Yumi Hotta Quotes

Yumi Hotta is a Japanese manga artist.

Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, which is widely credited for the late 90s-2000s boom of the game of go in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta played a pick-up game of go with her father-in-law. She thought that it might be fun to create a manga based on this traditional board game, and began the work under the title of Nine Stars , named for the nine "star points" on a go board. She later worked with Takeshi Obata and Yukari Umezawa in the creation of Hikaru no Go. She won the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award and the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Hikaru no Go.

She also had a short manga series Yūto about long track speed skating that ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2005.

Hotta's husband is Kiyonari Hotta , another manga artist known for manga about horse-racing. He was also well known as a contributor to the Chunichi Shimbun where he illustrated under the pen name Yumi Hotta . Wikipedia

✵ 15. October 1957

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Hikaru no Go

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Famous Yumi Hotta Quotes

“I wanted to learn Go, so I paid a go school and started to attend classes once a week with a pro. He was mean, and never let the students win the teaching games. This was frustrating to me, because I was thinking "Why am I paying to lose all the time?" I wished that I had a guardian angel or a ghost that could help me beat him really bad. It was at that moment that Hikaru no Go was born.”

Yumi Hotta

Interview http://tigersmouth.org/articles.php?article_id=50 at the International Go Symposium, 5 August 2012.

“This is the universe! And I'm placing stones one by one on that. Like I'm increasing the number of stars one by one… I'm making the universe. It's like I'm a God. I'm going to become a God! On this Go Board.”

Yumi Hotta Hikaru no Go

In the anime, Hikaru says this when he plays in a Go tournament for the first time.
Hikaru no Go

“All you are is the Go you play.”

Yumi Hotta Hikaru no Go

In the manga series, Akira says this to Hikaru.
Hikaru no Go

“To link the far past, with the far future.”

Yumi Hotta Hikaru no Go

Hikaru's reason for playing Go (Volume 23, chapter 189)
Hikaru no Go

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