Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: October 10, 2001
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 75
Networks: TV Tokyo
Genres: Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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Hikaru no Go(2001)

TMDB Rating: 7.7 (41 votes)

Overview

Hikaru Shindō is just a normal 12-year-old boy, but one day he's rummaging through his grandfather's things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old go board. A ghostly apparition appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Fujiwara no Sai, a man who was a go instructor to the emperor of Japan a thousand years ago. However, because of the bad sportsmanship of his opponent during a game, Sai was accused of cheating and banished from the city. With no livelihood or any other reason to live, Sai committed 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.

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Season 1

30 episodes • 2001Avg: 10.0Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Eternal Rival	Oct 10, 2001	10.0
2	Discovered Weakness!!	Oct 17, 2001	0.0
3	Akira Bears His Fangs	Oct 24, 2001	0.0
4	Kaga in Shogi Club	Oct 31, 2001	0.0
5	Prediction of an Awakening	Nov 7, 2001	0.0
6	The Beautiful Match	Nov 14, 2001	0.0
7	I Won't Play Against You	Nov 21, 2001	0.0
8	The Scheme in the Rain	Nov 28, 2001	0.0
9	An Irritating Presence	Dec 5, 2001	0.0
10	The Third Member	Dec 12, 2001	0.0
11	The Most Inconsiderate Act	Dec 19, 2001	0.0
12	You Are The Third Board	Dec 26, 2001	0.0
13	Each of Their Decision	Jan 9, 2002	0.0
14	The Third Match	Jan 19, 2002	0.0
15	The Player On The Net	Jan 26, 2002	0.0
16	Who Is Sai?	Jan 30, 2002	0.0
17	The Match of Revelation	Feb 6, 2002	0.0
18	Akira vs. Sai	Feb 13, 2002	0.0
19	Hikaru's Strength	Feb 20, 2002	0.0
20	The Road to Becoming a Pro	Feb 27, 2002	0.0
21	The Haze Jr. High Go Club	Mar 6, 2002	0.0
22	The Insei Examination	Mar 13, 2002	0.0
23	The Room of Yuugen	Mar 20, 2002	0.0
24	Ouza vs. Akira	Mar 27, 2002	0.0
25	Sai's Sword Unsheathed (1)	Apr 10, 2002	0.0
26	The Greatest Wall for Hikaru (2)	Apr 10, 2002	0.0
27	A Place To Go Back To	Apr 17, 2002	0.0
28	The Wakajishisen	Apr 24, 2002	0.0
29	Kuwabara Honinbou	May 1, 2002	0.0
30	Ogata vs Honinbou	May 8, 2002	0.0

Season 2

30 episodes • 2002

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Preliminary Starts	May 15, 2002
2	The Last Day of the Preliminaries	May 22, 2002
3	Team Formed!	May 29, 2002
4	Don't Win	Jun 5, 2002
5	There Is Only One Winner	Jun 12, 2002
6	My Name is...	Jun 19, 2002
7	The Pro Exam Begins	Jun 26, 2002
8	The Challengers	Jul 3, 2002
9	The Dead Moment	Jul 10, 2002
10	Whereabouts of the Win	Jul 17, 2002
11	Three Weeks Isn't Enough!	Jul 24, 2002
12	The First One to Pass	Jul 31, 2002
13	Waya vs Shindou	Aug 7, 2002
14	A Desperate Life	Aug 14, 2002
15	Hikaru vs Ochi	Aug 21, 2002
16	The Last Day of the Pro Exam Finals	Aug 28, 2002
17	To the World of the Pros	Sep 4, 2002
18	Sai vs Meijin	Sep 11, 2002
19	A Painful Match	Sep 18, 2002
20	Fujiwara no Sai	Sep 25, 2002
21	Kurata 6-dan	Oct 2, 2002
22	Hikaru vs Akira	Oct 9, 2002
23	The Confession of Sai	Oct 16, 2002
24	Excitement (A.K.A. Excited Spirits)	Oct 23, 2002
25	Sai vs. Toya Koyo	Oct 30, 2002
26	The Thousand Year Answer	Nov 6, 2002
27	Let Me Play Sai!	Nov 13, 2002
28	One-Color Go	Nov 20, 2002
29	Toya Koyo Retires!	Nov 27, 2002
30	Farewell Hikaru	Dec 4, 2002

Season 3

15 episodes • 2002

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Sai is Gone?	Dec 11, 2002
2	The Top Player in Hiroshima	Dec 18, 2002
3	I Won't Play Anymore	Dec 25, 2002
4	Keichou Flowerpots	Jan 8, 2003
5	Isumi no Go	Jan 5, 2003
6	The Fated Encounter	Jan 22, 2003
7	Isumi tested	Jan 29, 2003
8	Forfeits	Feb 5, 2003
9	The Determined Visitor	Feb 12, 2003
10	Sai was here...	Feb 19, 2003
11	The First Comeback Match	Feb 26, 2003
12	And so they began to run	Mar 5, 2003
13	Shindou vs Touya	Mar 12, 2003
14	Forever Inside You	Mar 19, 2003
15	That Same Old Smile	Mar 26, 2003

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