24 minSeason 3 • Episode 15
LatestThe match between Hikaru and Akira comes to an end. Hikaru tells Akira that one day, he will tell him everything. At night Hikaru has a dream, with a surprise visitor! At the end, the song “Get Over” is played as we see everyone throughout the series. The Go world is changing and a younger generation has arrived!
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!
Writing
Makes a 4,000-year-old board game feel like life or death.
Acting
Tomoko Kawakami's evolution from brat to broken genius.
Score
That opening theme lives rent-free in millennial brains.
Tomoko Kawakami
Hikaru Shindō (voice)
Susumu Chiba
Fujiwara no Sai (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi
Akira Toya (voice)
Yumi Kakazu
Akari Fujisaki (voice)
Makoto Tsumura
Kimihiro Tsutsui (voice)
Kentaro Ito
Tetsuo Kaga (voice)
Yuu Asakawa
Yuki Mitani (voice)
Mayumi Asano
Okumura (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai
Kaoru Kishimoto (voice)
Reiko Takagi
Yoshitaka Waya (voice)
Kenichi Suzumura
Isumi Shinichirou (voice)
Yoko Matsuoka
Kosuke Ochi (voice)
Atsuko Enomoto
Asumi Nase (voice)
Wasabi Mizuta
Yuuta Fukui (voice)
Eizo Tsuda
Kouyou Touya (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This anime caused a real go boom in East Asia—membership in go associations skyrocketed among kids who'd never touched a board before.
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