Let's Five! 2013 Edition

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It's May 5th, which can mean only one thing... Cinco de Mayo? Pfft! Children's Day? Bah! Happy HikaGo Day, everyone!

Suggested by Hotta Yumi herself and first executed by Aja, HikaGo Day is an opportunity for us to roll around in our feels and remember why we love this series so much.

Five HikaGo events that occurred on or around May 5th:

1. In 1829, Kuwabara Torajirou (Hon'inbou Shuusaku) was born (according to the old lunar calendar that was in use during his lifetime)
2. In 1999, it was about this time that Akari caught Mitani drawing in the correct answer to the tsumego on the Haze go club's recruitment poster
3. In 2000, Hikaru had just been promoted to 16th in insei group 1, barely in time to participate in the Wakajishi tournament
4. In 2001, Sai disappeared and Hikaru began his quest to find him again
5. In 2002, Hikaru and the rest of Team Japan faced Ko Yeongha and the rest of Team Korea in the Hokuto Cup

Five ways you can celebrate Hikaru no Go:

1. Sign up to participate in the epic manga reread that will be going on all through the year!
2. Pop in a DVD or pull out your fansubs and rewatch the anime!
3. Leave a prompt or a fill on the current kinkmeme!
4. Come hang out in the community chatroom!
5. Join in with your own set of five below!

How to play:

• Comment on this post with a list topic!
  e.g., "Five Reasons Why Ochi Is Better Than Yashiro", "Five Times Shindou Almost Got Waya Arrested", "Five Things That Irritate Ogata The Most", "Five Foods That Kurata 7-dan Absolutely Will Not Eat", "Five Most Epic Butt Shots In The Manga (With Incontrovertible Evidence!)"
• Comment on a topic with your responses!

Don't worry if someone else answered it first; the more, the merrier!

Wanna see what we did in previous years?
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

LET'S FIVE!

Comments

Five Reasons Why Ochi Is Better Than Yashiro

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Re: Five Reasons Why Ochi Is Better Than Yashiro

[ochibot]

1. Yashirobot just doesn't have the same kind of ring to it.
2. Ochi doesn't need to choose between further education or furthering his Go career, he has sufficient organisation skills and level of intelligence to cover both easily.
3. Yashiro would have taken the opportunity, his pride be damned; you have to take advantage of any opportunity as it presents itself, least it backfire and you miss out.
4. As Yashiro didn't get to witness the imbecilic nature that required many years of work and forced socialization by Waya, to chip away, he hasn't yet developed enough perspective to truly, deeply, appreciate how important it is to mock Shindou at every opportunity.
5. Despite the fact that Yashiro tries very hard to make and leave an impression on others, Yashiro cares too deeply about what others think of him to really let lose or say what he actually thinks.

Five Times Shindou Almost Got Waya Arrested

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Five reasons Yashiro won't answer Hikaru's phone calls any more.

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1. Shindou took an obnoxious picture of himself with Yashiro's phone and saved it as his contact photo
2. Shindou keeps butt-dialing Yashiro while he and Touya are arguing over go
3. Shindou keeps butt-dialing Yashiro while he and Touya are making out
4. Shindou keeps butt-dialing Yashiro while he and Touya are doing more than making out
5. Yashiro just wants to pretend that he doesn't know Shindou at all

Five Things That Irritate Ogata The Most

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Re: Five Things That Irritate Ogata The Most

[ochibot]

According to the grapevine, things that annoy him greatly include:
(a) Bring up Sai, unless it involves a phone number, or time-slot to play him.
(b) Forums that don't maintain IP logs.
(c) People who indulge Kuwabara-Honinbou's whims one iota more than necessary.
(d) Drunkards who can't keep their red wine to themselves. Ogata considers beer to at least be easy to clean.
(e) For some reason, tenipuri songs?

Who knows, or cares really. I'm just forwarding the information on.

