#yu liang

[xinyuehui]

Him: I do not care Also him: 8 years, 6 months, 11 days

棋魂 · Hikaru no Go · 2020

[clairedaring]

Have you received the tournament bracket of Hokuto Cup? I didn't sign up. I asked if you received it or not. Why didn't you show up? I don't want to. Shi Guang. I can only help you this much. I can't help you forever. Thanks for your kind intentions. I'm quitting Go. Quitting? You can't just say you're quitting.

HIKARU NO GO 棋魂 (2020) dir. Liu Chang

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[raine-kai]

About the Hikaru no Go CDrama Qi Hun

I have known about the HikaGo CDrama since it came out, but for one reason or another never sat down to watch it until a week or so ago.

Now that I have, I'm so shocked at how brazenly the drama seems to be written as a romance between Yu Liang (Touya Akira) and Shi Guang (Shindou Hikaru).

Also, it provided the best version of Ogata, I say as a person who was never much a fan of his in the animanga. Fang Xu has a warmer, more brotherly relationship with Yu Liang, a more combative relationship with Yu Xiao Yang (Touya Kouyou), and a dynamic that reads very much as exes with Bai Chuan (a composite of Ashiwara and Shirakawa—who might have been already composited into Ashiwara in the anime, if my memory is not mistaken).

Chu Ying (Sai)'s characterization is a little different from what it was in the anime, but in a way that humanized him and made me feel a lot more acutely when he forgets he is invisible to Fang Xu and tried to interact with him. His interest in non-go-related things especially rounds him out in a way that I found very compelling without at all taking away from his hyperfixation on go strong enough to span multiple lifetimes.

I didn't know I needed a live action of HikaGo, but now that I've seen it I'm not sure why it took me so long to get around to watching it.

The most fascinating thing about the live action though, and what I least expected, is that it gives me every single akihika beat I wanted as a teenager shipping them, plus some I had no idea I needed, like the Valentine's Day episode involving Shi Guang getting lost on a mountain and calling Yu Liang for help, who shows up before the search party with no flashlight like he has a Shi Guang homing beacon...and as soon as the search party find them, he stomps off to sulk like an annoyed ex.

Also the last episode, which gives me more relationship negotiation between two rivals-turned-husbands-go-partners than I've ever seen in an Akihika fic.

Anyway, on the offchance that anyone reads this who likes HikaGo but hasn't seen the live action, I highly rec that you give it a chance (even if you don't ship Akihika--obviously that is not all this adaptation has to offer).

And if anyone reads this who has never consumed any version of HikaGo, I recommend them all--the animanga are more go-centric and the drama is more character-centric, is how I would characterize them. Even if you aren't interested in go and know nothing about it, the anime is designed to teach you the basics as you watch; the manga expects a tad more basic knowledge, and doesn't contain as much explanation of the game for the audience, so one could say it is fully story-focused through the medium of go.

[tetsuwus]

hindsight he jiajia/yu liang | 8297w | T

he jiajia had known when he chose a life without weiqi that it meant a life without yu liang, too.

tags: character study, not actually unrequited love, implied/referenced child abuse, canon compliant, mutual pining

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[chalkrevelations]

I CANNOT with these two.

"Please trust me at all times," while you stand there ramrod straight like an awkward Jane Austen would-be-groom proposing, Yu Liang? Shi Guang leaning back with that clavicle out like a Victorian ankle? ADMITTING that sometimes he just wants/is trying to get a rise out of you, Yu Liang - that what he really wants is an emotional reaction from you? The fact that Shi Guang is supposedly so hapless he needs you to literally tuck him into bed so he doesn't get hopelessly tangled in the blankets? (The point is NOT if he KNOWS how to take care of himself, c'mon man.)

1) You are not taking care of the baby properly, Yu Liang, do better! But also 2) yaaassss, keep wooing him like that, keep it up, you're doing GREAT.

I just. I can't, y'all. I CANNOT.

The only thing gayer than Ep 36 of Hikaru No Go/Qi Hun is the entirety of Word of Honor.

[rose-tinted-vision]

this is exactly what I meant when I said that Fang Xu is Guangliang's No.1 shipper:

你说你们两

不见面还互相惦记

见了面还掐

speak your truth king

[bloodysparklez]

hikaru no go (/qi hun) doodle dump! this is all pretty experimental but i'm still figuring out how i want to draw them lol. i don't draw from live action shows very often, so i had to do a LOT of reference tracing from screencaps before i got a handle on their features....

i fell victim to my own hubris by not using any references for the two manga-based drawings though skfjskjffj. this is the first time fucking around on one layer has given me smth that actually kinda looks recognizable, at least

[miaoyincourt]

Hikaru no Go - Qi Hun Part 6/?