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Hikaru no Go (TV)

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[ adapted from Hikaru no Go (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Hikaru No Go: New Year Special (sequel)

Alternative title:
Hikago
Hikaru's Go
هيكارو نو غو (Arabic)
ヒカルの碁 (Japanese)
히카루의 바둑 (Korean)
Genres: comedy, drama, psychological, supernatural, tournament
Themes: Games, School, Sports
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: Hikaru Shindo is just a normal 12 year old boy, but 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 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 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: 1219 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 265 votes (sub:247, dub:10, raw:4, Por.sub:1, Tag.dub:1, Ger.sub:1, Spa.sub:1, edit.dub:0)
 Excellent: 336 votes (sub:300, dub:22, raw:4, Spa.sub:4, Rus.sub:2, edit.dub:1, Por.sub:1, Tag.dub:1, ?:1)
 Very good: 288 votes (sub:249, dub:28, Ger.sub:2, raw:2, Fre.sub:1, Spa.sub:1, edit.dub:1, Rus.dub:1, ?:1, Por.sub:1, Tag.dub:1)
 Good: 161 votes (sub:128, dub:22, raw:4, Fre.sub:2, ?:2, edit.dub:1, Spa.sub:1, Ger.sub:1)
 Decent: 59 votes (sub:46, dub:10, ?:2, raw:1)
 So-so: 39 votes (sub:32, dub:6, raw:1)
 Not really good: 12 votes (sub:10, dub:2)
 Weak: 15 votes (sub:10, dub:2, Kor.sub:1, raw:1, Tag.dub:1, ?:0, edit.dub:0)
 Bad: 10 votes (sub:4, raw:2, edit.dub:2, Spa.sub:1, dub:1, Ger.sub:0)
 Awful: 1 vote (dub:1, raw:0, sub:0)
 Worst ever: 33 votes (sub:9, dub:7, edit.dub:7, Spa.sub:5, raw:4, Spa.dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2537 users, rank: #178
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.2422 (Very good+.24), std. dev.: 1.7236, rank: #277
Weighted mean: 8.146 (Very good+.14), rank: #249
Bayesian estimate: 8.14135 (Very good+.14), rank: #157
Running time: 23 minutes
Number of episodes: 75
Episode titles: We have 75
Vintage:
2001-10-10 to 2003-03-26
2006-05-02 (USA - ImaginAsian TV)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Get Over" by dream (eps 1-30)
#2: "I'll Be the One" by HAL (eps 31-60)
#3: "Fantasy" by Nana Katase (eps 61-75)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Bokura no Bouken" by Kids Alive (eps 1-12)
#2: "Hitomi no Chikara" by Mizuki Arisa (eps 13-30)
#3: "Sincerely ~ever dream~" by dream (eps 31-46)
#4: "Days" by shela (eps 47-63)
#5: "Music is My Thing" by Dream (eps 64-74)
#6: "Get Over ~Special Mix~" by dream (ep 75)
Official website:
Links: We have 8
Trivia: We have 2
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Related reviews:
    Hikaru no Go DVD 1

Related releases:
    Hikaru no Go (DVD 1) 2005-12-27 (from $16.19)
    Hikaru no Go - (DVD 2) 2006-03-28 (from $19.99)
    Hikaru no Go (DVD 3) 2006-06-27 (from $20.23)
    Hikaru no Go (DVD 4) 2006-09-26 (from $20.23)
    Hikaru no Go - A Rvial in the Shadows (DVD 5) 2006-11-29 (from $20.23)
    Hikaru no Go (DVD 6) 2007-01-30 (from $20.23)
    Hikaru no Go (DVD 7) 2007-03-27 (from $18.21)
    Hikaru no Go - The Awful Opponent (DVD 8) 2007-05-29 (from $20.23)
    Hikaru no Go (DVD 9) 2007-07-31 (from $18.21)
    Hikaru no Go (DVD 10) 2007-09-25 (from $18.21)
    Hikaru no Go (DVD 11) 2007-11-27 (from $18.21)
    Hikaru no Go (DVD 12) 2008-01-15

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Series director: Susumu Nishizawa

Director:
Jun Kamiya
Tetsuya Endo

Storyboard:
Atsuhiro Tomioka
Shikichi Ohashi

Episode Director:
Fushio Takase (Ep 5, 9, 13, 33, 42)
Hideki Tonokatsu (Ep 17, 47, 58)
Hiroshi Kuruo (Ep 38)
Junya Koshiba (Ep 2, 6)
Katsuyoshi Yatabe (Ep 21, 29, 37, 53, 63, 73)
Kunitoshi Okajima (Ep 31, 46, 56)
Masakatsu Iijima (Ep 11)
Saeko Aoki (Ep 8)
Shin-ichi Masaki (Ep 35, 40, 45, 49, 55, 62)
Takaharu Okuma (Ep 67)
Takuya Nonaka (Ep 44)
Tetsuya Endo (Ep 16, 18, 20, 22, 27, 30, 32)
Toshiya Niidome (Ep 59,71)
Yuichiro Miyake (Ep 65, 72)
Yuji Sekimoto (Ep 10)
Yuki Hayashi (Ep 3, 7, 12, 15)

