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xinyuehui · 1 year

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My name is Shi Guang. I’m 18 years old. There’s nothing special about me, but I have an extraordinary friend. Our story, that time when I felt like I had help sent from above. It all started in that summer many years ago. That’s when we started to become inseparable.

5/5 Go Day with Qi Hun│Hikaru No G●

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welcometothejianghu · 9 months

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Hey, you! You should watch Hikaru no Go!

Welcome to another round of W2 Tells You What You Should See, where W2 (me) tries to sell you (you) on something you should be watching. Today's choice: Hikaru no Go/Qi Hun/棋魂.

Based on the manga of the same name, this drama is the Chinese live-action adaptation of a story about a boy who plays Go, the spirit only he can see who teaches him how to play Go, and all the friends and enemies he meets along his journey to become a good Go player.

...Wait, no, come back. I swear it's more interesting than that makes it sound.

What it is, is a character-driven tale of a charming young boy who, among a bunch of weird and wonderful people who love him, grows up to be a charming young man.

(You see how his shirt says SWEETIE CUTIE? That is because he is a sweetie cutie.)

It's a sports manga, so you've got Training Montages and The Big Game and all sorts of tense moments like that. But there's also lots of fun, gentle plotlines that are equal parts tearjerking and heartwarming. It is incredibly written, act, and produced, and I can't believe that it's not more popular, because it's so good.

Here are five reasons you should watch it:

1: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Word of Honor is merely the second gayest thing I have ever seen a c-drama do. Hikaru no Go is gayer by an order of magnitude.

I think the way they got it past censorship was by saying, oh no, this isn't gay, it's just a sports rivalry! But come on, what do you mean sports rivalries aren't gay, have you seen how all those Canadian and US hockey players keep marrying one another? This is that. This is the tale of two boys who've been in love since they were seven figuring out that they've been in love since they were seven.

(And speaking of seven-year-olds, the kid casting is amazing.)

I mean:

This is an actual still from the show.

So is this.

These are not taken out of context. The context would make them gayer. That's how gay they are for each other.

But you know what the best part is? They're not the only pairing. And I don't just mean this like, oh, here's two other cute boys, you can imagine the times they kiss -- I mean, the show itself has its own ships! Ships you wouldn't expect! Intergenerational gay Go solidarity!

Now here's the catch: You have to wait for it. But oh boy, the payoff had us clutching our heads and screaming as quietly as we could because it was after midnight and we were losing our minds.

That last episode!! You have to see it to believe it!!!

2: EMOTIONS!

Bring the tissues. There are parts where it was kinda hard for me to watch because I was sobbing.

Because it's a sports manga, there are lots of triumphs and tragedies. Not everybody can make it to The Big Game. Not everybody gets to live out their dreams. Sometimes you try your hardest and it's not good enough. Sometimes you play your best and you still lose. Some people have to give up on what they love. Some people who were there with us at the beginning don't get to make it with us to the end.

What really makes it is that the show sits with its emotions. Events will affect people's emotional states for multiple episodes to follow. People who have sadness don't just snap out of it. Loving someone doesn't automatically fix them. Shit's hard!

Of course, this contrast makes the triumphs even more wonderful. I will tell you that the show has a happy ending, but not always the ending you would expect would have been their happy ending. It is overall an incredibly uplifting show. You'll need tissues for that, too.

3: (Nearly) Everything Is Pretty Dang Normal

Part of what I mean by that is that while a lot of the actors are real pretty, they're also done up in ways where, like, if you met this person on the street, you would think, this person is pretty! and not, what the hell fancy-ass magazine cover did you just step off of?

Look at these normal goobers:

There are two exceptions to this. The first is Chu Ying, because he is a ghost energy being from the distant past, and ghosts energy beings from the distant past get astonishing eyeliner.

The second is Fang Xu, because his actor, Han Mubo, is an actual idol. Congratulations on your face, sir.

