CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

PostPosted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:16 pm**

Hikaru no Go the anime is coming to the States in December. Are you ready? I love the manga and I hope the anime is just as good. Has anyone seen it yet (via fansubs or something?)

PostPosted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:00 pm**

(Seriously? There's going to be an anime? Wow. My siblings will be really excited.)

(Now that I know about it, I can't wait. I've read the first two volumes of the manga, with the third at the library as I type this, and am really enjoying it. Now my siblings wish to play go, and I've been working on becoming a stronger player so I can teach them.)

PostPosted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:50 pm**

Hey, I'm excited too! I've read some of the manga, and it was great. It even got me to play Go online. I'd like to get a real board, but no one would play with me lol.

PostPosted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:48 pm**

I've seen the anime and loved it. I've only read a few of the manga, but the anime seemed to follow the first few pretty closely. The only thing I didn't like about the anime was the ending. It was kind of an ending that wasn't an ending. Kind of like Full Metal Alchemist where you're left with a 'that's it?!? You've got to be kidding me!!!' sort of a reation. But you just couldn't beat the character development and story up until then. Maybe the manga had a better ending?

PostPosted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:32 am**

Ah, perhaps. I've only read the first 2 or 3 graphic novels, so I can't say. It should be a fun anime to watch here and there on tv though. Do you think CN will get it, or someone else?

PostPosted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:42 am**

Shao Feng-Li wrote:Hikaru no Go the anime is coming to the States in December. Are you ready? I love the manga and I hope the anime is just as good. Has anyone seen it yet (via fansubs or something?)

What's your source for this? Who's handling the English version? Where's it airing?

PostPosted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:45 pm**

"On December 27, Viz will release Hikaru no Go volume 1. The DVD will contain 4 episodes, in English and Japanese with English subtitles and will cost $24.98."

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=7607

(I have no clue if it's going to be aired on TV, though...)

PostPosted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:13 pm**

Even though my B-day is Dec. 4, that would be a perfect present... I can't wait to see it!

PostPosted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:28 pm**

ree namuras wrote:"On December 27, Viz will release Hikaru no Go volume 1. The DVD will contain 4 episodes, in English and Japanese with English subtitles and will cost $24.98."

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=7607

(I have no clue if it's going to be aired on TV, though...)

It's pretty depressing how Viz is handling the Shounen Jump DVDs :/ Well this one is billingual (a GOOD thing...) while Naruto is seperately dubbed/subbed and then there's the dub only One Piece... most likely due to Toei's oyness :/

PostPosted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:52 pm**

It's extremely unlikely that HnG will be considered for TV at all. A show based on a strategic board game that most Americans no nothing about will get terrible ratings.

Hikaru no Go does have some catchy openings and endings.

PostPosted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:46 pm**

*wonders if they'll make Sai a girl in the dub* XD

PostPosted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:49 pm**

Shao Feng-Li wrote:*wonders if they'll make Sai a girl in the dub* XD

Well if they're uncut DVDs and will NOT be airing on TV they wouldn't be. ...even if he is feminish I can actually SEE them leaving him like that in the dub. It's not like there's any hint of well, anything past his efete personality :/

...although I'm sure a line like "I lost a round of Go and killed myself!" WOULD get cut out if aired on TV... probably.

PostPosted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:10 pm**

..although I'm sure a line like "I lost a round of Go and killed myself!" WOULD get cut out if aired on TV... probably.

Probrably. :lol:

Then again, what a silly reason to kill yourself, even if you had no other skills... Hmm...

I don't think there's anything to cut anyway.

PostPosted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:20 am**

Well, Haku is still a boy in Naruto...

PostPosted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:11 pm**

True. I was mostly kidding though.

PostPosted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:42 pm**

Received the first episode of Hikaru no Go via the most recent issue of Shonen Jump.

Dub is fine although I admit that I don't have the sub to compare it to.

PostPosted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:54 pm**

Preview DVD I take it?

PostPosted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:18 pm**

Yes.

Sai sounds basically how he looks.