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Hikaru no Go (manga)

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Alternative title:
Hikaru kỳ thủ cờ vây (Việt Nam) 
ヒカルの碁 (Japanese) 
棋靈王 (Chinese (Taiwan)) 
棋魂 (Chinese (Taiwan)) 
히카루의 바둑 (Korean) 
Genres: drama , supernatural , tournament 
Themes: ghosts , go 
Objectionable content: None 
Plot Summary: 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. 
User Ratings: 564 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 120 votes (sub:56, Eng:44, dub:13, raw:1, raw:1, edit.dub:1, ?:1, others:3
1 english & indonesian
1 French
1 German
)
 Excellent: 169 votes (Eng:86, sub:50, dub:20, raw:4, raw:2, ?:2, edit.dub:1, others:4
1 +
1 Portuguese
1 French subtitled
1 French
)
 Very good: 141 votes (Eng:77, sub:31, dub:18, ?:5, raw:2, raw:2, others:6
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Portuguese
1 Polish
1 Indonesian
1 French
1 Indonesia
)
 Good: 73 votes (Eng:46, sub:13, dub:9, ?:3, raw:1, others:1
1 German
)
 Decent: 33 votes (Eng:20, dub:5, sub:3, raw:2, edit.dub:1, others:2
1 French
1 Korean
)
 So-so: 10 votes (Eng:7, sub:3)
 Not really good: 6 votes (Eng:3, edit.dub:1, dub:1, sub:1)
 Weak: 4 votes (dub:2, Eng:2)
 Bad: 3 votes (dub:3)
 Awful: 3 votes (dub:1, Eng:1, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 1341 users, rank: #36 (of 7003)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.250 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.6241, rank: #577 (of 7878)
Weighted mean: 8.164 (Very good), rank: #819 (of 7878) (seen all: 8.64 / seen some: 7.63 / won't finish: 6.33)
Bayesian estimate: 8.160 (Very good), rank: #242 (of 3549)
Number of tankoubon: 23 
Number of pages: 200 
Volumes:
#01. Desent Of The Go Master 
#04. Divine Illusions 
#05. Start 
Chapter titles: We have 200
Vintage:
1998-12-07 to 2003-04-28 (Weekly Shōnen Jump 1999 #2-3 to 2003 #22-23) 
2003-12-02 to 2008-03-04 (North America, serialized in Shonen Jump) 
2010-04-13 (Vietnamese by Kimdong Publisher) 
Release dates: We have 100
Official website:
Jump Magazine (Japanese) 
Shonen Jump - Hikaru no Go 
Links: We have 2
Comment:
The manga won the 45th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000. 
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Artbook
    blanc et noir: Takeshi Obata Illustrations (Artbook) 2016-05-03 (from $389.99)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story: Yumi Hotta 
Art: Takeshi Obata 

Supervision: Yukari Umezawa 
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Shueisha 
English staff
English cast
Translation:
Andy Nakatani  (vols. 1-12) 
Naoko Amemiya (vols. 13-23) 

Adaptation:
Andy Nakatani  (vols. 1-12) 
Naoko Amemiya (vols. 13-23) 
Additional Touch-up:
Josh Simpson (vols. 5-11) 
Rachel Lightfoot (vols. 11-15) 
Walden Wong (vol. 5) 
Cover Design:
Courtney Utt (vols. 4-5, 10-13) 
Julie Behn (vol. 23) 
Sean Lee  (vols. 1-3) 
Design:
Courtney Utt (vols. 6-9) 
Julie Behn (vols. 14-22) 
Editing:
Annette Roman (vols. 10-15) 
Gary Leach (vols. 16-23) 
Livia Ching  (vols. 1-5) 
Yuki Takagaki (vols. 4-12) 
Editor-in-Chief: Hyoe Narita 
Editorial Director: Alvin Lu 
Executive VP: Hyoe Narita 
Graphic Design:
Courtney Utt 
Sean Lee  (vol. 1) 
Interior Design:
Aaron Cruse (vol. 12) 
Courtney Utt (vols. 3-5, 10-11) 
Julie Behn (vol. 13) 
Ronnie Casson (vol. 23) 
Layout Design:
Sean Lee  (vol. 2) 
Lettering:
Adam Symons  (vols. 1-7) 
Lettering Assistant:
Josh Simpson  (vol. 1) 
Walden Wong  (vol. 1) 
Managing Editor:
Annette Roman 
Elizabeth Kawasaki 
Production manager: Noboru Watanabe 
Publisher: Seiji Horibuchi 
Script Consultant: Janice Kim 
Sr. Director of Licensing & Acquisitions: Rika Inouye 
Touch-up Art:
Adam Symons  (vols. 1-7) 
Touch-up Art & Lettering:
Inori Fukuda Trant (vol. 8, 9)  (vols. 8-23) 
VP of Marketing: Liza Coppola 
VP of Sales: Joe Morici 
VP of Strategic Development: Yumi Hoashi 
(none)
English companies
Licensed by: Viz Media 
French staff
French companies
(none)
Publisher: Editions Tonkam 
French cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Publisher: Planet Manga 
Italian cast
(none)
German staff
German cast
Translation:
Cora Hartwig 
Hirofumi Yamada 

Editorial:
Bettina Jabs 
Jonas Blaumann 
Go-Advisory: Christoph Gerlach 
Graphic Design: Laura Bartels 
Layout Design: Laura Bartels 
Lettering: Dirk Rehm 
Production manager: Contanze Hinz 
(none)
German companies
Publisher: Carlsen Comics 
Serialized In: Banzai! 
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
Translation: Edward Kondo 
Distributor: JBGroup 
Publisher: JBC 
Portuguese cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by:
Daran Culture Enterprise (棋靈王) 
Tong Li Publishing Co., Ltd. (棋魂) 
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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