Hikaru no Go(2001)

series - first aired/released 2001-10-10 - audience 7.8

Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Directed by Harume Kosaka, Hideki Tonokatsu, Hiroshi Kuruo, Jun Kamiya, Katsuyoshi Yatabe, Kunitoshi Okajima, Mahara Gokyo, Masaaki Kumagai, Masakatsu Iijima, Mashu Itō, Ryusei Nakao, Saeko Aoki, Setsuo Takase, Shin'ichi Masaki, Susumu Nishizawa, Takaharu Ookuma, Takuya Nonaka, Tetsuya Endo, Toshinori Narita, Toshiya Niidome, Yuichiro Miyake, Yuji Sekimoto

Hikaru Shindo is like any sixth-grader in Japan: a pretty normal kid with a two-tone head of hair and a penchant for antics. His life completely changes when he finds an old bloodstained go board in his grandfather's attic. The ghost of an ancient go master named Fujiwara-no-Sai was trapped in the board and soon becomes a part of Hikaru's consciousness. Together Hikaru and Sai make an unstoppable go-playing team!