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Originally Posted by raikage
Mm. I'm inclined to disagree.
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Firstly, to answer your question, the anime stayed consistent with the manga. They did feature Isumi training in China.
When choosing between too much or too little, I'm glad the manga/anime team went with too little. Better to leave them wanting more, than overstay your welcome. The series could easily have gone on forever, as Hikaru battles Akira again and again and again, while the two move up through the ranks and win/lose various titles. If Akira was only a mid-boss (and I thought it was made clear that Akira would be a main character, and that the series had few villains) it would have ballooned from 75 episodes to 125 easy.
Hikaru is and will always be maybe 1/8th of a step behind Akira. Just enough to where if Touya even slows down, Shindou will pass him. And personally, I like that Hikaru doesn't always win. When he's outclassed (when battling Akira very early on in the series, or taking on his tutor Morishima-sensei) he loses. Akira also loses to top-level pro and his sempai Ogata, lost his new-pro match, and lost an off-screen battle for a title.
I generally don't like shows where the protagonist always wins.
The "Hand of God" was very open to interpretation, but I believe it to be a state where every single move you make is the absolute correct one. To draw from Initial D, it's like being Takumi, where every line you take is THE right one (despite there being endless lines to choose from in a turn) and you begin braking at exactly the right time and you let off the brakes and onto the accelerator at exactly the right time to get the best time. In every turn on the course.
Re: Sai dying. It seemed to parallel real life a bit more, in that people die every day having not fulfilled everything they could. The would-be director who passes away during the making of a film. A parent who dies before the child graduates from high school.
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I totally agree with you.
Hikaru no Go is fatefull to the manga and to me one of the best Anime's ever made.
it really makes you want more of it and I think that with the 76'st episode 2004 new years special it makes for a decent edning of the show too.
even though I would have love to see the japan-China-Korea u18 tournament
but still I love HnG