I read through all your chapters a second time and I really like them, so please update soon.

well, I just wanted to say that your story is really awesome. and that I hope you'll update it soon. I hope that everything is ok at real life and that the lack of updates isn't a sign of bad things.
have a nice day

Wow, what a story. I was reading it for over 30 hours (with 4 hours break for sleep - yes, I'm fanfic obsesed).
I'd really would like to see more of Hikaru's 'glowing moves'. I have a feeling he is in stagnancy right now.
Also, yiu think with 'glowing moves' can Hikaru win against Kouyo? With Kouyo thinking about the last games against Hikaru, I think it could be happening (the 'Shindou effect') :D

Sakamoto is exacly like Hikaru in his insei days. I wonder, couldn't he become Hikaru's first official student (kinda like Ogata who wished to win against Kouyo)?

it's been a long long time... we getting a new chapter soon? Btw, are we ever gonna see Hikaru play Touya Kouyou? Just asking. When Sai took over that game during the first dan series I was really disappointed. I really wanted to see that game (even though it was probably still too early at that time for Hikaru). Are you going to write a game like that too? Please?

While my technical knowledge of Go is non-existent, i really liked the plot of your story. I'm hoping that you will be updating again soon.

Just read the story from start to finish. Great story, Ill be waiting (not so) patiently for the next chapter.

heen,
thoughts comes to me :)

i think hikaru still got one major flaw, it's about his attitude towards go
he keeps on and on about how boring and frustrating low level games are
i think it is his true problem in becoming truly strong

if it were sai, i think we would never see this kind of tone
he would happily enjoy every single game he play, whether be it against the go-god, a high level pro, an insei or even against a beginner whose first game happens to be against sai
he would just thoroughly enjoy it, and if he sees interesting moves, even if it is from that beginner, he would just take it, refine it and integrate it into his games to improve his play
(forgive me if i'm wrong on this but this is how i see about sai)

you see?
that that's the major attitude problem i see comparing between hikaru and sai

i think, if hikaru could not see this or cope up with it
he'll never be able to attain the greatness and grandness that is 'sai's level of play'

just my thoughts though :)

and if you already given thoughts about this, well, i'm very sorry for the intrusion :)

sorry for the late review :)

but i still want to say, so here it is

i really enjoyed the story but this chapter left me quite disappointed

mainly because of hikaru's attitude
if you want to point me out it is because of the frustration that he couldn't face it off with young ha and the encounter with 'leitbur', i already count that in

but hikaru's attitude is still disappointing, i'd like to say he's acting very un-hikaru in this chapter

i can understand him wanting to crush the opponent but calling him 'baka' just when he definitely know what 'baka' means is going a bit too far, even if it is for humor sense

and feeling disappointed or frustrated just because of lack of observers or attention?

my question is just when hikaru became occhi?

those didn't sit with me very well, you see :)

hope you could bring hikaru back into hikaru's track in future chapters :)

I love this story! While I do admit that the placement of the go stones in each of these games kind of loses me because I don't quite understand, this story is very good nonetheless. I love the fact that you've done some research and in this story it shows. The characters are likeable, even if some of them are arrogant pigs (Ko, Ochi). It's a credit to your ability as a writer that you've managed to not make everything straight black and white, but rather shades of grey. I especially love the humor that appears within the chapters, like the dream sequences and everything. I can't believe you managed to tie it in to this story in the "real world" part. Lol, it was so funny, "model of the modern go professional" indeed! I do get frustrated whenever the story isn't exactly straightforward, but I guess that the beauty of this story - it keeps you reading in hopes of finding out what in the world happened. I look forward to more of this story, so update frequently and soon!!

P.S. While this is just my personal opinion, I do think you use the adjective "coy" with "smile" a little too much. Sometimes, it doesn't really fit into the gestures and expressions of a particular character, making it rather hard to believe. Personally, I normally use coy in reference to those who have romantic (or sexual) attachments to the person he/she is talking, particularly those of the female persuasion (I'm not sexist, I'm a girl darn it!). In the future, it probably would be great if rather than using "coy smile," you use other synonyms for "coy" and "smile". Maybe words like "mischievous grin" or "smirk," ? Again, it's just my personal opinion.

Thank you so much for continuing to write this never-ending story! I love your writing, it's the only thing that can console me from the manga being discontinued.

When will you post another chapter? It has been two months already, I'm on WITHDRAWAL! Please say it will be soon - or don't say anything and just post.

wow! very good!! plz update soon~!

You are a really great author, and reading your ANs made me realize how much work you do towards each chapter. It's great to see someone so dedicated.

