List of Hikaru no Go chapters
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story manga
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, based on the board game
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Go
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, written by Yumi Hotta
Yumi Hotta
is a Japanese manga artist, born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1957.Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, about the game of go that is widely credited for the recent boom of the game in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta...
and illustrated by Takeshi Obata
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is a Japanese manga artist. He works as the artist in collaboration with a writer. He has also mentored several manga artists, including Kentaro Yabuki of Black Cat fame, Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin and Busou Renkin, and Yusuke Murata of Eyeshield 21.He originally became noticed in 1985...
. The series was published Shueisha
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in its Weekly Shōnen Jump
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magazine from 1998 to 2003 and the 189 serialized chapters were collected in 23 tankōbon
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volumes.
The series has been adapted
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by Studio Pierrot
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as a 75-episode anime
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television series, with a broadcast between 2001 and 2003 on TV Tokyo
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