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which_chickHikaru no Go (anime) apparently has a license -- TRSI says the first DVD will hit the shelves in September. The manga has been coming out for a while (and I need to go get up to date with the volumes for that. I wish like hell there were a way to just sign up for the manga and then Amazon or whoever could simply send me the volumes as they came out. It's a pain in the ass to have to remember to get them and keep track of where I am in any given series. Retailers? Are you listening to me?) A license is a good thing. Hikaru is a good show. It's got plot and character development and ... if I say it's got solid values, will that make me sound old? (Probably.)
Anyway. Some time ago, I pulled Hikaru off bittorrent and watched the entire series and, while I was doing that, I ran it through the fangirl yaoification machine in my head. I don't know what, precisely, fangirls read when they yaoify a series, but there's substantial commonality in how each person does it. That's where fanon comes from, after all. I sometimes think yaoification is a specific sort of grotesque, an exaggeration of dimension. That'd explain why we all do it pretty much the same way, according to our vague rule sets. (Someday when I'm bored, I will come up with the rule sets. I am not yet that bored.) Anyway, since I watched Hikaru without diving into the attendant (minimal, in May and June, 2004) body of fanfic, this is my singular read on who would be doing whom if, y'know, that sort of goings-on were actually taking place in a cartoon about a board game. There are not any actual grounds to suspect any sort of goings-on in Hikaru, but if there were, this is how I think they'd play out. (The reason that I'm posting this now is so that a year or so from now, when there will hopefully BE a statistically-interesting body of fanfic, I can see if I was right or not.)
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fooliv: You've seen this already. Sorry.
I feel moved to point out that Hikago is, all things considered, a better anime than PoT. The plot is stronger, more honest, and emotionally more effective. This is not *about* which of them is a good anime. This is about which of them is more entertaining to reimagine as a yaoi soap opera. It makes sense that more effective anime are less interesting to reimagine as something other than what they are -- canon represents the most effective, most useful employment of the characters and situations. The stones, as it were, are already in their best positions. Given something like Weiss Kreuz, though... I could write better plots than that. My cats could write better plots. Reimagining the show as a more pleasing whole is entertaining and not entirely difficult. But anyway.
Sai. Since nobody but Shindou can see or hear him and he has no physical form, I don't have a lot to work with in these our modern times. Sai is too squeaky clean to do anything inappropriate with Shindou. On the bright side, there is material to work with regarding the evil go master in his past. That has possibilities.
Shindou. In the beginning, he is so shota there ought to be a law (and there are -- several). Provided you can get past that to where he grows up to be a hottie, Shindou pairs off nicely with Akira, clearly seme in that relationship. Clearly. There is no argument on this point.
Akira. Again with the shota. Akira also grows up to be a hottie, though he never outgrows his uke-ness. Note: Akira is not a weepy, pliant uke. He is a surly, reluctant, needs-it-for-his-own-good sort.
(^^ These two are such drama queens...)
Ogata 9-Dan. (This is the blond guy with glasses who studies under Touya Meijin.) While he's not particularly a nice character, he's a hottie. (Seiyuu sounded familiar -- he's also the voice of Masafumi Takatori, one of the bad guys in Weiss Kreuz.) In my mind, Ogata 9- Dan is aging uke to Touya Meijin, and that relationship is starting to fall apart. Ogata also lusts uselessly after Akira, who will never, ever notice him.
Touya Meijin. He is definitely not doing his son. Now, I have nothing against father-son incest in fanfic. Don't ask me about the Malfoys or the Luthors. (Probably I'm okay with them because they're evil shits anyway, so it's okay that they screw their sons. It's not like they're otherwise decent people who just happen to have a hard on for their sons. Nope. They're right royal bastards to start with, which gives me leave to cast them in that light. And, er, get off on it. Yeah, I'm a sick fuck. This isn't news.) The Meijin would not lay a hand on his son even if he wanted to which he does not. Not now, not ever. He's currently doing Ogata 9-Dan and starting to wonder why he bothers. I think he's getting bored in the relationship. He'd be interested in Shindou if there were half a chance, but there is not and he can see that, so he sensibly avoids raising the question.
Isumi. I can see him with the guy he stays with in China. That'd work. He's got senpai status over Waya and Shindou as an insei, though, so would avoid doing them because he's too responsible and his entire character screams uke anyway. But yeah, the guy in China would work and they're already splitting a room.
Waya is so pretty. He should get to do someone. Not Shindou, who is so fixated on Akira that he wouldn't notice even a very obvious proposal from Waya. Not Ochi, who has issues of his own. How about that nice grey-haired boy he's studying with? WTF is his name? Saeki 4-Dan. Right. Him. I don't have much grounds for this besides the fact that they'd look cute together. (Actually, I have more grounds than that. Waya spent the night at Saeki 4-Dan's apartment, allegedly after a study session. Mmm-hmmm. With his cell phone turned off. Right.)
