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Reprinting (reposting?) from my comment here: Baby's first Set of Hikaru no Go Recs.
The Top Five: Gosei, Kisei, Meijin, Ouza, Hon'inbou.
rageprufrock's Inertia. Top of the list, and not just for Hikago.
thehoyden's A Game For Two. She got me into this fandom, and it was this story and the next that did it.
thehoyden's Blossoming. A perennial favourite, and still one of the most beautiful of all the Hikago I've read.
assyrian's Twenty Diversions. Stylistically fascinating and strong food for thought.
mousapelli's Metonymy (The Ragin' Meijin Remix), because the title is only the very tip of the awesomeness.
Five Fics Which Fascinate Me: like Ogata can't stop staring after Shindou.
parzi's Clear Morning Dew. Fujiwara no Sai in the time of Genji.
aishuu's Not A Pretty Girl. Minor characters don't often get this kind of careful exploration. I'm grateful this one did.
issen4's All Strides Lengthen in a Race. Go is Life, again and again, and for Yashiro most of all.
bookshop's Name
The speed and precision of the narration pull me under; reading it's a little like getting soaked in a fast, strong, very capable river.
petronia's Ramen, because it takes a gift to make instant noodles produce this kind of note-perfect Touya pov.
(Sneaking in under cover of commenter's inability to math: zoesque's Untitled May 5 Fic, which just destroys me with laughter until it goes all J-Pop. And then it's just ...lovely.)
Five Little Fics: Small, yet fierce, like baby!Akira at the goban.
nopejr's One and One is One.
ladyseishou's Introductions.
Murinae's Your Hand In Mine.
thehoyden's When He Sees It. that scene on the train awhfljknhfrl!!gjdskl
issen4's Nightingale Floor.
One Tireless Promoter of Hikago: thefourthvine, who is relentless in her quest to spread the HnG Love.
One Fic From Me: Four places he isn't. One place he'd rather not be.
Whew. Thanks for reading the recs. Now go forth, me hearties, and Read Ye The Fic!!! And then all y'alls sit down at the laptops and show us how it's done, yeah?
The Top Five: Gosei, Kisei, Meijin, Ouza, Hon'inbou.
rageprufrock's Inertia. Top of the list, and not just for Hikago.
thehoyden's A Game For Two. She got me into this fandom, and it was this story and the next that did it.
thehoyden's Blossoming. A perennial favourite, and still one of the most beautiful of all the Hikago I've read.
assyrian's Twenty Diversions. Stylistically fascinating and strong food for thought.
mousapelli's Metonymy (The Ragin' Meijin Remix), because the title is only the very tip of the awesomeness.
Five Fics Which Fascinate Me: like Ogata can't stop staring after Shindou.
parzi's Clear Morning Dew. Fujiwara no Sai in the time of Genji.
aishuu's Not A Pretty Girl. Minor characters don't often get this kind of careful exploration. I'm grateful this one did.
issen4's All Strides Lengthen in a Race. Go is Life, again and again, and for Yashiro most of all.
bookshop's Name
The speed and precision of the narration pull me under; reading it's a little like getting soaked in a fast, strong, very capable river.
petronia's Ramen, because it takes a gift to make instant noodles produce this kind of note-perfect Touya pov.
(Sneaking in under cover of commenter's inability to math: zoesque's Untitled May 5 Fic, which just destroys me with laughter until it goes all J-Pop. And then it's just ...lovely.)
Five Little Fics: Small, yet fierce, like baby!Akira at the goban.
nopejr's One and One is One.
ladyseishou's Introductions.
Murinae's Your Hand In Mine.
thehoyden's When He Sees It. that scene on the train awhfljknhfrl!!gjdskl
issen4's Nightingale Floor.
One Tireless Promoter of Hikago: thefourthvine, who is relentless in her quest to spread the HnG Love.
One Fic From Me: Four places he isn't. One place he'd rather not be.
Whew. Thanks for reading the recs. Now go forth, me hearties, and Read Ye The Fic!!! And then all y'alls sit down at the laptops and show us how it's done, yeah?