Music: Kei Wakakusa

Original Manga:
Takeshi Obata
Yumi Hotta

Character Design: Hideyuki Motohashi

Art director: Sawako Takagi

Art:
Akihiro Enomoto (Ep 8)
Fushio Takase (Ep 33)
Hideki Tonokatsu (Ep 17, 29, 58)
Hiroshi Kuruo (Ep 46, 56)
Ichimatsu Kikuchi (Ep 31)
Itsuro Kawasaki (EP 40)
Jun Kamiya (Ep 16, 19, 28)
Katsuyoshi Yatabe (Ep 73)
Shigenori Takada
Shin-ichi Masaki (Ep 45, 49, 55, 62)
Susumu Nishizawa (Ep 2, 6, 11)
Takuya Nonaka (Ep 44)
Tetsuya Endo (Ep 18, 20, 22, 24, 30)
Tomokazu Tokoro (Ep 9, 13, 21)
Toshiya Niidome (Ep 39, 59, 71)
Yuji Sekimoto (Ep 34)
Yuki Hayashi (Ep 7, 12)

Animation director:
Hideyuki Motohashi (Ep 3)
Shinichi Miyamae (Ep 5)
Takako Onishi (Ep 4)
Yoshinori Tokiya (Ep 2,4)

Animation Character Design:
Kanami Sekiguchi
Miyuki Ueda

Director of Photography: Masahide Okino

Consultant: Yukari Umezawa

Music producer: Takayuki Nagasawa

Planning:
Keisuke Iwata
Takashi Harada
Yuji Nunokawa
Yuuji Fugawa

Sound director: Hideo Takahashi

Sound Effects: Mutsuhiro Nishimura

Theme Song Composition: BOUNCEBACK (OP1, ED6)

Theme Song Performance:
Arisa Mizuki (ED2)
dream (OP1, ED3, ED5)
HAL (OP2)
Kids Alive (ED1)
Nana Katase (OP3)
shela (ED4)

 

Sanae Kobayashi as Akira Touya

Susumu Chiba as Sai Fujiwara

Tomoko Kawakami as Hikaru Shindou

Eizou Tsuda as Kouyou Touya

Keiji Fujiwara as Seiji Ogata

Kenichi Suzumura as Shinichirou Isumi

Makoto Tsumura as Kimihiro Tsutsui

Reiko Takagi as Yoshitaka Waya

Youko Matsuoka as Kousuke Ochi

Yumi Kakazu as Akari Fujisaki

Yuu Asakawa as Yuuki Mitani

Chafurin as dealer

Akeno Watanabe as
Kawahagi 2nd Board
Kumiko Tsuda
Match recorder (ep 70)
secretary (ep 66)

Akihiko Ishizumi as Zama

Akimitsu Takase as
Akota-san
America's Representative
Doumoto
Kadowaki

Aruno Tahara as Shu-san

Atsuko Enomoto as Nase

Atsuko Yuta as Chieko Sakurano (ep 65) 

Atsuko Yuya as Chieko Sakurano

Chiaki Takahashi as student (ep 7)

Chinami Nishimura as young girl (ep 64)

Daisuke Kishio as Itou

Eiji Kawai as Liu

Eiji Yanagisawa as customer (ep 64)

Eriko Fujimaki as Zhao Shi

Eriko Kawasaki as Mitani's Sister

Hiroshi Naka as Heihachi Shindou

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Mashiba

Katsuhiro Kitagawa as Morishita-sensei

Katsuhisa Houki as Bousei Namakura (ep 64)

Katsuyuki Konishi as Hiroyuki Ashiwara

Kazuaki Ito as Teacher Yun

Kenichi Ono as Kawai-san

Kenichi Sakaguchi as Yang Hai

Kentarou Itou as Tetsuo Kaga

Koji Yusa as Shirakawa

Kouichi Toochika as Kyuuseikai Male Pro (ep 65)

Kumiko Watanabe as Hideki Isobe (ep 66)

Masaaki Tsukada as Ooijer

Masayuki Nakata as
Baseball Team Member
Hagiwara 9-dan
Isumi's opponent (ep 65)
Nogi

Mayumi Asano as
Kawahagi 1st Board
Moriyama
Okumura

Miki Machii as Shigeko Morishita

Mitsuaki Hoshino as
customer (ep 66)
Matsui sensei (ep 63)

