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... because some things are almost inevitable, and my capitulation to this meme is one of them. >.>



1. Beginning with the obligatory question: how did you discover Hikago?

Sometime in college but no later than August 2005, [livejournal.com profile] lithele and [livejournal.com profile] ladylore told me about this this EPIC RIVALRY in this ZOMG AMAZING manga that had HO SHIT THE BEST CHARACTERS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it's about GO which is like this board game and IT'S OKAY if you don't know the rules 'CAUSE THE AWESOMENESS OF THE CHARACTERS!!!!! can't be missed. And one of the main characters has SRSLY TRAGIC FASHION SENSE and the other's all trendy and it shouldn't work but somehow you just KNOW they're going to be together FOREVER!!!!

... or something like that. ^.^;;; And somehow, in spite of this ringing endorsement and ignoring the fact that our opinions tend to be really similar and that [livejournal.com profile] ladylore gave me the manga *that night*... I didn't read it until May. XDDDDDDDDDDDD

2. Manga or anime?

Manga! ♥

3. Describe your Hikago experience, whatever it might have been.

That year, I stayed on campus an extra two weeks for rehearsals for Carnegie. Rehearsals were only a couple of hours each day, though, and I spent the rest of the time reading through Hikago manga~~~. I didn't download the anime for a few weeks after that, and even then I kinda skipped to the good bits 'cause I couldn't take the ZOMG EPIC board games. ^.^;;; The characters really were that cute, though, so I wound up watching the entire thing anyway. XDDD

4. Are you active in the fandom? What do you do?

I... write fic, sometimes. And there was that one time I pod-ficced To The Rescue. That was fun!!!!!

5. Have you participated in any of the Hikago challenge communities? (E.g. [livejournal.com profile] blind_go, [livejournal.com profile] ihikago, [livejournal.com profile] hng_prompts, [livejournal.com profile] fifthmus.)

Everything but [livejournal.com profile] hng_prompts, which I somehow missed. O_o

6. Who is your favorite character in the series?

Oh, tough! Ummm... so the thing is, it's usually all about Hikaru for me, but even with that... Akira's still my favourite character.

7. Why do you like him/her?

His determination - he's faced with huge disappointment (Hikaru at the school tournament) and turns it into a force to move him forward. He's also... I want to call it subtle, but that's not really the right word, is it? It's whatever makes that little laugh that he hides behind his hand and then smiles and apologizes. That. That's what makes him my favourite.

8. Do you think this character likes those qualities about him-/herself?

Akira definitely likes his determination, and doesn't quite understand people who don't have an ambition or goal of some sort.

9. Who is this character's best friend (in your opinion)?

... Ogata. 'Cause that's who his one phone call would be if he was in jail, with or without Hikaru.

10. What do they like about each other?

It's a kind of big brother-little brother deal. They've known each other so long, they know each other so well, and there's a lot of fondness there.

11. Whom does your favorite character dislike most? (Doesn't necessarily have to be a Hikago character.)

Waya

12. Why do you think that is?

Because he talks when he should do. He never puts his money where his mouth is, and backs down when Akira would go forward. Akira finds him a coward, but he's too polite to say so.

13. Who is your least favorite character?

Le Ping (I'm sorry f-list! ;_;)

14. What do you not like about him/her?

Mostly? I'm so over how he LOOKS ZOMG JUST LIKE WAYA! And while I get the whole Isumi/LePing ship, I find its prominence in fandom irritating because I see Isumi as kind of asexual. (Sorry!!! ;_;)

15. Imagine this scenario: your favorite character, the best friend, and the disliked person are stranded in a small cabin in the middle of the woods during a heavy snowstorm. They have nothing with them except what they were carrying during their mountain hike. Who dies first? ...

Waya, but only because he tries to kill Akira and Ogata isn't having that.

16. Do you support any pairings? If yes, please list them here.

Hikaru/Akira, Yongha/Everyone in canon one at a time, Yongha/Yashiro, Touya Koyo/Akiko, Hikaru/Nase, Mitani/Akari

17. Which pairing is your favorite?

Hikaru/Akira

18. Why do you like this pairing?

Someone else said it best earlier - it's the beautiful, beautiful fanon that makes me love this pairing the way I do. That, and the ZOMG ETERNAL RIVALRY thing. Because if every there were two characters who I'd expect to be together forever, it's them.

19. Is there any canon evidence for this pairing?

Not so much, no. They're canonically obsessed with each other, but that's not really the same thing as in love and it's meant kinda platonically.

20. What do you think they see in each other? What makes their relationship work (or not work)?

They fight but they always come back to each other. Each gives the other something that they would otherwise be lacking. And did I mention the part where they're completely obsessed with each other?

21. Could their relationship survive something catastrophic (e.g. separation over long distances/time, infidelity, unexpected pregnancy, Touya Kouyo's disapproval, etc.)?

Something catastrophic, probably. But I'm not sure it would handle Kouyo's disapproval. That's maybe the only strain that I think would break them.

22. In your opinion, does the Hand of God exist, and can it be achieved?

... ::has already had a lot to say on this particular topic:: I waffle back and forth on this. I think if the series had continued, the answer would have been yes, BUT I think I prefer that the answer can be no.

23. Assuming that it does exist and can be achieved: Which character do you think will find it first?

Are we also assuming one character only can find it? Because mostly I think it'll be two characters together, that it's more a way of playing rather than a particular move. And of course, my favourites are Hikaru and Akira.

24. Assuming that it does not exist and cannot be achieved: Which character is most likely to die trying?

Ogata. The way that he wants it is just on a whole other level.

25. Now make up your own question and answer it:

One of the characters secretly has super powers. Who is it, and what kind of powers do they have?

Leaving aside Hikaru and his ability to see ghosts, Kuwabara has telepathy. ^_^;;;;;

...So at some point I changed my mind about a bunch of characters and didn't realize it until I filled this whole thing out. And now I've got a bunch of fic ideas. Geez... Hikago fandom, ILU!

Date: 2008-06-13 04:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dyxlisa.livejournal.com
About said tragic fashion sense, I think I said something like, 'his mother dresses him. and she's colorblind.' (omg, I've been saying this ever since I came upon this anime Hikago pencilboard years and years ago that had Akira in a freaking purple and pink suit. And I think a yellow tie. WHAT. THE. HELL.)

YEAH I LOVE HIKAGO (I love how you got our CAPSLOCK ENTHUSIASM in there, because that is so Julisa when we're excited about something XD;;)

Akira's my favorite too, and Hikaru/Akira is definitely one of my favorite pairings like, EVER.

Date: 2008-06-13 04:54 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] issen4.livejournal.com
And that's three for Ogata dying to find the Hand of God! Whoa.

Am amused at your dislike of Le Ping. I like him a lot (and pair him with Isumi too). I guess I was softened by Isumi's obvious liking of him. ^_^

Asexual Isumi... scarily plausible.

Seconding you on Kuwabara and telepathy.

Date: 2008-06-15 09:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ontogenesis.livejournal.com
OMG Kuwabara = telepathic! Ogata is never going to beat him. Poor Ogata.

:snickers: If Akira were in jail, he definitely wouldn't call his parents. Ogata would bail him out and blackmail him for it later.

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