Happy Birthday Torajiro!
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hikarunogoToday, June 6th is Kuwabara Torajiro's birthday - that's Honinbo Shusaku, the Go player that Sai possessed.
Give than we know very little about what Kuwabara Torajiro from the Hikago manga thought about everything, other than he could play Go and choose to let Sai play, I thought that it might be nice to celebrate his birthday with a 19 Head Canon things.
What are 19 things that aren't strictly confirmed in the Hikago manga - that you think to be true or plausibly true? And/Or, what is your hikago fanon? Something that you'd like to be true and/or come true? (For any character!)
See if you can get it to 19, go, go, go!
(answers welcome at any point.)
Give than we know very little about what Kuwabara Torajiro from the Hikago manga thought about everything, other than he could play Go and choose to let Sai play, I thought that it might be nice to celebrate his birthday with a 19 Head Canon things.
What are 19 things that aren't strictly confirmed in the Hikago manga - that you think to be true or plausibly true? And/Or, what is your hikago fanon? Something that you'd like to be true and/or come true? (For any character!)
See if you can get it to 19, go, go, go!
(answers welcome at any point.)
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Date: 2013-06-05 10:00 pm (UTC)1. I suspect that Sugawara no Akitada (The other tutor of the emporer) did, what he did, for retaining power in the court.
2. Sai had other choices but they would of taken him away for go, which is no choice at all.
3. Torajiro was a really sweet kid.
4. Honinbou-Kuwabara's predecessors gave him a really hard time as he was growing up and into the game.
5. Ogata /really/ likes it when you call him sensei.
6. Kaga can deal with having shitty stuff happen, but don't you dare diss him. Ever.
7. Ochi is his own biggest critic - he just chooses to not to change the things people dislike about him as he doesn't consider it to be worth it.
8. Tsuitsui sometimes thinks mean thoughts, and then gets embarrassed about them. :3
9. Kishimoto has found his center in life, because at one point he completely lost it.
10. Fukui Yuuta sometimes thinks that people misjudge him because he chooses to keep a cheerful attitude.
11. Kaneko initially thought that Hikaru was cute. It didn't last long.
12. Hong SuYeong was acting out of his usual character when Hikaru met him.
13. Tsuda is sort of bemused by Akari's sudden interest in Go.
14. Joining the rat race of a salaryman horifies Yashiro deeeeeeply inside.
15. Ko Yeongha thinks that Japanese pros are kind of depressingly stuck in the past.
16 When Touya Kouyou was in the hospital the doctor told him, he should think about retiring and he basically said "fat chance", only Touya Kouyou like. He considers it, like an act of god, what happened after that.
17. Touya Akira thinks Hikaru's ultimate style is weird, but finds it fascinating with the additional possibilities it presents.
18. Akari is bemused by how Hikaru turned out, but when thinking about it, knows it could of been a lot worse.
19. Nase is going to be one of the Pro's that makes it.
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Date: 2013-06-05 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 06:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 07:50 am (UTC)Yeah! Poor Nase, though. But clearly no average guy is good enough for her.
Hard to come up with 19!
Date: 2013-06-06 06:26 am (UTC)1. I would really like Nase to become a pro. I think we can all agree on this!
2. Ochi needs a real friend. :(
3. Akari and Hikaru stay good friends forever and ever.
4. Isumi and Waya tourist around China and have hilarious linguistic difficulties and epic go battles with random old codgers.
5. Hikaru BEATS KO YEONGHA'S ASS one of these days. At go, I mean.
6. Mitani gets into yakuza trouble and Kaneko gets him out.
7. Kishimoto hooks up with Hidaka because HOT.
8. Dake and Gokiso meet. The world becomes a little less stable.
9. Akira and Waya compare notes about Sai. They figure out many things.
10. Meanwhile, Hikaru is helping out at an amateur tournament and everyone there is STILL be obsessed with sai, ack. Hikaru is just glad Waya and Akira aren't there.
11. Hikaru kind of accidentally tells someone other than Akira about Sai first. Akira is miffed.
Head canon
12. Sakurano-pro thinks it's a shame Isumi ("Shin-chan") isn't a few years older.
13. Yashiro is a desperate, desperate kid right now, but he'll turn out all right.
14. Everyone in town makes fun of the Kaio uniforms.
15. Waya's green suit is definitely a hand-me down.
16. Isumi's younger brothers are brats and take advantage of their older brother's wishy-washiness all the time.
17. Kaga does something really cool with his life that is actually way more important in the grand scheme of things than go or shougi. Don't know what that is, though.
