Hikaru no Go (2001)

Name: Hikaru no Go
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 2001-10-10
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Tomoko Kawakami, Susumu Chiba, Sanae Kobayashi, Yumi Kakazu, Makoto Tsumura

AnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy

Hikaru Shindo is like any sixth-grader in Japan: a pretty normal kid with a two-tone head of hair and a penchant for antics. His life completely changes when he finds an old bloodstained go board in his grandfather's attic. The ghost of an ancient go master named Fujiwara-no-Sai was trapped in the board and soon becomes a part of Hikaru's consciousness. Together Hikaru and Sai make an unstoppable go-playing team!

First Air Date: October 10, 2001
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 75
Rating: 7.6/10 (49 votes)

Cast: Tomoko Kawakami, Susumu Chiba, Sanae Kobayashi, Yumi Kakazu, Makoto Tsumura, Kentaro Ito, Yuu Asakawa, Mayumi Asano

Network: TV Tokyo

Production: TV Tokyo, dentsu, Pierrot

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Seasons

Season 1

30 episodes

2001

Season 2

30 episodes

2002

Season 3

15 episodes

2002

Full Cast (20 people)

Tomoko Kawakami as Hikaru Shindō (voice)
Susumu Chiba as Fujiwara no Sai (voice)
Sanae Kobayashi as Akira Toya (voice)
Yumi Kakazu as Akari Fujisaki (voice)
Makoto Tsumura as Kimihiro Tsutsui (voice)
Kentaro Ito as Tetsuo Kaga (voice)
Yuu Asakawa as Yuki Mitani (voice)
Mayumi Asano as Okumura (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai as Kaoru Kishimoto (voice)
Reiko Takagi as Yoshitaka Waya (voice)
Kenichi Suzumura as Isumi Shinichirou (voice)
Yoko Matsuoka as Kosuke Ochi (voice)
Atsuko Enomoto as Asumi Nase (voice)
Wasabi Mizuta as Yuuta Fukui (voice)
Eizo Tsuda as Kouyou Touya (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara as Seiji Ogata (voice)
Rokuro Naya as Honinbo Kuwabara (voice)
Eriko Fujimaki as Shi Zhao (voice)
Satsuki Yukino as Ichikawa-san (voice)
Eriko Kawasaki as Mitani's Sister (voice)

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Hikaru no Go

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Hikaru no Go

23 min

3 seasons

23 min

Networks & Studios

Networks

Production Companies

Show Information

StatusEnded

TypeScripted

First Aired10/10/2001

Last Aired3/26/2003

Seasons3

Episodes75

LanguageJapanese

CountryJapan

Creators & Crew

Seasons

Episodes

23m

Per Episode

2001

First Aired

Keywords

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Cast

Tomoko Kawakami

as Hikaru Shindō (voice)

Susumu Chiba

as Fujiwara no Sai (voice)

Sanae Kobayashi

as Akira Toya (voice)

Yumi Kakazu

as Akari Fujisaki (voice)

Makoto Tsumura

as Kimihiro Tsutsui (voice)

Kentaro Ito

as Tetsuo Kaga (voice)

Yuu Asakawa

as Yuki Mitani (voice)

Mayumi Asano

as Okumura (voice)

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