Hikaru no Go 10
Posted: December 23, 2007 Filed under: Hikaru no Go Leave a comment »More of the Pro tournament, and the competition carries on through the end of the volume, so the three people who will go pro has yet to be decided. Most of the major characters take a loss after waging intense psychological battles with themselves, including Hikaru, Ochi, and Isumi.
Ochi is getting trained by professional Go players while going through the tournament. Akira gets invited over at one point, and Ochi promptly throws him out when he starts asking too many questions about Hikaru. He’s… invited back later, though, and Akira explains to him why Hikaru shouldn’t be underestimated.
Intense Go action! I don’t have much more to say about it now, but the series is still just as excellent as ever. The main draw in this volume is seeing how all the characters deal with loss and how it affects their games afterwards. Hikaru takes one game particularly hard. Though it was his win, he struggles with whether or not he would have won had he not said something… basically he didn’t win because he was necessarily better at Go.