Five Foods That Kurata 7-dan Absolutely Will Not Eat

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Re: Five Foods That Kurata 7-dan Absolutely Will Not Eat

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Kurata has a great appreciation for food, but he can't help but feel a little offended at the implication he can just eat anything. In fact he can think of five things off the top of his head that he won't eat:

1. Anything that was in a competition along the lines of "World's hottest, hot sauce!"
2. Pure fudge - he does have a sweet tooth, but even he needs to draw the line at "56% sugar" undiluted.
3. Root beer. He genuinely doesn't get why his American Friends like the stuff - tastes like medicine.
4. King Fruit - the smell is just too strong.
5. Tinned chicken. He was at first intrigued by the idea, a cheap and efficent method of perserving food, but found that the results left much to be desired.

Five Most Epic Butt Shots In The Manga (With Incontrovertible Evidence!)

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Five times Touya Kouyou raised his voice.

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Five ways Ochi grew out of his irredeemable nerd phase.

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I feel the need to answer this with links:
1.
http://browse.deviantart.com/art/Ochi-crack-68301671
2.
Bishounen Ochi (189 words) by orphan_account
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Isumi Shinichirou/Ochi Kousuke
Characters: Ochi Kousuke, Isumi Shinichirou
Summary:

As Waya helpfully put it "Ochi shot up from being a little snot".

3.
Take One for the Team (3731 words) by Phnx
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ochi Kousuke, Ko Yeong-ha, Waya Yoshitaka, Touya Akira, Isumi Shinichirou, Shindou Hikaru, Hong Suyeong
Summary:

Entry to Round Three of the 2012 Deathmatch Tournament (team: Kawahagi Middle School; pseudonym: akota; theme: umami).

Ochi's never been a team player, but maybe that's because he's never really been part of a team before.

4.
Sticky Fingers (234 words) by mmmdraco
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Underage
Relationships: Ochi Kousuke/Kuwabara Honinbou
Characters: Ochi Kousuke, Kuwabara Honinbou
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:

The new wave is getting more and more exciting to Kuwabara.

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99 Problems But A Girlfriend Ain’t One Of Them. (3959 words) by Qem
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ochi Kousuke & Waya Yoshitaka
Characters: Ochi Kousuke, Waya Yoshitaka
Additional Tags: Queer Themes, Community: blind_go, Bitterness, Rivalry, growing friendship, Not Really Crack
Summary:

Ochi has many problems, but having a girlfriend isn't one of them.

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Five salons at which Hikaru is no longer allowed to play.

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Five makeovers that never really took (on Touya).

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Five hangovers Ogata prefers not to remember.

[mmmdraco]

1) Opening his eyes, Ogata sees his glasses perched precariously on the nightstand. He shoves them on and turns in bed to notice that the nice girl he picked up at the go event last night was the new counter girl from the salon. Shit. He seemed to recall that Kuwabara-san had been encouraging him to drink more, and had possibly even pushed him in the girl's directon. Well, maybe she could get him tea here, too.

2) There's a glass of water on the nightstand... but it's one he doesn't recogize. In fact, neither the glass nor the nightstand is recognizable. He realizes that he is still in his suit, even the jacket, and struggles to sit up. A bottle of pain killers is suddenly slammed down on the table and Ogata glares at the source. Fuck. Ichikawa. "Don't tell... Meijin..."

She laughs and gestures to the water. "I told you to drink that last night, but you didn't. So, the hangover is your own fault." He tries to glare at her, but he was too appreciative of the pain killers which, upon second thought, may have sounded louder than they actually were.

3) His head is pounding fiercely and there's only a vague recollection of playing a game the night before, though he can't even be certain whom he played. His roommate seems to have already packed and gone and Ogata knows that he needs to get up... but at this point he's pretty certain he'll just pay for the cost of the extra night, even though he'll be sure to leave before then. He freezes in bed and forces his eyes open. Sai... There was something about Sai last night. Why the hell couldn't be remember?

