Hikaru no Go : Endless Link

I'M FINALLY DONE orz. I've spent hours and hours of my life on this
I've finished the whole anime (72 eps of ~25min) while colouring it (so sketch and line excluded, haha)... And it was still not finished because I've asked for some critiques (Huge thanks to soumakyo) and spent another dozen of hours at least to move and redraw several characters...

_{Thanks to this drawing, I've discovered the limitations of Paint Tool SAI : You cannot draw on a canvas bigger than 10.000px. Also, as it only supports 32bits, it doesn't matter that my poor computer only has 3 gigs of RAM, it's still impossible to draw on separate layers (the coloring of all the characters is on a single layer)......... simply because it has poor memory management.}


So I've finished the drawing (and put everything together) on another program. And moving characters was hell because I only had 3 layers : Line, Color, Overlay. Still, I've kind of managed it.

I hope you guys (especially the fans of Hikago) will like it ! AND FOR ALL THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW THIS MANGA, please READ IT. (Don't watch the anime, go for the manga !). It's drawn by Obata-sensei, the one who drew Death Note. Even though it doesn't look that good in the first chapters, you can really see the evolution and the characters' growth until it becomes absolutely awesome (like in Death Note). If you think that "go" is boring, just keep in mind that every single person I know that's read Hikaru no Go has tried to play go afterwards (me included), and the people I know that are in go clubs are also all Hikago fans. Seriously. It is as stressful and as awesome as any sport manga.

Do not hesitate to leave a comment, and let's fangirl talk about this awesome (and underated) manga \o/

[Reblog on Tumblr] (Please do not repost it anywhere. I do not want to put a watermark on it.)

Characters from Hikaru no Go © Hotta Yumi & Obata Takeshi
Art by Kai-Yan
Time : at least 50hrs

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