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1	* The reason why Rei plays Shogi. [[spoiler:He didn't do it for the love of the sport, but it's the only connection to his father back when he's still alive... Now that his father's gone, Rei keeps on playing because there is nothing else he is good at in his life]]. The Kouda family who took him in ended up getting torn apart because Rei was so damn good at Shogi, Masachika Kouda started playing favorite. Kyouko's behavior afterwards is ''almost'' justified.
2	** Worse? Rei knows this and tries to fix it to no avail. In the very first episode, Rei won his Shogi against his foster guardian. But the man continues to be [[ParentalObliviousness oblivious]]. It only gets ''slightly'' better in the tail end of season 1 in the anime, when Masachika warms up enough to phone Kiriyama asking about Kyouko.
3	* The flashback where Rei first competes against Nikaidou. Rei played for a mere living. But Nikaidou, ill as heck, desperately clung on wanting to win in a board game he truly ''loved'', and failed.
4	** And then comes Chapter 61 [[spoiler:where Nikaidou collapses for real in a match just before long promised face-off with Kiriyama]]. Shimada recalls his time with Nikaidou when he concludes that this rich kid didn't pick up Shogi simply for passing interest; he ''couldn't even play other sports like a normal kid'' if he wanted to.
5	** Chapter 64 reveals Junkei's point of view as to why he dragged out the match with Nikaidou: dude have no idea how to win. Despite ''years'' of effort and time Junkei pours into Shogi, people like Nikaidou and Kiriyama still felt like a goddamn wall to him.
6	* Rei's rant/breakdown in Episode 10/Chapter 21. Just about the entirety of that scene.
7	* How Shimada is so ''damn'' close to [[spoiler:winning his match against Souya, had he not let his worries clouded his judgement]].
8	** On that note, [[TheStoic Kumakura]] [[spoiler:making a hole in a wall]] in second season. Just to drive it home that even the 'masters' had that moment where they [[spoiler:disappointed in themselves]].
9	* After Chiho Sakura leaves the school due to bullying issue, [[spoiler:she never attended ''any'' school since and had to be looked after in special education]]. Meanwhile, the rest of the classroom acted like nothing happened.
10	** Hinata tries to write a letter to Chiho, as Chiho has been her friend since elementary. The only reply she gets is from Chiho's mom.
11	* Junkei's friends unwittingly treating his Shogi career and pigeon-raising like a trivial matter during the drinking scene in Chapter 64. It painfully shows Junkei's solitude that stems from people making light of his life's work even though they didn't mean it.
12	-->'''Junkei''': (monologue) I'd like to ask them the same kind of boorish questions they ask me.

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