However, I also mean that the story is delightfully mundane. Sure, there's that one supernatural element to it, but everything else is just a regular story about regular people who have regular human problems. There are characters who disappoint their parents and mentors, struggle to pay their bills, try to balance school and extracurricular activities, have crushes, argue with teachers, flake on responsibilties, get lost in the woods, and do some pretty normal human things. Nobody's avenging anyone or trying to slay anything. It's just people being people.

It's even a bit of a period piece -- the show starts out in 1997, then jumps forward to the late '00s, so everything's just charmingly slightly outdated. Damn, I love everybody's flip phones.

4: Actually Good Television

Okay, if you like c-dramas, you know they can be ... janky. Episodes sometimes end practically in the middle of sentences. CG leaves much to be desired. Obvious cuts and last-minute overdubbing really stand out. You can tell where the censorship mandates got in there and started mucking around with things. That kind of jank.

This show feels different. It feels like someone thought out each episode, start to finish, and then created each piece to fit that vision. Every episode even has a title and beautiful title card. They start and end in dramatically logical places. The cinematography isn't anything particularly artful or experimental, but it's solid and clean and lovely. (And if you're sick of shows so dark you can't see them, you've got no worries here.)

The CG in the show is unobtrusive, and most of it is spent making Chu Ying subtly transparent.

There are a bunch of secondary characters, but to me that never felt overwhelming. Most of them are interesting, three-dimensional characters, no matter how short their screen time is. And while there definitely could have been more female characters, the show itself is pretty open about how sexism in the Go world means that it's mostly a boys' club -- and the ladies that are there are great.

In short, this is a show you can show to people who don't have c-drama brain and thus are less inclined to overlook some of the more cringeworthy aspects of their productions. I bet that your Average American Television Enjoyer Who Can Handle Subtitles would have no trouble getting into the groove of it, which I imagine could be very useful for those of you who have people you'd like to watch c-dramas with, except you don't feel like stopping every five minutes to apologize for one thing or another.

5: Better Than The Source Material?

This is the point where I have to admit that I myself have never read the manga or seen the anime. I came into this with only the vaguest familiarity with the source material. I can only tell you that the live-action drama is good; I can't swear that it's better.

However, @jianghootinandhollerin can speak to this comparison more authoritatively than I:

When I was 20, Hikaru no Go (manga) was my favorite thing, the primary obsession, the source of multiple livejournal themes, custom winamp skins, and a fanfic where Hikaru got a go stone stuck up his nose. Because of this deep love in my history, I was dubious about a live action version and the changes it made, but hey, turns out, those changes were exactly what the 20 years older version of me needed. This version of the story benefits so much from having the full, completed story to work from from the outset. The manga didn't know where it was ending when it started, but this show got to, and the story gets to be richer and the characters' stories get to be deeper thanks to that. And also, very importantly: everyone is older and much, much gayer.

Look, I understand if "but it's not the original manga/anime" is a dealbreaker for you. There are adaptations of things I can't watch because no matter how good the end product may be, I'm going to hold it against it that it's not the source I'd rather be seeing, and that's not a fair standard. That's fine. It happens.

But if you can, give this a go (pun unintended). It does not replace the original thing; it is a different take on the same idea. And yeah, it's one that really speaks to me here, on the other side of forty as I am. Maybe I would have missed it at twenty, but the person I am now really respects its attitude that while Being The Best is all well and good, it is not the only thing, and it is absolutely not more important than being yourself and doing what you love with the people you love. Sometimes you peak and can't advance anymore, so you become a teacher, and you know what, that's better than okay, that's actually pretty great. (Do I overidentify with Bai Chuan? Listen: maybe.)

Have I convinced you to watch it yet?

You can watch it on iQiyi, or you can watch it on iQiyi's YouTube channel. I hope you love it as much as I do.

#hikaru no go #qi hun #棋魂 #rec post #i made this #because I love these go boys #meta

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extraordinarilyextreme · 3 months

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this scene from 棋魂 ep. 34 but as fanghua bc oh my fckn god 😭😭😭

Is it because I didn't learn well enough? How could you leave just like that? I already have not seen you in a very long time. Is it that, in order to see you again, I have to wait another ten years?