Ochi is rather reluctantly doing his grandfather, which should be obvious and explains a lot more about his character than the original canon does.
The guys from the Go club (Tsutsui, Mitani, Kaga) episodes are still disturbingly young in my mind and I just can't work with that.
The two American go players who watch the Sai-Meijin match on the internet are also gay. Just so you know.
Anyway. Some time ago, I pulled Hikaru off bittorrent and watched the entire series and, while I was doing that, I ran it through the fangirl yaoification machine in my head. I don't know what, precisely, fangirls read when they yaoify a series, but there's substantial commonality in how each person does it. That's where fanon comes from, after all. I sometimes think yaoification is a specific sort of grotesque, an exaggeration of dimension. That'd explain why we all do it pretty much the same way, according to our vague rule sets. (Someday when I'm bored, I will come up with the rule sets. I am not yet that bored.) Anyway, since I watched Hikaru without diving into the attendant (minimal, in May and June, 2004) body of fanfic, this is my singular read on who would be doing whom if, y'know, that sort of goings-on were actually taking place in a cartoon about a board game. There are not any actual grounds to suspect any sort of goings-on in Hikaru, but if there were, this is how I think they'd play out. (The reason that I'm posting this now is so that a year or so from now, when there will hopefully BE a statistically-interesting body of fanfic, I can see if I was right or not.)
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fooliv: You've seen this already. Sorry.I feel moved to point out that Hikago is, all things considered, a better anime than PoT. The plot is stronger, more honest, and emotionally more effective. This is not *about* which of them is a good anime. This is about which of them is more entertaining to reimagine as a yaoi soap opera. It makes sense that more effective anime are less interesting to reimagine as something other than what they are -- canon represents the most effective, most useful employment of the characters and situations. The stones, as it were, are already in their best positions. Given something like Weiss Kreuz, though... I could write better plots than that. My cats could write better plots. Reimagining the show as a more pleasing whole is entertaining and not entirely difficult. But anyway.
Sai. Since nobody but Shindou can see or hear him and he has no physical form, I don't have a lot to work with in these our modern times. Sai is too squeaky clean to do anything inappropriate with Shindou. On the bright side, there is material to work with regarding the evil go master in his past. That has possibilities.
Shindou. In the beginning, he is so shota there ought to be a law (and there are -- several). Provided you can get past that to where he grows up to be a hottie, Shindou pairs off nicely with Akira, clearly seme in that relationship. Clearly. There is no argument on this point.
Akira. Again with the shota. Akira also grows up to be a hottie, though he never outgrows his uke-ness. Note: Akira is not a weepy, pliant uke. He is a surly, reluctant, needs-it-for-his-own-good sort.
(^^ These two are such drama queens...)
Ogata 9-Dan. (This is the blond guy with glasses who studies under Touya Meijin.) While he's not particularly a nice character, he's a hottie. (Seiyuu sounded familiar -- he's also the voice of Masafumi Takatori, one of the bad guys in Weiss Kreuz.) In my mind, Ogata 9- Dan is aging uke to Touya Meijin, and that relationship is starting to fall apart. Ogata also lusts uselessly after Akira, who will never, ever notice him.
Touya Meijin. He is definitely not doing his son. Now, I have nothing against father-son incest in fanfic. Don't ask me about the Malfoys or the Luthors. (Probably I'm okay with them because they're evil shits anyway, so it's okay that they screw their sons. It's not like they're otherwise decent people who just happen to have a hard on for their sons. Nope. They're right royal bastards to start with, which gives me leave to cast them in that light. And, er, get off on it. Yeah, I'm a sick fuck. This isn't news.) The Meijin would not lay a hand on his son even if he wanted to which he does not. Not now, not ever. He's currently doing Ogata 9-Dan and starting to wonder why he bothers. I think he's getting bored in the relationship. He'd be interested in Shindou if there were half a chance, but there is not and he can see that, so he sensibly avoids raising the question.
Isumi. I can see him with the guy he stays with in China. That'd work. He's got senpai status over Waya and Shindou as an insei, though, so would avoid doing them because he's too responsible and his entire character screams uke anyway. But yeah, the guy in China would work and they're already splitting a room.
Waya is so pretty. He should get to do someone. Not Shindou, who is so fixated on Akira that he wouldn't notice even a very obvious proposal from Waya. Not Ochi, who has issues of his own. How about that nice grey-haired boy he's studying with? WTF is his name? Saeki 4-Dan. Right. Him. I don't have much grounds for this besides the fact that they'd look cute together. (Actually, I have more grounds than that. Waya spent the night at Saeki 4-Dan's apartment, allegedly after a study session. Mmm-hmmm. With his cell phone turned off. Right.)
Ochi is rather reluctantly doing his grandfather, which should be obvious and explains a lot more about his character than the original canon does.
The guys from the Go club (Tsutsui, Mitani, Kaga) episodes are still disturbingly young in my mind and I just can't work with that.
The two American go players who watch the Sai-Meijin match on the internet are also gay. Just so you know.
