It boasts first-rate artwork by Takeshi Obata and an equally strong script by Yumi Hotta. Hikaru No Go is a very accomplished manga. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier.

If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. He was also well known as a contributor to the Chunichi Shimbun where he illustrated under the pen name Yumi Hotta ( ほったゆみ, Hotta Yumi ).We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Hotta's husband is Kiyonari Hotta ( 堀田清成, Hotta Kiyonari ), another manga artist known for manga about horse-racing. She also had a short manga series Yūto ( ユート) about long track speed skating that ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2005. She won the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award and the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Hikaru no Go.

She later worked with Takeshi Obata (the illustrator) and Yukari Umezawa (5- Dan, the supervisor) in the creation of Hikaru no Go. She thought that it might be fun to create a manga based on this traditional board game, and began the work under the title of Nine Stars ( 九つの星, Kokonotsu no Hoshi ), named for the nine 'star points' on a go board. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta played a pick-up game of go with her father-in-law. Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, which is widely credited for the late 90s-2000s boom of the game of go in Japan. Yumi Hotta ( 堀田由美, Hotta Yumi, most often written as ほったゆみ, born October 15, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist.

45th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga - Hikaru no Go

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