Hikaru no Go

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Similar stories, students wanting to be the best at something (Go for Hikaru no Go and Manga for Bakuman). They have rivals that are better than them, though the main characters practice a lot to reach their dream. Even though the stories are about Go and Manga, there is a lot of character drama in each.

Takeshi Obata does the illustrations for both manga series. 

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Chihayafuru addpermalink

at first they don't have much passion for the game, but after a while, they come to love it. 

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In both mangas, the main characters (Chihaya and Hikaru) are introduced to a japanese competitional game since they are kids (in Chihayafuru the sport is karuta, and in Hikaru no Go it is the board game called go), of which they became hooked on. They both try to became the best in the respective sport,aiming for the title of "Meiji" (the master of the sport), in Chihaya's case she strives to became a "Queen' (the best female karuta player). For achieving their dream they go to various tournaments, and have to catch up to defeat their rivals (for Chihaya is Shinobu,for Hikaru is Akira). For that purpose they join the go and karuta clubs (Hikaru joins, Chihaya makes one) for the group tournaments, gathering friends. They are very similar in the development of the main characters, that strive to became masters themselves. read more 

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In both, at first the main characters are not interested in the game, and found it boring (Hikaru no Go) until they met(played the game with) someone around their age who is very strong in the game (Go/Kurata). Both of them got inspired by that person and wanted to keep playing, to improve, to catch up to the someone and to win.
 
Also, both are rather unpopular traditional Japanese games. There's no club in their schools, they started a club and found it hard to recruit people into their club. 

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Both tell the story of someone who learns of a game and lets that passion envelop and give meaning to their life. Both show characters who become very meaningfully invested in the acitivity they pursue and learn and grow with friends as they do so. Both also have a nice cast of side characters and show the MCs moving toward an ultimate goal (for Chihaya, it is to become Queen while for Hikaru it is to reach Akira/Sai)

The difference is Chihayafuru is josei and geared to females a bit more with a female lead. It also has romance, which is absent in Hikaru no Go. HnG is shonen and features a young male protagonist, and it focuses a bit more on his growth through adolescene (though Chihayafuru does this too). read more 

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Both are drawn by the talented Takeshi Obata.
Even if the story is totally different, in both the main character has a shinigami/spirit that follows him around. 

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Yu☆Gi☆Oh! addpermalink

Replace the game of Go with a Card Game and it's almost the same. Both Characters have someone else within them helping them play a certain game, both of which found these spirits within an old relic of some type. The Stories are different but the set up is very similar. 

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Piano no Mori addpermalink

They don't have the same topic (one piano/music, the other one go) but the characters and setting are quite similar:

- both have a character that has learned playing piano/go from an early age and aims to be the best
- both have a main character that learns about his passion from above character
- both have a special teacher who guides the main character

Both also have quite a bit of humour :) 

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Kurogane addpermalink

A ghost/shinigami appears to the heroes as teachers and then the boys want to become better in the game/sport. They both have explanations too so readers don't get confused.  

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Manga: Alive: Saishuu Shinkateki Shounen

Alive: Saishuu Shinkateki Shounen addpermalink

Many readers probably don't think the same, but there is some very crucial similarities with Alive and Hikago. 
1 is feeling, 2 is the ultimate meaning of the manga.

Both mangas trick you into thinking it's a generic shounen manga with a train, fight, train, fight equation and a slightly stupid and hot headed young MC. but in reality, both mangas are about life and they present it in such a unique and wonderful way. There is not many, if not, very little moments where we'll see the MC or other characters get powerups or training, of course they will gradually improve as they progress, but these aren't done through a sudden need to get strong, but through a consistent progress of several years.
The so called training isn't presented to us through super quick and impossible methods either, but have relation to the either the protagonists talent and actual meaningful methods.

Both protagonists are also very well developed while retaining many qualities they possessed at the beginning, they both mature while keeping a childish idealism or goal, though compared to Hikago, the MC of Alive is less realistic, that's to be expected since one's about a realistic board game whilst the other is about saving humanity through alien viruses.

The romance aspect is also more important in Alive, However neither truly develop it with it as much importance as general shounen, but more of a, what happens, happens.
 (unlike many people i don't actually mind the pairing and love the ending)

Lastly is the art style, both have art styles that gradually development into something amazing and beautiful whilst starting off with a style that's less refined and more generic.

Although that's not the important aspect, i find both to be increasingly similar near the mid stage or ends.
Its not like its the most realistic, but neither is it very generic, whilst Hikago turned from very Shounen to more Seinen, Alive did the opposite, that does not mean the story itself became shounen, but rather both art styles met in the middle.

This kind of art style is what I personally like best as it retains the love of anime and manga, and has a mature, beautiful, neat and easy on the eyes appeal. The very nature of the manga's seem to be emitted off of it. in other words they're both FABULOUS.

Most importantly about both mangas, is that they're both action/sports  and shounen/seinen mangas with a very well hidden, well developed and well placed undertone of slice of life.

If your looking for something genre specific then I wont suggest this manga, but if your looking for something more akin to the "feeling" and "inspiration" then this is the manga. read more 

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Kono Oto Tomare! addpermalink

Not completely similar, but there a quite a few common elements. Somewhat of a delinquent main character, the focus on a traditional Japanese passtime (HnG= the game of Go, KoT= playing the Koto), the struggles to improve, one genius player raised in the game/instrument by their family, a solid supporting cast, and Hikaru no Go does have some club type elements more at the beginning as well. There's a decent balance of comedy in both, and they both make something that you would probably actually find boring seem very interesting and engaging.

