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Hikaru 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.)

Also, to fooliv: You've seen this already. Sorry.

( This will not make very much sense until you've seen Hikaru... )