Happy Hikago Day!!!!!
May. 5th, 2009 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Hello,
hikarunogo!
On this most special day, to celebrate Dreamwidth, Hikago fandom *on* Dreamwidth, and to celebrate, of course, our favorite Go players, here by request is the 3rd annual
TOP 5 MEME !
Previous incarnations are here and here!
How to play:
- comment here, and I and/or other people will ask you for one of your top-5 Hikago related things! Like, it could be 'top 5 favorite fics,' top 5 favorite characters, top 5 favorite sexually-suggestive go positions, AND SO FORTH. anything/everything you guys can think of!
Ready? LET'S FIVE!
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
On this most special day, to celebrate Dreamwidth, Hikago fandom *on* Dreamwidth, and to celebrate, of course, our favorite Go players, here by request is the 3rd annual
Previous incarnations are here and here!
How to play:
- comment here, and I and/or other people will ask you for one of your top-5 Hikago related things! Like, it could be 'top 5 favorite fics,' top 5 favorite characters, top 5 favorite sexually-suggestive go positions, AND SO FORTH. anything/everything you guys can think of!
Ready? LET'S FIVE!
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Date: 2009-05-06 08:51 pm (UTC)* Hikaru’s epiphany in the book room at the Institute, when he finally acknowledges the fact that Sai is gone (which he has known all along) and realises both Sai’s genius and a good many things about himself, and about love and respect. This is one of the key scenes of the series; so important to Hikaru's development not only as a go player but as a person.
* The game between Hikaru and Isumi at the Shindou house, when Hikaru finds Sai in his game – so powerful and moving.
* Drunk Ogata! I’m seriously in love with Ogata anyway and his good-natured, honest, drunken insistence only makes me love him more. The scene is hilarious and heartbreakingly sad at the same time, sad both for the knowledge that Sai will soon be gone and because the whole scene somehow underlines Ogata's loneliness.
* When Sai disappears. It's so beautifully done! Hikaru yawning desperately and falling asleep, Sai's half-finished sentence, the emptiness after Sai is gone – just silence and the koi flags flapping in the wind. It’s so true to real life – you don’t get to say goodbye, you don't get to finish things properly, and dramatic and life-changing things happen when you turn your back for a moment (or nod off).
I could easily list another five favourite scenes, but here is one extra little thing – it doesn't count anyway because it’s not actually a scene! It’s only a brief, hilarious moment when Hikaru realises he needs to become an insei to catch up to Touya, and imagines the insei as a big room full of Kishimoto clones. It makes me laugh every time!
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Date: 2009-05-06 09:10 pm (UTC)