Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine serialized the original Hikaru no Go manga with Hotta’s story and Obata’s art from December 1998 to July 2003.
This year’s 21st issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced on Monday that Takeshi Obata and Yumi Hotta’s Hikaru no Go manga will receive a stage play adaptation in Ikebukuro in July titled Uta Emaki “Hikaru no Go” Jyo no Itte.
One day, he finds an old bloodstained Go board in his grandfather’s attic–and that’s when things get really interesting.
Trapped inside the Go board is Fujiwara-no-Sai, the ghost of an ancient Go master who taught the strategically complex board game to the emperor of Japan many centuries ago.