부산대학교 도서관

Author Yumi Hotta got the idea for Hikaru no go after playing a game of Go with her father-in-law in the 1990’s. Her idea won the Story King Award of Shueisha’s manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. The magazine teamed her with the up-and-coming manga artist Takeshi Obata. Hotta wrote the story for Hikaru no go, and Obata did the major artwork. As is common for manga art production, Obata was assisted by a creative staff, and the twenty-two support artists are credited in the final volume of the manga. They include Hotta’s husband, Kiyonari Hotta, with whom she had worked on a four-panel manga about horse racing. Yukari Umezawa, a young Go master, supervised the drawings of the moves and board positions of the many Go matches featured in the manga. She was also assisted by a staff of twelve Go players and the Japanese Go Association.