Hikaru no Go: Hokuto Hai e no Michi

Hikaru no Go needs no introduction to this small sequel,

an anime about a kid who plays go and the highs and lows on that journey.

When I finished the 70+ episode series, not gonna lie, i was pretty disappointed that it ended so weak, plus they wasted the last 15 or so episodes on hikaru crying and random stuff that no one cared about.

But i did also understand that this was a story about the journey, instead of a story about resolutions. Still doesn't take the sting away that the story had just started to get really good.

This, being a sequel special, I had high ... hopes for this hokuto tourny that they were entering, the premise is Japan vs. China vs. Korea in an under 18 y.o. matchups.

welll, theree wasn't a tourny, which i should have seen coming, it was the buildup to getting to the tourney, which will never come apparently.

So really wondering why they made this after the series left off with such weird abruptness.

Its like getting stabbed in the eye, being stabbed is no fun but you're trying to weigh whether or not it would have been better to be stabbed in the back so you didn't see it coming.

if you liked the journey of hikaru no go, then you'll like this, but for me, i didn't see the point of this special at all. if you saw this in hopes of some meager resolution, then avoid.