Hikaru no Go Complete Episodes Review

There are spoilers in this text. If you did not watched this anime already then please consider. Anyway, if you are like me spending time to search for what anime to watch, then do not worry just read.

I really liked those series, however i do not understand the way professional sportsman live. That means i just do not understand how someone can spent many time on unproductive activities. On the other hand i do watch much anime, which is not productive way to spend your time. One thing is to play few parties in chess with friend, but spending all your free time to study parties of the masters, or playing out educational parties etc. It’s just too much for me. Although striving to become the best in their field of activity resonates in my heart. Moreover, unlike the „Air master“ series, very clearly shown, that talent alone is not enough, if you want to make it to the top, you have to work and work very hard.

Two times i were afraid that how Authors can make ending of the series very bad. When in 45 episode where shown only the end of exam to become professional, i started to think how can Shindo in remaining 30 episodes will not make it to strong opponents. Yet he is newbie in the Go world and do not have built up reputation. And when in the end, after dramatic Sai disappearance, they started to show „what was before“  and about Isumi, I thought that manga just ended and Anime creators do not know what to do further. All my fears were completely dispelled by those anime series. Sai played with Meijin, Hikaru with Akira, and ending turned out quite complete. I do not know how much it differs with manga, but i think it was really good.

In the beginning, i was annoyed by school tournament episodes, when Hikaru wanted to test his own strength playing with Akira. First, it appears that Akira were suffering for nothing in school club. Akira wanted to play with Sai, not with Hikaru. Secondly, how can weakest participant of the weakest team can measure his strength versus most powerfully Go player in his age category. But when i calmed down, i understood that this little accident made great job on plot overall. One thing is to show your ability in you school club, where no one will remembers this game, other thing is to try to do this on the tournament, where enough qualified witnesses. And starting from the beginning after brilliant game for Hikaru would be rather troublesome.