(also booo to 🥝 subtitles lol)

#mysterious lotus casebook #莲花楼 #fanghua #fang duobing #li lianhua #does anyone else see my vision. PLEASE. does someone see my vision #MY POOR XIAOGUANG AND XIAOBAO #hikaru no go #棋魂 #guangying

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save-the-data · 5 months

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HIKARU NO GO | S01E26

Chinese Drama - 2020, 36 episodes

#Drama: Hikaru no Go #CDrama #Sports #Bromance #Friendship #Comedy #Adapted from a Manga #Hikaru No Go #棋魂 #Hu Xian Xu #Zhang Chao #Hao Fu Shen #Han Mu Bo

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mm-yy · 9 months

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我虽然离开了，

但我始终都在。

#Cdrama #Hikaru no Go #Qi Hun #Shi Guang #Chu Ying #棋魂 #时光 #褚嬴 #my art #mm-yy

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anonymouscatloaf · 7 months

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"one piece was the first good anime live action"

LIVE ACTION HIKARU NO GO ERASURE

#hikaru no go #qi hun #棋魂 #one piece #listen. listen i was OBSESSED with hng back in the day #watching the LA made me relive my middle school years crying over sai's departure #okay im p sure the fandom for hng/qh is nonexistent at this point but. still.#mentally a part of me will always be crying abt sai/chuying's departure #cat talks

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decrescendo · 2 days

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fanvid: "Here's to Never Growing Up" (Qihun/Hikaru no Go) For @cdrama-action, a (still ongoing) fundraiser for Gaza. This is a fill for @aartireadsalot's prompt: "Shi Guang/Yu Liang go-themed wedding day" The idea is for Shi Guang and Yu Liang's wedding to be a Go tournament, but I lost track of the plot oops haha AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55457668

#qihun #qi hun #cdramaedit #hikaru no go #棋魂 #guangliang

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rose-tinted-vision · 6 days

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Written for the @cdrama-action event, requested by @aartireadsalot :)

(Donations are still open if you would like to request a piece of fanwork from me or other creators!!)

Fandom: Hikaru no Go | Qi Hun (棋魂)

Relationship: Shi Guang & Yu Liang, Shi Guang & Chu Ying, Shi Guang/Yu Liang

Summary:

“I lost my fan,” Shi Guang finally admits, voice small. Oh. Yu Liang realises with a pang, because he knows. It was no secret that Shi Guang’s fan meant a lot to him. He never told anyone the reason he carried it with him, but it rarely–if ever– left his side.

#this was a fun prompt to work with!!#sorry that it isn't explicitly shippy though #hikaru no go #shi guang #yu liang #guangliang #qi hun #棋魂 #rose writes

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myhamartiaishubris · 1 year

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The Chinese Hikaru no Go theme song goes so hard actually??

#hikaru no go #qi hun #棋魂

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asa2705 · 5 months

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I'm trying to watch Hikaru no Go (2020) or 棋魂/Qi Hun because everyone were praising it so much, but I'm having such a hard time doing it. Everyone is just annoying, mostly. Every change here just made me to like characters less. I barely can sympathize with anyone here.

I don't see it being faithful to the original. I'm actually completelly fine with the changes in the adaptations in general. But changes here seems like missed the point. I'm not sure I can finish it, although I'm trying to give it a chance.

I can hardly like a character who has completely opposite reaction from the character I liked.

#hikaru no go #qi hun #棋魂

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my-otp-list · 2 years

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Okay, so, was anyone going to tell me about Hikaru No Go’s live action or was I supposed to find out about it myself?

Because this drama is outrageously stellar. 10/10 would recommend.

Like, I slept on this drama for 1.5 years, partly because of the unappealing poster, plus I don’t particularly look out for this genre. And, let’s be honest, was anyone seriously expecting anything from a Chinese adaptation of a manga?

Then I clicked on ep1 out of boredom one day and the next 35 episodes happened in exactly one week. Yupe, you got the gist.