Mitsuo Iwata as Atsushi Kurata

Mizuki Saitou as Tsujioka 2-dan

Naoki Bandou as Shinoda Insei Instructor (ep 63)

Naomi Kusumi as
Li Lao Shi
Soga

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Shuuhei

Rei Sakuma as Akiko Touya

Reiko Takagi as Le Ping

Rie Ishizuka as
Kawahagi 3rd Board
Tamako-sensei
Tetsuo Kaga

Rokuro Naya as Honinbou Kuwabara

Ryuji Mizuno as
Holland's Representative
Kaga's Father

Satsuki Yukino as
Harumi Ichikawa
Ichikawa san
student (ep 9)

Shouto Kashii as
Chinese Pro (ep 67)
Sakamaki (ep 70)

Susumu Chiba as Hikaru's Father

Takahiro Mizushima as Chinese Pro (ep 67)

Takahiro Sakurai as
Kishimoto
Toshinori Honda

Takako Honda as Hidaka

Takao Ishii as
Isumi's Dad
Yoshikawa

Takashi Nagasako as Dake-san

Takayuki Yamaguchi as
Chinese Pro (ep 67)
Ryo Iijima

Takuo Kawamura as
Baseball Team member (ep 64)
Chinese Pro (ep 67)
Natsume

Tomo Shigematsu as
children (ep 66)
Hitoshi Koike

Tomomichi Nishimura as Toshio Tsubaki

Tomoya Kawai as
Muranishi
Ryu

Toshiaki Kuwahara as
Chinese Pro (ep 67)
Murakami 2-dan (ep 71)
Reporter (ep 70)

Toshitaka Shimizu as
Kouji Saeki 4-dan
Pro (ep 65)

Wasabi Mizuta as Yuuta Fukui

Yayoi Nakazawa as Igo Salon Owner's Wife (ep 68)

Yoshito Ishinami as
Amano
Igo Salon Owner (ep 68)

Yoshiyuki Kaneko as
Company president (ep 66)
Priest (ep 61)
Reporter (ep 74)

Youji Ueda as Pro Player

Yukiji as Masako Kanako

Yurika Hino as Hikaru's mother

Yuuno Nakada as Baseball Team member (ep 64)

Kujira (ep 29)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Studio Pierrot

Backgrounds: Studio Wyeth

Broadcaster:
KIDS STATION
TV Tokyo

Editing: Jay Film

Photography: T Nishimura

Production:
Dentsu Inc.
Studio Pierrot
TV Tokyo

Sound Effects: Fizz Sound Creation

Sound Production: Dream Force

English staff 
English cast 

Script:
Josh Byer
Mike Bridges

Executive producer:
Hidemi Fukuhara
John Easum

Producer: Diana Gage

Dialogue Editing:
Aaron MacDonald
Cisco McLaren
Timur Kalyuzhnyy

Go Consultant: Janice Kim

Production Associate: Jason Bergenfeld

Production Coordination: Nick Mann

Production manager: Miho Suzuki

Re-Recording Mixing:
Keith A. Goddard
Timur Kalyuzhnyy

Recording engineer: Ryan Olszewski

Script Editing:
Diana Gage
Kyle Johnson

Senior Production Coordinator: Geoffrey A. Rosen

Video Post-Production:
Elisa Chee
Michael Hey
Sean McConkey

Voice Direction: Rob Bakewell

 

Brad Swaile as Sai

Samuel Vincent as Hikaru

Scott Perrie as Akira

Alexandra Carter as Asumi

Alec Willows as Dake

Alistair Abell as
Atsushi Kurata
Kuno

Andrew Francis as Koji Saeki

Andrew Kavadas as
Domoto
Zama

Andrew Toth as
Eiji Komiya
Kaga

Astrid Varnes as Akiko Toya

Brent Miller as Kaoru Kishimoto

Brian Dobson as Mr. Hirose

Brian Drummond as Yun-sensei

Burkley Duffield as Kosuke Ochi

Cathy Weseluck as
Hikaru's Mother
Yuki

Chantal Strand as Akari

Chris Cound as Hiroyuki Ashiwara (4-Dan)

Chris Gound as Hiroyuki Ashiwara (4Dan) 

