While rummaging through his grandfather’s stored things for something to pawn, Hikaru ends up possessed by the ghost of a Go instructor from the Heian period. Soon enough Hikaru becomes interested in the game as well and starts trying to become a better player.
Unlike many of this sort of series, this one doesn’t really have any comedy to speak of. It treats the game as deathly serious and even the school life portions focus on darker topics such as bullying and jealousy.
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Unlike many of this sort of series, this one doesn’t really have any comedy to speak of. It treats the game as deathly serious… .”
In _The Master of Go_, by Yasunari Kawabata, one of the players dies because of the game. Go was infamous for taking absolutely everything from players. A different kind of ‘black corporation’.