It took me a week for me to get here from chapter 1. I read the manga right before reading this fic, or rather I read the manga just so I can read this fic. Reading the manga was very enjoyable and reading your continuation was just as good. Even though I was reading just the texts on a website, it really felt no different than reading Hikaru No Go.

Well I read the story in this short span of time I see progress of your writing style over the 3 years. In the earlier stages of the story the battles on a goban read just like how it'd be like in the manga. Those battles were not about the placements of stones or their positions. As the story gets further along your focus of games shifts and becomes more and more technical and that wasn't what Hikaru No Go was like. In that sense it lost it's manga feel. I think you should look back at some of the early chapters and compare the styles of your past and present.

I know most people gives reviews to stories by clicking the review story button. ( duh!) but I'm also going to criticize your profile. To do so I'll have to tell you first how I found your story, because as I have said I never even read the manga before preparing reading your story.

I started reading fanfiction around a month after the first harry potter movie came out. I like anyone else who became a fan couldn't stop thinking about HP. It took me a week to finish all of the 4 books released. That wasn't enough and I just had to read more, and that when I found fanfiction. Seeing all those stories of Harry Potter got me so excited. And that was the only genera I read on this website until S'TarKan. Back then his HP fanfic was one of the best ones on this site. When he started writing his Naruto fanfic I was addicted to his work much like how I was addicted to HP. At that time I wasn't a manga reader but I spent a week reading all the Naruto releases so I can start reading his fanfic.

Then I realized, there are so much more this site has to offer. So much more great stories than just HP. How will I ever find all those great stories out there? The answer lied in the author profiles. Great authors have great tastes and are good critics. Stories on their favorite lists aren't just for themselves, no, the subscription list is for the authors. The favorite list is for their fans. It's stories that the author like, and fans of their story will probably like them too. Just by clicking on the favorites stories of a great author I can find more great stories and probably on more the profile of those authors too. It's like a giant web of the golden nuggets hidden in the millions on this site.

I haven't used the fanfiction search engine to look for new stories in years. Just by traveling in webs of good stories I found more than I could hopeful. There are yahoo groups and forums like darklordpotter where the best of the authors gather. Since then I have read a few books and even watched a few TV shows so I could read some of the great cross over stories and stories of the other genres on this site. I watched the entire season of firefly so I could read one of nonjon's work. I spent a few days sitting in the campus library reading the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser to read a flashman HP cross over. Sometimes reading the books were more enjoyable than reading the fanfics I was reading the books for.

I know the stories on those favorite lists will be good because the stories by those authors are good. That's how I found your story. On one of my exportations of the web of favorite lists. I was glad of the find. Your story was definitely worth the time anyone spend reading it. However I was disappointed when I saw your profile. As I expected a list that could lead to an untabbed web. With you being a member of this site for so long, you probably have read a lot of works by the other members yet your favorite list remains barren. Stories listed there could lead a lot of your readers to many places in and out of the fanfiction world. I just want to ask why is your favorite list so barren.

I remember reading this fanfic several years ago, and because I forgot to bookmark it I haven't found it until recently, and I'm so happy that you're still continuing. I can see you took a great deal of efforts to keep it as realistic as you could, and the balance of the characters is written extremely well. Keep up the fantastic work, I'll be expecting more of it to come :)

I love this fanfic of yours and have taken my time to enjoy reading it ever since the European Go congress (in July/August this year) when a friend recommended it. I'm not very good at writing reviews, but I'd thought to let you know that you have another reading anxiously awaiting the next chapter ^^;

You keep copying whole sentences and situations from the original manga. Waya craves pork rice,
Akira: “..., but I’m only a 3 – Dan myself...Rank means nothing. It has little to do with a player’s true skill, since no matter how strong someone is, everyone starts out as a 1 – Dan.”
Kuwabara: “...for the longest time the young players weren’t all that good, but since Akira Toya arrived things have gone up. Just thinking about this new wave gets my blood pumping through these old veins. It makes you look forward to what’s coming, and makes this old man want to keep playing until I can face them. Especially that one kid. I tell you, his true strength hasn’t even begun to show itself. It could be unfathomable."
Morishita: “Shindo’s ability to read ahead in the game exceeds them all. In that at least, he is even stronger than me."
The dialog between Hikaru and his grandpa (Do you want the goban? No, the one you gave me is fine. Put down some stones.).
Kuwabara using the same tricks as in manga against Isumi.
There is much more of it.
You seem to have own ideas, so why are you doing this? It is very disturbing.