(btw, there isn’t any heterosexual explanation for the screenshots above, I’m kinda just putting them here for aesthetic purposes) I mean, two boys staring at each other over a classroom window with flying petals in the background?

#hikaru no go #qi hun #棋魂 #bromance drama #bromance recommendation #i may do a longer review later but for now let me marvel at how i slept on this gem for so long #you see I dont *actually* like sports drama and I almost always avoid coming-of-age or school life dramas #but this #the friendship the coming of age the teenage angst #this hits all the spots in the most wonderful ways #also hands down one of the best acting FROM THE ENTIRE CAST that i ve ever seen in C-dramas #and yes I read the manga 1.5 decades ago #this is how adaptations should be made

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cpopjukebox · 2 years

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#我们的冒险 #曹寅 #棋魂 #our adventure #cao yin #hikaru no go #soundtrack #2020 #20s

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welcometothejianghu · 1 year

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To those who might accuse me of Chu Ying erasure, I note that his sexuality is Go and as such cannot be plotted on the grid provided.

#hikaru no go #qi hun #棋魂 #i made this #shitposting is soothing to me

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extraordinarilyextreme · 3 months

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i can't stop thinking about this scene in ep. 36 of 棋魂

SG tells CY not to worry because "even if i don't have you, i can still continue living on." yet he continually peeks at CY's face to check his reaction, 分明就是小朋友嘴硬的行为啊......

he continues to act nonchalant, telling CY about what's happened since he left, going so far as to say, "that you left without a goodbye—i don't blame you." he keeps up this detached facade for as long as he can...

...until CY gets up to leave. then SG's defenses crumble all over again. he can't pretend anymore:

"where are you going?"

leaping to his feet: "say something!"

voice strangled with tears: "let's not play this game of disappearing anymore, okay?"

那么小、那么可怜、那么赤诚的小朋友是真的无法继续装下去的....... and neither can CY. so when he turns around, he doesn't dare to look at his xiao-Guang's heartbroken expression.

and then CY gives his fan to SG, neither of them able to meet the other's eyes.

睹物思人："xiao-Guang, although i've left, i am always here." (ep. 34)

then CY bows, and smiles to himself. "to have had this chance to encounter you is the greatest fortune of Chu Ying's three lives." (ep. 32)

and only when he is certain, absolutely certain, that SG is not looking at him—does he dare to steal a glance.

如今的褚赢早也不执着神之一手了，师父现在最放心不下的人就只有他最疼爱的小徒弟了：影（赢）子的出现是因为有光。

finally, as CY turns and disappears, we see a guqin left behind in his wake.

知音啊：“我就住在你心里，我知道你是怎么想的。” (ep. 13)

亦师亦友亦知己，半尊半慕半倾心：这就是时光与褚赢之间的羁绊。

all this to say, 褚赢你给我回来啊！小光还需要你呢......

"you asked me what a thousand years is. a thousand years... a thousand years is when someone tells you, 'if only every day from now on were like today, how nice that would be'—and then he disappears. every day after that is a thousand years." (ep. 34)

— 小光，别怕。山水有重逢：月亮一直都在，而褚赢也依然的在。

“我怎么可能会离你而去呢？” / how could i possibly part from and leave you behind?

“我已经很久没见你了。是不是想见你还要再等上一千年？” / i already have not seen you in a very long time. is it that, in order to see you again, i have to wait another thousand years? “小光，这一千年的滋味你又何尝知道？” / xiao-Guang, this taste of a thousand years—how could you know it? “只要你愿意回来，我什么都可以不要。” / as long as you're willing to come back, i won't want for anything else. “比起想念来，千年又何其长；比起相见来，千年又何其短。” / how endless a thousand years feels when longing for you, how short a thousand years feels when we are together. (ep. 34)

#棋魂 #hikaru no go #cdrama ramblings #guangying #chu ying #shi guang #cross-posted from twitter bc im so miserable about them right now

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save-the-data · 9 months

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