4) He knows before he's even opened his eyes that he's with a woman, and can tell by the scent of her a moment later that it's Harumi again. These sleepovers had gotten more common as the years had gone by, to the point that he doesn't really bother with other women anymore. She's comfortable. What isn't comfortable is the light that seems to weld it's way through the tiny slits in his eyelids. He turns onto his side, facing her, and presses his face against her neck. It dulls the light, but doesn't dull the sound of her murmuring "darling" against his ear. Somehow, he can't bring himself to mind.

5) "Old man~" Ogata mutters as he wakes up to his alarm blaring. The wedding is in... he can't even count how many hours it is. But it's later today and he still needs to fill out his half of the paperwork and get showered and dressed. He'd been planing to sleep well the night before, but Kuwabara had ended up dragging him out for "one last drink as a single man" which had ended up being something of a bachelor's party with various other high dan level players insisting on joining him for a drink. It was an interesting send-off considering that Harumi would be flying with him to China as a honeymoon, though he'd be playing in an international tournament there at the same time where he would see several of the same players. Still, he'd been thinking about it recently with the wedding nearly at hand, and had decided that Kuwabara pushing him to drink had gotten him into this relationship in the first place so he couldn't begrudge him the fun just this once. He stretches his arms above his head and frowns, eyes opening wide as he notices writing on his arm. He tries to rub it off with his other hand, but it's permanent. On his left arm... "Property of Harumi". He sighs and hopes that she'll enjoy it, glad it's at least not on his go arm.

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Five fans Hikaru destroyed in a fit of frustration.

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Five nicknames that Ochi secretly doesn't mind.

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Five reasons Waya no longer offers to share anything with Shindou

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Five times that Waya managed to beat Hikaru.

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1. Katamari Damacy
2. sushi speed-eating contest
3. who Isumi likes best ("Really, guys, I like you both. But just, you know, I've known Waya a lot longer than I've known you, Shindou. Also, you're kind of weird sometimes.")
4. getting a girlfriend first
5. getting a girlfriend at all ("Touya doesn't count, Shindou. For one, he'd kick your ass. For another, no self-respecting girl would wear clothes like his.")

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Five times Isumi's butt got noticed more than his Go did.

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Five pranks Saeki pulled on Hikaru.

Five Favorite Touya Akira outfits

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(I will def be posting mine as well haha.)

FIVE FAVORITE PORN FANARTS

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Five times any Hikago character asked another for an awkward sexual favor

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Five characters who definitely survived the zombie apocalypse

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Re: Five characters who definitely survived the zombie apocalypse

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1. Shindou (he survived a ghost, after all)
2. Kuwabara (he's scarier than the zombies)
3. Ogata (his white suit blinded any zombies that tried to get near him)
4. Waya (he's watched a lot of zombie movies and knows that bullets don't work, but a machete can chop off limbs to slow them down)
5. Kaga (for the same reasons as Waya, except he'd be more ruthless about chopping off zombie heads)

Five most likely romantic partners of Hikaru in the unlikely case that Akira Touya is straight

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Re: Five most likely romantic partners of Hikaru in the unlikely case that Akira Touya is straight

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1. Akari - She doesn't always understand him, but she'll always be there for him.
2. Waya - he doesn't know why! Ok! He just can't leave that guy alone.
3. Yashiro - having never met Hikaru during his awkward adolescence, he thinks Hikaru's pretty rad and hot.
4. Mitani - they make up! And make out.
5. Someone we haven't met yet. But has the sparkliest purple eyes!

Five rivalries that has nothing to do with Go

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Five Bizarre Things That Have Happened In The Yuugen no Ma

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Re: Five Bizarre Things That Have Happened In The Yuugen no Ma

[februaryfour]

Oh how I wish I had the time to write that fic I swore I would.

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Five suits Ogata tried on but didn't buy.