Hikaru no Go Chapter 11 Discussion

the highlight here for me is the fact that sai teaches hikaru while akira seeking hikaru.

while that, tsutsui deserves his own series lol

Hikaru's comments about the Go board being like space and he's god placing stars on it straight up blew my mind. That solidified this manga as having the potential to be amazing if Hikaru's character development is done correctly. I see a lot of potential in Hikaru.

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                        Tsutsui is stronger than anticipated!



Like I mentioned last chapter, Tetsuo's character interactions stand out to me.

Whether it's him being honest and "teaching" his opponents and their teachers or just being funny when he criticizes and manipulates his own teammates; I always enjoy watching him.



This chapter reinforced my idea of Hikaru needing some sort of moral excuse for beating his opponents through Sai:



His hidden passion for Go was touched upon this chapter but in order to make his victory more acceptable, the opponents had to become disrespectful, Tsutsui had to lose first, prompting Tetsuo to lie to Hikaru (or at least I assume that Tetsuo lied about them needing to win in order to establish the club) and Hikaru first having to cry to evoke our sympathy and further demonstrate how there possibly couldn't be any other solution, he simply had to win for the survival of his morally good likeable team.



I'm afraid that this might become a long term problem in the future...