Hikaru no Go

Hikaru no Go (Japanese: ヒカルの碁) is a manga series by Obata Takeshi (artist) and Hotta Yumi (writer) that was serialized in Weekly Jump from 1998 to 2003. It was also adapted into an anime by Studio Pierrot, which aired in Japan from 2001 to 2003, and the live-action Chinese drama Qi Hun (also called Hikaru no Go in English), which aired in 2020.
==Canon Overview==
The series revolves around an elementary school student named Shindou Hikaru, who discovers a haunted Go board and meets the ghost of Fujiwara no Sai, a fictional go player from the Heian era. Initially, Sai plays go through Hikaru by telling him what moves to make, but after playing and defeating a young go prodigy by the name of Touya Akira, Hikaru becomes motivated to learn the game for himself. The series traces the story of Hikaru's relationship with the game, as he evolves from a beginner to a professional go player, and the rivalry he develops with Akira along the way.
==Fandom==
Hikaru no Go has a reasonably active fandom, especially on Livejournal and Fanfiction.net and recent immigrations to Dreamwidth and Archive of Our Own. In Japan, both the anime and manga came to a conclusion in 2003, meaning that Hikaru no Go is a closed canon. The official English translation of the manga is complete as of May 2011, but English scanlations of the entire manga had been available for English-speaking fans for several years by that time.
In English-language Hikaru no Go fandom, fic writing is the main activity, with occasional fanart, doujinshi, podfic and meta thrown into the mix. The fandom is very slash-friendly, perhaps because there are relatively few canonical female characters. One of the earliest English-language fan communities for the fandom was at the now-defunct Go-Luv site, which hosted doujinshi, fanart and fanfiction, as well as an extensive fan forum. 
Akira/Hikaru is by far the most popular ship. Other popular ships include Waya/Isumi, Kaga/Tsutsui and Ogata/Ashiwara, and there are even more pairings that are regularly written.
== Fanworks ==
=== Zines ===
* Jump for the Stars - cinematic-style zine featuring shounen anime series as movie posters (2022)
==Resources==
* GoGoHikago! (comprehensive wiki containing 1,051 articles)
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* Hikago Sketchbook character notes I and II translated by hkfoot
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* My Friday Night Files: Hikaru no Go (index to kifu for all the games depicted in the series)
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* Scans from 10th anniversary rerelease of the manga scanned and uploaded by lucathia_rykatu
* Screencaps of the Hikaru no Go video game compiled by lucathia_rykatu
* Hikaru no Go Fic Compendium (journal deleted; archived version) compiled by toko.
* Best of Hikago (recs dating to pre-2006)
* Hikago Tribune Hikago_Tribune was a newsletter community dedicating to pulling together links on Hikaru no Go fanfiction and activity on Livejournal.
* Hikaru no Go -- Go-rgeous＊Characters Guide Translations by Phnx and Love
==Communities==
===LJ Communities===
* hikarunogo The LiveJournal Hikaru no Go Community
* igo_yaoi Hikaru no Go Slash Community
* blind_go A guess-the-writer challenge community (see Blind Go)
* kifu_archive Support community for Blind Go
* fifthmus A gift exchange community recently moved to Dreamwidth
* hng_deathmatch A tournament-style challenge community
* ihikago A podfic challenge community
* hikago_icons Hikaru no Go icons
===Off-LJ Communities===
* hikarunogo on Dreamwidth
* yugen_no_ma on InsaneJournal
* Hikaru no Go works on AO3
* Hikaru no Go works on FF.net
* Hikaru no Go Forum on FF.net
* Hikaru no Go Slash Forum on FF.net
* fifthmus A gift exchange community
* Hikaru no Go FanArt on theotaku.com
* Hikaru no Go prompts and fills on Fic Promptly
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