Colin Murdock as
Frank (Holland's Representative)
Sakamaki
Sasaki
Soga

Dave Pettitt as Mr. Kawai

David Kopp as Nakamura

David Radford as Kurimoto's Secretary

Don Andrews as Muranishi

Don Brown as
Fukawa
Kyohei Katagari
Sensei Kakimoto

Eli Gabay as Shigezo Nakamura

Elizabeth Savenkoff as Waya's Mother

Erika Lo as Su-yong Hong

Fred Keating as Ginguji

French Tickner as Honinbou Kuwabara

Hiro Kanagawa as Rinshin Li

Jim Yi as Liu

John Murphy as Shinoda

Justine Wong as
Kumiko Tsuda
Le-Ping

Keith Miller as Kimihiro

Kelly Sheridan as
Harumi Ichikawa
Ms. Ichikawa

Kirby Morrow as Ito

Kristian Ayre as Shinichiro Isumi

Kyle Tejpar as Hitoshi Koike

Lila Atherley as Convenience Store Cashier (ep 23)

Marcy Goldberg as Morishita's Wife

Maryke Hendrikse as Mitani's Sister

Matt Smith as Kojima

Matthew Erickson as Yoshitaka Waya

Michael Adamthwaite as
Ogata
Ryo Iijima

Michael Coleman as Mitsuru Mashiba

Michael Dobson as Mr. Shu

Michael Donovan as
Amano
Toshiro Tsubaki
Tsuzuki

Miguelito Andaluz as Yang-Hai

Nathan Tipple as Fuku

Paul Dobson as Toya Meijin

Pauline Newstone as Mrs. Fukawa

Peter New as Tetsuo's Father

Rebecca Shoichet as
Tamako-sensei
Yori Hidaka

Reece Thompson as Kumara

Richard Newman as
Morishita-sensei
Shosuke Kurimoto

Robert O. Smith as Tsuchiya

Ross Douglas as Gokiso

Scott Logie as Toshinori Honda

Scott McNeil as
Grandpa
Shimano

Ted Cole as Michio Shirakawa

Tony Sampson as
Aoki
Matsuura
Natsume

Trevor Devall as
America's Representative
Kosuke's Grandfather
Toshiki Adachi

Ward Perry as Mr. Akota

English companies 

ADR Production: The Ocean Group

Broadcaster:
Animax-asia (Hong Kong)
iaTV

Internet Streaming: Toonami Jetstream

Licensed by: Viz Media

Recording Studio: Ocean Studios (under the name of Westwood)

Translation: JN Productions

French staff 
French cast 

Theme Song Performance: Antoine Blanc

 

Adeline Moreau as Hidaka

Benjamin Pascal as Tsutsui

Benoit Dupac as Ito

Cyrille Artaux as Yun

Didier Cherbuy as Tetsuo Kaga

Fabien Briche as Hikaru Shindo

François Creton as Akira Toya

Guylène Ouvrard as Kôsuke Ochi

Jean-François Vlerick as
Akota
Hirose

Jessica Barrier as Akari

Nathalie Bleynie as Ichikawa

Pascal Casanova as Dake

Pascal Germain as Saï

Pascal Novak as Ogata

Patrick Bethune as Koyo Toya

Stéphane Ronchewski as
Chirakawa
Kishimoto

Vincent Debouard as Akarmura

Vincent Violette as Shu

Yann Pichon as Kojima

French companies 

Distributor: Déclic Images

Dubbing: Studio Lincoln

Tagalog staff 
Tagalog cast 

Dubbing Director: JING MANIPOL LANZONA

Script:
Angelo Crisolo
Jimmy Manato

 

Robert Brillantes as Sai Fujiwara

Ahlee Reyes as Asumi Nase

Angelo Crisolo as Yuuta Fukui

Christian Alvear as
Kousuke Ochi
Yuuki Mitani

Don Sanmaniego as
Seiji Ogata
Shinichirou Isumi

Ely Martin as Toshinori Honda

Gerald Narciso as Waya Yoshitaka (Zelda)

Jimmy Manato as Kouyou Touya (Master Touya)

ROXANNE MANATO as Akari Fujisaki

Allan Ortega as
Hiroyuki Ashiwara
Hitoshi Koike
Toshio Tsubaki

Angelo Crisolo as KAZUO & KURATA & MASTER KUHABARA HONINBO (GMA7)

Charvie Abeletes as
Harumi Ichikawa
Mitani's Sister

Christian Alvear as
AKIRA TOUYA
Li Peng
Suyon Hon

Don Sanmaniego as Mishio Shirakawa

Ed Belo as
Gosiko
Sai's Rival
Zama

Ely Martin as
Kazuo Morishita
Yanghai

Erika Cardeño as Kumoko Tsuda

Jenny Bituin as Shigeko Morishita

MAYBEL as KATA

Robert Briliantes as SAI

Robert Brillantes as Yun-Sensei

Roger Aquino as Kawai-san

ROXANNE MANATO as AKARI

STEVEN BONTOGON as HIKARU SHINDOU

Tagalog companies 

Broadcaster: QTV Channel 11 (November 27, 2006)

Dubbing: ALTA Productions

 
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