wall for Hikaru (2)
10-04-200224mWith help from Sai, Hikaru overcomes his weakness and finally makes it into the A league. Back at school, Kaga and Kimihiro have already graduated to HIgh School. Now that Hikaru's...

27.A Place To Go Back To
17-04-200224mYuuki Mitani decides to go back to the Go Club.

28.The Wakajishisen
24-04-200224mThe top 16 in the A league all take part in the Young Lions Tournament. If Hikaru can manage to get past the first round, he'll finally get to face Akira again. Meanwhile, Isumi fa...

29.Kuwabara Honinbou
01-05-200224mOgata and Kuwabara are anticipating their matches for the Honinbou title, both anxious to greet the upcoming wave of pros in the Go world. Meanwhile, a guy who has won many college...

30.Ogata vs Honinbou
08-05-200224mOgata and Kuwabara Honinbou continue their set of matches for the Honinbou title. They are on their final match, both having won the same number of games. When Ogata plays a sealed...
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