HnG has a supernatural element to it, and is more focused on the rival aspect it seems, but they have a similar feel. read more 

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Both slice of life manga's, in both the main character goes into something completely different which he know's nothing about (guitar, go), both start with the main character as a kid and watch him grow (and drop out of high school). 

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Smash! addpermalink

Hikaru no Go and Smash! both deal with sports where japan is weaker than the rest of Asia. But beyond that, the "action", progression, and endings in both feel similar, and the art is also similar, although Hikaru no Go is better in both. If you liked Smash!, Hikaru no Go is worth a read. If you liked Hikaru no Go, Smash! is worth a try. 

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Mononofu addpermalink

Both stories feature main characters that are new to the game of Go and Shogi respectively as they grow bit by bit throughout the series. Go and Shogi are both very similar board games from Japan, so the concepts of both series are very alike.  

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Manga: Shiori Experience: Jimi na Watashi to Hen na Ojisan

Shiori Experience: Jimi na Watashi to Hen na Ojisan addpermalink

Both main characters are possessed by one of the greats of their discipline, both look to become skilled in their own crafts without the need of their respective ghosts. 

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Hoshizora no Karasu addpermalink

A manga about Go; Hoshizora no Karasu is a shoujo manga, so it has romantic elements. 

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Kimi no Tame ni Hiku Chopin addpermalink

Kimi no Tame ni Hiku Chopin is basically the shoujo version of Hikaru no Go. One is about Go and the other about piano, but they share the same premise of ghosts of a famous real life genius of the past teaches a complete novice their profession while at constant risk of being discovered for having some hidden supernatural talent. Hikaru no Go, being shounen, focuses on competition, rivals, and training, while Kimi no Tame ni Hiku Chopin is more concerned with romance.  

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3-gatsu no Lion addpermalink

Both are centred in board games (in March Comes in Like a Lion the board game is Shogi, and in Hikaru no Go is the game called Go). In Hikaru no Go the main character, Hikaru Shindou, initialy didn’t care about this type of game, yet that all changes when he start to be guided by Sai. Of course, the relationship between them are mostly probably not as simple. In March Comes in Like a Lion, Rei Kiriyama, the main character, is a prodigy. In both mangas they both develop their strategy skills and deal with friendships and losses yet they go to it in different ways. read more 

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Nephilim John addpermalink

now these mangas are very interesting. these mangas are more specific to my tastes; I really like concepts that involve people being possessed and they develop a relationship with the thing possessing them. 
that is my preference and I hope that it appeals to other people who read this.   

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Dr. Duo addpermalink

Quite the same similar feeling with Sai,a legendary go player helping Hikaru to develop as a Go player and Keisuke,a master surgeon helping Tasuku and they both are ghost 

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Seiyuu Ka! addpermalink

-main characters enter into professional fields (go and voice acting)
-they are extremely good at the beginning because they have something that gives them an edge (Sai and the princely voice)
-overtime they have to stop relying on that special circumstance and they are shoved back to beginner level
-they work hard to enter into the field on their own without extra help 

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Yeah, it may seem a weird recomendation, but I found the character relationships and personalities and the way they devolped through out the manga was remarkably similar to Naruto. And if you replace go with being a ninja, the simmilarities become even clearer.  

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Both series are about a relatively ordinary boy who, after a supernatural encounter that leaves him playing proxy for an otherworldly entity, demonstrates tremendous innate ability at and enthusiasm for his new job. 

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Whistle! addpermalink

Both series sport a protagonist who starts off with little skill at his game/sport of choice but comes to develop at a rapid pace due to both guidance from those around him and innate natural ability. 

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Yakitate!! Japan addpermalink

Both involve rather unconventional subjects for a manga, but work oh-so-well. They involve a brash young kid with insurmountable determination and a certain edge or another that catches the eyes of many others in his destined field. Both are fairly sizable stories, great art, and will make you check out something you never thought you'd get into... They basically have alot of parallels as far as story and character elements go, and I can pretty much assure a fan of either series will find it easy to get into the other.  

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Blue Dragon: RalΩGrado addpermalink

Hikaru No Go artworks done by Takeshi Obata along with Bakuman, Death Note, and Blue Dragon Ral Grado. 

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The Ravages of Time addpermalink

Both are laden with intricate strategies of some sort of combat (chess versus actual war) throughout the entirety of the manga. 

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Manga: Shion no Ou: The Flowers of Hard Blood.

Shion no Ou: The Flowers of Hard Blood. addpermalink

Both are about japanese boardgames. Shion no Ou is a much more serious series though. 

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Katana Series addpermalink

Katana and Hiraku no Go are similar because a boy can see the spirit attached to an certain object and therefore gets interested in things to do with the object.
Hiraku no Go is about a boy that meets a spirit attached to a Go board, and gets interested in Go.
Katana is about a boy that can see the spirit of any Katana and gets interested in katana's.

Both have a certain educational level for you can learn a lot about some aspects of Japanese culture. 

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I-Revo: Ice Revolution addpermalink

Hikaru no Go is about a board game and Ice Revolution is about figure skating, but they have very similar main characters. Both of them become good at what they do very quickly to chase someone, and both of the mangas have the tournament-based pattern. 

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Futatsu no Spica addpermalink

Both are fantastic coming of age stories, the best two I've ever read, with fantastic characters and a story that will awaken the dreamer in all of us. They both even have awesome ghost mentors! 

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Over Time addpermalink

They're similar because they both involve a ghost that's playing instead of the main protagonist but also hinting that the protagonist himself has great potential.  

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Shaman King addpermalink

Both are shounen manga series dealing with a young protagonist and his spiritual companion.  

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Tennis no Oujisama addpermalink

Have a wide variety of awesome characters, have the main protagonist very good at what they're doing; both have the same type of intensity. Also, both are set up in a tournament type mode. 

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