18. Akira is always going to have a better record than Hikaru.
19. I too think Torajiro must have been an awfully sweet kid. :D
Re: Hard to come up with 19!
Date: 2013-06-06 06:57 am (UTC)2. He does~
5. I can just see Ko Yeongha doing ~all~ the innuendo regardless.
17. lmao, more important than go or shougi? sacrilege. He totally uses skills learnt by shougi to save the world.
Re: Hard to come up with 19!
Date: 2013-06-06 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 08:57 am (UTC)Also "Everyone in town makes fun of the Kaio uniforms" Ahahahahaah! Yes they do!
Ok if we disregard all shipping stuff then these are the things that I find at least somewhat plausible (or in some instances would like if they were true):
1. Ogata is counted as family in the Touya household
2. Kaga does actually grow up to be a politician
3. Yashiro is really good in school
4. Shindou will somehow either by accident or by design actually scratch up Touya’s shiny bag
5. Iijima quits as an insei but he and Nase actually stay friends afterwards. He doesn’t keep up with the other insei though
6. Ogata will be really, really upset when Kuwabara dies but will refuse to admit it
7. If that new art can be counted as canon, then Touya’s parents are pretty surprised that he lets his hair grow out
8. Waya always feel responsible for all his friends and worries about them too often
9. Shindou does have a secret fear that people will disappear on him (yes, I know half of the fanfics out there)
10. Waya will like Touya much better after he has seen him yelling at the top of his lungs at Shindou
11. Isumi will win a title at least once
12. Akari will never be really good at go, but she will keep playing her whole life and teach her children how to play.
13. Mitani looks up Shindou’s match results on the internet but will die before he admits it.
14. Somewhere in Akiko’s family there probably is a yakuza connection.
15. Shindou will at least once ruin his only suit because he in some way managed to get bleach on it when he bleaches his hair the night before a really important game.
16. Kuwabara will actually manage to bully Isumi into caddying for him once
17. Kaneko and Mitani will continue to play go together after they graduated
18. When Nase finally dates she will absolutely date someone who think she is awesome when she kicks old men’s ass at go salons
19. Ochi might claim to think it is stupid, but he actually really would like to have someone dramatically state that he is their only rival in go.
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Date: 2013-06-06 12:02 pm (UTC)LMAO, yes, watching Touya interact with Hikaru gives you a very different impression of him than otherwise.
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Date: 2013-06-07 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 06:11 pm (UTC)I wonder why everyone thinks Akiko has yakuza connections? We only see her for about five seconds and she doesn't cut off anyone's fingers or anything. A shame, really.
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Date: 2013-06-07 03:39 pm (UTC)You know, I had to think about why Akiko works as yakuza connected to me. Because it has been showing up a lot in fandom and I’m very fond of it. I think that, for me, there are a couple of reasons:
1. Because it would be awesome, obviously.
2. Because we know a lot less about her than about Touya Kouyo so making up stuff is easier (even though we don’t know much about his background either).
3. Because I have seen a couple of picture of the Touya family as mafia in fanart and now the image is forever stuck in my head.
But I realized when I thought about it, that why I focus more on Akiko than Kouyo as mafia is because of her whole demeanor. She has this happy, calm, closed eye smiling thing going on that I connect to characters like Gin from Bleach, or Izaya from Durarara or Xellos for Slayers. That friendly smiling person who is really kind of a sadist. I really don’t think she is meant to be read that way, but that eerily smiling calm reminds me too much about those kind of characters.
I mean look at that face: http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6926/hikarunogo322859.jpg
Those moon shaped happy eyes and that delighted smile. I can just see her sitting around smiling that way saying “We it wasn’t very nice of you to steal all our drugs” and then BAM massive violence occur. So yeah, tldr reason is that I have watched too much shounen anime and am subconsciously suspicious toward people who are happy, pleasant and smiles with their eyes closed.
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Date: 2013-06-07 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-07 03:41 pm (UTC)http://kiyosimasan.tumblr.com/post/51256849894/10
It is apparently some 10 year celebration from Takeshi Obata. Not the best resolution unfortunately.