Hikaru No Go ends

bogiesan · #1

The final volume, HNG #23, has been released by VIZ. Are any of you planning to recognize this event? The Boise Go Club meets at a game shop where lots of manga and anime fans gather to play those weird card and board games. The owner of the shop is a HNG fan and is open to the suggestion of marking the end of the series.
Any ideas?

Redbeard · #2

bogiesan wrote:

The final volume, HNG #23, has been released by VIZ. Are any of you planning to recognize this event? The Boise Go Club meets at a game shop where lots of manga and anime fans gather to play those weird card and board games. The owner of the shop is a HNG fan and is open to the suggestion of marking the end of the series.
Any ideas?

I don't think there is anything more "Hikaru" like than team tournaments (other than unrequited Yaoi of course). A Hikaru themed team tournament would be fun. You could even have some people playing Go and inexperienced players playing Atari Go on the same team.

John Fairbairn · #3

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The final volume, HNG #23, has been released by VIZ.

It's not quite the end. There was a 24th Japanese volume called "Gorgeous Characters Guide" (they used that "English" for the title themselves*). It's in manga format and is quite a lot thicker than the normal story volumes. It doesn't have a story itself, of course, but adds a lot of background to the original story.

There are, of course, various HNG spinoffs, but this one is different in that it is in exactly the same format as the 23 episode books, and is clearly meant to be part of the original series.

*The explanation is that they wrote Gorgeous as 碁ジャス. Maybe that doesn't work too well for American accents but it's fine for Brits.

Kirby · #4

John Fairbairn wrote:

Quote:

The final volume, HNG #23, has been released by VIZ.

It's not quite the end. There was a 24th Japanese volume called "Gorgeous Characters Guide" (they used that "English" for the title themselves*). It's in manga format and is quite a lot thicker than the normal story volumes. It doesn't have a story itself, of course, but adds a lot of background to the original story.

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I recommend this "book". If I recall, it also includes game records of some of the matches from the show. I suppose you can find them (the matches) online these days, but it's still a pretty cool book to have.

bogiesan · #5

Redbeard wrote:

I don't think there is anything more "Hikaru" like than team tournaments (other than unrequited Yaoi of course). A Hikaru themed team tournament would be fun. You could even have some people playing Go and inexperienced players playing Atari Go on the same team.

Thanks. Had not thought of that.

bogiesan

bogiesan · #6

John Fairbairn wrote:

Quote:

The final volume, HNG #23, has been released by VIZ.

It's not quite the end. There was a 24th Japanese volume called "Gorgeous Characters Guide" (they used that "English" for the title themselves*). It's in manga format and is quite a lot thicker than the normal story volumes. It doesn't have a story itself, of course, but adds a lot of background to the original story.
There are, of course, various HNG spinoffs, but this one is different in that it is in exactly the same format as the 23 episode books, and is clearly meant to be part of the original series.

While many HNG fans have heard of the Gorgeous Characters volume, there are no easily available copies. Sometimes it shows up on eBay from Australian comic dealers. Postage alone makes it a luxurious collection-completer. VIZ LLC shows no suggestion they will ever publish this volume in English but they might repackage the HNG series as larger format collections like Deathnote.

I am not aware of any of the spinoffs to which you refer unless you mean the fan-generated stuff. Links?

bogiesan

oren · #7

I've seen many copies available at Japanese bookstores in the US. If anyone wants it, look for Kinokuniya in major cities. If you're lucky and live in NYC area or Southern California, you can head to Book Off and likely get a copy for $1.

Kirby · #8

oren wrote:

I've seen many copies available at Japanese bookstores in the US. If anyone wants it, look for Kinokuniya in major cities. If you're lucky and live in NYC area or Southern California, you can head to Book Off and likely get a copy for $1.

They have bookoffs in the USA? That's pretty nifty. I wonder if my old card from 2005 still works.

oren · #9

Kirby wrote:

They have bookoffs in the USA? That's pretty nifty. I wonder if my old card from 2005 still works.

No, they've actually gotten rid of the cards which is a shame. I tried.

http://www.bookoffusa.com/

balmung · **#10**

John Fairbairn wrote:

Quote:

The final volume, HNG #23, has been released by VIZ.

It's not quite the end. There was a 24th Japanese volume called "Gorgeous Characters Guide" (they used that "English" for the title themselves*). It's in manga format and is quite a lot thicker than the normal story volumes. It doesn't have a story itself, of course, but adds a lot of background to the original story.

There are, of course, various HNG spinoffs, but this one is different in that it is in exactly the same format as the 23 episode books, and is clearly meant to be part of the original series.

*The explanation is that they wrote Gorgeous as 碁ジャス. Maybe that doesn't work too well for American accents but it's fine for Brits.

death note did the same thing with their 13th book.

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