History YMMV / HikaruNoGo

** Oh yes, with plenty of slash FanFic and FanArt to support it.

* CounterpartComparison: Hikaru can easily be compared to [[Manga/YuGiOh Yugi Muto]]. He has multi-colored hair, he enjoys playing a certain game, and he plays it with the help of an ancient spirit.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Shinichiro won one of the Japanese manga character polls by an absolute landslide.
** For non-obsessives, "Shinichiro" is Isumi's given name.

* MemeticMolester: Ogata-san. A creepy guy with ScaryShinyGlasses who is awfully obsessed with playing a game with little boys. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Screen_shot_5771-13-14_at_6_13_49_AM_7650.png His rape face here]] after he had dragged Hikaru over to a dark room where they can play Go alone (while drunk) didn't help matters.
* ParanoiaFuel: A dead person's spirit can randomly possess you at any time and demand that you do all sorts of things. And if you refuse he can probably make your life [[FateWorseThanDeath a living hell,]] considering the fact that he's with you ''all the time''. Sure, Sai is pretty nice, but imagine what it could have been with a [[{{Jerkass}} nastier person]].

** Touya Akira looks strangely girly too, with his jaw-length bob hairstyle and rather ambiguous clothes. There is ''lots'' of fan-art around which puts him girl's clothes. Akira's case isn't helped by the fact that [[CrossDressingVoices he's voiced by a woman]].

* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** When another club at Haze tears down the Go recruitment poster, Hikaru charges at them with a ''mop''.
** While Hikaru is trying to teach Akari Go, she moves the stone surrounded by black stones out of the circle. Cue Hikaru yelling at her that she can't do that.
** While Hikaru is in Insei, he and Sai try to finish their match with a player so that they can watch Akira face the Oza. Just when they think they can get away, the opponent and an instructor start analyzing the game.

* WhatAnIdiot / WhatTheHellHero: There are several times when Hikaru rashly ignores Sai's advice and plays haphazardly, losing as a result. Akira even gets pissed off when he thinks Hikaru is doing this to spite him.

* NeedsMoreLove: Some people think this is a ''Manga/YuGiOh'' knockoff. However, despite some obvious comparisons, it has more story and character development than Yu-Gi-Oh.

** A milder case than most (characters don't really suffer horribly in ''HikaruNoGo''): Hikaru after he realizes that [[spoiler: Sai is gone for good]] and sinks into depression.

* NeedsMoreLove: Some people thinks this is a ''Manga/YuGiOh'' knockoff. However, despite some obvious comparisons, it has more story and character development than Yu-Gi-Oh.

* NeedsMoreLove

* FoeYay: Between Akira and Hikaru. And ''how''.

* ParanoiaFuel: A dead person's spirit can randomly possess you at any time and demand that you do all sorts of things. And if you refuse he can probably make your life [[FateWorseThanDeath a living hell,]] considering the fact that he's with you ''all the time''. Sure, Sai is pretty nice, but imagine what it could have been with a [[{{Jerkass}} nastier]] [[CompleteMonster person]].

* WhatAnIdiot / WhatTheHellHero: There are several times when Hikaru rashly ignores Sai's advice and plays haphazardly, losing as a result. Akira even gets pissed off when he thinks Hikaru is doing this to spite him. [[spoiler: And of course, continuously ignoring him leads to Sai's disappearance.]]

* HoYay: Oh yes, with plenty of slash FanFic and FanArt to support it.

* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: "Hikago".
* TheRedStapler: The series revived interest in Go among young people when it had previously been perceived more of a pastime for the elderly.

** Sai is probably the most unintentionally effeminate male characters in all of manga. His effeminacy is perfectly in line with the sensibility of Heian period nobility, but that doesn't make the experience of watching an adult man giggle like a schoolgirl any less jarring.
*** In fact, the author had to correct the English translator(s?) when they used "she" to refer to him.
** Touya Akira looks strangely girly too, with his jaw-length bob hairstyle and rather ambiguous clothes. There is ''lots'' of fan-art around which puts him girl's clothes.
*** Akira's case isn't helped by the fact that [[CrossDressingVoices he's voiced by a woman]].

* TheWoobie: Sai, in his BackStory of how he was DrivenToSuicide.

* MemeticMolester: Ogata-san. A creepy guy with ScaryShinyGlasses who is awfully obsessed with playing a game with little boys. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Screen_shot_5771-13-14_at_6_13_49_AM_7650.png Just look at his rape face here]] after he had dragged Hikaru over to a dark room where they can play Go alone while drunk.

* BetterThanItSounds: A stodgy game for old men was never so gripping...

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
** Touya's four-way game against an arrogant council-man and his posse.
*** At the same time, Hikaru was learning to do the very same thing, also against four opponents.
** Hikaru's game against the Hiroshima best player. Instant hands, and he won. The guy travelling with him (Kawai) thought: "When did he turn into this monster?".

* {{Wangst}}: After Hikaru realizes that [[spoiler: Sai has disappeared, probably forever,]] he goes into a state of complete moping. He ignores his scheduled pro games (even vowing to quit Go altogether, even after coming so far), he ignores his friends, he ignores his family, he just locks all his emotions up and mopes.

** Touya Akira looks strangely girly too, with his jaw-length bob hairstyle and rather ambiguous clothes. There is ''lots'' of fan-art around which puts him girl's clothes.

* TheRedStapler: The series made Go popular among the youth when it had previously been more of a pastime for the elderly.