Books

Go on the Go Collection: Volume I
Three booklets have been assembled into the collection here.
From Kidō, February 1975
Edo Town Go Club
Written and drawn by Tani Ikuo
Special New Year’s Page, Part 1
Man: Stupid idiot! You still ain’t ’memberin’?! Still!! I told you there’s a missing cross-stroke, didn’t I?! A cross-stroke!!
Son: Ouch!
[The child is trying to write: 新春 or “New Spring,” the traditional way that Japanese think about the New Year, although the weather may still be bitter cold and spring a long way off.]
Son (striking father): Stuuu-pid! You’re not thinking! I told you that a five point over-sized eye is dead, didn’t I?! A five point over-sized eye is dead!
FX: Bonk
Special New Year’s Page, Part 2
Man: Ha, ha, ha. Happy New Year, Happy New Year! Ha, ha, ha.
FX: Whiff, whiff, whiff [sound of fan being swung]
Man: By the way, what was the score between us in our games last year, I wonder… Ha, ha, ha. I’ve forgotten the details… Well, let’s just start the New Year with the score even, shall we? Ha, ha, ha.
Brother: Mother, bring that here.
Wife: Right!
Brother: This is the game we stopped at the end of last year while we weren’t finished. Elder brother was taking nine stones…
FX: Snap! [man snaps the fan shut]
Special New Year’s Page, Part 3
Man in crowd: Aaa! Dead! Aaaa…
Other man: It’s no good… Over there…!
FX [Voice in crowd]: Ouch, ouch!
Man in crowd: Aa! Another step to the right, I say, to the right! Hey, right! Right!
Voice in crowd: Hey look! If he plays there!
Another voice in crowd: If he plays, playing to make it clear
Sign in back: Kawaya [Name of store which is shuttered up as clerks watch game]
Inner voice: Is it this…
FX: Click! [sound of stone being played on the board]
Voice crying out: Gosh! It lived!!
FX: Bam, bam, bam [sound of crowd of men falling down on the ground]
Voice: Ugh! I’m first, I say!!
FX: YIKES! [sound of crowd crying out]
FX: Bam, bam, bam [sound of heavy footsteps as crowd rushes out of room]
Another voice: I was halfway about to wet myself…!!
FX: BAM [sound of man being pushed to the ground]
FX: Rumble, rumble, rumble [sound of noisy crowd rushing about]