About this series
Hikaru Shindo is just a normal 12 year old Japanese boy. One day, he's rumaging through his Grandfather's things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old Go board. A ghostly apparation appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Sai Fujiwara, a man who was a Go instructor to the emperor of Japan a thousand years ago. However, because of bad sportsmanship during a game, Sai was accused of cheating and banashied from the city. With no livelihood or any other reason to live, Sai commited suicide by drowning himself. Now, he haunts a Go board, and wants to accomplish the perfect Go game, called the "Hand of God" which he hopes to do through Hikaru. If Hikaru will be able to do it or not (or even wants to) will have to be seen.
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Product Details
- Genre:Drama
- Rating:11+
- Language:English
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- Released By:Viz
- Release Date: 5/31/2004
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Product Description
Young Shindoh Hikaru is much like many young boys his age except for one small thing... he communicates with a ghost!
A long time ago, during the Heian period, a man named Fujiwara no Sai was a skilled and cunning player of the popular Chinese game Go. After surrending to an unfortuante fate, he finds his soul bound to Earth until he attains completely masters the game.
Now relying on young Hikaru to help him attain his goal, a pairing is created that might be mutually beneficial...
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