Hikaru no Go (manga, review)

Hikaru Shindo is just a normal 12 year old Japanese boy. One day, he's rumaging through his Grandfather's things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old Go board. A ghostly apparation appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Sai Fujiwara...

Well as far as far as a sport (Go) manga goes this is like Hajime no Ippo and H2 which where both great ^^...

*may contain SPOILERS*

We first we find Hikaru and Akari going through his gramp's attic and he finds a goban (go board) Hikaru sees that it has blood stains but Akari sees nothing... after that Hikaru faints and all of a sudden Fujiwara-no-Sai (spirit) is possesed or something and follows Hikaru... Now Sai got Hikaru to play Go... ummm read the rest to find out more...

well the story was ok made me wanna read more and more...(all nighter to finish ^^....) i was kind of dissapointed that as the story moved on we got less to see on the earlier charectors like Akari, Tsutsui, Kaga, etc... well you do see Kaga and Akari in some chapters... but I thought Akari would have been seen more... you know the whole childhood friend deal xP... yea... as we see Hikaru aiming to be a pro we see less of the earlier chars and when he becomes pro we see less of his friends when he was an insei (unless they passed the pro exams...). i would have liked to see more charecter development in the earlier chars as well not just chucked into the trash and only reappearing in vol**(forgot volume #) featuring each, well some people, a stort chapter story about them... yea... if you can stand the whole storyline and point of most sports manga (e.g. being the champs of something or winning this reallly important game) then read this ^^...