LET'S FIVE

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Top 5 Things You Should Be Doing Today:

1) Reading arboretum's May 5 Pimp Post
2) Reading the Hikago manga.*
3) Watching the Hikago anime.
4) Reading all of the amazing fics posted today over at blind_go!!!!!!!!!!! **
5) Participating in this redux of my favorite post of all time, ever. Posting by request***.

THE TOP FIVE MEME RETURNS!

How to play:
- comment

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I'll do this meme correctly in a minute, but first

[arboretum]

A COUPLE OF REASONS WHY AKIRA IS MY FAVORITE PAGEBOY EVER

1. HIS ADORABLE LAUGH
2. HIS ADORABLE SMILE
3. HIS EYES
4. HOW COMPLETELY TERRIFYINGLY AWESOME HE IS AT GO
5. THE WAY HE MOWS DOWN LIKE 27 PEOPLE IN A ROW AS SOON AS HE BECOMES PRO
6. THE WAY HE SAYS "SHINDOU"
7. THE WAY HE FINDS SAI
8. WHEN HE SHOWS OCHI HIS GAMES WITH SHINDOU
9. WHEN HE COMES TO SCHOOL TO ASK SHINDOU WHY HE ISN'T PLAYING
10. HOW RIDICULOUSLY COMPLEX AND AMAZING HE IS: god. his sweetness, his smile, his gentleness, his unexpected moments of vulnerability next to his equally unexpected moments of sheer brutality, his laugh did I say that yet his laugh, his barely repressed violence, his impeccable manners and his complete inability to gauge social situationsjkfjgkdjkfg and how annoying and snotty he accidentally makes himself, the way he has no idea he is actually annoying, his little moments of quiet, of zen, of happiness.kjfkgdjlfg
11. THREE WORDS: BEST MONK EVER.

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1. TOP FIVE AKIRA MOMENTS
2. TOP FIVE GO MATCHES
3. TOP FIVE HIKARU NO GO OST TRACKS
4. TOP FIVE REASONS WHY HIKARU NO GO IS EPIC
5. TOP FIVE DOUJINSHI

Let's 5 :D

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[arboretum]

HANG ON

I THINK THIS MIGHT REQUIRE SCREENCAPS AND/OR CROPS FROM THE MANGA..........

ok, question #3 first because these are already uploaded

[arboretum]

3. (UNLOCKING THIS DIRECTORY FOR 24 HOURS so go ahead and grab whatever you want rofl if you see anything I have that you'd like)
- HAPPINESS
- Remembering that third board match...
- A SLOW BUILD OF EEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPIIIICCCCCCC
- AND JUST PLAIN OLD EPIC, AKA HIKARU OH HIKARU, MY HEART IS SOARING FOR YOU ---- alternately, this track, called "Silent Passion" fkjlgdkfg
- This track is called "Archrival." CAN IT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS.

god you realize I'm just streaming these things off my own server trying to identify tracks here XD

[chaineddove]

*comments*

Yay Hikago day~! Ask away?

[arboretum]

1. top five things about KO YONG HA!
2. top five favorite characters!
3. top five funny moments from the series!
4. top five moments that made you sad!
5. top five games played in the series!

[chaineddove]

TOP 5 THINGS ABOUT KO YONGHA

[arboretum]

god what totally awesome answers fgjdlkfjgdfg

5. Shindou and that dude in Hiroshima for a completely shallow reason: HIKARU DRAGON EYES.

DUDE THAT WAS HOT.

3. Akira after their first real game at the very end, when he finds Sai. I know that's not supposed to be sad but oh god, I just want to cry when I see it.

And I do too. I think that's part of what makes it such a powerful moment. :|

FOR YOU

[arboretum]

1. five favorite things about OCHI (SHUT UP I'M FIXATED)
2. five favorite things about KURATA
3. five favorite AKIRA moments
4. five favorite HIKARU moments
5. five favorite SAI moments

GO!

here is 1 favorite akira moment, BUT NOT THE LAST

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http://www.onemanga.com/Hikaru_no_Go/2/11/

LOOK AT THEM LOOK, AKIRA IS THE SWEETEST NICEST LITTLE BOY EVER, LOOK HOW PERFECTLY THEY ARE CONTRASTED.

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[arboretum]

I WAS JUST REREADING THAT TODAY. GOD HE'S SO WONDERFUL. I CAN'T EVEN ARTICULATE.

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http://www.onemanga.com/Hikaru_no_Go/4/09/

HAAAAAAAAND

[piccu]

♥

[arboretum]

1. top five favorite conversations, COME ON DON'T TELL ME YOU HAVEN'T MEMORIZED LIKE THE ENTIRE SCRIPT, I CERTAINLY HAVE
2. top five favorite minor characters
3. top five reasons Hikaru no Go is COMPLETELY AWESOME
4. top five times someone in the show surprised you by being totally a better person than you thought they would be
5. top five moments you thought to yourself, "OH MY GOD THIS IS EPIC."

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1. top five favorite conversations
OMG MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE conversation:
Chapter 147/148
Akira: He is sai. Since I know you best, I understand. Only I understand.
There's.......... another person inside of you.
........No. All you are is the Go you play. That's enough.
That won't change
Hikaru: For you, yeah...
I might tell you someday.

Yongha: You're here to link the far past with the future? Perhaps that's why we're all here

I really love too many conversations XD

2. top five favorite minor characters
→ Isumi Shinichiro
→ Ko Yongha
→ Ogata 10 Dan
→ Kaga
→ Tsutsui

3. top five reasons Hikaru no Go is COMPLETELY AWESOME
→ One has to be a genius to think up a story about Go which is just breath-taking and beautiful
→ BEST character development in an animanga series
→ Deep character relationships
→ PRETTY ART *___*
→ First manga series that made cry

4. top five times someone in the show surprised you by being totally a better person than you thought they would be
→ Yongha in the final chapter when he said "You're here to link the

[arboretum]

GOD I LOVE THE CONVERSATIONS YOU'VE CHOSEN

First manga series that made cry
ME TOO

Agreed with all your answers to #4 as well. I love how these characters constantly surprise me, by being so much more than I ever expected them to be! OGATA IS SUCH A... well, that is, he's not a good good person, but he tries. He tries pretty damn hard. And I LOVE THAT.

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Well, okay, but go gently as I'm new to hikago and do *not* have it all memorized, not hardly. I am, however, taken with it, have read the manga and am slowly savouring the anime. So, right. Ask away.

[arboretum]

well, let me ask you some easy squee questions then!

1. top five moments you stopped and said, "whoa."
2. top five favorite things about the series, period!
3. top five things you wish someone would ask you about.... AND ANSWER THEM
4. top five hottest characters!
5. top five favorite moments between AKIRA and HIKARU!

spoiler at the top

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1.1 when Sai faded away in-between panels

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[arboretum]

this entire comment is so amazing and full of love I feel like I should print it out and treasure it, omg. #3 is clearly the best question I've ever asked anyone. (ahahaha I lovelovehatelove Ochi too!)